I make your life organized, stylish and dynamic through the guise of my 3 services: photojeanie, apartmentjeanie and partyjeanie. As long as I can recall, I have been streamlining other people’s lives using my top notch organization skills and keen sense of observation. My unwavering desire to make everything look pretty and orderly has landed me in the pages of Town & Country, Time Out New York, Redbook, Houzz and BUST Magazine and a feature spot on HGTV’s Small Space Big Style. Please, please please contact me with your design dilemmas, composition conflicts or festive fumbles and we’ll create something that goes from flop to fab in a New York minute.
The owners of this 2-bedroom apartment in Long Island City are both super creative and have careers in graphic arts and design. The furnishings and art reflected their stylishly modern taste. With the welcomed addition of a baby into their busy lives, the usual tidy home became undone. The project was equal parts massive organization and reclaiming the design direction.
A crafty scrapbook not only documents a joyous occasion with photos and paper, but also utilizes unconventional materials to enhance the visual impact. Scanned paper napkins and vintage food photos establish the tone and story for this festive and fun cocktail party.
This surprise birthday cocktail party was to honor Philadelphia’s premiere event designer. The party was a few days before Christmas and the room needed to accommodate 50 guests, 3 servers, 2 hosts and 1 English Bulldog. As every smart host knows, it is important to put a glass in the hand of your guests upon arrival.
apartmentjeanie: style blendingThe owner of this 1-bedroom condo had been living here for 3 years before committing to a design direction. Between her first and second appointments, she had *inherited* a selection of home furnishings from her parents and grandparents. It was necessary to blend what she already owned and the 2 disparaging styles into a cohesive design that reflected her personal style.
The main food station was created for an intimate size engagement party. The groom-to-be is a staunch meat eater and his bride-to-be a devout vegetarian. Both have a love of cheese and sweets – especially rice krispie treats. The table setting is a mix of high brow sophisticated – fine china, crystal stemware, sterling silver and quirky kitsch – vintage soda cases, carnival chalkware and toe tags for labels.
Perhaps pinterest should be to blame – I am consumed with the desire to trade in my reliable, albeit boring billy for a new quirkier bookcase. Being totally obsessed with need, everything I saw at the Brooklyn Flea had potential no matter how farfetched. If the price was right, the vintage soda pop in-store display would have been riding the rails home with me. Alas it was vehemently overpriced.
Earlier in the day I happened upon a pair of rusted …
My friend photographer, J-F Vergel created a beautiful and moving video of everyday objects in his home – doorknob, crucifix collection etc. Mesmerized, I had to have one of my own! Fortunately with a birthday within acceptable gift requesting time, I begged politely requested that he assemble one for me. I gave him full creative control – including keys to my apartment & my work schedule so he could photograph without my presence slash input. Plus I think it interesting …
I recently had a spade of awesome press in Houzz & NewYork.com and sandwich in between was a photo shoot for a new print magazine (remember the time when you didn’t need to specify print versus digital?!). Looking at my home through the lens of another made me aware of all the small details that I take for granted. These little pockets of pride are comprised of my collections, mementos and ephemera.
Sometimes it is the smallest of …
I have definitely documented my moments of procrastination, but today proved to be exceptional. Not only was I procrastinating from preparing all the actual work I need to accomplish, it was my procrastination’s procrastination that propelled today’s post. Knowing my new NARS lip glosses were hanging out in an unadorned recycled tomato paste can prevented me from doing something, say profitable. Luckily the solution was a handful away.
Never able to leave well enough alone, I decided the plain window …
When my sister was a toddler, she would insist on being taken to any & every restaurant’s powder room. It wasn’t that she had to go – she was still in diapers, but she was obsessed with seeing the actual bathrooms. I’m not sure what was going on in her 2yr old mind, but she was determined. If she was denied entrance, she would throw a royal fit which usually amounted to all her food being tossed on the floor …
Photojeanie is a photo archival service that has been streamlining private clients’ photographic lives since 2000.
From services ranging in creating photo album libraries to formal preservation of negatives and slides, the client is liberated from the boxes, envelopes and bags of photographic clutter that have been accumulating for decades.
With a meticulous and keen detailed observation, it can be determined what is appropriate for display in albums.
Apartmentjeanie is a life style service that assists the client in creating a more polished, cohesive and efficient home and work space.
While working closely with the client, a style direction can be determined that truly reflects who will inhabit and utilize the space.
The intention is to implement what the client already owns and treasures, but recycle and repurpose with innovation and new functionality.
The final result is a fresh design motif constructed from the familiar and cherished.
Partyjeanie is a hands-on tablescape and station set up service designed to utilize a client’s personal collection of dining and housewares creating a presentation that reflects the host’s personality and sense of style.
Inspiring and innovative vignettes are built by blending the client’s proper dinner service with repurposed household design elements that guarantee an imaginative and personalized event.