Posts with the tag 'house'
This wallpaper is so amazing. Wallpaper is one of the reasons I want to live in someplace that I own, or at least someplace I know for sure that I will be in for a long enough time to invest in some real decor. This paper is gorgeous and calming and has just enough design to be interesting but isn’t overwhelmingly patterned as to be distracting. And I LOVE the fact that it is just on the one wall, serving to extend the headboard and really make that wall outstanding.
Check out the incredible before & after makeover of this room on Design*Sponge. It’s nearly unbelievable that the before could even be the same room!
Tags: decor, happiness, house
February 26th, 2010
I saw John Murphy at the Brooklyn Flea on the first weekend it was at One Hanson, and ended up in front of his table going through all the art and fawning over the amazing frames for about 20 minutes. I don’t know why, but I didn’t even bother to ask if he actually sold the frames separately at that point–and when I saw on Design*Sponge that he did, I was stoked! They are incredibly awesome, and the pictures on the site don’t even do them any justice compared to the real thing. If I could, I would make a whole wall out of these frames, with or without art in them.
Tags: art, Brooklyn, house, photos
January 27th, 2010
This cup says it all, made exclusively for and sold in Design Museum Shop in London by Build x Design Museum. The tea towel says it all, too (well, everything I need to say when I am talking to my husband about his turn washing the dishes, at least. Maybe this will make the request more well-received?).
Tags: fonts, house, the storyboard book
January 25th, 2010
I really, really want the water poster on the wall in this picture. I think it is the perfect piece of art to hang over your desk for those moments where the brain is running and you want something to look at, but don’t feel like letting yourself get distracted by a bunch of little things on a tack board, or pictures of loved ones, or whatever. This is a serious pro-thinking print.
Of course I just spent the last hour or so scouring for this specific print on the internets, and had to quit before my brain exploded or my hand fell off. Needless to say, couldn’t find it. Apparently the artist who took this desk shot is Jim Bastardo, who has some pretty awesome photos on his site for you to check out, but not this one. Bummer.
Tags: art, house, photos, poster, print
January 20th, 2010
We went to the Brooklyn Flea yesterday to check it out in its new winter digs, the old Williamsburgh Bank Building. And I am so glad we did! That building is INCREDIBLE and practically on par with Grand Central station. Maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it is truly some beautiful craftsmanship and art. They don’t make buildings like this anymore. So Fancy.
And what’s even MORE exciting is that we actually bought something there! A piece of furniture, even! It’s an old school desk from the 1940′s, made of pine, with a bench seat on the front and desk attached to the back. I was drawn to it because my grandparents always had one of these benches in their home to sit on to take your shoes off, and it was the exact same wood. It’s funny to feel my home aesthetic coming together, however slowly. I’m much more New England-y than I thought!
Nando models the new desk
Tags: Brooklyn, cats, house
January 11th, 2010
I always enjoy reading HDYGTFAJ from ReadyMade, and even more so now that I’ve been redefining my career this past year. It’s always so cool to be reminded that there are tons of different jobs and careers out there that you don’t even know exist, and that a lot of them are pretty fricking amazing.
One of my dreams is to someday open up a small hotel–we’ve even been toying with the idea of something along the lines of a British-style Inn, with a pub on the ground floor and guest rooms above. That would be incredible–beer, food, a fireplace and sleeping. Does anyone need more than that?
Read about how Greg Henderson got his FAJ opening up the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills here on the ReadyMade Blog. I’ll be day-dreaming up my Inn in the meantime…
Tags: beer, corin, daveo, happiness, house
December 15th, 2009
Project night came again this week, and along with it another healthy snack courtesy of DaveO. I mean, I’m all for improving your skills and perfecting technique, but after the mac and cheese last week, and this weeks deep fried tater-tot goodness, I might ask for some perfecting of salad making skills next time. Or perhaps jello-making. Or green bean blanching?
We also got to do some brainstorming and social media chatting about a new product that my friend Marci is helping with promoting, Pestos with Panache. We snacked on the delicious different pestos above, Gorgonzola with Fig and Pumpkin Chipotle and chatted strategy and usefulness of twitter and facebook fan pages. It was fun, but it got the wheels turning and now I want more!
The rest of the time was spent practicing Photoshop skillz like color balances and the key beauty retouches, and sorting through large batches of Storyboard Books. I’m getting better at PS and liking it.
Tags: daveo, house, project night, the storyboard book
November 20th, 2009
Scouring the dailies I stumbled upon art from James Joyce. James is a London-based artist who founded his own studio One Fine Day in 2006 in Shoreditch. His art is right up my alley, and it’s just a bummer that some of the limited-edition pieces that I love so much are already sold out. Check out his shop here.
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Tags: art, house, print
October 21st, 2009
Good lord I need one of these.
It’s from my new site obsession: House Industries: and their blog and objects and fonts and…
House Industries is having a Pop Up Shop (the new IT thing in NYC, apparently) on October 20, and I plan to go, and drool.
Tags: art, fonts, happiness, house
October 14th, 2009
There is something to be said for velvet wall paper. One of my oldest friends parents had red velvet wallpaper in their bedroom when we were growing up, and it was always really exciting when we snuck in there to do something or steal something (who remembers?) and you got to see that magical, fuzzy, 3D wallpaper.
These versions from Osborne & Little aren’t too shabby, either.
(They also have a Best in Show wallpaper!)
Tags: house
October 13th, 2009
Sorry, but I had to straight steal this since it made my afternoon. The Heffer Pitcher.
(via Design Milk, and from Chiasso.)
Tags: art, breakfast, house
October 8th, 2009
I found these one day when looking for a gift for a friend who was heading off to Tokyo for a month. I figured it would be dual purpose–fulfill that need for a handkerchief in the back pocket for emergencies, and double as a non-touristy looking map for when he needed to get his bearings about town.
I loved it so much that I ended up going back and buying myself 3 of them–the Tokyo map, the London map, and the NYC map. They now hang stylishly on the living room wall, hung up with map pins.
You can buy them here, or at a Muji store.
Tags: happiness, house
October 7th, 2009
