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Are you entertaining at home for New Year's Eve? Here are two easy and sensational Chinoiserie Champagne cocktails to wow your guests. You need Champagne and a bottle of Domaine de Canton Ginger Liquer. Its pagoda bottle is stunning and deserves a spot on your bar for the bottle alone, even if it wasn't so delicious.For a new classic, add one ounce of Domaine de Canton to a Champagne flute and fill...

Ralph LaurenI have chosen Navy as Chinoiserie Chic's Color of 2013. Classic and elegant, it pairs beautifully with every other color - coral pink, blush pink, raspberry, orange, white, kelly green, mint green, brown, yellow, ice blue, turquoise - it is in fact a fabulous neutral. Its undertones make it one of the most flattering colors. It works in any room of the house and can be masculine or feminine....

This is the top of 2012... what was talked most about, viewed or re-pinned lots. Another year past by and with the blog nearly 5 years online, I never thought I would still be here ;) And Waugh!! This weekend I saw the counter of my blog passing the 3 million! As I was talking with some fellow bloggers over lunch last week, we said, with most readers clicking a like or pinning straight away,...

Pantone has selected Emerald Green as its color of the year for 2013. An interesting choice, but I don't see this color trending the same way I did their choice last year of Tangerine Tango Orange. Tomorrow I will be revealing my prediction for the Chinoiserie Chic Color Of The Year For 2013 - the color that I predict will be the "it" color in the coming year for Chinoiserie Chic interiors. Leave...

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I am having a little blog crush on the home of Norwegian blogger Line from Deas & MiaIt has all the colors I also use myself and like most in a home. Happy weekend all...

Kristy LeeCould I be any more in love with this bedroom? Quadrille Lyford Background headboards and bedskirts, pink and green, a pagoda mirror, Greek key pillows, a double gourd lamp, a rattan dresser, white bedding, pink lilies, and blanc de Chine. Perfe...

Two of my favorite Christmas gifts from my daughter -  a Jonathan Adler zebra dish and a zebra bracelet from J.Crew. They were so cute together I had to display them. Hope Santa was good to all of y...

Charlotte MossWhat would a New Year's Eve series be without New Year's Resolutions? Mine always seem to focus on home improvement projects. I have two rooms in my home I would like to redo this year. The first is a little powder room off the laundry room and the second is the laundry room itself. Here are my inspiration photos that I hope will inspire me to get these done. Of course both have Chinoiserie.The...

Will you be entertaining at home on New Year's Eve? One of my favorite tips is to have mini Champagne bottles for each guest set in ice with a straw. I would upscale these regular straws to some chic retro striped ones below from Paper Source. You can see both of these on Kate's bar cart in yesterday's post.I like to use this mini gilded bamboo bar in my dining room for serving Champagne on New Year's...

Seems like a good day to go downtown and make some new pictures for my other blog Amsterdamnext.com These I made some time ago with the Iphone at a little shop called Cotton Cake situated near the Albert Cuyp Market. They have a great collection and a beautiful simple layout with an amazing big industrial cupboard in the back from (one of my sponsors) Quip and Co&nbs...

My daughter Kate's bar cart was recently featured in the Washington Post Express. Here are some of her tips for styling your bar:1. It helps to start with a great bar or bar cart. I scored this classic bar cart, a reproduction of an Art Deco one at Target a while back for under $200. The original version on 1st dibs sold for $2,000.1st dibs original on left and mine on right2. I love colorful accessories...