About Me & This Blog

Welcome to From the Right Bank! I’m Ally and I’m a traveler, serial mover, and design blogger. I’m a former contributor at Apartment Therapy and currently a regular guest blogger for Seattle Homes & Lifestyles Magazine.

THE NAME
I guess the first thing you should know is that this blog has nothing to do with banks. I started it after I moved from the right bank of Paris to Seattle and named it From the Right Bank to the Left Coast. I patted myself on the back for coming up with such a clever name. Until I moved to Atlanta. Yeah, 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’, grand, rustic, urban, rural . . . I love them all!  I used to rearrange my room constantly as a kid and never really stopped. I’m one of those people who always looks at real estate listings when they’re on vacation and my favorite HGTV show is House Hunters International. I could watch that show all day long. (And I have!)

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

I’ve been honored to have had my Seattle house featured at Design Sponge, Houzz, Shelter Pop, and Rearranged Design and to have FTRB mentioned in Atlanta Home & Lifestyles, Munster Interiors, HGTV.com and Desire to Inspire.

I have also guest blogged and been interviewed at:

Coco & Kelley
Ill Seen, Ill Said
Brooklyn Limestone
Design Crisis
the Haystack Needle
Reverie
Coco & Kelley
Four Walls and a Roof
Plush Palate
Simply Seductive
Down & Out Chic
Sacramento Street
Gathering Spriggs
Apartment 34
Pure Style Home
Scandinavian Chic
Splendid Willow
A Diary of Lovely
Odi et Amo
For the Love of Design
Bright Bold & Beautiful
Automatism

TRAVEL
If there’s one thing I love more than design, it’s traveling.  If it requires a visa and an immunization or two . . . even better!  Traveling is what fuels and inspires me so when I’m not rearranging the furniture, I’m most likely planning my next big adventure. I’ve been lucky enough to visit over 40 countries so far but I feel like I’m only getting started. Thursdays around here are often Traveling Thursdays where I share great design hotels and special places to stay, take you along on some of my travels, and discuss other fun travel-related things.

New posts are published daily on weekdays.

If there’s anything else you’d like to know, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for visiting!