Restaurant Review: St. Louis

I am excited to be heading to St Louis this weekend for a family wedding. It will be a fun time to celebrate such a special occasion and also a fun time with my husband's family. When we were in St Louis a few months ago, we ate at one of the yummiest French restaurants. I am secretly hoping that we might be able to pay this little establishment another visit while we are there.

Brasserie by Niche is a quaint yet bustling, authentic French restaurant. Our food was delicious and service impeccable. Though it took them a while to seat us even though we had a reservation, they all but made up for it with several flutes of champagne. We splurged and probably sampled close to the entire menu. Here are a few things that you must try if you are ever lucky enough to dine here:

'Cervelle de canut.' Fresh cheese & herbs

Gougeres. Cheese puffs (ahhhhhhhmazing!)

Wild burgundy escargot herbs, garlic & butter

Steak Tartare (DO NOT MISS THIS DISH!)

Oh What To Do With You?

I am looking for ideas on what to do with this cabinet...my maternal grandparents gave this to my parents about 20 years ago:

It's a great piece but needs to be updated. I'm thinking of fun ideas to give this cabinet a whole new look and a new life! At the same time, we are also trying to make the front part of our house more functional for entertaining, which we do a lot. I wanted to find a way to convert our little home office into more of a sitting space, so I took to the blogs and internet to see what I could find.

Well, I am Mad Men inspired. Elements of Style and Simple Classic Living know just what I'm talking about...what does every Mad Men office need? A bar! :)

One thing I for sure want to do is to give our cabinet some pop of color on the inside to make it more interesting (a great idea straight from my hubby!) just like these below:

I'm so excited to be making progress and am really excited about this fun new project. More details and updates to come....

Armchairs

I am absolutely in love with wooden armchairs. Prints, solids, curved or straight legs...doesn't matter. I love them all. That's why I was so excited to see these at Tuesday morning:

Aren't they lovely? Between the nailhead and tufted back, that is not a bad price. I am working on some of my own for our new Living Room but more on that coming soon...Hope your week is off to a great start!

Fabrics

Premier Fabrics is a great site to find some one of a kind yet inexpensive fabrics. Here are a few of my favorites that I have found:
Hopefully this will inspire a few more throw pillows, curtains or a new look for a fresh chair. Enjoy!

White Out

I am falling more and more in love with all white kitchens. Doesn't Charlotte look like the modern day June Cleaver in her glam all white kitchen?

(Ok I know, enough with the 'Sex and the City' design references...)

Something about an all white kitchen seems so clean,peaceful yet also somehow anxious. Anxiously waiting to be filled with a loud, hungry family, yearning to be painted with colorful foods and smells, and screaming for a big vase of decadent, colorful flowers. Like this:

Here are a few more delightfully white kitchens:

I'm taking copious notes...Do you dig it?

Credenza of the Week: Oscar Style

I love this black credenza by Oscar de la Renta. The greek key pulls are lovely and the marble top makes it extremely unique. The Asian inspired lamps are a beautiful compliment and make the piece even more feminine. I hope you love it just as much!

The Perfect Culmintation

Kelly over at the glamouri has impeccable taste, that's why it was so fun to see pictures of her latest "eye candy", posted here.

What's more, it was even more fun to see so many trends that I have posted about in recent weeks catching her eye as well. Scroll through her photos and see if you can locate these topics I discussed.

Dark wall paint

Colorful cabinets (seen here on bookshelves instead of in the kitchen)

A painted ceiling

Several wall clusters of frames

Beautiful bookshelves

and even more Animal

Time to get busy on your own home now... :)