April 2011
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Pattern Deliciousness
Is this not amazing?! Yummm…. The headboard is made out of vintage hankies. What a brilliant idea. I can barely stand looking at all those amazing textures at once - and I mean that in a really, really good way!
Source: google.com via Rosalie on Pinterest
Small Spaces →
I’m such a fan of cozy cupboard-like homes. I think we may all have to become inclined towards the small and puzzle-like space if our population continues its upward journey!
I love storage just as much as the next mama, but I love having little. …okay, except for when it comes to art supplies, and books…and clothes…hrmph…. Well, let’s just say we use the...
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2-D Renovations
A friend who’s living room I’m currently working on sent me a link to this awesome website called Homestyler. It works pretty well: quick, lots of options, and really helpful for giving perspective on an area based on actual measurements. Of course, it doesn’t have every nuance of customization that one would want (like, all the available examples of artwork are nautical or...
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“Forget what you think you know about how things go together. Forget what...”
– On Design: Nora Murphy, Interior Designer
From “Listening to your House”, of Taunton’s Inspired House, November/December 2003.
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A Corner for Getting Things Done
One thing has become increasingly clear to me: if you want to accomplish something, often, the environment - the lab or studio for said goal - is at least as important as the internal motivation needed. Take my previous art “studio”, for example:
As much as I may love my son, competing for work space in an area increasingly overrun with his things is not going to get me very far...
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Make Pretty Things
I want to frame this and put it up in my studio-corner. :)
Source: designismine.blogspot.com via Tia on Pinterest
By Muro Buro.
IKEA, OH, IKEA
We just can’t leave IKEA alone, can we? We hack, personalise, repurpose IKEA products into the very thing we want.And we love sharing our creation with others. If you have an IKEA hack, we would love to see it.
http://www.ikeahackers.net/
