Dream House: New Orleans

One of the things I love most about New Orleans are the houses. All the homes, big or small, have their own unique flavor. I would pick up and move back in a heart beat for any of these beauties.

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Favorite:

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These are actually for sale! Someone buy me a house in NOLA…

Only $3.5MM, check Nola.com for more details

Eclectic loveliness

My favorite and my best introduced me today to April’s issue of Elle Decor.

These rooms are totally my style and they get me all hopped up on decorating my own home one day. When will that day be? I love the idea of having books and photographs on display, of making a space look lived in but not cluttered. gagnere-interior-decorating-ideas-ED0410-02.jpggagnere-interior-decorating-ideas-ED0410-03.jpgInterior-Decorating-ideas-ED0310_Rakieten_06.jpgInterior-Decorating-ideas-ED0310_Rakieten_12.jpgInterior-Decorating-ideas-ED0310_Rakieten_14.jpgThis closet? duh.Interior-Decorating-ideas-ED0310_Rakieten_13.jpgInterior-Decorating-ideas-ED0310_Rakieten_11.jpg

I was also introduced to zinio, where one can peruse magazines digitally.

While we’re on the subject. I’ve always and forever wanted a claw-foot bathtub. I’m a bath snob. I love them but I want them to be perfect, I want just the right tub, bubble bath, temperature, mood music etc. or I’ll just shower. Thanks to The (lovely) City Sage , I found these bathtubs. I would most certainly bathe in these.090202_lrb_6733MainvMainFavorite: Main-1Main-3

Do you know what it means?

I am missing New Orleans like crazy these days. It’s gotten cold again in AR after a few blissful days filled with above 50 temperatures. I miss the weather. I’ve followed the saints all season and they’re FINALLY going to the Superbowl! A first in franchise history! So proud, so proud. Like many New Orleanians, I’d rather be in NOLA during the game than Miami! Can you imagine Mardi Gras if they win?!?! I’m off work on 2/15, why aren’t I going?

I miss my friend Sara and her effortlessly chic loft overlooking Lee Circle. I miss cocktails at lunch. I miss Langensteins. I miss TCBY. I miss Audubon park and lazy afternoons. Hell, I even miss rainstorms! Mostly I miss the food and the general joie de vivre of the city itself.