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A couple time a year, Apartment Therapy hosts a Style Cure which is kind of a Refresh Your Life exercise.  What the heck...seemed like a good time to do it.

Here is Assignment 1, the Style Cure Interview:

Favorite actor:

·         Jimmy Stewart:  In addition to sharing a birthday with him, I just simply love him!  He was so authentic, so real.  An awesome actor and a great man. 

·         Kyle Chandler:  I’ve followed him since Homefront back in the ‘90s which was a show set during World War II.  He seems like a modern-day Jimmy Stewart to me.

·         George Clooney, the Cloons:  Old Hollywood glamour and style. So suave.

 

Favorite Actress:

·         Kristen Bell:  My imaginary BFF.  Love that she doesn’t take herself seriously.  Awesome sense of humor.

·         Sandra Bullock:  She just seems real to me.  Love her work.

Favorite Artists

·         Steven Jordan

·         Jim Harrison

They paint what I know….beautifully.

Favorite Musicians

·         Food Fighters

·         INXS

·         Eric Church

·         George Strait

The best of old school plus authentic music.

Favorite Restaurants

·         My House: Seriously, we cook a lot at home.  Better, fresher, cheaper.

·         Old Spaghetti Factory:  Have you seen that place? It’s gorgeous! Oh, yeah, the food is good, too.

·         Ms. Bobo’s: Country cooking at its finest.

·         Wild Wing:  The perfect spot for just casually hanging out.

Favorite Automobile:  Old Range Rover.  The kind that looks like it just came off safari. And, hey!  It’s good enough for the Queen.

Favorite Movie:  Auntie Mame, 1955 with Rosalind Russell. I’d watching this movie over and over growing up.  I loved the sets and the fashions.  The writing was so far ahead of its time.

 

Favorite Clothing/Designers

JCrew, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Target.  JCrew and I used to have a deep and abiding love affair back in the day. I love Michael Kors purses. Calvin has such classic shapes.  Target, that’s right.  For basics, they’re my guy.  I love their jeans and v-necks t-shirts.  They are all I live in in the summer.

 

Favorite Furniture/Designers

Classic Chesterfield couches, Saarinen table, nailhead trim, tufting.

Personal Style: Classic, Eclectic with a twist.

 

Favorite Room: Childhood

I’d have to say my bedroom. It was the first room I really got to put my stamp on.  It went through so many incarnations.

Favorite Room: Adult

It would have to be the Green Room in our first house.  My husband was trusting enough to let me paint it Eccentric Lime by Benjamin Moore.

 

Role Models

Definitely, my two grandmothers.  They were each creative in their own right. One grandma sewed and cooked.  The other sewed, crocheted, cross-stitched and cooked.  I found out after she died that my  dad’s mom wanted to be a furniture designer when she was younger. I owe all my creative energy to those two amazing ladies.

Just Right Rooms

·         Powder Room

·         Sunroom

·         Entry

How do I want my home to feel after the Cure:

·         Welcoming

·         Fabulous

·         Me