who says craft is dead
Maybe I’ll start a new category titled “things I think could easily be DIYed but that I don’t have time to make, so instead let’s just talk about them and maybe someone else will make it and send us a picture, yay!”. I studied craft in college and have always found it crazy how design and craft have been so separate in peoples minds for decades, that’s why the whole DIY , artisan, bespoke movement in design is super inspiring. It seems like we all want to sense the makers hand in the products we buy, maybe its in search of a feeling of authenticity, or maybe knowing that our resources are finite has finally impacted the design world and so now we want objects with meaning. ANYHOW! Check out these gorgeous light fixtures
(Victor Vetterlein, Vibeke Skar)
the light on the left is made from egg cartons, I love the idea, I seem to remember seeing an incredible fixture on Apartment Therapy that someone had made from styrofoam packaging from Apple, which was also amazing, but short of spending bagillions of dollars on laptops it seems like a more frugal option to attempt making the egg container lamp.
patio
wowza. These are out of control lovely.
I wish we had the cohonez to put our malm(esque) fireplace outside
But seriously, we are starting to plan our flagstone patio in the back, which is exciting and terrifying when someone actually says things like “5 tons of gravel will be dropped at the end of your driveway”?!?! but it will be worth it in the end, I think. The patio is 1 of only 2 big exterior projects and the other one is essentially done, we got down all but 1 of the trees that were threatening to destroy our foundation, oh yeah and obliterate our neighbors house every time the wind blew. of course there was one lonely jerk of a tree that we ourselves could not get down and will have to hire a professional for, because they have insurance for taking out someone elses roof, unlike us.
or the cash flow to copy the ace hotel’s patio from top to bottom! One day- crazy wire rocking chair and aztec rug, you will be mine!
wha wha what?!
it’s been established that I frequent OWI and The Selby for a regular dose of house porn, but oh my goodness did I find another to add to the list of the top notchiest of top notch. OK, and on that eloquent note allow me to show some of my favorite images from UK based location agency SHOOT FACTORY.
just gorgeous, I wonder why anyone spends 15$ a month on a fancy shmancy interior mag since the advent of the interweb…
JSPR
the other day I was web stalking the new renovation of Judy Aldridge’s house, it is obviously impeccable, but the shots of her patio area sent me into a tizzy because she has the JSPR plastic fantastic chairs! They are utterly fantastic and I love the cozy feel that they bring to her patio. Most outdoor furniture is overly austere (which I also love) or plain boring, so the humor of putting something so ornate and decidedly “indoor” feeling in a yard/deck/what have you, was exactly what we wanted to give our slab more of an outdoor living room feel.
(Plastic Fantastic)oh and look at this other brilliant convergence of rubber and chairs…
(Peter Traag)Adorable! And this seems like a great idea for kids furniture, non-slip and you could hose it off, just a thought. So, all this rubber dipping got me in the DIY mood and presto-chango one of our many garbage picked chairs has moved out of the garage and found a new home on the patio, all thanks to a can and a half of plasti-dip spray.
and while we’re on the subject of making things pretty, here’s another garbage chair, compliments of mr Broke, that I’ve gussied up recently
oh how I love spray paint…and now the current patio state, it finally feels cozy at night, yay!
oooh wee OWI
I’m sure anyone that frequents this blog is aware that I am totally head over heals for the OWI site but crimeny how did i miss this one, I mean really I peruse the sight multiple times a week!
in the bag
this takes eco bags to whole new level…
(Clockwise from top left 1. & 2. Bacsac, 3. WoolyPocket, 4. Window Farm, 5. Our Vaca(not a bag but a great repurposed container), 6. WoolyPocket)
I really love this whole idea of mobile container gardening, it’s so well suited for both transient folk and those who live in an area that has a short growing season(such as ourselves). Plus I think you could totally DIY a version of the wooly wall, but considering the materials, I really don’t think they’re an unfair price. The window garden though, I mean jeebus that would be so magical looking if it were made of old ball jars or something other than 2 liters, don’t you think? and it could totally function as a dividing wall on a patio of some sort, all you would need is the skeleton of a wall and then dangle those things down, sort of like a living version of the 70′s bead curtains.
haiku because I hate you
on cutting down trees,
30 in one lawn makes me,
say OMFG.
Actually its 36, but that didn’t fit into a haiku. But, at least I’m keeping my sense of humor and spending the time thinking up rhymes and poems instead of screaming expletives while dragging 20 ft long limbs into the backyard. Photos will come later…
Blooooo Veeeaaalllvet
I think it’s the librar’s fault but I’ve been wanting to flank my home with rich, dark and mildly creepy things, velvet on the brain when its 80 degrees outside, weird.
1. couch by williams sonoma, 2. silk lines rug by bddw, 3. mid century chair at 1st dibs, 4. fancy couch at urban outfitters, 5. couch by room and board via apartment therapy, 6. Navy Eames rocker at modernconscience, 7. Peacock chairs at 1st dibs, 8. Dark velvet couch at 1st dibs, 9. chaise at urban outfitters, 10. wallpaper rug by bddw, 11. Navy Eames at modernconscience
back view
So we are starting to plan our flagstone patio in the back, which is both exciting and terrifying when someone actually says things like “5 tons of gravel will be dropped at the end of your driveway”?!?! compound that with my penchant for over buying and the fact that we would have to haul it all up and around the side of our house(its built on a hill so there is NO easy way to get things in the backyard) so it wouldn’t be an understatement to say that this is a fairly daunting task. Let’s take this moment to go back in time and show you what happened when I ordered soil for the raised beds in the backyard…
that’s my car being blocked by a 4′ x 9′ pile of dirt on an 80 degree day, talk about lighting a fire under our butts, we hauled that sucker 1 wheelbarrow at a time all the way to the back beds, no biggie, he he.. But gravel will be much heavier and of course there will be alot more, but anyhow lets not dwell on that and look at what we’re planning
something like this. The backyard is ginormous and the patio area that we have now is a cement slab, so we would like to extend it out with an area of gravel that would have this style of planted squares and then a flagstone patio at the end that would have a pizza oven for mr. Broke.
(remodelista, weird huh?)
this is sort of how I think it will end up feeling, we are putting a patio door in that is similar to the one above that would lead to out to our slab.
contained
Our back yard leaves something to be desired in the sunshine arena and oddly enough the cement slab that is our patio is where most of the light seems to sneak into. So I’ve been thinking alot about container gardens and how nice it would be to have something that flowers around our seating area as well as some herbs, which if in a small enough container, could be brought indoors for the winter and stink up the kitchen nicely all year round.
(clockwise from top left 1.Remodelista, 2. Our Vaca, 3. 4. 5. 6. Apartment Therapy, 7. Our Vaca)
Plus there is something so nice about not having to weed the little potted beauties…
(Emmasdesignblog)
