At Home with Kim Vallee

ENTERTAINING, TABLESCAPE | September 25, 2008

3 Iterations for an Housewarming Party Theme

The migration of the birds inspires me to create an autumnal housewarming party theme. As I assembled my montages, I could not decide which one I like the best. I composed three mood boards for the tabletop. They all reuse the same main components. I want to know which one you prefer? Before you post your [...]

DINING, ENTERTAINING, PARTY ideas, PARTY supplies, TABLEWARE | April 7, 2008

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Party Theme for a Graduation Party – take 2

I was inspired by too many objects when I was writing my Dotted Theme for a Girl Graduation Party post, that I created a second mood board. This one is an exercise in pattern arrangements. See how a traditional pattern can take a new life when it is harmonized with hip patterns. My [...]

ENTERTAINING, PAPER goods, PARTY ideas | April 4, 2008

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Dotted Theme for a Girl Graduation Party

A mother wrote to me because she is looking for fun unique ideas for the graduation party of her daughters in May. They want polka dots for a theme with lots of bright spring colors! I expanded on the polka dots theme for a trendier look. I went instead with fresh, bold patterns where dots are [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining, PARTY ideas | February 7, 2008

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Reinventing Valentine’s Day

If you wish to escape seasonal hearts and the red rose overloaded displays, I devised a solution to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style. You can celebrate Valentine’s Day without taking the predictive road. What I did is to go back to the root of this festive day which is celebrating love. And I [...]

DINING, DISHING tips, ENTERTAINING, PARTY supplies, TABLESCAPE, TABLEWARE | January 24, 2008

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Mood board for the 2008 Super Bowl party

With less than 2 weeks before the big game, it is time to finalize your design. You know me; I am going for a stylish look. So I compiled a mood board to get you started. My best advice is to stay away from the easy and expected props to celebrate the Super [...]

DINING, DISHING tips | January 7, 2008

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Pink and chocolate inspirations | 3 blogs and a mood board 2008.01.08 edition

The unified element for my weekly blog spotlight is simply brilliant design. As a bonus, you can recycle the color scheme. Even if there is a lot of pink, the result does not feel too girly. After the holiday break, there were a lot of posts to choose from. Considering that must produce a unified board, [...]

ALL occasions, ENTERTAINING, GIFT IDEAS, TABLESCAPE | December 3, 2007

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Gender neutral schemes| 3 blogs and a mood board – 2007.12.03 edition

I am pleased to feature two blogs I never spoke of. And it seems that brown is the color of my weekly mood board. 1 | Design Crush In her resourceful blog, Kelly talked about Garnish, a great source to make your own gift packaging for food. Garnish supplies the basic materials and you [...]

BABY showers, CAKES and baked goods, DINING, ENTERTAINING, KIDS + BABY, PAPER goods | October 16, 2007

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My pink French toile baby shower party theme

A reader T. asked for my advice. She is planning a baby shower at the office for her sophisticated boss. The baby room décor involved red and white toile fabric with gold and yellow accents. T. told me she enjoy the French style baby shower board I made earlier this month. But [...]