Sweet Like Lemons

cuddle up

2011-12-14T17:54:00.000-08:00

(via)

if you haven't figured it out by now

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i have a thing for velvet couches, particularly ones in bright colors.

this one, with that great green wall, hand made rectangular pillow and dainty little feet - too good!
(here)

antlers

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totally digging this giant paper mache deer/cow head
(via)

yum

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(batixa)

a long ago favorite

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i forgot to post this when it was fresh. this house is one of my all time favorites for a few reasons:

1. a copper ceiling
2. a hole with a pole
3. a lot of books, in no particular order
and
4. feathers

(d*s)

love notes

2011-08-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

i've had a long love affair with a chalkboard wall. i love the frame for especially important messages (my honey usually misses the ones i leave him).

(via poppytalk)

i must admit

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i am tempted to run away with a caravan.

lady bonin's tea

dj verde

2011-08-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

by jipsi boho living

and here

another one

2011-06-21T09:44:00.000-07:00

kind of obsessed with old leather chairs, if you haven't noticed.
(via highgatedreams)

warm woods and white walls

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this is some for serious drama

love those off-kilter cabinets!
same house, by the by.

(via interior divine)

leather

2011-06-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

great reuse project. could make a fab bench... maybe for the dinning room...
(via d*s)

lemon crush

2011-06-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

(via cosmic dust)

oh anthro

2011-05-31T14:58:00.001-07:00

went to anthropologie last weekend and fell in love with these little guys at $228 a pop:

i thought all hope was lost because, despite the being called kilim, they are make of woven recycled sari silk which sells for $16/160 yards of yarn and that is maybe enough yarn to knit half a side of one of these stools, which makes $228 sound like a bargain.
i was considering buying a kilim rug on ebay and chopping it up, but then i found a source for actual woven fabric at $12/yard and three yards would make two stools with fabric to spare. plus wood to make frames and foam padding, two would be well under $100.

i already have the spot picked out in my living room.

while i was drooling over them online (and checking dimensions (20"h x 18"d x 18"w, in case you were wondering) so i could get my knock offs just right) i found this guy:

who would also be relatively easy to make a knock off of for far less than the $998 price tag. if i found the reclaimed lumber (rather than buying it) it would just be labor - and paint if one so chooses.

hook & stick

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(the cooks larder)

dude!

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this awesomeness is virtually in our back yard (as in two hours away in indianapolis)
modhomeec

here

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(via the brick house)

mo' sticky

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honestly, this room doesn't do too much for me - especially that apron skirt on the chair in the center of the picture. but that chandelier - stick/string goodness.

(via lonny mag)

like a painting

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(via batixa)

bah!

2011-05-11T06:53:00.000-07:00

this room has the perfect (for me) combination of industrial, global, warm wood...
(via byrdiebrown)

profile portraits

2011-05-10T07:04:00.000-07:00

i've been obsessed with profile portraits lately.
more work by this artist
(via batixa)

sunny and stick-y

2011-05-10T06:37:00.001-07:00

love these little stick lamps, sculptural and quirky.
(~>O<~)

doing this

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(via give me... too many colors or no color at all)

birds

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(~>O<~)

lemon map

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like islands on a map or clustered stars
(in my pocket)

for the dogs

2011-04-07T07:35:00.000-07:00

imagining my dog sitting next to a photo of her transformed into a pillow. too funny.

(via little blue deer)

wood grain

2011-04-06T08:05:00.000-07:00

makes me want to start a new collection. or maybe just hang all my wood spoons on the wall...

(via batixa <-- have i mentioned that i'm crazy in love with batixa right now?)

true two by fours

2011-04-05T07:37:00.000-07:00

notice that the shelves are made of the same material as the joists
(via give me... too much color or no color at all)

a rock and a soft place

2011-04-05T07:25:00.000-07:00

i was thinking about fixing the wall that will someday have a salvaged mantle (literally saved from the jaws of a garbage truck last summer).

then i stumbled upon this today:

(via the city sage)

which made me think of this:

(via poetic home)

not so crazy about the pieces of wood, but... those river rocks... so quietly beautiful.

storm trouper

2011-04-04T08:23:00.000-07:00

(via cinoh)

it's official

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i'm in love with batixa

yellowed

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(via batixa)

sticks and stones

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thread is softer than stones.
(via batixa)

i don't love

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this room (that sofa looks about as comfortable as a log),
but i love the convex mirror over the sofa.

(via design manifest)

what the?!?

2011-03-13T17:18:00.001-07:00

please, move in.
(via little blue deer)

i'm a sucker

2011-03-10T07:15:00.000-08:00

just about my favorite shade of yellow.
and hello, strange deer in the window. i love you too.
(via emily henderson)

unexpected

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interesting reuse
( at)

pia jane bijkerk

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(via byrdie brown)

white on white

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(via byrdie brown)

constrast

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ornate medallion, minimalist light
(via simply grove)

hello coffee table

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ah, natural wood veneer on a round table....
(west elm)

strange light

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close up:

looks like some kind of starched hemp or hemp and wire hand knotted magic. very nautical and rustic in that minimal modern space.
(via desire to inspire)

anna's bathroom

2011-02-17T07:33:00.001-08:00

this is not actually anna's bathroom. anna doesn't even live in the house yet, but this would be perfect for a little turn of the century house window nook.
you know what i'm talking about.

(via design manifest)

folk-arty love

2011-02-17T07:29:00.000-08:00

i think everyone on the planet has reblogged this, but i don't care.
love me some salvage.

(via poppytalk)

stacking wood

2011-01-31T08:05:00.000-08:00

i'm not really crazy about this room, but love the rough lumber bedframes.
(via desire to inspire)

mixy not matchy

2011-01-27T06:25:00.000-08:00

(via little blue deer)

not allowed

2011-01-25T08:50:00.000-08:00

there are two things that my husband believes our next couch should not be: pink and antique.

regardless, i'd take this one, with all that tufting, in a hot second.
suck it.
(via design manifest)

dark and delicious

2011-01-25T06:26:00.001-08:00

really, what's not to love?

(via head over heels)

not so identical twins

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this is the kind of matching i can handle.
one gets the impression these chairs have lived very different lives up until the moment they arrived in this photograph.
(via emma's designblogg)

dreamy

2011-01-20T07:07:00.000-08:00

there's something so wonderful about a bathtub and a wall of plants.

i will sleep and dream that i live with you.
(via emma's designblogg)

couch & bench

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(via sanctuary)

newel

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i love the narrow shade with this upcycled newl post lamp.
could totally work on my computer desk...
(via simply grove)

someone please

2011-01-19T08:35:00.000-08:00

make a knock off of this that i can afford.

johan petter johansson for triplex, sweden, circa 1930
(1st dibs)

i saw this sofa

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on craigslist on monday for $150 (granted, it needed legs).

i was on the fence about it.

the seller never called me back. damn it.
(via avant garde design)

damn it, here it is again:
(via emma's design blog)

caravan

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

kinda

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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

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(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

2010-11-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

(via vintage simple)

matchy-match

2010-11-01T09:37:00.001-07:00

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

2010-10-29T15:37:00.001-07:00

(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.

2010-10-28T09:19:00.000-07:00

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

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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

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(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

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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

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

(via head over heels)

mixing

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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

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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

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too good!

(via brydie brown)

(design sponge)

show stopper

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

spheres

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(via splendid willow)

vintage industrial

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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

2010-09-10T12:04:00.000-07:00

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

hey good looking

2010-09-07T07:22:00.000-07:00

via simply grove

bicycles

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via cabbage rose

romantic and impracticle

2010-09-01T09:45:00.001-07:00

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

2010-08-31T13:39:00.000-07:00

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.

kinda love it

2010-08-31T09:28:00.001-07:00

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

2010-08-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

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

oh

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from a bed and breakfast in antwerpen

(via sanctuary)

sign me up

2010-08-10T06:53:00.001-07:00

i love this handmade bed from the home of dutch jewelry designer marijke hukema - that combination of industrial metal and aged wood - yum!
(via apartment therapy)

delicious textures

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from canvas

one good looking ceiling

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and those garden stools are keepers too!
(via thirteen and south)

two birds, one stone?

2010-08-04T11:56:00.000-07:00

okay, so i'm having a big week with vessel sinks.
while i don't actually love (or even really like) these vessel sinks in and of themselves, i have this piece of furniture from ikea and it will loose it's spot in the house as soon as we put in the mantel sitting in the garage and i need a vanity for the bathroom.

(from living etc.)

leggy

2010-08-04T11:40:00.001-07:00

a lamp with legs - so cute!

room by designer tom scheerer

(via house of turquoise)

eating my own words

2010-08-04T07:35:00.000-07:00

yet another hopelessly beautiful vessel sink.

(an anthropologie room via apartment therapy)

living in a library

2010-08-03T10:17:00.001-07:00

via the design notebook

by wary meyers

via tear it out

via living in lilies

via apartment therapy
via the design notebook

yum

2010-08-03T07:49:00.000-07:00

makes me want to run out and make profile paintings of my dog - so good!
(and let's be honest, i will also take the sofa and the lights.)
via thirteen and south

hardware

2010-08-02T13:38:00.000-07:00

i was prowling the internet for *surprise* pictures of vintage bathrooms. in addition to discovering that the type of sink i want is a called a schoolhouse sink and kohler makes a reproduction for $1,664 (i will be continuing to hunt for a salvaged piece), i found this picture of some stunning hardware

from a house in seattle

although i think

2010-08-02T08:48:00.001-07:00

vessel sinks will be hopelessly dated right around the time i try to sell my house, i love this image

the little fabric curtain around the base is so good!
via the design notebook

i think we will likely do something like this sink but (god save me, i am not tidy enough for open storage) there will be doors on the base cabinet.
via vintage simple

ah

2010-07-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

so many lovely shapes within this gem.

i love the multiple plaster medallions and the beautifully aged furniture.

oh - floor boards!

james plumb via apartment therapy

escapist.

2010-07-29T16:12:00.001-07:00

i fantasize about buying an old airstream and parking in the forest with my honey and my frenchie. a quick trip to craigslist and reality sets in - airstreams are redonculously expensive.

so, periodically i think about buying one of these:

(i have no idea why that woman is posing with the camper or why she thought that would help sell her camper on craigslist.)

and turning it into this:
via stencil library

amazing what a romantic photo can do.

napping outside

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i think this is from apartment therapy. i've been holding onto it for a long time.

dreaming

2010-07-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

found via a google image search

via sam's notebook

via vintage simple
(i admit, i'd ruin the lines and put a cabinet under the sink)
i love the idea of a farm house sink instead of the standard double sink.
finding one that is plumbed for two faucets will be a miracle.
via the design notebook

completely impractical, but so pretty.
via sam's notebook

and for a practical choice:

this bathroom has almost exactly the same layout as ours
from vintage simple

i love the old mirror and the bead board.
i prefer a clawfoot tub and they are frequently on craigslist
for $125-150 - far less than a new tub costs.
and though pedestal sinks are pretty, i find them too impractical
in an old house where every inch of storage is a cherished feature.

i will not horrify anyone who actually reads this blog with a picture of my bathroom as it stands now. i think the staircase may have caused someone to jab out their eyes with a hat pin (i was tempted when i saw that picture again).

i will take two

2010-07-27T17:03:00.000-07:00

unfortunately for me, it is one of a kind.

made from reclaimed wood by gursan ergil design

raw

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there's something so lovely about this bare bones kitchen. so little fuss, utilitarian, open, honest. i love the bottom of the sink peeking out from between the baskets in the second image.

the island in this kitchen is strikingly beautiful... uneven, raw old wood, smooth with age...

we have wooden counter tops in our house (and subway tile). i hope someday my counters look this good, echoing of a thousand good meals and a lifetime of laughing in the kitchen...

all images via sanctuary

delicious!

2010-07-27T09:33:00.001-07:00

awesome octopus by designer thomas paul
via designs sponge

chalk

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anthropologie

so much to love

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via abundance

calm and pretty

2010-07-22T09:05:00.000-07:00

via design sponge

more stairs, mostly wood

2010-07-20T11:12:00.001-07:00

via this old house

perhaps if they were not so steep and had some kind of railing on the other side...
via apartment therapy

obviously needs some sort of handrail...

totally wrong for my house, but really cool.

these two via apartment therapy

i'm seriously considering just taking the stairs out and putting in a ladder at this point.
who knew you could have so much heartache over a set of stairs?
i guess all the people who have owned our house in the last thirty years - which is why this monstrosity was left in our living room (that and they had terrible taste):
the room itself looks nothing like this now: we've torn out all the carpet; refinished and repaired the hardwood floors; replaced the door at the bottom of the stairs; painted, painted, painted... with oriental carpets, reasonable furniture and linen drapes it's beautiful now, except for this monstrosity in the middle of the living room.

stairs

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via flickr

via apartment therapy