Spring Inspo: Unconventional Decorating Books for Your Home, Patio & Yard
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Many of you have asked for my book recommendations and so this week I thought we should look at the books that are inspiring my spring decorating in our house as well as spring inspiration for our outdoor garden and patio.
Even if you don’t have a porch, patio or garden, you can still bring these ideas and inspiration into your home. This is pure inspiration for you! The place I get the most inspiration is through other artist’s studios and their homes and so we’re exploring these today.
I have five book recommendations for you! Yeah! Links are below (I am not making money off this-just saying. These are my honest recommendations):
Do you have spring fever like me? Well I hope these books inspire you to get to creating your unique and special place in this world-HOME!
TUSCANY ARTISTS AT HOME
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TUSCANY ARTISTS HOMES
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TUSCANY ARTISTS GARDENS
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NEW GARDEN PARADISE
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PROVENCE ARTISTS GARDENS
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Don’t forget-we have two more CZcams LIVES this month. Join me here for the next two Wednesdays in April, starting at 7pm EST.
Be sure to find me on Instagram @christinadistefanostudio to submit your questions. Don’t worry you won’t be on camera to have your question answered-BUT you must DM me in advance to do so!
I’ll put a reminder in the community tab.
Enjoy your week babes!!!
XOXOCD
The video I mentioned in this episode:
BE DIFFERENT
• Unique Interior Design...
Also check out:
FOUNDATIONS OF CREATIVITY PLAYLIST
• Foundations Of Creativity
ABOUT ME:
Hey I'm Christina DiStefano! I am sort of a jack-of-all-trades: artist, sales director for a top NYC real estate development company, certified life coach, yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, artist (I'm a painter), businesswoman--and now I'm taking on Interior Design via a certification (I'm starting an Interior Design firm in 2024 lovingly called Casa Serenità Interiors). Oh and did I mention I'm leading the renovation of our country home (inside and out)?!
I believe that home is a sacred place that we nurture, and in return, it nurtures us. That being said, my design process is focused on creating a sanctuary, a place of serenity that truly feels like home. - Jak na to + styl
I find your voice so soothing! ❤
Aww thank you!!! 🤗
6:07: Incredible. I can envision long, quiet strolls through the garden.
10:24: Interesting photograph
Thank you for the book recommendations!
You caught that too? I thought it might be a Francesca Woodman photo but I've never seen this one. You should check out her work. They're very dream like.
you are so beautiful. looking through books is amazing. i too get inspiration from others, especially in past times.
Hi Marchella! Thank you babe 🤗 so lovely to see you here!
Hello lovely! I’m swooning over your property. It’s is already lush and beautiful, but you will incorporate your amazing style into it. I also love to look at artist’s gardens and spaces. ❤😊
Hello luv!! They’re so inspiring, right?! And it’s not like photos of someone’s perfectly styled living room or patio. There’s a real human living in nature kind of energy to these spaces.
So happy to bring you some inspiration ✨ 😘
Hello Christina, thank you for the beautiful book suggestions! Artists' spaces are always so intriguing and inspiring. Hoping to make it to your live this week.
You’re welcome, Nicole! I’m happy you enjoyed them 🤗 I love a good studio visit even if it’s just in a book ☺️
Thank you
Absolutely Laura! 🤗
So lovely, thanks for sharing. My Dad loved the tall, ornamental grasses!! So those always remind me of him❤. So I am inspired by those. 😂😊😊
Sophia that's a beautiful reminder of your dad. I love that and they're so pretty. I get so much pleasure watching them gently blow in the wind. My husband, Jerry planted some on the property but we have a lot that grows naturally by the pond. He loves them too!
Oh my! These books are fabulous! I just ordered the artists garden, so pricey but a gift to myself. I love gardening and interior design.
Enjoy!!! A book of inspiration will pay you back in many, many ways. You’re worth it babe and good for you to invest in your creativity 🤗
Hi Christina! Hugs from Poland! You made one of the most inspiring channels, congrats! 🥳 👏
Awww thank you lovely!!!! I'm so happy you're here!
Thank you Christina!!!I ll check them out...yes yes yes for italian roots ;), love it..Molto Bellissimo !
Grazie mille, bella 😘
Wow, love the books! Especially the first one. Didn't know something like that existed! And... for many years now, I dream of a pool like you showed us. But I have a very small balcony, of only a few square meter. Nevertheless, the lavender and rosemary are there in the summer! And there is nothing wrong with dreaming, it helps me finding possibilities that seem impossible. Like a small figtree in that one corner. Yes, less place to sit, but my balcony still fits just two places to sit, for me and my boyfriend, and that is enough. With mediterranean vibes...
Yes Grady my luv!! You’ve got it. The dreaming puts you in the energy of those spaces, those beautiful gardens, and inspiring homes-then you naturally begin to see opportunities in your own home. Not a literal translation but one that is uniquely yours ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love that you’re on to this 🥰 Your message this morning made me so happy to read!
Wonderful book recommendations :). We would like our ground floor gallery to be able to host artist expositions. We are transforming it for ourselves as a dual purpose green house and aerial studio...but we would also like to have it used occasionally as an art gallery. Apparently a few decades ago, it was used as a gallery and music venue- so it would be wonderful to re-ignite this element of our house. We are lost in the countryside, but in the centre of an ancient and very artistic village- so this is the reason it could work so well.
Yes I remember this about your home! The spirit lives on in your home waiting to awaken. I believe you will bring it back to life for many to enjoy. I look forward to your progress my dear!!! 🤗
I love your previous recommendation of "The Poetry of Spaces". Two of my personal favorites are " The Life Eclectic" by Alexander Breeze, and "The Maverick Soul" by Miv Watts and Hugh Stewart. Not only do these beautiful books inspire us, but I think we are reminded in some way of who we are. And as they say, that changes the game!❤❤❤
Ohmygosh exactly Elizabeth! My hope with this channel is bring us back to ourselves. It’s the most important, and often overlooked piece to this puzzle called interior design ❤️
Aren’t those books amazing? I get so much inspiration from them. There are so many books I want to share with you. I may have to put together a reading list-or better yet, EYE CANDY list 😍
@Christina_DiStefano OMG..I will have to make room somehow if you do that! But please do! 🙏
@@elizabethwinters5361 Yes babe! It’s a journey, one step at a time and then before you k or it you are right back home to YOU
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Those are such dreamy inspirational books. Wow. I take a lot of inspiration from artists’ studios too - either photos or paintings of them. E.g. Ken Howard included his studio in his compositions when painting people, or just used his studio as a standalone subject. Serge Ivanoff’s studio was so lovely it was captured in a painting by one of his artist friends. I also have a black and white photo on my wall of Picasso and his wife with their backs turned, fussing over the placement of a piece of art up on a wall - that’s so like me and my constant in-house art curation! Also, Simon and I got married in our artist friend’s big splendid garden filled with her large sculptures, set among the rolling green hills of the Byron Bay hinterland. Her home doubles as an art gallery downstairs. Stunning yet completely unpretentious, just like our friend. It is a truly inspirational place and will forever be a part of us. We revisited her property last month for our 9th anniversary. She recently put in a large pond that doubles as a pool that she swims in. It looks like a natural feature that has always been there, complete with huge rocks and moss and a subtle little waterfall. That artist's perspective! It's genius. I wish I could show you the footage. It took our breath away. J x PS I love that a book is brewing within you too ;-)
Hi Joanna 🤗 First of all your wedding-wow it sounds so unique and beautiful. What a wonderful place to revisit for your anniversary! Happy 9th 🥂
The artist’s studio can be a truly magical place. I’ve shared spaces with some people that were completely unfazed by their environment but for me, I must have inspiration all around. This is why our house will always be a little bit home and a little bit studio. By the way to pool pond sounds beautiful!
Yes this time I want to actually publish it-when it’s done of course there’s so much more to do-like write it! But also I want our home to be a little further along because photos of it are important. Pretty pics, poems and I’m not sure what else but it will come to me 🤍
Just finished watching your last CZcams video and was so glad to see you reference your inspiration as something other than the usual home décor books. I would love to share some of my inspiration with you, but I bet you are inundated with replies and comments. But just in case, I’ll try to forward my pool board from Pinterest. I just bought a mountain/lake home in the Ozarks. After thousands of dollars, hundreds of native plants, tons of shipped in compost and topsoil, the only thing that survived our last cruel/hot summer were the daffodils. I’m pretty bitter. And exhausted. But if the you have the gardening bug like I did and do, I would like to recommend some inspirational books. Winter Gardens, reinventing the seasons by Cedric Pollet, May help with your winter blues. Anything by Piet Oudolf, I’m sure you’re familiar from the High Line. Garden Wild by Andre Baranowski. The Hidden Beauty of Seeds and Fruits by Levon Biss will speak to your love of Botanicals. Thank you for sharing on CZcams, I do enjoy it so much more than the usual do this, don’t do that videos.
Thank you Christina and also thank you for the recommendations. Yes I am familiar with the High Line, I even remember it before it was an elevated park and just a proposal! The city has changed so much. Getting off subject. I'll check out Winter Gardens--sounds lovely. Are you in Missouri? We used to visit the Ozarks in my teens. My father had a little Lake House there. Oh and I would love to see your pool board! Thank you!
Thanks for this...not very spring-like here in Canada yet! I appreciate your encouragement of our own capacity to see and create beauty in simple things. I keep telling myself to trust my own responses to things. If I can do it in painting, I can do it in creating my interior. I'm slowly getting clearer about HUB.
I'm guessing that many of us here favour an eclectic mix of furnishings; I was wondering if you could give some do's and don'ts for that. I think I can kind of feel when it's not right, but I never know why!
Yes I think many of us here are the eclectic type! I did a video called Cohesive Eclectic-definitely check that one out if you haven’t already. Thank you for the suggestion-it may be time to make a new eclectic video too! Hope spring comes to you soon 🤍 Don’t worry you’ll get there with trusting your instincts-little by little your inner voice will get stronger. I think many of us don’t want to make a mistake but some of the most interesting things in our world come from someone taking a chance or making a happy mistake 😘
@@ChristinaDiStefanoStudio Yes, mistakes are part of the process! I should have been more specific with respect to mixing furnishings: I should have mentioned mixing case goods ( wood types and tones, as well as periods). I've seen pics of some mixes that shouldn't work but do. I, on the other hand, have put things together that I love but that do not really work vis a vis HUB.....
In my opinion what feels good to us is subjective and so if you mix things and love it, embrace it! This is your home and your place to make a mark in this world. If something brings you joy then is it necessary to challenge it? I don’t think so. Only if it gives you the feeling that something is not quite right.
I wonder how hard it is to clean a rustic wild pool? Like, would that drive you crazy? I have a pool that I always want to look clean especially when I swim in it. 😅I see some wisteria somewhere on your property in the near future ❤
Haha yes CD! Maybe the dream vs reality is a bit different! We had a pool growing up and my job was to clean it. Quite meditative actually…
But you bring up a good point!! Always love seeing you here 🤗
Hi Christina, thank your for sharing these books! I'm especially interested in garden books. I'm currently living in central coastal Florida and very slowly putting together my little old house and yard on a budget. It has so much potential. Trying to incorporate lots of native plants outside and trying to strike a balance between nature, art, and functionality in the house. I want to keep it simple but relaxed and interesting. I got to visit Hemingway's house in Key West this year, and I was taking pictures of every little thing, not to try to replicate anything, but to try to capture the unpretentious essence of the place. I found it inspiring.
Yes Melissa! It’s my pleasure babe 🤗 I’ve heard about Hemingway’s house. My husband Jerry visited before we met and he too was incredibly inspired. I think all those photos and everything you found inspiring goes into you and then comes out in your own way-your own interpretation. That’s the exciting stuff because it’s purely your creation. Keep me posted on your progress. You’re in a place to create something truly stunning and magical. I love the plant life in Florida.
You're from Missouri? Greetings from KC! I don't know what part of the state you're from but Kansas City is a well-kept secret... which is fine with me, I love my city. It's not just all about the Chiefs.
Yes!! I grew up in Gladstone/North Kansas City & Liberty area. I went to UMKC and lived in Westport and also on Oak Street/Plaza area. Whenever I meet someone here in NYC that’s visited KC they’re like “Oh it’s so charming there!” and I’m like, I KNOW 😉
Where are you?
I lived in Kansas for a few years for my husband's job, but visited KCMO often. I went to Urban Mining every month, ever go? KCMO remains one of my favorite cities and I totally agree with you - it's such an underrated city!
I’ve been in NYC for nearly 20-years (crazy) and so I’m not familiar with Urban Mining-but it sounds interesting!! The city has changed so much since I moved there.
Hola Christina, I'm elated to be a new subscriber. Thank you for all your pro-bono advice. I appreciate the time and efforts you put into your videos. Gracias.
Side note; you and Jerry are a good looking couple.
I can see you guys in a champagne commercial.
God bless you both.
Oh my gosh I love that!!! So now manifesting a champagne commercial for us ✨ Thank you for subscribing and being here, luv 🤗
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🤗as always, THANK YOU!!!
Am I the only one who wants to know where she stores all her book covers? 🙃
Haha I love it!!! I keep them all safely stored just in case I decide to use them again or repurpose.