Tablescape Love….

Hey Friends! Hope you’re week has been fabulous thus far!

It’s been another busy week over here.  We finalized to start a new project that I am SO excited about! It will be a new construction project and the initial renderings lead me to believe it is going to be a stunning home.  I’ll keep you posted  🙂  Tomorrow morning I am off to Scott’s market which always leads to some fun finds, which of course I will share!

….And today is my birthday! I am one of those people that adores this day! Birthdays are by far my favorite “holiday!”  I have several friends coming over this weekend to celebrate, and although I don’t plan on a lavish table scape to accompany our evening (there will be flowers!) I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorites a I have saved…

(House Beautiful, April 2010, Donna Karen)

(100 layer cake)

(Coastal Living)

(flickr)

(The Style Files)

(Martha Stewart)

(Style me pretty)

(mary ruffle)

(maddie thomas)

(la belle vie)

(home sweet home)

(french larkspur)

(wedding girl)

Enjoy your day!!

Sunrooms… Bring on the light!

Hello Friends! Hope you all are having a fantastic week!

I don’t know about you, but I am ready for Spring! It has been absolutely beautiful and warm here in Atlanta – not sure if it is going to stay this way, but I am hoping so! I can’t wait to refresh all my pots and clean up my patio… I am ready to be outside.  In honor of spring I pulled together some fantastic spaces that well definitely let the light in! But first, lets clarify what these spaces are actually called.

We can call these rooms by several names:
Sun room, Sun Porch, Solarium, Conservatory…. but technically, what is the difference?

Technically speaking, a sun room and sun porch are really a solarium which by definition is a Sunny Room with more glass than usually.   A conservatory is closer to a green house, where the initial purpose of the structure would be to grow plants indoors under protected conditions.  Generally a green house is a separate building (usually in a garden or a field), where a conservatory is attached to the main dwelling.   I tend to think of a conservatory to have a glass ceiling and a solarium with just a lot of glass on the walls.  Although the initial concept of these spaces were for plants, as we can see from the inspirations below, over time we have decided to move our living spaces into these fantastic spaces!

(sweet space)

(tiny white daisies)

(tiny white daisies)

(beach studios)

(my ideal home)

(la belle vie)

(my ideal home)

(1st Option)

(my ideal home)

(home sweet home)

(desire to inspire)

(cottage in the woods)

(mochatini)

(my ideal home)

(light locations)

(my ideal home)

(frolic)

(my ideal home)

(tiny white daisies)

(Architectural Remnants)

I crave light, and any of of these spaces would satisfy that need! Do you have a favorite?

Enjoy your week!