Home Decor

Being the best friend of Lacoste's bedding designer has furthered my obsession for duvet covers and other home decor products.  I love redecorating and would DIE to move to a bigger apartment in my building just so that I can start a new decorating project.  As for bedding I have two favorites right now.  My Lacoste pillow cases which are oh so soft, and my lacoste sweatshirt blanket is amazing, sometimes I open all of my windows just so that I can wrap myself up in it!

However, I have come to the conclusion that 6 duvet covers may be enough, so it might be time to move on to something else to decorate my apartment.  A while back I painted one wall in my apartment, an accent wall if you will.  Like all people who paint...the color wasn't exactly what I was going for.  Or maybe it was, but now I am ready for a change.  I want to paint my entire apartment in either Benjamin Moore's Lemon Ice or Pale Straw.  In fact I had a plan, over my winter break I was going to paint over my "not the accent I wanted wall" and all of the other walls, but then I fell in love with the apartment I wasn't allowed to move into.  So by the time I was told that they would prefer a stranger living in that apartment, rather than a good tenant, my vacation was long over. (A month long over to be exact, nothing like a NYC apartment to make you wait by the phone...I am beginning to think that my management company was "just not that into me"  in fact I'm quite certain that I could get Jake Gyllenhaal to call me back before my management company.) 

So now, I either have to go the "Weekend Warrior" route or wait until summer to paint.  If you know me, you know I am impatient, so I started to look online for some alternatives and I came up with something I had thought of a while ago to accent my walls.  Wall decals, used as either wall art or as wall paper for another accent wall.  I have a small wall near my dinning room table and I have been dying to get a certain look in my apartment that makes that part of my apartment look more like a formal but trendy dinning room area (the kind of space that would have a black chandelier with clear or red crystals dripping off it)  I was thinking of a black design like a Fleur de Lis or Damask or something.  The best things about these decals is that they are easily removable, they are easy to put up and they take WAY less time than painting or putting up wallpaper!  Oh, and you can even get them cheap at places like Target!!  (or you can google Wall Decals, there are a zillion specialized websites that have wall decals)