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Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms

by | Jan 3, 2008 | Decorating Inspiration, Sweet Escape

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Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms

Let’s take a peek at some stunning rooms, shall we? After a few weeks of feasting on tasty food that went straight to my hips and pondering food for thought, I thought I’d induldge in another of my loves, a feast for the eyes! Yeah, there’s a theme here. My friend over at Things That Inspire featured a virtual Dream Home to kick off the new year and define her taste at this point in time. It was very fun and she has great taste, go check it out! I might try to put together my dream house next week when my brain returns from vacation.

Meanwhile, I am going to get myself back into my design phase of blogging (oh, yeah, that!) by gawking at some lovely & jaw dropping rooms. Just for a fun escape from all of my holiday boxes now strewn all over the house (and to keep the feasting going)! Enjoy some beauty, just don’t drool on the keyboard. That is so messy.

Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Sweet Escape: Stunning Rooms
Speaking of Dream Homes, did you know you enter can win one? Yep, it would be quite a dreamy place to live! Go to HGTV for details! Contest is on now so don’t miss out! This is really generous of me to share this because I am limiting my own chances of winning.
All of these photos are from Architectural Digest
Designers Alexa Hamilton (green room, plaid dining room, golden living room & entry), Mario Buatta (pink bedroom), Victoria Hagan (top kitchen), Countess Angelika Bolza (bottom bedroom), top image dining room of the Palazzo Pucci, Italy, Mariette Himes Gomez (bottom kitchen).

47 Comments

  1. Lynne's somewhat invented life

    These are really beautiful. Thanks for the relief from the hum-drum of my tired rooms. I love the first white kitchen the most. Wish mine looked like it.

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  2. Penny, Mosaic Artist

    WOW! And I really mean WOW! Those rooms are stunning.
    Penny

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  3. Kat

    Oh.My.Word! So much eye candy!

    Hugs!
    Kat

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  4. Christine

    ah..yeah!
    wow!
    loveliness..
    Gosh, I think I found my dream Kitchen…uhm..bedroom..I mean sunroom!LOL!

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  5. janet

    Love the white kitchen. The rest, though obviously gorgeous, are a bit over the top for me!! I am just a simple Vermont girl at <3 ( heart).

    Janet

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  6. Julie Neill

    If you can gain weight in your eyes, then I just did because I really feasted on this wonderful post. Thank you for a heaping helping of inspiration! I love your blog. Check out my new one http:/www.bayoucontessa.blogspot.com
    May we trade links?

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  7. Linda

    What gorgeous dream homes……every room more beautiful then the other. Linda

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  8. Holley

    WOW-eyepoppingly gorgeous! Love the coffered ceiling in the Tudor dining room. Thanks for the inspiraton,
    Holley

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  9. Cottage Contessa

    Oh My Gosh! These really are stunning rooms! Do people REALLY live like this??? Will they adopt me? lol Melissa, I hope you and your family have a truly amazing 2008. Happy New Year sweetie!
    Amanda (aka Cottage Contessa)

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  10. seeb

    Great collection,thanks for sharing and happy new year,hope you a great blogging year!;)

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  11. DesignFlute

    Thanks for rooms full of eye-feast! Truly beautiful rooms.

    Wish you equally amazing and beautiful, bountiful 2008!

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  12. Elzie

    Seems I’ve been a bad visitor the last few days. One thing is that I have began to work 50% again and it takes most of my time (!).
    I loved the pictures you showed us. Would be great to have such a big kitchen. Guess I could place at least 3 of my own kitchen into one of those on the picture!!
    Hope you have a good day.
    Love Elzie

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  13. My Melange

    Oh lovely. I love the blueish bedroom!! I am falling asleep the bed right now. zzzzzzzzzz

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  14. Thirkellgirl

    You have a thing for complicated upper-walls, don’t you? :) LOVE most of the photos, especially the kitchen. Happy new year! I check your blog daily. :)

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  15. Vee

    Yup, stunning is right. A bit too stunning for me as I am a very simple gal. (Should I confess that?)

    Some color combinations that I would never have tried, but I really like particularly in the first photo. Off to follow your links!

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  16. Rhoda

    OK, now I’m properly inspired. Maybe I’ll get busy & start doing that decluttering that I’m supposed to be working on. I’m getting a slow start into the new Year & laziness has crept in!

    xo,
    Rhoda

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  17. Camilla

    Beautiful rooms, I really like the biiig windows in some of the rooms:)

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  18. Jan

    Those are the kinds of rooms that make me feel the need to remove my shoes before entering! *lol* Stunning!

    Jan

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  19. Ruth Welter

    Just gorgeous!!! I think that first bedroom and kitchen are my very favorites.

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  20. Paloma

    All of the rooms you posted are lovely, but I absolutely love the kitchens! I especially love the first one.

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  21. Sue

    Melissa,
    Love all this gorgeousness on this cold winter morning. That pink bedroom by my over the top hero, the prince of chintz himself, Mario Buatta is my favorite of all.
    Haven’t been around much but have so enjoyed catching up on all your posts of late.
    Hugs,
    Sue

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  22. julia

    Thank you for the rainy day inspiration! i will have to get brave and post my “designer” kitchen one of these days. it’s inner city chic (gold penned bible scriptures tagged over my very old kitchen cabinets!) now very sentimental of course but oh for a kitchen like these.

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  23. Sweet Cottage Dreams

    Such opulence! My fav is the plaid dining room – so grand! I’d have just enough seating for family at Christmas! I can only dream of living in such grand rooms.

    You know, each year I enter HGTV’s contest and do you know that I have not been chosen one time!? ha. My fav was the home in Tyler, Texas. It was just perfect…..oh well….sad face…..

    Have a great weekend my sweet friend!

    xo
    Becky

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  24. Erin

    WOW!! What gorgeous rooms!! I love that pink bedroom!

    Erin

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  25. megan duerksen

    oh my goodness…those are too nice. i would be afraid i’d break something. but i would love to sleep in that pink bedroom – even for just one night.

    gorgeous.

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  26. cityfarmer

    How’s you get into my house for photos???? haha

    I could stare at these all day!

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  27. Polly

    I love tromp le… whatever it’s called when they paint scenes on the walls =) I have clouds on my dining room ceiling but not nearly that gorgeous! And I love the last bedroom – so tuscan looking. Have a great weekend. Blessings… Polly

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  28. {this is glamorous}

    Melissa, these rooms are amazing! I like the second one best–the green with the arches and pillars–elegant yet so cheerful–a sweet escape indeed!

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  29. Lisa

    Melissa, You really know how to find such lovely pictures. Each one is yummier than the last. Always a treat to stop by.

    Happy New Year!

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  30. Lady N

    Oh my! These are stunning! can you imagine living in such a place? I’d be afraid to make a mess.

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  31. Things that Inspire

    Wow~ I am late to the party! It has been a crazy couple of days, and I have not been checking my favorite blogs like I usually do. Luckily, a couple of your wonderful readers left comments and let me know about your post!

    Thank you for the mention. Thank you for the amazing pictures too! I think I may have a new kitchen for my ‘Virtual Home 2009’ (the 4th picture, with the white cabinets, black countertop).

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  32. Lisa

    All I can say is WOW! Those are some gorgeous rooms. Just stunning. Melissa, I want to wish you a wonderful New Year. I really appreciate hearing from you. Maybe we can try to get together over at Monticello soon. First I still have to put away Christmas. I keep procrastinating on that one.

    Best wishes for a fab 2008!

    Lisa

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  33. charlotte

    looking so pretty over here- what I could do with some of that space!…but I would just fill it up with more stuff. happy new year, Melissa! xoC

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  34. mary

    nelle tue foto ci sono case da sogno!!!!!!!!!!!!! ti auguro un merviglioso 2008!!!!!!!!!!ciao mary

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  35. Joni Webb

    Yes!!!!!!!!!!! I’m ready to move on from Christmas and onto design too!!! love, love, love that top dining room – it could bring tears to your eyes!

    Love this post!!
    Joni

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  36. Nan

    Thanks for sharing those beautiful rooms. I especially love the one with the fabric canopy.
    Nan

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  37. Rhonda

    Love the Sweet Escape rooms. My fav is the green room with the large white columns and and beautiful arches. Just gorgeous:)

    Rhonda

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  38. Jenn and Jacqui

    Hi Melissa, Architectural Digest is an amazing magazine. Love that kitchen, serious wow factor. These beautful rooms remind us of those Grand County Manors you see in movies and can escape to for a weekend in the country! Bliss!! Jenn and Jacqui

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  39. sandra

    Gorgeous post!
    Sandra Evertson

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  40. Mari-Nanci

    Ohhhhhhhhhhh, yummy rooms all.

    Mari-Nanci

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  41. Esther Sunday

    These rooms are beautiful!

    Hey, about your post above – happy early birthday! I have got to say that I LOVE my forties! I have a whole new awareness about myself and life around me and I love it! So much better than the 20’s and 30’s. Such a learning curve, was those years! Love, Esther

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  42. Bejeweled

    Oh, be still my heart! These rooms are just Gorgeous! If only I go through the computer monitor and spend an afternoon in one of these!

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  43. Bejeweled

    Ooops! I think I’m setting a new record for typos today. That’s “If only I *could* go….” :)

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  44. All Things Bright and Beautiful

    OH MELISSA!!

    These ARE stunning – my fave is the pink one – beautiful! and the Green one above it is fab too!!.

    I have to laugh that you have turned the comments of on the 6 month post!! he he he:-).

    I know you’re a busy chickateeta so dont worry replying to my comment – I know there are lots here .

    I’ve been to visit and I think you’re great and as long as you know that – I’m happy:-)

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  45. kari and kijsa

    Wow…those rooms are truly stunning!

    smiles,

    kari & kijsa

    Reply

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