David Kaplan is an interior designer based in NYC whose designs strive to achieve balance, simplicity and visually tranquility. He appears to be a master at bathrooms (*swoon*) and I’ve never really liked purple…until now.

Lisa Skelton founded her interior design and styling firm in 2006, but began her career as a textile designer. A bit countrified, a bit rustic, and very casual, her designs are traditional, classic, pleasing to the eye, and couldn’t be any cozier.

(On a side note, I’d like to wish all my fellow Canadians a happy Victoria Day. This long weekend is supposed to signify the beginning of summer and it usually consists of cottage parties and lots of beer, but this weekend has been FREEZING here. Such a bummer.)

I wanted to share an email and some photos with you all from a DTI reader: “I am Dana from Romania, one of your avid readers for some time now, and I have to tell you that www.desiretoinspire.net helped me with a lot of inspiration for my new apartment 🙂 When I saw your post about Daniel and Helene Gauthier’s kitchen in acid green, I was awed by the resemblance with my new kitchen furniture, so I waited to finish it completely, and then I just had to show you how it turned out :). I wanted to use this vivid color in my kitchen for a very long time, but my former kitchen was to small, and I was afraid it will look crowded. Now I have a larger kitchen (I transformed one bedroom into kitchen), so I could play with colors easily! I used white on walls and floor and chairs (Panton), but I needed more color so I added a pink fridge and a pink KitchenAid and some more pink details.” What a gorgeous kitchen Dana has created – the pink and green is fabulous together and it looks like such a fun space to hang out and cook in. The random green tile in the backsplash is such a cute touch and she is SOOO lucky to have a pink Smeg fridge! I love it all! To see more of her kitchen and her new apartment check out her blog here and here. (Thank you for sharing with us Dana!)

I am coming down with something (no surprise as the guy in the cube next to me at work has been off all week with strep throat) so I was looking through my photo stash for a little pick-me-up. Found these from Bolig Magasinet. Now I’m smiling. White spaces with bright hits of colour always manage to get me going.