GLOSSY CONCRETE FLOORS IN SMALL COPENHAGEN APARTMENT

Floors in any space are key to me.  I struggled for months last year just to get the right color stain on my wide plank wood floors in my little cottage in the Hollywood Hills.  My contractor and boyfriend and mom and sister all thought I was kooky when after we finished the floors, I had the floor guy sand them down again and start over so the color was just right.  I love the floors now.  They are just the right tone with a light greyish brownish finish and with slightly beveled boards. Should do a story on my wood floors.

Anyhooo...I absolutely adore these glossy concrete floors in this Copenhagen apartment.  Love the gleam from the shiny floors and the wavy texture of the concrete.  With a floor like this, the decor can stay minimalistic and simple.  The floors speak for themselves.  Res ipsa loquitur.

I love the entryway with the French doors and the white washed block walls.

To gloss or not to gloss...that is the question?

Happy Monday!

xo
Coco



Photos: Rum Hemma

COCOCOZY RUGS AT HIGH POINT - WOOHOO!

COCOCOZY Rugs -  24 hand knotted Indo Tibetan wool  (above)

I am going to a trade show in North Carolina to show off the COCOCOZY rug collection once again!  Wooohooo!  For those of you in the design business who are going to High Point Market this weekend, I hope you will come by and say hi to me at the Capel Rugs showroom in Market Square!

It is Saturday morning. I am on the plane right now. Flying first class (thank you Capel Rugs). Heading to Charlotte, NC where a driver will pick me up and whisk me off to High Point, NC (thank you CT and CC for making my travel so wonderful). I will be in High Point for exactly 24 hours.  A dinner with the oh so sweet Capel Rug folks (CC, JM, JH, and AR) tonight, sleep (I need it), a morning/early afternoon meet and greet at the Capel showroom where all of the 24 rugs in my collection are on display.  Lastly on Sunday, right before I leave, I have a top secret meeting about a potential project...fingers crossed that this comes to fruition.

I cannot wait to see my rug collection again in person and so look forward to meeting COCOCOZY readers, buyers, designers and press.  So much fun to chat with everyone and hear their stories!

Ron Bristow, Capel's showroom manager, sent this picture to us of the COCOCOZY rug display in the Capel Rugs Showroom at High Point Market. (above)

I have two COCOCOZY rugs in my house now (see one of them in my living room by clicking here...I plan on shopping and getting a few more!

To shop the rug collection and more, please go to the COCOCOZY Online Shop by clicking here!

Please, please stop by to say hello if you are going to High Point. Here's when you can catch me.

COCOCOZY Meet & Greet at High Point market
Capel Rugs Showroom
Market Square
Space 112
Sunday, October 20th from 10am-2pm.

Happy Saturday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  COCOCOZY 2014 Rug Collection - I am a little afraid to see JH from Capel.  I owe him color selections for my next new rug collection that we will showing in 2014.  I am holding up the whole process.  I sent designs in over a month ago...I know what I want for color but have been too distracted to put down my thoughts in an organized manner...note to self...finish color on Monday or Tuesday.  All the color issues aside, I am really really excited about the new designs for 2014...cannot wait to show you.  If you are in the press, I may even give you a little sneak peek (via my iPhone) of one or two of my new designs!

P.P.S.  Spent the last two weekends traveling with TE.  Weird not to have him with me on this trip.  He is home this weekend recuperating from running the Chicago Marathon last weekend.   Was very impressed watching him run that race!

P.P.P.S.  Hi mom!  (Just saying hi for no reason.  My mom reads every one of my posts btw...cute...right?).  Hope you have a good weekend mom.  Will call after the event and let you know how it goes.

THIS OR THAT: MONOCHROMATIC FLOORS & DOMAINE HOME!

Got these images from Domaine Home...a new online interiors magazine website created by the founders of Who What Wear!



Domaine Home launched yesterday and it is just fantastic. This shelter website features lots of really beautiful images and ways to "Shop the Look". Can't wait to find a minute to sit down and browse through.

Found these two images there of solid color floors...one in an office and one a home. I like. The black painted wood floor above is so dramatic...while the turquoise floor (can't tell if it is wood) below is bright, cheerful and playful.

If you were going for color on your floors...which would you chose?

I think I might chose the black! I would pair it with lots of white clean line furniture and light blue and gray accents. Would look so cool!  Which would you pick?

Congrats to the Katherine, Hillary, Mika, Matt and Estee on the launch of Domaine Home! It looks awesome.

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco

COCOCOZY FOR CAPEL RUGS - COLLECTION PREVIEW!

COCOCOZY Oxford Rug in Sea Foam (above)

Was thrilled to wake up today to a trade press article announcing my collaboration with Capel Rugs on the first COCOCOZY Rug Collection of luxury wool Indo Tibetan hand knotted rugs!

Here is the  article from Home Accents Today - a to-the-trade and home furnishings industry publication.

In January, in New York, I debut just 5 rugs at the New York trade show.  Well yesterday, I got photos of all 24 rugs in the collection from the nice DO at Capel.  Here are just a few of the COCOCOZY rugs that you have not yet seen. Am loving all of them...so each day for the next week or so, I'll sneak peek a few images of the rugs.

I'll be going to High Point, NC a week from Monday to show the full collection at the Capel showroom there!  Capel is throwing a cocktail party for me and the rugs.  I think people will be more interested in seeing the rugs than me...but am so so so excited!

COCOCOZY Loop Rug in Navy. (above)

COCOCOZY Fence Rug in Taupe. (above)

The first 5 rugs that I showed in January are already on the COCOCOZY Shop site.   The rugs will deliver in late May or June.

The full rug collection will be up on the COCOCOZY shop, the Capel website and in stores around the country very soon!

Please let me know what you think!

Happy Thursday again!

xo
Coco