Kristen's Holiday Tips...
 

She has some nice Christmas ideas, but I'd get claustrophobic in this room...especially on that couch or in the chair....and maybe I am misreading it and she didn't design this. :shrug:

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[On edit -- Curiosity Questions -- can anyone read the stamp on the window?]

That's her store.

And yes, nice ideas - but certainly not original.

^^ Thanks for the reply and for finding the article.

I wonder if Lindsey ever emerges from his studio, goes into the living room and asks himself, "WTF are all these pears doing on the floor??"

Kristen has the most offensive design sense I have ever seen. It goes beyond shabby chic. It's just plain shabby.

Nope, I can't read the stamp on the window, but wish to suggest the room doesn't feel cramped because of the spacious view outside that spectacular picture window. Space: The final frontier.

I liked all the tips except the croquet in the backyard bit. C'mon. If she'd said tennis, frisbee, a treasure hunt or anything else that would have been fine. We did have a croquet set when I was a kid, but then we got a slip-and-slide and I haven't seen my mallet since then.

Michele

A view of the sidewalk. I'd love to have a glimpse of the shop's Christmas dressing from the outside. I see the little Christmas bush, but she's probably got a bigger tree in there and I love to see stuff like that when I'm walking down the street at this time of the year, especially from a designer.

I was on Wilshire Blvd. this week and the windows for Saks and Neiman Marcus, etc. are nice, but nothing like New York.

Michele

I loved playing croquet in the backyard in my Long Island/salad days!

Her design is awful, but that part about the pears made me lol :lol:

I never actually played croquet, I just associate it with one of my cousins' high school graduation parties from when I was little. Maybe it's a CT thing, but they had a croquet set and I pretty much used to mallets to rip up the backyard :lol:

Well, you know how Lindsey loves croquet!

So, we know what he'll be doing December 25.

It's a great article. Thank you.

Michele

HejiraNYC and Tango...

:lol:You made me laugh with your comments...

"WTF are all these pears doing on the floor?"
"Space, the final frontier..."

:lol:Ditto on the croquet commentary.... Michele, LukeA, Loki and CA Dreaming...

If on Christmas Day, the little woman has a mallet in her hand and wants some croquet to be played, I bet those Buckinghams get cracking and head for the lawn...

:laugh:

All of it really is ridiculous.

interesting article, although i really dislike her design style. i like contemporary, clean lines, warm colors. the only thing i can see in that shop that i like is the color of pears!

i vaguely remember reading somewhere that he always had croquet in his back yard, way before he was married or living in the current house. or maybe that was Mick? maybe i'm just hallucinating:D;)

you think she replaces them every couple of days before they all go bad?:laugh::lol:

actually, i decorate my kitchen / dining combo room with fruit, but it stays in glass bowls - and normal amount that can actually be eaten before it goes bad:lol: so it serves dual purpose - to entice my kids to eat something healthy and to add different color every few days without having to buy fresh flowers.:)

(sorry i'm one of those people who likes watching hgtv and can discuss design forever)

:lol::lol::lol:

I gotta wonder: why does she have a ton of pears in one corner of the room on the floor? Maybe she was trying to get the kids and Lindsey to eat healthy and, like my cockatiel when we give him a new snack he doesn't like, threw it all on the floor.

Or maybe she has horrible design sense and thought pears on the floor would look cool or something

That's not her home. The pears are not on the floor of her house. That's the place where she works.

The pears are kind of amusing. I just got a Harry and David catalog and it was FULL of pears. Every page. It was rather startling. I don't know how those pears got precedence over all other fruits.

Michele

She seems to be a real cluttery kinda gal. Remember that one picture of their home with all the picture frames? She likes to fill rooms up to the brim with frames, books, pillows. It just doesn't stop. It's like a clean, open space frightens her. I hope Lindsey doesn't wake up to get a drink of water some night, trip over some kind of bric a brac and break his hip.

Kristen, pretty soon you're going to have to start designing around ramps, wheel chairs and walkers. Think ahead.

Michele

Merry Christmas California Style !!!
 

Croquet anyone???? Yatzee on the lower level !!!
Better than our 18* amidst a snow storm!!! (*o*)

No offense, but I could see that happening. With the random pears on the floor and tons of furniture, he could be playing his axe from a wheelchair next tour.

You guys made me laugh but you got me thinking last night and I guess fruit has always been used for decoration.

That must be why my grandma always had that wooden bowl of wax fruit at her house. The grapes would get pulled off of their fake vines and they were the hardest to keep dust free. I can remember tossing around some of the other items and I'd be told to put them down. Why? Were they afraid I'd hurt the plastic?

It's great to decorate with food you can eat, but I also see people decorate with lemons and limes too, which you can't really chow down on. They put it in big glass bowls. They do have a wonderful scent.

Michele

My parents ordered one of the pear trays from Harry & David and then were told they couldn't complete the order. I guess I know where all the pears went!:laugh:

If you have ever had the Harry & David pears, you would know that they wouldn't be thrown about on the floor in some kind of random interior designer's whimsical excuse for decorating. Those suckers would be scarfed down in seconds! DE-LISH!! :)

UT-OH kirsten has that deer in the headlights look
forget the pears, have you seen the pants?!! :eek:

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it isn't even the highwaist! it's the weirdness over her muffind hips and the gathering around the tummy and groin region. :laugh:

I've had them when I got fruit of the month one year. I think they had pears in at least 3 of the months. A couple of different varieties. They tasted ok, but my household didn't eat them all. Didn't throw them on the floor either, though. I'll tell you what we really enjoyed: the grapefruit!

Michele

Really?! Wow - I thought they were the best pears I had ever tasted. Not a big grapefruit fan myself.

Everyone know it's tacky to use real fruit in massive quantities as decoration (I imagine my dog scrarfing down all those pears and that white couch going right in the dumpster when she was done...digesting).

Kristen needed design lessons from my Grandma B (God rest her soul). Sequined fruit! Just a few for that subtle, Vegas-y effect.

Really, I was mentioning to friends the other day that I totally can't picture Lindsey living in that house. I know he does and he must really, really, REALLY love her but it's so un-Lindsey with all the schmatta all over the place and mismatched everything.

Love is patient...

That's probably why she has a store now.... she can decorate her showrooms all she wants.

Or lazy. Hey, the man will let you sew moons and stars on his jeans and decorate the area around his mattress with artificial flowers if you otherwise leave him alone.

Michele

As long as she leaves his studio alone, He could probably care less about how the rest of the house looks!!!!

One should hope! Although, I swear if I hear any funny rattling and humming noises on Lindsey's new album, I will assume it's because of some some tacked up wooden slice of flea market Americana vibrating against the wall.