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Against a leaf-printed wallcovering, this lacquered lilac bar cabinet pops in a room designed by Stefani Stein Inc.
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How to Embrace Wabi-Sab
Learn all about this Japanese trend of happily accepting life's imperfections, and get some ideas on how to incorporate the wabi-sabi trend in your own home.
By definition, wabi-sabi doesn't necessarily have a design connection. It's an ancient Japanese framework rooted in Zen Buddhism that celebrates the imperfect beauty of nature, with all of its natural flaws and blemishes. When embracing the wabi-sabi approach in your home, you can finally ditch your endless pursuit of the perfect vignette or sexiest shelfie. Wabi-sabi design means saying yes to imperfection, natural objects, texture and unique materials.
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An Ombré Wall DIY You Can Pull Off | Architectural Digest
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Our love for ombré walls in all their sunset-reminiscent glory just doubled—we've discovered the look is even easier to pull off than we first realized. Ombré wallpaper will always be a solid, low-lift option, but Portola Paints & Glazes recently pointed out to us that painting a color fade effect takes a lot less effort than you'd expect. Remember Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli's white-to-blush bedroom walls? Well, that was a collaboration between Portola and designer Stefani Stein, and what looks like a half-dozen shades of pink was actually achieved with just two paint colors. Read on to see Portola cofounder Jamie Davis show us the process step by step. Even if you never attempt this yourself, seeing the inner workings of an ombré is oddly satisfying...
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Inside a Los Angeles Home for a Young Couple
For this home, interior designer Stefani Stein of Stefani Stein Inc. was asked to create comfortable spaces with a neutral palette for a young couple expecting their first child. "This design direction perfectly complimented the architecture of the 1930's home in the Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood," says Stein. "We wanted to honor the original details such as the ribbon moulding and wainscot, but with a direction that felt fresh, age appropriate and reflective of their California casual lifestyle.” says Stein. Bringing in contemporary artwork, hand-picked fabrics and wallpapers, and adding a touch of vintage, Stein has created seamless spaces perfect for a family to grow into.
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COSY INTERIORS: SLOW LIVING INSPIRATIONS
Book by Macarena Abascal
Slow living is a lifestyle emphasizing slower approaches to aspects of everyday life. This beautiful book shows relaxed home interiors as a reaction to discomforts in materialistic and industrial lifestyles. This are interiors designed and organized around natural materials, friendly furniture and kind distributions to create pleasant atmospheres in today’s living spaces.
Cosy Interiors: Slow Living Inspirations
Inside OITNB's Samira Wiley and Wife Lauren Morelli's Cali Bungalow: 'We Had an Opportunity to Be Uniquely Feminine'
“My goal was definitely color,” says OITNB writer and producer Morelli
BY MEGAN STEIN
Samira Wiley, star of Orange Is the New Black and The Handmaid’s Tale, and her wife Lauren Morelli are living a colorful newlywed life in their cozy Los Angeles abode. “The house isn’t huge,” Morelli tells Architectural Digest. “It’s a cozy little California bungalow.” Although Morelli bought the property when she and Wiley had just started dating, the OITNB writer and producer still took Wiley’s opinion into account from the get-go. “I always knew I was going to move in,” Wiley says.
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INSIDE OITNB'S SAMIRA WILEY AND WIFE LAUREN MORELLI'S CALI BUNGALOW: 'WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE UNIQUELY FEMININE'
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NEWLYWEDS SAMIRA WILEY AND LAUREN MORELLI TAKE AD INSIDE THEIR FIRST HOME TOGETHER
When Lauren Morelli first hired Stefani Stein, Morelli's girlfriend Samira Wiley had yet to move into her Los Angeles home with her. But according to Morelli, Wiley was "always a consideration" in her design process. Actress Wiley backs up her wife of just seven months, saying: "I always knew I was going to move in."
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