Showing posts with label home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2009

the accidental room







i'm pretty obsessed with dining rooms right now. they seem to be the room you can do anything with. there is space to be exuberant and gutsy and frivolous. there is room for texture and contrast and humor. i love a dining room that is more haphazard than formal, more accidental than deliberate. I love a dining room that functions as many rooms... a saloon, a gallery, a parlor, or my favorite— a library... yes, i would love a dining room/library... i think that would be perfect...all those books against the walls and big tufted armchairs against the windows to sit and read for hours in...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

all walled in


photo from weheartit.com


photo from weheartit.com

photo from weheartit.com

i love what wallpaper does. it turns a room into a story. it imbues empty space with whimsy and nostalgia and myth. it adds texture. it adds movement. i really really like it. 

Sunday, February 15, 2009

halcyon days






all photos found on weheartit.com

i love what a little bit of white can do for a room...and big windows full of light.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

home free


beach house in pouto point, north island, new zealand

apartment in venice, italy

judith mountain cabin in alpine gulch, montana

brownstone in brooklyn, nyc

the grove plantation house in charleston, s.carolina 

bungalow in goa, india. photo from msms

cottage in regneville su mer, normandy, france. photo from *susie*

i think maybe, just maybe, i could manage to live forever in one of these homes. like maybe i wouldn't get bored and wouldn't want to move and wouldn't think that their was some better place to call home. i would just think —i've got home covered, i'm good. and then i could go about breaking life up into beautiful tiny pieces, minute by minute, day by day, week by week, year by year...

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

room to breathe


the bathroom

i love the dark pink walls. the color is romantic and nostalgic and spirited. and all that white makes everything look crisp and clean. i like that there is a substantial amount of space and that the floors are a darkish moody wood. simple and functional, but incredibly charming. 

the kitchen

this kitchen looks so authentic...as if many many meals have certainly been cooked in it. it's homey, not at all sterile, but still organized and uncluttered. it's so beautifully bright and modest and tidy and wholesome.
from flickr

the writing room

this is very much the kind of space i would like to write in. a large window open and glowing with the world. inspiring, textured details-the floral wallpaper, the lush velvet curtains, the spinning globe... enough space to move about in, to have a large bookshelf, to have the luxury of two! desks. the color contrasts are unexpectedly perfect too. the warm rose and mustard hues and then that cool and vivid dark turquoise.

the bedroom

it's hard to even talk about this room, i'm so completely taken with it. all that light, the high ceiling, that inviting straightforward bed. the room is actually quite bare, but the essentials are exactly right. i could sleep forever in this room. and read and daydream and love and listen to music and watch the garden and the shifting rays of light all day long.
from flickr, anna linder, tone dale mountain bedroom