Retro wallpaper? Check. Big, bright windows? Check. Mid-century styling? Check. Let's get to work!
Which one do you like? Leave me comments, let me know...
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Design Inspiration: Wall of Glass Great Room
Floor-to-ceiling windows, exposed wood beams, and modern pendant lights equal a light and airy open-concept dining room and sitting area. Yes, please!
FOUND HERE.
FOUND HERE.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Design Inspiration: Espresso and White Kitchen
Oh, to have a kitchen with flow. Modern, clean, open, bright, organized, with flow. Makes me want to cook, to bake, to just hang out in it. Fave elements: pendant lights, bar stools, stainless steel, glass, dark wood floor, double ovens.
FOUND HERE.
My 11' x 9' pre-war era apartment kitchen will never rival this wonder space (designed by Candice Olson of HGTV fame) but I've started the process. See that cheap wallpaper border around the ceiling? It's going bye-bye. Those white metal cabinets that don't allow for painting to infuse color? Seeking out vinyl wall decals to perk them up. All those plain white walls? The longest, behind the stove, soon to be tomato red. Before photos shown below, after photos will come when I'm finished!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Design Inspiration: Pottery Barn Office
This is just the type of space I would LOVE for my office. Fresh, clean, open, white, natural light. Plenty of storage. Wall of windows with a view (well, I've got that already!)
A girl can dream...
FOUND HERE.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
My Backyard: Arctic Blast '08 in Portland, OR USA
The Official name is now The Arctic Blast. Oh, the weather outside is frightful and overnight we dropped from mid-40s to low 20s with a forecast of up to eight inches by tonight!
Yes, I realize that for you folks who live in mountainous places or frigid-weather-famous cities like Chicago and NYC, eight inches is just a flurry in the scheme of things. In the Pacific Northwest, at least in the Willamette Valley of Portland and the outlying smaller cities, two inches is cause for real excitement, so you can imagine what that means with a forecast of eight! The news weather folk around here get pretty amped up at even the prospect of heavy wind gusts in our normally mild (read: LOTS of rain) winter season.
The view from our windows on 12.13.08:
...and again on 12.14.08:
Photo #1 shows part of our front stairs (aka: "The Vertigo Stairs"--and that's in good weather!) and front sidewalk.
Photo #2 is the view from my kitchen window facing north.
Photo #3 is the remnants of our container garden on the deck.
What you don't see in these photos is the steadily falling snowflakes and the chilly wind gusts of up to 30 MPH. We're hunkered down for the duration of the storm. Our pantry is stocked, the kettle's on the stove and we've got movies to enjoy.
Stay warm, everyone!
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