Once again I am late to the party when it comes to Amy Butler’s latest endeavors.  She is quite a force to be reckoned with these days with several new lines from bath towels for BB&B to a new line of wallpaper for Graham & Brown.  I love love love wallpaper and I’m really digging the retro vibe of Amy’s exaggerated patterns and prints in this collection. Prices start at $80 a roll for this paste to wall washable paper. You can see her whole collection here and if you live in the Salt Lake area Walls is carrying the new collection.

Retro.

We are very close to closing on our house in Mill Valley. Frankly owning a home in California brought a lot more hassle than happiness so I will be glad to end that chapter.  We learned a valuable lesson in home ownership…never buy a home as an investment. Instead buy a home you love.

These flashy retro wallpapers from Kreme already have me thinking about decorating our next home.  And these interiors from Wary Meyers have me fantasizing about going really mod in this imaginary home.  Alas, it will be awhile before we have enough money saved to buy again but there is no doubt that I will go bold with the design!

This post is dedicated to the readers of The Official Preppy Handbook, wearers of Lily Pulitzer and dwellers of Palm Beach, FL.  This kitchy tennis wallpaper from UK based interior design firm Turner and Pocock is the perfect design for the model preppy family room. Bunny Turner (a totally preppy name that I love by the way) and Emma Pocock were inspired by the portfolio of designer Catherine Cazalet and joining forces with her they created this line of graphic wallpapers. See more from Turner and Pocock here. (Full disclosure: I own a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, tongue in cheek of course).

When in doubt, draw flowers! When I’m in doubt I usually climb back into bed and hit snooze five more times, but I think drawing flowers is probably a much more positive and productive thing to do.  That’s why I love this Florence, Italy-based shop called “When in Doubt Draw Flowers“. Using retro wallpapers, WINDDF makes a whole bunch of cute products from jewelry to my personal favorite, lampshades.  Lucky for us they have an Etsy shoppe so you don’t have to wait for a trip to Florence to purchase, though that would certainly be worth getting out of bed for!

When I was in High School the girl with the most style hands down was Ramey Griffin. I loved sleep-overs at Ramey’s Dads fabulous home with the biggest kitchen I’d ever seen stocked with treats, a real jukebox in the living room and a swimming pool out back. But best of all was Ramey’s bedroom.  It was the type of bedroom every girl dreams about. Not only was the room from bedspread to curtains covered in precious patterns of pink and green but she had a tv inside an armoire and her own massive bathroom! I was lucky that Ramey and I were friends so I got to spend lots of time in that dream of a bedroom.

It’s no surprise then that Ramey, now Ramey Caulkins, is now an interior designer who’s Maine vacation home was recently featured in the July edition of Coastal Living.  I was so happy to see the photo’s of her home and see that she still loves pink and green! Ramey has filled her home with the cheerful fabrics and wallpaper of Sister Parish Designs to give her home that “loose and livable” style she favors.  You’ll have to pick up the magazine for more information about her fabulous home.

I absolutely love the way these wallpapered ceilings look. The wallpaper is from Madison & Grow’s Pasadena Collection. All of M&G’s wallpapers are printed on recyclable paper from sustainable forests using non-toxic water based ink. You can even wipe the wallpaper clean with a damp sponge! Just gorgeous.

It has been so hot here that I’ve recently taken to sleeping in the guest bedroom. Two people and two cats nestled in our bed was starting to feel like Dante’s Inferno instead of a cozy snuggle-fest.  Now that I’ve spent all this time in that unused room I’ve noticed that the bed really needs a headboard or at least something feigning as a headboard.  So as usual when I’m looking for home inspiration I took a gander at the latest sneak peeks on Design Sponge.

The sneak peek of illustrator Linda Ketelhut’s house had an image of her bedroom with Nama Rococo framed newprints behind the bed. I went immediately to Nama Rococo’s wallpaper website and found that they now offer single sheets of their wallpaper perfect for framing.  I’m partial to the French Dot pattern above with its bold colors and botany inspired graphics which remind me of Josef Frank fabrics. I think with a simple Ikea frame job or mounted on board a few of these single sheets would create just the pop that room needs.  What do you think? I’d love to hear what some of you have done to improvise a headboard in your home.

Check out these funky fresh wallpaper designs from graphic artist Aimée Wilder.  Shop her wallpaper collection here.

You wallpaper lovers will love this! The Curiosity Shoppe (also one of my Frillows) is having a book giveaway! The creative team behind the Curiousity Shoppe wrote a fun book called Wallpaper Projects about all the cool things you can do with wallpaper and now they’re giving you a chance to win 1 of 3 copies! Head on over to their blog Smarts and Crafts to solve a wallpaper trivia quiz to win.  If you end up stumped by the trivia then pick up your own copy of the book here.

SODA by Chicago artist Amy Allison had been in my things-to-post-about folder but it wasn’t until this feature of her home on Design Sponge that I snapped to it.  I love the picure above of her porcelain cups on a simple shelf.   I wasn’t aware until this feature that these hand silk screened wallpaper prints are from this beautiful lovebird toile wallpaper which she sells by the roll! Read more about Amy here and visit her webshop here and read her blog here.