The Telstar home at Starlight Village Homes, Leander, Texas. WOW!! The 2019 Modern Home Tour was over the top FABULOUS!!!  Not to mention we had a gorgeous sunny day and the piece de resistance was a fun Block Party out at the NEW Starlight Village in Leander.  I took hundreds of photos and am so excited about sharing everything with you! But while editing my images, I realized there's absolutely NO way I can squeeze them into one post. Lucky you!  You'll be getting THREE posts out of this fantastic Tour produced by Modern Architecture + Design Society. Today's post on Mid-century modern will be a tad short (okay, we all know, my posts are NEVER really short, no matter how hard I try!), but with inspiring photos, because I want you to learn more about

julia buchingham, modernique, book giveaway, global views, grand opening, Interior Home + Design Center, Friday, June 22nd, 2 - 4 p.m What better way to kick off the GRAND OPENING of your NEW Dallas Showroom than by featuring your Brand Partners and having a BOOK GIVEAWAY! Brand Partners are very special and talented interior designers, authors and, most importantly for Global Views, amazing product designers! Both The Global Views + Studio | A Home - A Global Views Company brands attract the cream of the crop when it comes to partnering

"The time is always right to do what is right. " Martin Luther King, Jr There are times in life when you just need to do the right thing. It won't always replace the wrong that someone else did. But it may help the people affected by that wrong. And that's exactly what the Interior Design Community (IDC) did. I won't go into all the negative details of this man's dishonest actions that left the Dorchester, Massachusetts non-profit organization, All Dorchester Sports & Leadership (ADSL), high and dry without any lighting

[caption id="attachment_13759" align="alignnone" width="584"] Interior Designer Michelle Workman, debuting her new FACET Collection for French Heritage at Dallas Market, June 2017.[/caption] Well, I lied. Sort of. I said last month I would take some time off and it would be my last blog post for the summer. But I HAD to share my exciting June trip to Dallas Market's Total Home & Gift Show seeing Michelle Workman's new FACET Collection for French Heritage.

It's Summertime....the perfect time for a recap of our first #PillowFight!!

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 That's right, the Pillow Goddess, WAS in the hot seat last week for a #PillowFight as guest host of #DesignLux chat's "Pillow Fight". Didn't see any feathers flying as in "Along Comes Polly" (at least not yet!), but boy was it a blast!!

Thank you so much Brandon Smith for having me as a guest host. I always look forward to your chat #DesignLUX every Thursday. I think we were rather a tame bunch for this first go around, so you might have to have a few more #PillowFights to get the adrenalin going.  But in case you, dear readers, missed the chat, do not fear as I recap it all right here (below) with a few opinions, pillow finds, and tips from followers of #DesignLux chat.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="580"]High point market, luxury decorative pillows, luxury designer pillows, art, lighting, furniture, John Strauss, Design, Interior Design, Handcrafted, Wood, John Strauss, CMJSCreative, home furnishings, hpmkt, interior design, design, New dining room chandelier by CMJSCreativ in pink hand blown ribbed glass, at High Point Market in #Salon G-7013.[/caption]

 Well, it's that time of year again - High Point Market in North Carolina,(#hpmkt)  THE largest furniture market in the U.S. -  kicks off this weekend from Saturday, April 5th - 10th.  There will be an incredible amount of fabulous new design from top brands and smaller ones with the famous Style Spotters (10 designers hand-selected by #hpmkt) sharing all their finds.  Plus all my Twitter friends are going to be there, as well as two designers that I've grown to admire very much.

[caption id="attachment_3151" align="aligncenter" width="520"]Thomas O' Brien, Aero Studios, Dallas, Sneak Peek, interior designer, design, art, collecting, home furnishigns, New York City, glass, Deborah Main, luury decorative pillows, luxury designer pillows, industrial, chic, antiques, classic, evolve Thomas O'Brien and I at the #SneakPeek blogger event at Dallas Market Center.[/caption]

One of the highlights for me and Deborah Main Designs at the #SneakPeek at Dallas Market in January (Yup, I still have a couple more posts of inspiration from just that one single day!) was having the opportunity to meet and hear Thomas O'Brien speak. Not having a background in design, I honestly didn't know who he was. I really enjoyed hearing him speak, seeing his slide show, and learning about his NYC store. Since going to Dallas was my first time attending market as a blogger, I was very keen on learning more and listening to what he had to say. I was definitely intrigued!