Ideas & Inspiration
Before & After: Nursery by Home Stylist Quintel Noel

Before & After: Nursery by Home Stylist Quintel Noel

Tweet Quintel Noel — a Home Stylist in our Charlotte, North Carolina store — recently completed a project where she was able to assist an expectant mother to express her love of color and pattern in a cheerful new nursery…
How Amy Merrick Styles Our Paper Flowers

How Amy Merrick Styles Our Paper Flowers

Tweet Amy Merrick‘s styling and photography makes flowers come alive – in beautiful and sometimes strange ways – so of course we needed to know what she would do with
Spring Fever: Gardens + Rooftops + Backyards

Spring Fever: Gardens + Rooftops + Backyards

Tweet This week marked the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere! west elm launched our newest outdoor furniture collection — and we’ve got Spring Fever!
How Jessica Comingore Styles Our Paper Flowers

How Jessica Comingore Styles Our Paper Flowers

Tweet We are really excited about our new paper flowers here in the office! So we asked Jessica Comingore — designer, master pinner, and playlist maker extraordinaire — to style some of our handcrafted botanicals at her Los Angeles home. We love her photos and tips!
Color Crush Marigold: Yellow Kitchens

Color Crush Marigold: Yellow Kitchens

Tweet In our #colorcrush hunt for marigold accents, we found so many amazing kitchens that we had to share! Would you cook in a yellow kitchen?
5 NYC Living Tips from Home Stylist Jody McCallum

5 NYC Living Tips from Home Stylist Jody McCallum

Tweet Jody McCallum is an expert at making the most of small urban spaces. As west elm Home Stylist in Manhattan’s Chelsea store, Jody mixes her eye for design with the goal of making a cozy space in the city for all her clients. Jody shared her tips for big city living with us…
Instagram Round-Up: Great #Colorcrush Photos

Instagram Round-Up: Great #Colorcrush Photos

Tweet We’ve been sharing our color crush on marigold all month, but here are some of our favorite #colorcrush photos that we’ve spotted recently on Instagram! Don’t forget to share your most colorful Instagram photography by tagging it with #colorcrush @westelm, and we’ll regram our favorites.
Color Crush Marigold: Yellow Accents at Home

Color Crush Marigold: Yellow Accents at Home

Tweet Our latest color crush is just in time for spring — MARIGOLD! These homes all use vibrant yellow hues to great affect. Could you use a pop of cheery color?
Marigold

Marigold

Tweet Our latest color crush will help you usher in spring! Marigold is bright, cheery and works well with neutrals and other bold colors…
5 Chicago Living Tips from Home Stylist Joan Williamson

5 Chicago Living Tips from Home Stylist Joan Williamson

Tweet For great interior design ideas on how to make the most of a small urban apartment, we often turn to Joan Williamson — west elm Home Stylist in our Lincoln Park Chicago store. Here are five of Joan’s ideas for making the most of what you’ve got and expressing your personal style along the...
Hanky Panky With Lesley M.M. Blume

Hanky Panky With Lesley M.M. Blume

Tweet Reading Lesley M.M. Blume’s Let’s Bring Back book series is like wading through the world’s most amazing antique store! Lesley is an expert in all types of old-fashioned curiosities, from quill pens to fainting couches. Her newest book, Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition, unearths the stories and recipes of lost vintage cocktails from...
San Francisco + Bay Area Homes

San Francisco + Bay Area Homes

Tweet We love the mix of modern and historical architecture in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area — here are seven homes we’ll be dreaming about!