Most Amazing Eames Lounge Chair Ever
Are you a member of One Kings Lane? They’re my favorite online sale site for the home and the current sale curated by Samantha Knapp of Tiger Lily’s is great. I’ll be drooling over this Eames lounge chair upholstered in Zoffany fabric til the day I die. If you have a spare $3,000 burning a hole in your pocket, please buy it.
A Cheap and Cheerful Dressing Room
Etsy Favorites: The Blues
Here are some of my latest favorites that celebrate the feeling of Milwaukee’s Greatest Lake.
Hand painted tote in grey and blue by StrandRedesign, $47
I Only Swim in Great Lakes by amylgieschen, $20
Minnesota Love by poppyandpinecone, $20
Turquoise yellow and orange chevron painted antler by MadeByCassandraSmith, $61 // Cassandra is a local Milwaukee-based artist!
Seaglass Spectrum: Aquamarine to Emerald by quercusdesign, $20
What do you think? Any lake-inspired favorites?
I <3 Riazzoli
I love Maria Riazzoli’s blog Riazzoli! Maria has an amazing eye and features gorgeous blogs and websites regularly. (Shoutout to my best girl, also named Maria!)
Thanks to Maria, I’ve discovered fabulous talent in photographers like Daniella Witte, whose photos are seen here (top and above). In addition to crediting the photographers, I have to credit the curator–her blog is beautiful.
Images above by Daniella Witte, via RIAZZOLI.
Another super designer and photographer: Masha at Ornamelle. So much talent!
My blog roll is getting fatter by the day!
Steven Volpe in Elle Decor
Is anyone else loving Steven Volpe’s San francisco loft in last month’s Elle Decor? Sexy, comfortable, spare, and moody. Love!
The brass lamp on the cabinet is amazing.
I need to know the name of that gray wall paint color.
Article by Ingrid Abramovitch, photos by William Abranowicz, produced by Anita Sarsidi, all for Elle Decor, September 2011
Chandy
Still obsessed with fantasizing about outrageously priced chandeliers for the dining room. Still think this would look fabulous with the chalkboard wall, acrylic chairs, and warm wood kitchen cabinets.
The Bedroom
Is still unpainted. It’s killing me, but I have fifteen colors of paint sampled on the walls and I hate all of them. We finally bought curtain fabric for the wall of windows that makes Nathan feel like he’s under surveillance. But I can’t sew until I hang the hardware, and I can’t hang the hardware til I paint the room.
IKEA Majken fabric in white/light gray/orange, $7.99/yard
So I’ve been thinking green. Like army, forest, foggy marsh green.
Benjamin Moore 440 “Land of Liberty”
With Nathan’s beat up old dresser painted salmon pink.
Benjamin Moore 2009-30 “Dark Salmon”
But then I started to doubt myself. Green walls in a room where the main attraction is the beautiful GREEN blue spruce out the window? Sounds … anticlimactic.
But then I saw this!
Porch by Roger Davies Photography, via tiny.k
That is a gorgeous, deep, mossy green, surrounded by lush, green flora! What do you think? Will it work without white trim and hot Eames shell chairs? With orange-accented curtain fabric? What ever happened to “all white everything”?!
The Thousand-Dollar Blanket
Probably never going to be within my budget ever in my life, but isn’t it gorgeous?
On Nash Island, down east of Penobscot Bay, a flock of sheep lives untended as it has for generations. This local breed provides fleeces to the spinners and weavers of coastal Maine who make our Winter Blankets. This blanket uses a winter weave-two layers of wool for warmth-and is dyed by hand using all natural materials.
Swans Island Winter Blanket, Double/Queen 90″ x 90″, $1,050
If we stick with the “guest cabin” idea for the guest room, maybe we’ll end up with something like this wool “Connecticut Blanket,” which is a bit more reasonably priced.
Connecticut Blanket Series #7 (Large Buffalo Plaid) in Natural from Kindred Crossings Farm, Queen 90″ x 94″, $160
Liberty of London at Target
Now available at your local Target: amazing prints by the venerable fabric house Liberty. Time to go pretend shopping!
Liberty of London Dunclare Black Cereal Bowl Set of 8 – 5.5″, $19.99
Liberty of London Dunclare Pink Salad Plate Set of 8 – 9″, $19.98
Liberty of London Dunclare Pink Prep Bowl Set of 3, not yet available
Maynard Canister – Medium, $17.99
Looks like spring has sprung!
Happy Valentine’s Day
I like Valentine’s Day because I get to spend time with Nathan and I love the color pink.
Today we’re cuddling up on the couch to watch DVDs of Lost (thanks, Hannah!) and eat pizza. Romantic because that’s two things we both love.
I hope your Valentine’s Day is filled with doing things you love, maybe even with someone you love.
