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!)