For Today: pink and white

It has been so long since I have posted. Blog posts are so fleeting and I cannot keep up with being a one shot wonder every day. In fact, I am not a one shot wonder. Many of my posts are long and so time consuming. If not that, I think posts are only worthwhile if they are a terrific DIY, inspiration no one else has thought of, pictures/ideas no one else has posted. The blog competition can really get to me. All of this is a manifestation of how I continue to belittle myself, put myself down, and decide I am not worthy by my first cup of coffee.  So starting right now I am going to say screw it to all that crap in "red" above.  The truth is I like to post b/c I like to share and connect about vision, purpose, color, art, design, composition, ideas, DIY, color, friendship and anything else. Goodbye to witty, cute, pretty, glamorous, brilliant, funny, first, and hip. If it happens it does and if it doesn't so what. I will feel better by the time noon hits instead of worse.

This is going to be a place I do not worry about.

Soooo for today I came upon this room at http://white-glam.blogspot.com/. I love international blogs b/c there is a different tone and take and vision. I like the lovely Portuguese LISETE REIS who is a TV reporter and interior design lover.  Don't ask me why, I do not know her. I just do.  This room I picked up from her blog. I do not know who the designer is:
UPDATE: Ana Antunes, the fabulous designer of http://home-styling.blogspot.com/, informed me in her comment below, this is the work of EMILY RUDDO of http://armoniadecors.com/. Go to her site, GORGEOUS:     

These are my thoughts on this room:

1.) perfect amount of pink so the room is not too feminine

2.) Division between living and dinning

3.) pink is done in right proportions and in, I bet, three areas of the room. 

4.) the large wingback pink patterned chair balances out the pick dinning chairs

5.) I think I would take something up to the ceiling to bring in the lower half of the room, maybe just a bit of black or brown (as in the floor) paint on the thinnest parts of the coffered ceiling moldings which would mimic the black trim on the sofa. (on second thought have to be careful the ceiling does not get too busy)

6.) The pops of blue are OK but I do not necessary

7.) mirrors bring in more light and space. 

8.) the dark wood table grounds that side of the room and provides a masculine element. 

so what do you think, any ideas you want to share? what do you like about the space, not like, design concepts, thoughts?

Cat