Mary emmerling

Mary Emmerling

Mary Emmerling desk - organized clutter

Since I've been househunting, I've been doing a lot of thinking about design. Looking at a bajillion homes from all different eras and all different styles kind of forces you to go there. About 12 years ago I got serious about design (as serious as a single mom of three, accountant with no design skills can get anyway). It was the olden days with no pinterest or blogs, so I studied magazines. Slept with piles of them on my bed. Here's what I learned from three design superstars all those…

Wow! Today is going to be a special day... I am headed to NYC with Matthew Mead, to join him tonight at a party for guest of honor, Mary Emmerling, the iconic Country Style designer. She has had a storybook career in decorating and design, that has spanned five decades, starting in the magazine business at Mademoiselle. Mary was asked to join House Beautiful next. She brought along a freelance gal she worked with named Martha Stewart. They had always talked about doing a book together where…

New Country Collecting by Mary Emmerling

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Mary Emmerling's Quick Decorating by Jill Kirchner (Hardcover, 1997) ISBN-10: 0517704676 ISBN-13: 9780517704677 Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Bridge to Terabithia (2007) – I recently read and fell in love with Katherine Paterson’s novel, Bridge to Terabithia, and went into this movie hopeful but skeptical (which, source material or no source material, is the attitude I take to every kid’s movie, honestly), and I was very pleasantly surprised. This movie is a very loyal adaptation of the book’s theme and mood and follows the plot closely. I was so glad, in particular, that the film did not cut out my favorite scene in the book, the…

A designer uses a deconstructed approach when updating her bland and dated kitchen.