A Place Called HOME…
Home is… where our heart is…. a place that feeds our soul, inspires us to be our very best, and throws its arms around us at the end of our day!! It can be 2 rooms or 20, a sublet in New York, a home in the country or a Villa in Italy!!
It is not about size….it’s about heart!!
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Today, Marlene celebrates Home
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A Place called HOME…
The Love of Home
Are you a rolling stone that makes “where ever you lay your hat, your HOME?”
As long as you are embraced by your space, you can be happy!
I have been blessed to have lived in very special places: from Ohio to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. Many, many places have been called HOME to me. Each one has its own very special memories: familial childhood and summer nights, 16 inches of snow in Boston, dunes on the Cape, Central Park and my landmark apartment in New York with its terrace and classic moldings, my charming Beverly Hills home with palm trees surrounding with museum and shopping steps away, to San Francisco with my inspiring deck with view of Marin and Lafayette Park beckoning. Each locale became HOME for me…loving each one…making my apartments HOME!
Sometimes HOME is our birthplace.
Sometimes it is where our heritage began. For me it was my very first night in Italy…Florence!
It felt like I had come HOME. You see my father was Sicilian and I was born on Sophia Loren’s birth day!
Where is HOME to you??
How do you make your “house” a HOME??
It is not about size, as famed designer Billy Baldwin showed us in his forever home, a New York one room studio apartment!
Are you surrounding yourself with simple pleasures and creature comforts… favorite colors, soft textures for the comfiest sofa and special chair to read and enjoy your “library.”
Lotus Decorative Ginger Jar | Home Décor Store | Affordable & Modern Furniture | Contemporary Chinoiserie Porcelain Dancing Dragon Garden Stool | Matouk Auberge Monogrammed Letter Towel Collection | Bloomingdale's | Sferra Guest Towels, 2-Piece Set | Grand Organic Cotton Embroidered Towel | Jo Malone London English Pear & Freesia Home Candle | Jo Malone Candles
Are luscious cotton absorbent towels in your bath…with flickering, scented candles in every room, silky sateen sheets in winter with fluffy down comforter and crisp – cool hemstitched percale in summer?
AERIN Gilded Bamboo Gallery Wall Frame | AERIN 25 oz. Orange Blossom 3-Wick Savoy Candle in Cream Pot | AERIN Shagreen Heart Box | Aerin Ceramic Heart Box
Of course, you can personalize all with treasures that have meaning to you: favorite framed photos, flowers in treasured vases, mementoes from travels near and dear to your heart that transport you to another time and place!
Do you love your kitchen with its selection of favorite teas and seasonings of the world at your fingertips? Maybe you love colorful enameled or cast-iron cookware to create your favorite dessert, broiled trout almondine or meal!
Do you enjoy a variety of dinnerware for entertaining and your every mood?! Plating all of your culinary treats is such fun: from biscotti or croissant to nicoise salad, butternut squash soup, sushi take-out and Thanksgiving dinner!! It is one of my great passions in so many forms: French Limoges porcelains, English bone china, Italian and Portuguese ceramic designs…love!
Baccarat Harmonie Barware | Bernardaud Constance Dinnerware Collection | Bernardaud Palmyre
Ralph Lauren Home Wyatt Bar Tools | Juliska Graham Bar Tool Set | VEUVE CLICQUOT: LA GRANDE DAME DE LA CHAMPAGNE By Frederique Crestin-billet | Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Box | Dansk Teak Ice Bucket Mid Century Modern Vtg Jens Quistgaard Denmark 19.5" | Sferra Hemstitch Table Linens & Matching Items
Does your bar have simple pleasures complete with flirty Champagne flutes, lovely crystal double old-fashioned tumblers (perfect for your Scotch or Cape Codder) and vintage ice bucket to chill your favorite La Grande Dame or bubbly water? Of course, you may enjoy personal monogramed cocktail napkins, stir-sticks and garnishes to make it complete!
However, and where ever you choose to enjoy all that you love…do make your house a special
Place called HOME…xoxo MMK
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Marlene,
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Mary
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