Posted by Betsy on Friday Mar 5, 2010 Under Uncategorized
I’m really looking forward to working on my apartment, hanging some cabinet hardware and maybe some curtains…. !! What are you gonna do? Perhaps while you’re taking a break, you could give this song a listen!
Barbara - Pursuit of Happiness (Kid CuDi cover)
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Posted by Sarah on Thursday Mar 4, 2010 Under Uncategorized
An inspiration post, our contribution to the blog it forward chain created by Victoria at sfgirlbybay. Thanks Victoria for your time, here’s a little of our time.
There seems to be an endless amount of people out there doing something inspirational. Some we’ve been fortunate enough to run across and so many more that we have yet to see.
We are inspired daily. Here are just some of the sources that inspire us.
a new acquisition of mine, Photobooth by Babbette Hines
Bloggies, blogger, blogs…Ofcourse I would be remiss if I didn’t devote a little time to all those out there who are inspiring me on a daily basis. Without you sometimes I would be bored but most of the time just distracted.
Dinner & A Movie postings at From Me To You, Jamie makes me want to cook. Thats some serious inspiration, ask most people I know and they’ll tell you I don’t cook. Food aside, the rest of From Me to You is a visual feast of Jamie’s photography work and pretty darn inspiring. I haven’t made any of the dishes yet but it is a very attainable goal of mine. Jamie don’t ever stop doing what you do.
My favorite dinner combo to date is the Arugula & Goat Cheese Ravioli AND Revolutionary Road.
Boundless interior inspiration from Desire to Inspire, here’s a little smidgen of what is going on this week…
Sheer Mania
At times, inspiration washes over me with an inertia. It requires no effort and I am indulged in every direction. It is in these moments that I feel I am at my most creative. Motivated. Unstoppable. In these moments I think. I think. I think. and I write. I think and write about the following.
Beautiful Rooms
I’m inspired by beautiful rooms (especially when they have big gypsy dogs lying around in them). I love looking at magazines and also cruising the other blogs to see what the rest of the world is doing. Culling images and thought processes from other bloggers makes me want to make my home a beautiful and meaningful place to live. I’m still working on making my new home beautiful. Here’s some pics from the last one.
Vast Landscapes
Besides beautiful rooms, I’m inspired by a large view in my face. I snap at them with my camera sometimes and then play with them on my iPhone apps. No picture ever does a vast landscape justice. I’ve seen mountains that will break your heart.
Family, Friends & Loved Ones
These people meet me on planes that inspire introspection and inspiration. I’m grateful for them eternally.
Color and Pattern
These are the driving forces in decision-making when it comes to my own choices for making my home a beautiful place to live. I have love affairs with colors and patterns, sometime brief and fleeting, sometime deep and long-lasting.
Travel
I love to hit the road. Before I moved to LA, I was working with my Dad to fix up a 1968 Vintage Shasta Camper Trailer. My goal was to turn it into a traveling gypsy adventure (working my internet based job from it). I don’t require a camper for travel of course, but I am inspired by the thought of the lifestyle!
Music
I’m moved to the core by music, inspired to say the least. I choose to share the video below because I’ve watched it one hundred million times these past few weeks, but also because I’m inspired by the subject matter. I tear through a lot of music, you can catch my musical inspirations on my AudioMuffin Twitter page: twitter.com/bootsy42
It was hard to tell if social networking had instilled an instinct to compulsively pose, or if there was actually a photographer at the end of the living room.
Hi Friends.
Today I have a question for you. (Specifically you Sarah! What do you think?)
When you are a renter and you would like to make updates to your home to make it more enjoyable, and you know that you’re ideas are in good taste and will more likely improve the quality of the home - is it better to ask for permission - or forgiveness!? I’m thinking about my new and tiny kitchen.
This is what I’m working with. (thanks iPhone cam)
Sarah added the image below to her Tiny post, about small kitchens. It gave me a bit of vision for the kitchen in my LA rental. Obviously, I cannot replace tile or reconfigure the appliances (as much as Kate would love to be able to). But, I believe I can replace hardware and paint the ceiling. Also, there is a lot of wall space over the sink that needs to be treated with some special attention. Should I be thinking metallic?? What kind of light fixture needs to hang over my sink? I can get those real tall cabinet pulls from Ikea for a price that I like, and I know a boy that might be down for painting the cabs a nice GLOSSY clean white….
Liberty of London will be coming stateside on March 14, 2010 to a Target near you. The collection will not be limited to clothing, home and garden goods will be included. Those of you that can’t get enough of Liberty’s florals will certainly be drooling.
These people are beautiful and so is their store called Downtown. I want to tell you more about the hand selected vintage merchandise and I will soon. My friend Derek took me on Saturday and we met Mr. Robert Wilson and chatted for a bit with him about Downtown. Mr. Wilson is a warmly composed man and it was a thrill to stand around and rap about Interior Design, the travesty of mass shelter magazine collapse, as well as 20th century masterpieces and the next door gallery that sold Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans to a daring buyer for $100 each. We ventured over to that gallery and saw an informal presentation of Warhol’s contemporaries. (notably Ruscha, Lichtenstein and I think Rauschenburg - but I saw no labels).
Please visit the Downtown website, downtown20.net and prepare yourself for more than one post as a result of my visit there on Saturday. Mr. Wilson stated that most of their business is done locally, that over 75% is directly to the trade and that they also do rentals to LA’s movie and television industry. Please check out their inventory on 1stdibs. If you see anything you must have, well……. perhaps you can have it! I can’t.
Posted by Sarah on Wednesday Feb 3, 2010 Under Uncategorized
Oh boy, thank you Remodelista for unearthing this on Inspace Locations and presenting it to us all. It really helped me piece an idea together for the Indiana project.
So after seeing Remodelista’s post on the English Cottage entry, it was easy to draw a line from that to an image I found not too long ago at Canadian House & Home.
The color contrast is delicious and my love affair with watery blue seems unending. And as I said before, there are painted cedar shakes on the exterior of the Indiana house.
And I found this rooting around in Flickr one day,
This is an old Sears houseplan, it was called the Amsterdam. After doing some light research I’ve found that this house is a Dutch Colonial Revival and I think the Indiana house is too. I originally thought the Indiana house was begging for a big covered front porch. But after collecting all of these images, I’m beginning to think a generous covered entry is the way to go. Enter support brackets,
Posted by Sarah on Thursday Jan 28, 2010 Under Uncategorized
I can’t wait to get the room measurements for the bathrooms at the Indiana project because I got pretty excited when I finally decided to browse the tile selection at Overstock.
penny rounds, basketweave, hexagons, glass mosaics and subway–all the usual suspects and all at Overstock.
Here are some of my picks,
With the white subway tiles above you could replicate some of a Martha Stewart KB Home design
Anna at Door Sixteen is a big fan of the penny rounds, as am I
photo by Anna Dorfman, Door Sixteen
Sarah’s bathroom, photo by Betsy
Basket weave tiles are a huge hit, this is simpler than what Rambling Renovators used in their remodel but you get the idea
I’m really liking this for a bathroom but it is a strikingly similar concept to this kitchen that was featured in House Beautiful, design by Joan Schindler
If you don’t want to break the budget and make the whole bath floor pebbles, you could always have an accent spot
And last but not least… one of my design crushes, Jessica Helgerson used hexagonal tiles similar to the ones shown above in one of her bath designs.
These people are beautiful and so is their store called 
