CC Homemaker

Finally, my final post in the Inspired by Vegas series. It only took one month to post them all. If you missed the other posts, make sure you check out Part I, Part II, and Part III!

I don’t know much about Droog except for what they have revealed on their website. I visited their newest location, within the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard. As soon as I spotted the store from the casino floor (ha), I felt as if I was being drawn in by a magnet. Once inside, I wandered aimlessly at the array of weird and wonderful objects. The shop featured quirky pieces of furniture and other things for the home. When I asked if I was allowed to take photos in the store, the Droog employee’s reply was, “Of course! Take as many as you like.” So I took a photo of every item that struck me as particularly weird, unique or interesting.

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If you’re interested in buying or browsing through more designs by Droog, the Droog website has an online store.

The Cosmopolitan, the brand new hotel-casino that just opened its glamorous doors on December 15th, 2010, was chock full of real inspiration.

Even though much of the Cosmopolitan’s beauty was perhaps unattainable, as shown in many of the photos I included in Part I of Inspired by Vegas, there were still a few delightful little niches that I could see myself reinterpreting for my own living space one day.

Take for instance this charming sitting area (and here’s a 6-second video of the space):

Don’t you just love the beautifully tufted ottomans, the five different kinds of seating that go-but-don’t-match, and the elegant meshing of modern and traditional? I think those ottomans would be easy to DIY. (more…)