Design Traveler: Manduria, Italy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkoI5pxi0AytwiO9J1uugozV8me6K8MtJJGsZOW3hZ1JOJHT4CqS4gslDKagOwBpCHkijyJvvYr-dTmc-nlDtj9qn0jQnsoz0TNW7NRDpFWlDGpbUQo139W_nDtlP4zdUw_cxcUN45-M/s1600/780-480-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkoI5pxi0AytwiO9J1uugozV8me6K8MtJJGsZOW3hZ1JOJHT4CqS4gslDKagOwBpCHkijyJvvYr-dTmc-nlDtj9qn0jQnsoz0TNW7NRDpFWlDGpbUQo139W_nDtlP4zdUw_cxcUN45-M/s1600/780-480-0.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love to travel and when you find a beautiful hotel to stay in it always helps a location to be added to my list.  If there is one thing this beautiful there have to be others right?  While looking an entirely different image I got pulled into this beautiful space with a series of clicks.. completely fell in love with it.  This <a href="http://www.welcomebeyond.com/property/tenuta-potenti/#property" target="_blank">beautiful property</a> is located in Italy near the Adriatic Sea.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Design Traveler: Manduria, Italy

  I love to travel and when you find a beautiful hotel to stay in it always helps a location to be added to my list.  If there is one thing ...

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greige and gold in France...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged95rTIq_H3v4RXVW2OzB1gKzLQAK2WORWnXtOklDSFyVw2zz4WqfUvON5IUzUQ54HDmbJzRnwiybeho0oztnJAQRTL4uvyfkrL7fZ3y4g360vA11gGZlqLMJPEP-TZ1EhD2uNlfyOzM/s1600/french+greige+and+gold+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged95rTIq_H3v4RXVW2OzB1gKzLQAK2WORWnXtOklDSFyVw2zz4WqfUvON5IUzUQ54HDmbJzRnwiybeho0oztnJAQRTL4uvyfkrL7fZ3y4g360vA11gGZlqLMJPEP-TZ1EhD2uNlfyOzM/s1600/french+greige+and+gold+6.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One glimpse at t<a href="http://jamesbalston.squarespace.com/journal/2013/9/23/over-the-sea-to-sees.html" target="_blank">his beautiful French home</a> and I was smitten.  A perfectly wonderful mix of old and older makes it so special.    The mirrors and stone alone are just the right amount of sparkle and rough texture.  The result is a casual luxe that we dream about.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhos3dY5JB3eB74O9i7UUcp2RlJeqKONnwc4bnJ_vCuDLMhV7Ds8yrq9rbyLJPUzujz1bIz2tKLpV1KAZ_87lFpsVukYq1Aal-4nbec0p6jOpPEbiE38f_AbQwl5K0ucx1pn4aTXHj8KIY/s1600/french+greige+and+gold+3.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>images <a href="http://jamesbalston.squarespace.com/journal/2013/9/23/over-the-sea-to-sees.html" target="_blank">via </a></i></span></div><br /><img align="right" alt="Photobucket" border="0" img="" src="http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb350/littlebluedeer/littlebluedeers%20album%202/signature-8.png" /> <span style="font-size: small;">If you would like help creating inspirational spaces for yourself <a href="http://www.greigedesign.com/index2.php?v=v1#!/CONTACT" target="_blank">contact us</a>!</span>

greige and gold in France...

  One glimpse at t his beautiful French home and I was smitten.  A perfectly wonderful mix of old and older makes it so special.    The mir...

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Restored beauty in Provence

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Restored beauty in Provence

  Happy Thursday!  It is almost the weekend again and there is so much to do in these last days of summer!  I am dreaming that we are on hol...

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Simply wonderfully white...

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-gwlizvmR7H0Wqj4W7vYMjn_j0H1rUq6sOkbC2ucnQXLtzrgQs-ssWuoQi2MkKs7ImlZv3hUHbLsK9aiK3aym_kTSWhhx1vvsJTzm0F6yG4yFnnpwc5IymRjPHgbsMuKhy5dxATg5Ko/s818/a+little+bit+country+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-gwlizvmR7H0Wqj4W7vYMjn_j0H1rUq6sOkbC2ucnQXLtzrgQs-ssWuoQi2MkKs7ImlZv3hUHbLsK9aiK3aym_kTSWhhx1vvsJTzm0F6yG4yFnnpwc5IymRjPHgbsMuKhy5dxATg5Ko/s1600/a+little+bit+country+2.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am completely falling for this light white clean feeling right now.  I have spent the last few days working with a lot of color... it can kinda scramble a design brain.  This space feels so relaxing and simply wonderful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are getting geared up for the holiday weekend here and cannot wait to spend 4 days hanging out around the pool and setting off fire works!  (shhh) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKV8GLXlE3j9SXL8TDi0ffquKcUGczMTXSMJfdVz3OEau9zcw0goD1KB8Tk9L93NTOp43l5oQzfUmOM5fuljniOgoI3Gkfdx64SwxRp93vLUOAom4chNyTjnAWxtRgett94a21TKDnO4/s613/a+little+bit+country4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKV8GLXlE3j9SXL8TDi0ffquKcUGczMTXSMJfdVz3OEau9zcw0goD1KB8Tk9L93NTOp43l5oQzfUmOM5fuljniOgoI3Gkfdx64SwxRp93vLUOAom4chNyTjnAWxtRgett94a21TKDnO4/s1600/a+little+bit+country4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsfiv2bqLJK_ZXj0F3HP8-nrAFb2Xl6eWyxasl4dNZ0sA3VJ-sTSy56dzJ-Sj_U_P4V875ow_BPK7lJZq2whk0RIuCrMZhiv5YcM_2gADGDvg6uhJ3DINrR6kjL3Ldxx1yqXyO2yivHg/s818/a+little+bit+country.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsfiv2bqLJK_ZXj0F3HP8-nrAFb2Xl6eWyxasl4dNZ0sA3VJ-sTSy56dzJ-Sj_U_P4V875ow_BPK7lJZq2whk0RIuCrMZhiv5YcM_2gADGDvg6uhJ3DINrR6kjL3Ldxx1yqXyO2yivHg/s1600/a+little+bit+country.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiRq17Z0jveK5-3NvbhEy_tfRl4YVRPErDxWq_nXVdu38a5P7c-aMMoNdXhdfmuFiPDoaTlKFrlQDxgQMmb8v6pWAeiUvVAnKrjKN2h2rF1_7doyL0QRUvcU9HQDtiRcjvGX3sTEYfg4/s819/a+little+bit+country+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiRq17Z0jveK5-3NvbhEy_tfRl4YVRPErDxWq_nXVdu38a5P7c-aMMoNdXhdfmuFiPDoaTlKFrlQDxgQMmb8v6pWAeiUvVAnKrjKN2h2rF1_7doyL0QRUvcU9HQDtiRcjvGX3sTEYfg4/s1600/a+little+bit+country+3.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>images <a href="http://tidningenlantliv.se/2013/05/15/ett-hus-att-alska/" target="_blank">via </a></i></span></div><br /><br /><img align="right" alt="Photobucket" border="0" img="" src="http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb350/littlebluedeer/littlebluedeers%20album%202/signature-8.png" /> <span style="font-size: small;">If you would like help creating inspirational spaces for yourself <a href="http://www.greigedesign.com/index2.php?v=v1#!/CONTACT" target="_blank">contact us</a>!</span>

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Ranch living..

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Take me away... to France

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQOurxRAIkaidwu1QZUXeuAa8ywoOSacjusU45vuG_PqjAgLEtKkJhOEIz5vJ1_sMg3hiaE-82tkcH632FGzaH_0HUFHxRwfgcnDaW6kPMeIxyHrGZU6WMT814x2ZukG4vw3xW7bnyH4/s1600/haven+in+paris+Bonnieux+france3.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQOurxRAIkaidwu1QZUXeuAa8ywoOSacjusU45vuG_PqjAgLEtKkJhOEIz5vJ1_sMg3hiaE-82tkcH632FGzaH_0HUFHxRwfgcnDaW6kPMeIxyHrGZU6WMT814x2ZukG4vw3xW7bnyH4/s1600/haven+in+paris+Bonnieux+france3.PNG" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let's face it some days your inbox can be more foe than friend...   That has been my last couple of days, one icky email after another (with a few exceptions).  Well this morning when this little beauty landed in my in box I felt someone had thought of me and sent me this special getaway even if just for a few moments..  The really cool part is that you can actually go to this beautiful place and stay as long as you might like to.  This is a beautiful <a href="http://www.haveninparis.com/rental/Bonnieuxvilla.php?utm_source=Haven+in+Paris+March+Newsletter%3A+New+Provence+Properties&utm_campaign=Summer+2012+Newsletter&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Villa from Haven in Paris</a> and although it is out of my budget for travel this year it would be the perfect setting to make some beautiful memories with family and friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One gorgeous space after another to would invite you to relax and dream of a wonderful life in the French countryside.  Take a few minutes to go there... if even only in your dreams.. see isn't that better?  I feel better already!  (okay now back to work)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRv16muJMxiPLStF32tg1UaXgi0-ptLuoIWi2tCnQomID6cR7H6xQ6UObex5BsZePATnyHJ0VIvI9QKA5eWOgz7K03_nqs5oEnADZW5SQBC3Hi8b_fG85HyBl8j8tDkD897Kw5ZLYp-I/s1600/haven+in+paris+Bonnieux+france+2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRv16muJMxiPLStF32tg1UaXgi0-ptLuoIWi2tCnQomID6cR7H6xQ6UObex5BsZePATnyHJ0VIvI9QKA5eWOgz7K03_nqs5oEnADZW5SQBC3Hi8b_fG85HyBl8j8tDkD897Kw5ZLYp-I/s1600/haven+in+paris+Bonnieux+france+2.PNG" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Take me away... to France

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Choices choices

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYnR53Qbk7VcjhZNmpNrpL_fn94x-osRzhS6p_NVtrKlvSMI0F37RJZpMthQz-iPIAYr2LOyGPecSelsflJZBzJ6TLeQdrDO1zdiFdhXRcdi163FhmrYmh2lB1AwOB0BR3pSxjJd-Rxg/s1600/kitchen+appliances+viking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYnR53Qbk7VcjhZNmpNrpL_fn94x-osRzhS6p_NVtrKlvSMI0F37RJZpMthQz-iPIAYr2LOyGPecSelsflJZBzJ6TLeQdrDO1zdiFdhXRcdi163FhmrYmh2lB1AwOB0BR3pSxjJd-Rxg/s1600/kitchen+appliances+viking.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5fZ2Fj-ug7qfJ78dgYijMHYE87hsBs6fEmTgdi-V0JnGkRATtc7AOaOwagAEh3L1CoqRG1kFNXsLI7ce_QswqsLrw9u7djfz0U3pbR6yonco6Dm8d-dK_h_Pt0XWfRVzaxxN7Ft6FyE/s1600/viking+36+range.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5fZ2Fj-ug7qfJ78dgYijMHYE87hsBs6fEmTgdi-V0JnGkRATtc7AOaOwagAEh3L1CoqRG1kFNXsLI7ce_QswqsLrw9u7djfz0U3pbR6yonco6Dm8d-dK_h_Pt0XWfRVzaxxN7Ft6FyE/s1600/viking+36+range.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am so excited that the appliances are arriving today.  It sounds silly even to me as I don't really love to cook, but I like the option to cook.  Options and choices that seems to be a huge part of this kitchen remodeling thing.  I had a hard time picking appliances.  I knew in my heart what I wanted but things change as you design spaces and figure out your needs {likes, dislikes and <u><i>budget</i></u>}.  I knew I wanted a Viking cook top but had planned on sticking with our double wall ovens that were in the original kitchen layout.  Little did I know that the cost of those ovens {used once a year} was triple what I wanted to spend.  So I opted for the <a href="http://www.vikingrange.com/consumer/product/products/cooking/freestanding-ranges/professional-series-ranges/custom-dual-fuel-sealed-burner-ranges/36--custom-sealed-burner-dual-fuel-range---vdsc" target="_blank">36" Viking range</a>.  I cannot wait to see it in it's new spot and feel like a real cook {ha ha} when I use it.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will send over some cookies from the first batch!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>image <a href="http://www.countryliving.com/homes/house-tours/southern-decorating-ideas#slide-1" target="_blank">via</a> </i></span></div><br /><img align="right" alt="Photobucket" border="0" img="img" src="http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb350/littlebluedeer/littlebluedeers%20album%202/signature-8.png" />  <script src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Choices choices

  I am so excited that the appliances are arriving today.  It sounds silly even to me as I don't really love to cook, but I like the opt...

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country kitchen...

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQacVCkrtnOAIUPfX9BoNzN4mHrf4nHHMOP0VWUK2_rHP1RlMS6iSBd9R7f3KMGW1p9Xcq82-adnb6dNdGbcXTERqS_1jfOTOTzbkadLYB9v0A7m4HOPNv-YKAHQBsAUbzGCFuUyL3NWY/s1600/country+kitchen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQacVCkrtnOAIUPfX9BoNzN4mHrf4nHHMOP0VWUK2_rHP1RlMS6iSBd9R7f3KMGW1p9Xcq82-adnb6dNdGbcXTERqS_1jfOTOTzbkadLYB9v0A7m4HOPNv-YKAHQBsAUbzGCFuUyL3NWY/s1600/country+kitchen.png" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wishing you a lovely weekend filled with stacks of white dishes and lingering last days of summer outside...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">image <a href="http://casatreschic.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-08-27T05:24:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=6&by-date=false" target="_blank">via </a></span></i></div><img align="right" alt="Photobucket" border="0" img="img" src="http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb350/littlebluedeer/signature-6.png" />  <script src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

country kitchen...

  Wishing you a lovely weekend filled with stacks of white dishes and lingering last days of summer outside... image via  

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Modern country kitchen..

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWrEPMiFEZ3hnpi-ktEbOwUNmIrCaPXucecN8jK4iIZV88VFgjtk6N1hHaJdbXlwvL4hpLap0bYb47LeNvas-68Kz6ZORNj5Ir1Wde0Aonh9RFyyfVg2H0I0hEF89Woq1SRSIYp2AvxY/s1600/greige+kitchen+modern+country.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWrEPMiFEZ3hnpi-ktEbOwUNmIrCaPXucecN8jK4iIZV88VFgjtk6N1hHaJdbXlwvL4hpLap0bYb47LeNvas-68Kz6ZORNj5Ir1Wde0Aonh9RFyyfVg2H0I0hEF89Woq1SRSIYp2AvxY/s1600/greige+kitchen+modern+country.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is such a great kitchen.  I cannot decide if I like the lowered eating areas that are so popular right now off of the islands.  What do you think?  I think this one is well done and the stools make it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On a quick note- I was so excited that <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> came out with their new IPad app- if you have not tried it you should, it is very wonderful! </div><img align="right" alt="Photobucket" border="0" img="img" src="http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb350/littlebluedeer/signature-6.png" />  <script src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Modern country kitchen..

  This is such a great kitchen.  I cannot decide if I like the lowered eating areas that are so popular right now off of the islands.  What ...

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Gorgeous transitional mix.. timeless

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Gorgeous transitional mix.. timeless

  I am loving the mix in this house of rustic and traditional with a bit of vintage put in there!  So fun, it reminds me that we should desi...

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