Sally Lee by the Sea founders, David & Marie Rhoades, live on the beautiful SW Washington peninsula of Long Beach. Join them on a quick tour of their backyard paradise…the ocean.
Pictures – Marie Rhoades© 2010 – created at http://animoto.com
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Corner front room with glorious ocean views
Wraparound porch with shared sitting area
Tiger maple Queen-size bed dressed in French linens
Down duvet and fluffy pillows
Marble bath with spa shower
Beautiful beamed ceilings
French doors
Captains closet
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French Quarter confidential! Meet madcap author TJ Fisher! See Vieux Carré Chic style! Peer past tall brick walls and lush gardens. Look beyond iron-lace gates. Come inside! TJ’s Bourbon Street home! Exposed. Up close and personal. Sneak peek at what inquiring minds and interior design pirates want to know. Take in rare interior design ideas! (Original unedited footage, a reality show in the making.)
Prepare to laugh! Be entertained! Witness tasty tidbits and true confessions, of a style maven, with humor. Glimpse TJ’s private and eccentric real world. Idiosyncratic. Unconventional. Eclectic. Curious. Sumptuous. This is the Bayou. Deep South. Crescent City. Big Easy. (Who Dat Nation). A place of offbeat attitudes and theatrical lifestyles, steeped in eccentricity and history. For hundreds of years the French Quarter — a city of magical thinking — has lured the romantic and adventurous.
(For more details on TJ’s New Orleans haunted house, see SPECIAL NOTE below.)
Caught on camera, observe Swamp Empress and Sandcastle Queen TJ in action. A comedic and clever take on how to! Do! Knockout voodoo gumbo décor, with personality! TJ’s signature trademark flair includes Carnival character, Mardi Gras kitsch, Big Easy collectibles — art, antiques, trinkets and treasures.
Flamboyant…colorful…eccentric…! Amusing…bodacious…anti-white…! Outrageous…anti-minimalist…! Controlled chaos…grit-glamour…! French Quarter style…with Palm Beach pizzazz…!
Eyeball snippets of the irrepressible Belle of Bourbon Street TJ; preview TJ’s very unique home décor theories on designing, decorating, remodeling, renovating, reinventing and accessorizing…with fun! Monkeys to candelabras! WOW! What a whacky yet fascinating hodgepodge of wild charm, wit and whimsy, hilarity and absurdity, with eye-popping results.
“Kicky cool works!” — TJ Fisher
Introducing TJ’s forthcoming stylebook VIEUX CARRÉ CHIC: THE ART OF OVERINDULGENT HOME DÉCOR (with exclusive Skip Bolen photography).
http://TJFisher.com
http://tjfisher.com/vieuxcarre_chic.html
SECRET NEW ORLEANS: TJ’s zany humor and design!
MORE INFO:
TJ Fisher is a Southern author, documentarist and social critic who lives on Bourbon Street in the Vieux Carré (old square) — the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Anointed by The Advocate (Baton Rouge) as suitably outrageous and eccentric to represent New Orleans, Fisher drives a 1959 pink Cadillac convertible named Lulabell. She owns Photo Doody, one of the three original 1940s Howdy Doody marionettes, a distinctive piece of Americana and pop-culture entertainment memorabilia. She is also a colorful citizen of Palm Beach, Florida.
http://TJFisher.net
TJ Fisher is also a licensed general contractor.
TJ Fisher’s stylebook VIEUX CARRÉ CHIC: THE ART OF OVERINDULGENT HOME DECOR (coffee-table book) features photography by Skip Bolen.
A fascinating interior décor and design style…
Imbued with enchantment…
Spontaneity of style…
Theatrical mixing of periods and styles…
“Scandalous people are stirring. Perfection is boring. Family skeletons that cannot be buried must be made to sing and dance.” — TJ Fisher
Fisher is also the author of ORLÉANS EMBRACE WITH THE SECRET GARDENS OF THE VIEUX CARRÉ; HEARSAY FROM HEAVEN AND HADES: NEW ORLEANS SECRETS OF SINNERS AND SAINTS; THE PEARLY GATES OF PURGATORY series.
SPECIAL NOTE about TJ’s Bourbon Street residence: The interior and exterior house shots were filmed at a historic 1850s French Quarter, Bourbon Street property, known to be haunted, with documented paranormal activity. The old French Quarter house seeps vapors of a long and colorful history. Secrets. Rumors. Ghosts. Scandals. Celebrations. Passions. Sinners. Saints. The historic and balconied Louisiana French Créole home — often mistaken for a Bourbon Street hotel — was built by a French Quarter businesswoman of the era, a gens de couleur. The 150-year-old Vieux Carré structure, situated on the same block as Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, features the brick-walled courtyards and secret gardens typical of the French Quarter. The home stands three blocks from the haunted LaLaurie Mansion.
The historic French Quarter of New Orleans is a storied, weathered, melancholy place that inspires the mind, touches the heart and strengthens the spirit. Mysterious and vivid, it is a city that seduces all with a strange sense of downtrodden beauty, embellished and decayed, igniting deep feelings within and a strong connection to the past.
Skip Bolen is a Southern photographer of musicians, architecture, lifestyle, the culture and iconic imagery of New Orleans. Bolen is particularly noted for his famed black-and-white photographic images of jazz musicians, often shot only in natural light in jazz clubs, jazz festivals and concerts.
http://www.skipbolenstudio.com
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS?
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