DRESSING ROOM DOORS - WEEKEND PHOTO

Oh what I wouldn't do for a dressing room with doors like these.  Fretwork carved doors in a closet.  Love! The lace-like detail lets just the right amount of light through.  Great doors.  I also like the glossy paint used on the cabinets, drawers, ceiling and walls in this walk-in closet.  Makes the small space shine.  Nice closet...right?

Happy Saturday!

xo
Coco


Photo: Fisher Weisman

DESIGNER MARY MCDONALD CLEANSES THE COLOR PALETTE - HOUSE BEAUTIFUL EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW

Designer Mary McDonald has done it again.  This time in a home in Los Angeles.

The project is featured in the September issue of House Beautiful magazine...out on newsstands next week.   I am so thrilled to have the exclusive preview of this Mary McDonald imagined home here on COCOCOZY!  Woohooo!

In this home, interior designer Mary was working for a couple in their early 30's who are both lawyers and have children.  Mary's goal with this project was to lighten and brighten the space.  She is calling the style of this re-imagined house "a clean modern California take on French country with a teeny bit of industrial sparseness".

Apparently before the remodel, the home was dreary and dark.  Mary infused light and life into the home with a soft color palette of ivory, oatmeal, beige, gray, and taupe, with hints of lavender, aqua, and celadon.

For me , the kitchen is the jewel of this home...with Carrara marble counters, white cabinetry, except for the center island which is dark charcoal and then there is the fantastic gray and white chevron pattern floor made in an engineered stone tile.  Love!

The living room is a study of grays, pale blues and taupes on the walls, wood floors and furniture. (above)

Striped drapery and chevron pattern floor add texture to the neutral color palette of gray and white in the kitchen area. (above)

The master bedroom design is an updated French boudoir and completely inspired by Napoleon's Chateau Malmaison outside of Paris. (above)

The dressing room and closet with gray and cream floral wallpaper and mirrored accents including a lovely upholstered mirrored bench. (above)

The neutral color palette even extends outside into the outdoor patio! (above)

What do you think of this Mary McDonald designed Los Angeles home...do you like this cleansed color palette?  Which room is your fave?  Comment below!  I want to hear your take.

Thank you SA and House Beautiful for giving me the sneak peek on this magazine feature.  Can't wait to pick up the magazine and see the rest next week!

Happy Wednesday!

xo
Coco

P.S. COCOCOZY Pillow Giveaway - So if you'd like to win a COCOCOZY Rive Pillow in a neutral palette cleansed mist gray and white, Caesartone's Interior Collective is giving away pillows to a few lucky winners. Click here to read my guest post on the Interior Collective blog and to find out more on how to enter the pillow giveaway!

COCOCOZY Light Rive Pillow in Mist Gray being given away on Interior Collective! (above)

THIS OR THAT: CLOSET CONFIDENTIAL!

Starting this post with a non sequitur...

True story...

Last night, when I got home after a dinner out with a friend I found a strange delivery at my front door. It was 10pm. When I walked up the stairs to my little cottage...there was a bed on the front stoop. A bed? Yes. A bed. Really it was huge box that contained a large bed frame. I immediately texted a neighbor and asked her if it was hers...it was not. I did not order a bed. I don't need a bed...but for some reason someone delivered a bed to my front door. It looks like it came via FedEx. It was so heavy that I could not bring it in the house and it was so dark I couldn't read the label. This is one of those bizarre things that seems to happen to me on a regular basis. Anyhooo...I'll have CM look into this strange bed delivery situation today. Strange indeed.

Anyhooooooooo...back to design...lah dee dah.

So as you all know. I live in the smallest tiniest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. This means I have barely any closet space. I dream of a walk in dressing area...where I could study my wardrobe options, test out my fashion prowess, a vanity where I could preen and primp before leaving the house. Dreaming indeed. If I did have such a space, would I line the walls with wallpaper? Or would I leave them blank.

Take these two closets/dressing rooms for example...both very girly and feminine...both using wallpaper with a little shine and glimmer to it. Which of these do you like best? That's the question in today's this or that.

I'm liking the vanity dressing area with the butterfly wallpaper the best I think. I love the rock crystal knobs on the drawers.

Which do you like best? Or would you decline these girly closets and go for something more basic sans wallpaper?

Please do tell!

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco


P.S.  Our ever so popular porcelain Ginger Jar made the May/June issue of New York Spaces magazine!  For some reason, this little jar has been one of the more popular items in the COCOCOZY Random Stuff section of the COCOCOZY shop...that's the section where I curated a bunch of random home furnishings I love.  I have two of these jars sitting on my fireplace.  They are cute little accents!

P.P.S.  Hope you have a fabulous day!



Photos:  Mi Casa Revista; Modern Declaration