About Me & This Blog

THE NAME
I started this blog after I moved from the right bank of Paris to Seattle. (It has nothing to do with financial institutions!) I named it From the Right Bank to the Left Coast and patted myself on the back for coming up with such a clever name. Then I moved to Atlanta. I didn’t see that coming(!) So now it’s just From the Right Bank.

HOMES
I’ve been obsessed with homes my entire life. Mine, yours, total strangers’ . . . I used to rearrange my room constantly as a kid and it’s still one of my favorite things to do; I always look at real estate listings when I’m on vacation; my design book and shelter magazine collection could rival a good library; and I could happily watch the real estate shows on Bravo and HGTV all day long.

For as long as I can remember, I kept stacks of notebooks filled with design ideas and magazine clippings for my home. In January 2009, I decided to start this blog as a place to collect and organize all the lovely ideas I find on the web. It’s also where I think out loud about various design projects, document my progress in setting up house, and hopefully get feedback from all of you fabulous people.

MY HOME(S)
My Seattle house has been featured at Design Sponge, Houzz, Shelter Pop, and Rearranged Design and you can see where I used to blog from in Seattle at Ill Seen, Ill Said. I also wrote about my Seattle neighborhood at Design Crisis and shared my slightly crazy system for organizing around the house at the Haystack Needle. Finally, there’s a small peek into my Paris apartment at a Brooklyn Limestone.

TRAVEL
If there’s one thing I love more than design, it’s traveling. Traveling is what fuels and inspires me so when I’m not rearranging the furniture, I’m most likely planning my next big adventure. If it requires a visa and an immunization or two . . . even better! I’ve been lucky enough to visit over 40 countries so far but I feel like I’m only getting started. I have a feature called Traveling Thursdays where I take you along on some of my travels, share great design hotels and special places to stay and talk about other travel-related things. I’ve guest posted about two particularly dreamy destinations at Coco & Kelley and Reverie.

STYLE & FASHION
The concept of style has always fascinated me. I started a challenge called “What’s Your Style in One Picture” that’s been making its way around the blogosphere. I’ll be reissuing the challenge periodically and I’d love it if you’d participate! You can also read an interview with me about my thoughts on Paris style and Seattle style at Four Walls and a Roof.

I don’t cover fashion on this blog but I am what you might call a clothes horse. I wrote a post about fall ‘09 fashion at Plush Palate. Oh, and I have a wee bit of a shoe addiction. You can see for yourself at Coco & Kelley.

MORE ME
You can read a short interview with me at Down & Out Chic, see some of my favorite things at Sacramento Street and Gathering Spriggs, and my favorite color combination at Simply Seductive. There are also some random bits about me here, here and here.

New posts are published daily on weekdays.

If there’s anything else you’d like to know, please email me at: rightbankgirl [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thanks for visiting!