Tag For Love/Hate: Gwyneth Paltrow

Let’s be honest. Most of us have a Love/Hate relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow. Academy Award winning acting. Life in the spotlight. Bougie children’s names. Incredibly fit in her forties. Signature lifestyle brand with the awful name. That whole “conscious uncoupling” thing. It’s often hard to know whether to Tag for Love or Tag for Hate.

Following her IG feeds (either her personal page or for her lifestyle brand GOOP) keeps you swimming in the conundrum.

Love? Hate? Love? Hate?

All sides of the eternal debate seem to coalesce in one recent IG post.

Oh, Gwyneth.

Announcing her new offices, Gwyneth stands in front of sleek, blonde-wood bookcases with leaning, lower shelves prefect for highlighting magazines, art, or favorite books. Showcase bookcases in the face of KonMari? Love! The shelves are sparsely filled, prompting her to request recommendations from followers on books on design, food, and corporate culture. Seeking fan input? Love!

That green jumper she’s wearing? Oh my goddesses. HATE!

Round and round it goes. Love? Hate? Love to Hate? Hate to Love? Oh, Gwyneth, you perplex us so. With no end in sight it seems best to just go ahead and employ a Tag for Love/Hate. It’s a mindfully selected compromise focused on equilibrium to reduce stress and help reach optimal wellness.
We’re sure it’s What Gwyneth Would Do.

Prepping For The Kips Bay Decorator Show House

Oops, is that headline misleading? To be clear, we are NOT part of the 2019 Kips Bay Decorator Show House. As if! No, we just want to go–it’s the interior design event of the year. Images from the house pop up in the mags, mood boards and blogs all year long. Hopefully we can go this May.

The third floor study, pre-renovation.

The list of participating designers was announced today and it’s a mix of A-list designers and newcomers. CBB favorite Corey Damon Jenkins is one of them so congrats Corey!

We’re looking forward to some amazing lewks and over-the-top ideas.

One of 2018’s biggest, most photographed moments: the staircase by Sasha Bikoff. Photo from her website.

Are you planning on taking it in? (Phrasing, sorry!)

Tag For Love: The “Howdy” Box, Y’all!

Write a review? You don’t need to ask us twice.

We’ve been loving on Draper James ever since the Reese Witherspoon lifestyle brand’s collab with Crate and Barrel was featured in the June 2018 issue of Better Homes & Gardens. We’ve tagged the brand for love so much that J. bought Rob the acrylic “Howdy” tray for Christmas. Since our whole schtick is providing unsolicited opinions we can’t say no when we’re actually asked to give a review!

The Howdy tray holds all kinds of stuff…like your pearl necklace.

5 Stars! (just like you should be giving our podcast)

We think even haters of blue and white decor will agree that this little gingham tchotchke box is gorgeous. Who doesn’t need a tchotchke box on their nightstand?

Tag for Hate: Celeb White-on-White

So, Buzzfeed did a Valentine’s post about Kanye West’s OCD Cupid’s gift for wifey Kim (Kardashian, duh), and we couldn’t agree more: it’s freaky. Not only was the gift creepy (Kenny G playing in the midst of a billion glass vases holding a single rose), but the subsequent shots of their home gave us hives, too.

UPDATE February 2020: This home also made the cover of the March 2020 issue of Architectural Digest. The article makes me want to hurl even more than the monotone interiors.

Kim and Kanye’s home.

Yikes. Talk about white on white on white. Comfort? Warmth? Liveability? There’s no time for that in Mega Celebrity Land!

Oh, wait, there is that one room with a few pops of red…

So here’s to our first Tag for Hate post. But we know…this one was a no-brainer.

Behind-the-Scenes Video: June 2018 Issue

Go behind the scenes with us when we recorded the June 2018 episode. Here, we discuss the South Carolina garage converted to a beach house, as featured in the June 2018 issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine (page 60). But who is the unnamed man in the photoshoot? We also discuss a new product for our new as-yet-only-fantasized-about lifestyle brand inspired by Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James line.

Visit our YouTube channel for more videos and listen to the complete June episode here.