someone please

make a knock off of this that i can afford.

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

i saw this sofa

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

(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)