If it is then it’s time for a holiday reading guide! No such luck here. We’re right out of public holidays until Christmas in my neck of the woods. So if you’re lucky enough to have three days off sit back and enjoy. New blogs, not so new, lots of eye candy and always inspiring. Hey even if it’s not a long weekend where you are there’s always time for blog hopping!

I’m always putting labels on designers, trying to tie their work up in neat bundles with a few choice words. Timeless yet traditional, contemporary and classic, an eclectic mix of the perfect this and that. I could use these for Toronto interior designer Jennifer Worts’ portfolio but instead I’ll just say beautiful, simple and elegant, just beautiful.

New York New York. The loft, the warehouse, the historic townhouse. Oh how so many of us dream of an amazing space perhaps with a hint of the industrial but always with the room and the height and the light. The architect of my dreams – Diana Kellogg. Just a taste of her work. I’m so inspired. It’s human, organic and industrial. It’s about the bones and staying true.

He joking calls it a disease and an incurable one at that. For our sake let’s hope Francesco Lagnese never gets over his urge to aim and shoot his camera. Then we’d be deprived of a prodigious talent. Fabulous portfolio. His personal work is at one moment serious and the next playful. Enjoy.

Endless summers on a tropical island, warm ocean breezes and soothing vistas. Imagine life on the Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef. No palm frond thatched hut here. This is Hamilton Island, playground of the rich and often kitsch. Fiona lives in this paradise and did my stalking for me this week. “These are the new Hamilton Island Yacht Club luxury villas. I live near Hammo and am quite familiar with the styles of houses and apartments there. These really are a cut above. For a start, it looks like you could actually be comfortable there! The local climate has been considered, plus views and privacy. It’s all so harmonious and well resolved my eyes just glide over the rooms (usually this never happens ’cause I’m too busy thinking ‘well that just looks wrong!’). I’d better pop out for a lotto ticket now.”

I agree. Most times apartments here channel the ghost of Miami Beach past. Love the detailing in these and all that timber. I’m not sure though that if I had the $3 million required to snare one of these I wouldn’t look for a tiny island of my own and build that thatched hut. Still a little bit of luxury in paradise is hard to pass up. Here while the link lasts and thanks Fiona!.