Dallas Blog | Material Girls | Dallas Interior Design

^ Luxurious Red!

Although the game did not fare so well for OU this year, we can say that Luxurious Red (OU Crimson) won the 2008 MG Red River “Color Out” 15-11. It was pretty close!

Can’t wait for next year where these two colors battle it out once again and OU bumps TX from its number one spot!

In this month’s issue, House Beautiful wrote a great article called, “I’m looking for a Floating Sofa”. You can read it online here. They compiled 12 gorgeous sofas that you can proudly showcase in the middle of your room- ones that you won’t be embarassed or afraid to reveal their backsides!

A simple roll back sofa (similar to the House Beautiful one above) gives this room a nice clean look

The mod floral fabric and chrome frame on this vintage sofa definitely adds some fascination to its back.

I just received in the mail a photo that I had “fiddled” from Photofiddle. It looks great! They took one of my photos that I had taken on my Costa Rica vacay and edited it to make it look more like a piece of art- putting the photo on canvas so I can hang it up in my home.

You can get any photo fiddled in any style- black and white, watercolor, sepia- you name it!

This is my Costa Rica photo “before”

And this is the Costa Rica pic after it was photo fiddled in their “fantasy” style

I was surprised that I hadn’t yet heard of this fantastic web company…perhaps because the Photofiddle site is relatively new- it went online in June 2004 but it wasn’t too long after the launch that they received a ton of press from the Washington Post, USA Today, PC Magazine & more. What really put Photofiddle on the map was when Oprah put them on the O list in 2006! Gosh, being put on the O List is my dream!

Recently voted by the viewers of the CNBC show as “The Next Big Idea”, Photofiddle is really coming into its own and making my plain old non-edited photos look pretty boring! Be sure to stop by their site and start fiddlin all your photos. Such a great and personalized way to take up dead wall space in your home!

After almost ten months since I was hired on, the pediatric dentist office that I have been talking about/working on for so long is now open for business! I leave on a little roadtrip to go attend its grand opening tomorrow in Georgetown which will be a nice break in the week from the normal routine.

It being my very first dentist office project, I will say that designing for kids has never been so much fun!

It’s amazing how fast a space can be built out and go from this concept board…

To this…in just a few months

It’s a strange bittersweet feeling when a project comes to an end- you don’t know whether to be excited that it’s all built and everything’s completed or to be sad that it’s all over with. I guess you just have to be ready for what’s next!
If you are in the Austin/Georgetown area, you should go stop in and see Dr. Kelly at Star Smiles- she even has “Star Bucks”, video games, and sugarless candy, for the kiddos!

{More Star Smiles pics to come on EJ Interiors site!}

It’s that time of year again, the weekend where the Sooners battle/beat the Longhorns (otherwise known as OU/ TX)…or if you want to mispronounce it like my boyfriend/sister/brother in law, it can also be referred to as TX/OU.

Football is probably one of my least favorite sports but as a native Sooner, OU/TX weekend is always so exciting for us OU or TX grads here in Dallas- lots of people, lots of energy, and LOTS of color….

Crimson and burnt orange will be EVERYWHERE this weekend…and although we know who will win the game already , what color wins in your book?

These two colors (both Sherwin Williams):

Luxurious Red (SW 6314) representing OU
and Pennywise (SW 6349) representing TX

Burnt orange is supposed to be a hot color for fall…do you agree?

{Traditional Home}

{Traditional Home}

Then we have crimson as the opposing team…

{Point Click Home}

{Domino}

{Mrs. Blandings Blog}

It really is a tough decision and although I am a dedicated Sooner, I may have to lean towards the burnt orange side due to the allegiance of one very cute fan!

Which color would you rather put in your home if you had to choose and where would you put it?

Take our Color Poll on the right hand side of our home page and in addition to the big game this weekend, we’ll see who wins the Material Girls “Red River Color-Out!”

Cheesy, I know, but for a girl who doesn’t love football, you gotta find a way to make it interesting!!

I love finding new baby home websites (no mom, I’m not pregnant) I just think the sky is the limit with nurseries and these colorful catalogs are so much fun to look at.

A little birdie told me that one of the biggest clothing retailers, GAP- (Baby Gap to be more specific) has introduced babyGap home- a collection of their favorite baby furniture, decor, bedding, toys, accessories- all things cute, safe, AND functional!

Working with the most trusted baby brands around the world, Gap is onto yet another sector of the business and we hope it proves to be a successful one for them.

What’s next- Banana Republic Baby and Baby Home? You never know! These baby chains are popping up everywhere!

Stores that carry the full babyGap home collection include- Dallas Galleria, LA The Grove, Santa Clara Valley Fair, and NYC- 34th and Broadway.

Photos via {Baby Gap}

I am sure you’ve all caught up on your Traditional Home for the month already (I am still only halfway through!) but there was one article in particular that caught my eye this month and the photos of her design landed themselves right among my other cherished tear sheets and not to mention, straight on the cover of TH…the gorgeous photo above is one of Eileen Boyd’s designs- a Living Room in Long Island.

I am really drawn to this design because it’s like she threw all of the conventional rules out the window and decided to go with an atypical color combination and it looks amazing!

“Taxicab yellow” and “Gustavian gray” is how Traditional Home describes the color mix. I love the blue accents she threw in to the combination also.

Images via Traditional Home

She even made sure that on the day of the shoot she fit into the room’s color palette nicely- so cute!