Where did the warm weather go? It's totally looking all drab and grey out there, and yesterday there was a little too much horizontal rain for my liking. Time for a bit more fantasyland inspiration then from the Kips Bay Show House in NYC. This looks to be the pretty much last of it that is really my cup of tea (the rest is a tad fusty), though I'm still jonesing to see the whole thing in person. In the meantime I'll be traipsing through another glam showhouse soon enough - The Junior Leaugue of Toronto Showhouse, which will be running May 8th through to the 31st. Participating designers include Jeanette Hlinka, Katherine Newman and Timothy Mather; so it promises to be completely worth checking out!

The couple of rooms below totally have a thing for colour. The first is a bright living room designed by Eileen Kathryn Boyd (love that Homegrown Green rug by Edward Barber and Jay Ogersby for The Rug Company). The second is a bolthole designed for a swank recessionista by interior designer Christopher Coleman and fashion designer Angel Sanchez that's kitted out with an electric blue astroturf carpet and includes a slightly over-the-top mirror-polished steel ping-pong table (really!).

Via House Beautiful and Habitually Chic