Design Inspiration Monday

Hi guys!  As many of you know, I started Sparkles and Flamingos in 2013, focusing mainly on fashion.  At the time, my full-time job was social media, merchandising, and buying for the family furniture and home decor consignment business, Style Your Space.  Always being passionate about fashion, I didn't want to lose touch and dive solely into interior design, hence the start of Sparkles and Flamingos, fashion blog.  Since then, I've taken over and re-named Style Your Space's "boutique" as Sparkle Shoppe Boutique, SYS has expanded to a second location, and seen many changes all around.

Juggling a store, sales, social media, blogging, merchandising, and so on, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, leading to that funky, uninspired, "I have NO idea what I'm doing" almost-meltdown but not really type of thing.  SYS's blog has been on the back-burner because balancing it all, I felt I was losing focus and spreading myself too thin.  Last week, when I was getting my whole "I FEEL INSPIRED" groove, it dawned on me to just combine the two blogs (duh).  After all, this is my blog, I can blog about what I want, right?   Bottom line, there's so much more to me than just fashion, so it's silly for S&F to focus solely on that.  From here on out, what you can expect from Sparkles and Flamingos is a splash of fashion, dash of design, more lifestyle, DIY's, and life in STL.

What better way to kick off this re-vamp than with a Design Inspiration Monday?

For the past 6 months, I've been obsessing with neutral rooms, white walls and vintage, rustic decor.  The past few weeks, I've been obsessing with chair swings and swings inside.  When the best of both my worlds collided with this loft in Amsterdam, I couldn't help but feel a bit envious of this space.

Photo credit and see the full loft here:  C-More 'The Loft Amsterdam'