STRIPES & CHEVRON TOGETHER? - FEARLESS DECOR PART 2

Last week I showed you a bright pink living room and said that was fearless.  This week I bring you a home in Morocco with a wild blue chevron pattern floor and bold stripe walls!  Wow!

Could you do it?

Would you go fearless or play it safe?

FEARLESS - Cement handmade tiles...

Zigzag cement tiles (above)

SAFE - Or try a rug to get the same look!

Wool flat weave ikat chevron rug (above)

So regarding the rooms above...I would probably do the floor but not the stripe walls.  I love the idea of a beautiful graphic pattern tile on the floor.

See the rest of the decor on decor on Elle Decor's site.

Happy Friday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Packing day at COCOCOZY!  We're shipping off a lot of COCOCOZY product to many of our customers including one of our newest retailers...Candelabra in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.  VP of Operations CM sent me this picture from our headquarters in Beverly Hills!  Yay CM and NG!  Nice work.

Packing day at our COCOCOZY offices!

P.P.S.  Ask Me a Design Question & Pillow Giveaway - I am so excited and thrilled to be this week's Ask the Expert over on Interior Collective blog.  Head over to Interior Collective to ask me a decor related question about color!  Also, if you ask a question, you are then eligible to possibly win a COCOCOZY Pillow!  Next week my answers to selected questions will be answered! Woohooo!  Can't wait to hear what you have to ask!

Photos: Elle Decor

COCOCOZY ARCH FABRIC SITS PRETTY!

COCOCOZY textiles on a chair in a corner window in Illinois! (above)

Got this lovely photo shown above in my inbox yesterday - a very nice surprise.

CM, who runs all operations at COCOCOZY Headquarters (HQ) in Beverly Hills, forwarded me an email from our Illinois based customer Jennifer Heffernan.

In the email, Jennifer was sending us a photo of the extra wide armchair she recently upholstered in COCOCOZY Arch fabric!  She had purchased about 5 yards from us awhile back!

It is always such a huge treat for me to see COCOCOZY textiles doing good decor work in any home.

I love this corner of tall windows with a pink blossoming tree in the yard outside.  Great floors, fantastic windows, nice view and a little COCOCOZY in the mix too.  I wouldn't mind having a cup of tea and a good magazine read in this cute corner - so nice!

Well done Jennifer!

COCOCOZY Arch in Charcoal Gray -  Fabric by the yard 100% linen (above)

COCOCOZY Arch pillows in Navy and Sea Foam on a Barcelona chair! (above)

Thank you Jennifer for sharing your photo!  You made my day!

To all of you COCOCOZY textile devotees, if you have a photo of your COCOCOZY pillow, throw, fabric, drapery or home accessories in scene at your house, please send me a picture at cococozy@cococozy.com.  I would love to see!

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Just got off the phone with my dentist's office.  We were scheduling my next appointment.  As we were getting off the phone, I asked the dental office person if she could email me a confirmation with the date and time...she said without hesitation,"We don't have email". Who doesn't "have email" these days?  Hmmm...perplexing.

P.P.S.  Got a text from best of friend AM last night around 7:30p my time.  She's in NYC and I am in L.A.  Text said "Your pillows are on Bravo".  Of course, I was skeptical...have had way too many aunts and friends call saying "I just saw your pillows on the local news...they were interviewing a lady about her cat being lost and I saw your pillow in the background."  Needless to say...all of these previous calls have been false alarms.  Last night was different.  Leave it to Harvard Business School alum business wiz decorating maven super smart best of friend AM to get it right.  AM was watching a Bravo TV reality show called Newlyweds The First Year.  Guess she was watching the show with her husband JE because she texted from his phone.  Low and behold, in a scene where a couple named Kim and Alaska were shopping at Gracious Home in New York, they picked up a COCOCOZY Logo pillow and were carrying it around!  I recorded the show on my DVR. Woohoo...will try to take a photo of the screen tonight so you can see.

COCOCOZY RUGS ON DISPLAY - A TEAR JERKING MOMENT!

COCOCOZY rug display at the Capel showroom in High Point, NC (above)

So I cried yesterday.  I cried in a public place.   Right in the middle of several people.  Here's why.

Yesterday was the debut of the COCOCOZY for Capel Rugs collection here in High Point, NC.
Cameron Capel - grand daughter of the founder of Capel Rugs - took me into the showroom at Market Square with showroom manager Ron Bristow, Deanne O'Connor and Capel President John Magee.  When I first saw the display I was bowled over with joy...giggling, laughing, ooohing and ahhhing.  I chittered and chattered with glee.  I was so happy!  This went on for about 10 minutes.

Then all of a sudden I looked over to my left and I saw a COCOCOZY for Capel Rugs sign pasted onto the showroom window....and that is when I started to cry.

It was overwhelming in a wonderful way.  Here I am, just a normal girl, who started blogging 5 years ago...standing in the middle of a posh showroom with an entire collection of 24 luxury rugs staring at me...and the brand name I made up late one night in my kitchen years ago (COCOCOZY) staring right back at me too...larger than life.  It was a moment.

I know there will be many more ups and downs on this journey I am taking with COCOCOZY.  I am prepared for that.  I've learned a lot about myself...becoming a business owner and all...I hope I've helped you all learn a bit and get inspired too.  So many of the moments I have spent dealing with the twists and turns of running a business have been challenging...some of them lows...some of them were so confusing.

Yesterday, though, was a moment that I did take to pause...I paused and was thankful for all of the wonderful people I've worked with and met along the way.  I was also overcome with emotion.  So I cried right there in public.  A good cry.  A happy cry. A very happy cry.

Heading back to Los Angeles later today.  More from High Point tomorrow!

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Thank you to Ron Bristow and Ken for setting up a marvelous display.

P.P.S.  A huge thank you to Tami Watras who is the former Creative Director at Capel who found me a year and half ago!

P.P.P.S. A big huge thank you to Cameron Capel who has hosted me all weekend!  Such a lovely time having dinners etc.!

P.P.P.P.S.  I'll share more photos later!