Kristen's Holiday Tips...

[CADreaming]

Designer Kristen Buckingham's 7 Tips For a Merry California-Inspired Christmas

[Betsy]

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.





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

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Betsy

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.





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

That's her store.

And yes, nice ideas - but certainly not original.

[Betsy]

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

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by Betsy

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.





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

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.

[Tango]

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.

[michelej1]

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

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Tango

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.

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

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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.

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

[MissLadyLoki]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

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.

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

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

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

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

Well, you know how Lindsey loves croquet!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

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

[Betsy]

HejiraNYC and Tango...

You made me laugh with your comments...

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

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...

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

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.

All of it really is ridiculous.

[elle]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Designer Kristen Buckingham's 7 Tips For a Merry California-Inspired Christmas

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!