warm woods and white walls

this is some for serious drama

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

(via interior divine)

leather

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

oh anthro

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

(the cooks larder)

dude!

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

sunny and stick-y

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

for the dogs

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

(via little blue deer)

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.

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)

extra seating

who doesn't want these anthropologie chairs for extra seating? but at $198 a pop they are unlikely to find their way into my house.

the diy apartment therapy version.

i have a pair of blond wood chairs with uncomfortable seats that my husband bought
long before we were married. an upgrade is in order.

i'm thinking chinese blue or vermilion red instead of black.
depends on exactly what is in my exotic textile collection right now...

knitting necklaces

from evelda's neverland's shop on etsy

from accessorius' etsy shop

from chocolate sushi's etsy shop

with warm weather coming on, i am aware that i cannot always have a scarf around my neck or wear a handmade sweater. one possible solution: the knitted necklace.