Couture Décor: Refashion Your Home With Musings From Colorado Garden & Home Show
With below freezing temperatures and snow in the forecast, a dose of springtime may be just what the doctor ordered for your monotonous winter blues, and the 54th annual Colorado Garden & Home Show offers up a cure. Held at the Colorado Convention Center from Feb. 9-17, the annual home improvement show (www.GardeningColorado.com) is the...
Couture Décor: How to Fashion Your Dream Closet
Hot pink French doors opening up to a dressing room of limitless space for clothing, shoes and accessories on racks movable by the simple touch of a button – sounds like a dream, right? This is the expectation of what some of us had about what our “grown-up” wardrobes would be – like the Barbie Dreamhouse...
Couture Décor: Modern Furniture Design Meets Colorado Grit at Fin Art
Settled in Denver’s historic Baker neighborhood is a 1940s-era automotive repair shop where Denverites once brought their Alfa Romeos for a tune up; today, it is still a site for the blood, sweat and tears of manual labor, albeit the oil and grease has been substituted for sawdust. Here at Fin Art (185 W. Bayaud Ave.),...
Couture Décor: And the 2013 Pantone Color of the Year Is … Emerald Green
You might be seeing green galore this new year, and it is not the Grinch, your expert gardening thumb or your envy. Earlier this month, Pantone, a global authority on color across multiple design industries, unveiled its 2013 Color of the Year – 17-5641, better known to us non-design commoners as Emerald. According to Pantone,...
Couture Décor: Denver’s Best Holiday Boutique Windows
For the fanatical – albeit, sometimes only window – shoppers of us, the holidays conjure up dreamy, drool-worthy scenes of Manhattan’s finest department store windows – Bergdorf’s, Barneys, Bloomingdale’s, and of course, the all-time classic, Macy’s. Well, no need to voyage to the Big Apple to take in the sights, Denver harbors an array of...
2020 Lawrence: Evolve to Floor-to-Ceiling Green Apartment Living
“Whether you’re a dollar hugger, a tree hugger or a health hugger, LEED buildings have something for you,” Kelsey Young tells me as we stand catching our breath from the fourth-floor climb up to the 2020 Lawrence model apartment – sporting pink hardhats and all. Young, a leasing and marketing professional for the “evolved” apartment community,...
Couture Décor: Tips to Make Your Holiday Soirée a Hit, Hold the Fruitcake (Please!)
Friends decided it is your turn to be the ‘hostess with the mostess’ this holiday season? Never to fear, two of Denver’s event planning extraordinaires are here and they have a Saint Nick-sized satchel full of tips you will need in order to transform your home into a winter wonderland – with panache. With a...
Couture Décor ‘Design By Consign’: Unearth a Treasure-trove of Relics at H&E Furniture
Waltz into H&E Furniture in Park Hill and most likely you will be greeted by a Humphrey Cobb – that is, either “Humphrey Number One” or “Humphrey Number Two” – they are a namesake father-son team. Once you can wrap your head around that one, then you can attempt to take in the ample, eye-catching...
Couture Décor ‘Design By Consign’: Flashback with Lee Alex Mid-Century Décor, Do Ya Dig?
Hankering for a handsome headquarters like Mad Men’s Don Draper? Well, stub out that Lucky Strike, hop in your Caddy and cruise on over to Lee Alex, a boss SoBo furniture boutique with a tang for the Mid-Century modern. With three floors (4,000 square feet) of new, vintage and consignment furnishings, owners and husband and...
Couture Décor ‘Design By Consign’: Living the Lush Life Without Lux Prices
‘Lush Life’ – it’s a 1930s jazz standard, a novel about quarreling Lower East Siders, a well-known Bahamian beach house and, since 2011, the befitting moniker of a consigned furnishings boutique in SoBo’s Antique Row. Lush Life, located at 1745 S. Broadway (www.lushlifedenver.com), provides a conduit for the resale of sophisticated, designer furniture without the...
Couture Décor: Acquaint Yourself with 10 Home Collections Designed by Fashion’s Greatest
Love is in the air and stylish sparks are flying. For years, fashion and interior design have been in a constant love affair with one another – borrowing fabrics or themes, a button here, a pattern there. From within the last decade – on up to the last month – the most iconic fashion designers...
Damn You, Dry Air
It’s about that time of year – every morning I wake up with the slightest twinge of sore throat. Yesterday it was 70 degrees, tomorrow there’s a chance of snow. A stash of hoodies is piling up in the back seat of my car from shedding layers in-between breakfast and lunch. It’s normal for the...
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