caravan

(via honestly... wtf)
yes, totally out of season, but golly it's good!

kinda

love these.

(tutorial on d*s)


makes me want to do a faux-Victorian photo album in paper frames, maybe mounted on black paper.

yes, ma'am

(i don't know where this is from. my friend emailed it to me.)
there is so much to love here:
1. silhouette painting
2. silhouette painting in front of bookshelves
3. the buttons on the tufted chair are made of a different fabric than the chair is. so good!

lemon fresh

(via vintage simple)

matchy-match

i hate matchy-match. drives me completely nuts.
my husband loves matchy-match. if everything came in sets he would be the happiest man on earth. some of the biggest design blights on my house have come from compromising on matchy-match.

we've all seen about a million sets of mis-matched chairs painted into a set. what makes this set work exceptionally well is how radically different the shapes of the chairs are. they match, but they are not even kind of matchy-match.

(decor demon)

a big, fat sink

(via designsponge)

lovely, yes?

i've been scouring craigslist for a bathroom sink, longing really for a vintage schoolhouse sink that would accommodate two faucets. well, that hasn't happened. but i did find this:

looks familiar right? okay, maybe not so much from above or in this crummy picture.
but really, this was a hell of a find.
vintage porcelain coated cast iron with a surprisingly modern shape. 22 inches wide, 42 inches long, and 8 inches deep with a big fat rounded lip on three sides.
someday this will be in my bathroom with his and hers wall mounted faucets.
yum.

i'm having a not so secret love affair with brass animals.

if i had $5,000, i would solve my dining room woes with this 1970s brass ibex head table with glass top.

first dibs

more realistic, but still out of my price range at $1,000, is this coffee table

dayton's craigslist (yes, really, dayton, ohio!)

unexpected animals

moody and serious, except, hello, light up deer!
(via apartment therapy)

this room is a bit minimalist from me, but i love that basset hound portrait on the rear wall!
via desire to inspire

loud

(domino via thirteen and south)

love a traditional piece of furniture with a modern/global pattern. the color is killer. and that dog is a cutie!

sweet like lime

oh, who knew a lime bathtub could be so good?

(via design sponge)
btw, that adorable little stool - saw it with my bff for $12 on sunday - and she didn't buy it!

and for the record, this is a killer tile job. it's so hard to get the tile spaced to make black grout look this good.

creepy awesom

ram skull and gold lamp. who knew it would be so good?

(via head over heels)

mixing

i love this mix of classical architecture and street art

(via avant garde design)

reminded me of these shades i had lusted after for my dining room a few months back
from the etsy shop resurface

black mantle

and keep all the rest of the trim white.
(the brass petal)

oh, and of course, i would take the brown leather wingback.

two drawers

too good!

(via brydie brown)

(design sponge)

show stopper

i'll take this whole room, please.
(via the city sage)

spheres

(via splendid willow)

vintage industrial

bedside lamps...

its either something like that glamorous sconce from my last post or something industrial, a little steampunk and, well, manly
(via automatism)

(via remodelista)

perhaps my dream lamp... but let's not talk about the price.
(anthropologie)

unless antropologie has some sort of major oopsy and gives me two lamps for a nickle or something, i'll be going another way.

(the brass petal)
my honey and i were watching secrets of a stylist and he just about died of envy for the first version of the house - the FDR chic look. these reading lights are pretty great - cheap, very functional and attractive in that unpredictable, not trying too hard kind of way.

gold & crystal

love the petite nightstand, vintage sconce and two tiny gold frames - yum.
(via little blue deer)

hey good looking

via simply grove

bicycles

via cabbage rose

romantic and impracticle

i love multiple mirrors.
via desire to inspire
i've been thinking about antique tin pans to use as a sink basin
via little blue deer
via head over heels

via head over heels

via desire to inspire

we bought a claw foot tub on monday...

more quilts

i've been wanting one of these quilts by haptic labs for ages, preferably of my old neighborhood, jamaica plain.

in the process of looking for more images of haptic labs work i stumbled upon leah evans. holy smoke. now i want one of both.

more on leah evans here and here.

kinda love it

while it doesn't say "i'm a grown up," it is kinda awesome.
i might go without the pentagrams in my house.
(by boo davis via apartment therapy)

officing

very unhappy with my current "office" chair.
loving this idea. and, let's face it, blue velvet is hot.
(from the brass petal)

oh

from a bed and breakfast in antwerpen

(via sanctuary)