Here's a great example from the September issue of House Beautiful. This room, designed by Mona Ross Berman, is really cute and of course, I love the orange and pink scheme. My main issue is regarding the leather Moroccan pouf, x-bench, and Flokati rug. There's nothing wrong with these elements, however, we've all seen them a million times by now. I'm definitely not getting any fresh decorating inspiration from this and therefore, the magazine has failed to serve its purpose for me since I didn't find useful fodder elsewhere in the issue.
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| Design by Mona Ross Berman, photo by Jonny Valiant via House Beautiful |
Further, I like this powder room that is from the same home as the room above. I think the wallpaper, "Recessed" by Studio Printworks is cool. The use of the Circa Vendome sconces and the Kohler Memoirs pedestal sink, while pretty and classic, is certainly short of groundbreaking and is not what I would consider to be special and new enough for editorial.
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| Design by Mona Ross Berman, photo by Jonny Valiant via House Beautiful |
And the Kitchen of the Month is fine but it's definitely old news. It's a kitchen from one of the chalets at The Bavarian, a quaint lodge in Taos, New Mexico (even though I can't find it now on their website). I blogged about it a year and a half ago and it looks pretty much the same aside from the photo styling.
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| Design by Alexandra Champalimaud, photo by Dominique Vorillon via House Beautiful |
Do any of you agree with my assessment? Are you bored by the major shelter magazines too or am I just being cranky and jaded?
