This fabulous home (in the Memorial Park area of Houston) has such wide open rooms bursting with personality and brilliant design. A fantastic blend of bold and classic. Love it!
(all photos from Home Adore)

Row houses are not the most common form of architecture for today's residential structures (at least, not here in Houston) but are they making a comeback? Matthew and Tina Ford of Shade House teamed up with Holden Shannon to design and build Row on 25th in the Houston Heights. The homes are of simple design and can be outfitted in 2 different styles - laminated kitchen cabinets and ash flooring OR stainless steel kitchen cabinetry and reclaimed wood floors. The interiors are spacious, open and modern and each home has a small patio space for enjoying the Houston weather. What do you think??
(all photos from Remodelista, Dwell and Shade House)

I LOVE talking up Houston's local businesses and the locals that I am going to talk about now are the peeps over at Plus Design. Plus Design is headed by designer and founder, Marty Joyce. Marty has over a decade of experience in creating custom furniture pieces and architectural fixtures for homes and businesses. You can see some of Plus Design's handiwork at local Houston businesses such as Settlement Goods and Paulie's. Here, here! Take a look. Well done, Marty! : )
(all photos from Plus Design) 

This weekend we are setting up shop outside and placing a canopy in front of our store. What for? For all those antique pickers in the greater Houston area. This Pickers Sale will have an assortment of worldly antiques to sort through and hopefully there's a little treasure to be found for everyone. Be like the American Pickers and find the greatest value in what was once someone elses. This vintage antique sale will be one to remember! You never know what you may find.  Your treasure awaits! 

The sale starts this Saturday through Monday (09/01/12 - 09/03/12).  Quantities very limited.

I found Houston based, Edie's Lab, on Etsy today! Their Reclaimed Wood Letters caught my eye but those aren't the only neat-o, Made in Houston things in their Etsy shop!! Check 'em out....

BHLDN is a fairly new wedding brand from the retail family that brought us Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Free People, Terrain and Leifsdottir. Just yesterday, BHLDN opened their first ever physical store right here in Houston!! BHLDN offers beautiful wedding gowns, decor ideas, jewelry, accessories and more! Visit them in Highland Village.

Need a new place to hang out this fall? Prohibition is the new hot spot that has just opened up in the Galleria area. They, of course, stopped by High Fashion Home to furnish their interior for this upscale location. Don't worry about the alcohol, they have plenty. Specializing in 1920's style cocktails with a modern twist is a great way to change up your nights. Plus, you get to relax on cool furniture, who wouldn't want that!

Mother's Day is May 8th! Are you ready? At High Fashion Home we have SO MANY little gifts to choose from! Jewelry, clothes, totes, aprons and wonderful smelly things! If you still need to get something for your Mom you should head over and see what we have to offer. You could put some of these fabulous things together and give your Mom an amazing gift basket! 

Other ideas could be a mother/daughter manicure and pedicure, a lovely brunch made at home (brunch recipes from Real Simple, Delish and YumSugar), a trip to Miller Outdoor Theater (on Mother's Day they are doing a Highlights of the Houston Ballet), comfy pajamas and slippers, beautiful flowers or a pretty potted plant and the perfect card (or handwritten letter), mix CD's you made just for her or just a walk around the neighborhood. The ideas are endless. 

Happy early Mother's Day to all you mommies out there!