I tell you, I love pale rooms where the mood is peaceful and clean as much as the next person – but there’s something about bold splashes of color melded with fun art, shape and eclecticism that gets me every time.
I spotted this really fun Maryland townhouse in Baltimore Style Magazine earlier and just had to post a link to it. I adore the blue Egg Chair, the amazing colored glass bottles, the bright yellow walls in the foyer, and especially that amazing dining room set. I wish – oh how I wish that I had the time, budget and nerve to pull something like this off for myself. For now I’ll just have to enjoy the pictures. These are just a few images - to see and read more about this amazing home be sure to click over.
I’ve been looking for a dog bed for my girl Callie for months now – designs I’ve come across always seem to be the wrong shape, color, or downright cushiness. Callie’s bed literally resides in the bedroom so I’m hoping to track down something that has that vintage-country look I’m trying to maintain.
I’ve bought a few over time – one, a big doughnut from Costco worked well for awhile before the filling finally scrunched down so much it became useless. Another, a rather pricey rectangle covered in pretty fabric, doesn’t seem to have that comforting feel that Callie likes, so I cover it with blankets and throws to give it more cush.
But I just came across this article in the LA Daily News about doggie bed designs that has me thinking I may have found something that will work finally. The Pear Bed (above) has that nice comforting bolster while also being attractive and nicely rounded. A little pricey (we’ll have to save up our puppy pennies) but probably worth it.
For fun, I thought the Moderno Bed (below) was just the thing for a loft or Manhattan apartment. Quite a commitment at about $750 but very interesting just the same.
So I was reading this clever website called Ariadne at Home the other night – well since it’s in Dutch, Google was loosely translating for me so I was mostly just looking at the pictures – when I came across this image of this clever “tree”. I love the way it fits in with the elegant furniture and light palette of the room so I grabbed it and saved it on my desktop.
Then I was looking through some of the chairs that West Elm has on their site and came across the two clever trees below – one looks like it’s painted on the wall, but it could be a decal, with some Styrofoam ornaments strung on yarn between the branches. The other is a real Blue Spruce branch cleverly fixed to the wall (I’m guessing you might be able to do this with a flag holder mounted upside down). This branch makes me a little sad – the other morning I woke up and a Black Pine Tree that I’d planted a few years back (that was doing so well) had snapped clean in two in an overnight storm. Really broke my heart…sob, sob. It really did.
So I also came across the BuroTree (below) on Apartment Therapy – this was popular a few years ago but went out of production for one reason or another. Now it’s back and is still just as super cool. The company is based in Australia but I believe these may be available in the US. They come in a range of sizes from gigantic, to tabletop. Makes me think of the cool decorations I remember hanging around the house that my folks had – they’d been designed in the ’50’s and ’60’s and always had such a hip, Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra air about them.
And last, but deliciously not least is this really clever tree that All the Luck in the World (from the Netherlands – do you detect a subtle theme here?) made by hanging interesting objects she’d collected over the years on a wall. So so so cool makes me want to try this too – even though I’ve already put up my tree. Just love this.
So this coming weekend I fully intend to go around and photograph some of the Christmas decorations around New England. For some reason it seems like people have really gone all out this year – tons of lights (although I probably won’t be able to capture those) and also pineapples, wreaths, garlands, bows, other fruits. I want to also video my horses playing in the snow – which may be difficult since we don’t have any on tap for the a few days. They were out playing the other day in it and they looked so amazing that I simply have to share it.
