my bohemian preppy chic client

tracy reese on style.com

She can rock a pair of Ugg boots or slip around in Tory Burch- My Bohemian Preppy Chic Client.


We've exchanged gifts- She loved her butterfly wings at Halloween- even changed into a more appropriate ensemble that worked with them. She debuted in the Nutcracker Ballet during the 2008 Christmas season- I sent a Nutcrackery looking pink beaded ornament for Good Luck: the ornament very much resembling the lighting in her boudoir. She gave me her autograph, (I'm holding on to it) and a beautiful drawing of a red and yellow design (bet you thought it was one of these new hip fabrics that are out everywhere.)





She's had her portrait painted.



She's a very creative recycler. Sandcastles-no less: She spends her summers at the beach.



She said- I LOVE PINK! She LOVES PINK- I LOVE PINK! THINK PINK!

& She & her agent(mom) were a dream to work with.

WAKE UP! GOOD DAY SUNSHINE!*

THINKing PINK.

Pink Leopard needlepoint rug-along with feathered headress

The curtain fabric reminds me of Lily Pulitzer, Vera & Marimeko.


Pink walls, Pink Schumacher linen print fabric * "Good Day Sunshine" in flamingo,with pink ticking linings, ball fringes, an antique spool bed.

Dolls, Guitars, Caps & LOTS of Bows

My Very Chic Bohemian Preppy client is very pleased. So is her agent. So is her Decorator.

A room to grow into-
to dream dreams-
to travel far and return to -

to remember fondly...
when she is a BIG Hollywood picture star- I'll be the first to answer her call.
Hello Sunshine!

Curtain Call

Having moved back to my roots, Yes- I am back in the small Southern town I grew up in, as did my mother and her mother & after three + years, I have finally unloaded my second storage space!

After moving to a smaller house -the Little Tudor, ALL my STUFF just did not fit-stylewise or spacewise.
Yet still, there is a lot in this little Tudor house-things I am not ready to part with, and things that I could not fit into the storage space or two attics! The houses were so different-I wanted the Little Tudor simpler. Simpler life, simpler house.

Well, as the storage space emptied out, THERE were the curtains- My Bohemian Preppy printed linen curtains-a Manuel Canovas fabric called-Marie Amelie-the first thing I picked out for the Old house I always wanted and would live in forever. I could not leave these gorgeous things or use them in the Little Tudor.

Maybe it was time to reconsider- So up they went. I like them. I actually love them. I had compromised on color in the little Tudor after lots of color in the other house. Now it's time for color in this Little Tudor.

Here are the results- along with the first life of the curtains and the sad before pictures of the Dining Room of the Little Tudor.

Act I

Curtain opens on "Salon" in the Old House.
"if there's one thing decorating is, it's personal"

Act II

Curtain opens on the Sad Dining Room of the Little Tudor (this is the part you can laugh at- or cry!)
"if you fall in love with something, that's all that matters. Your love protects you from all upsets."

Act III

Curtain opens on the Dining Room of the Little Tudor with unlined printed velvet Nobilis curtains from an upstairs room at the Old House.
"charm is augmented by a sense of nonpermanence."

Act IV

Curtain opens on Marie Amelie curtains in the Dining Room of the Little Tudor.
"to get a room that sizzles with personality, you've got to take risks. a person with a real flair is a gambler at heart."

CURTAIN CALL

Bravo! (take a bow)
"I'd Love to see less and less studied decoration and more and more things chosen because you Love them, That's the whole point really." BILLY BALDWIN- the great modern American Decorator


(all quotes by BILLY BALDWIN)