Category: may I please live here?

  • [This is going to sound like an award acceptance speech but….] I'd like to thank Amy of Sweet, Sweet Life for introducing me to Lucy of Attic 24 and all the glorious color and coziness that abounds there.  The photo above reflects just how I spent my Sunday afternoon and evening: reading and relaxing with…

  • What a great idea!  And check out the couch and pillows below the portrait (if you can tear your eyes away from the brady bunch wall!)  Jennie (of Focus Jennie) got the couch for fifty dollars on Craigslist (and fixed it up to her liking). image 

  • Photographer Leah Verwey has a website called Spaced which highlights creative spaces in the Portland, Oregon area.  I'm smitten with her photos of Studio Olivine & Quince Flowers and Events (they share the space).  I could barely narrow it down to a handful of photos to share with you. images: spaced   

  • I am in love.  Can you SEE the family above? Carolina (of the blog DoreDoris) has on my all-time favorite wardrobe mix of black and white with a SHOT of color (those tights!!!), the pink + green combo!  his red converse!  And that's just the family.  Wait until you SEE their home!!!  I want a…

  •   What a gorgeous, simple, white, airy home!   So spacious!! Here's the bedroom of a different home: images: room and serve

  • Enjoy the home of Lark founder, Allison, and her family – in Australia. A simple photo with pretty touches.  Love the sign.  "for washing everything" storage! wood furniture! love it! a pantry sign!  good idea. perhaps I'll label my kitchen's cupboards and closets and such. handsome crate + pretty papers perhaps every home should have a…

  • Through Kim Vallee, I found a new-to-me blog that is a new favorite:  ourhaus.  Jodi shares about how she created an office out of a loft area at home.  I adore the colors she chose and how she organized every little thing!  Naturally I think it's great that many of her items are from IKEA.…

  • I'm here.  Surprise!  Am on Day Three of a fever that is tagging along with the flu. So far this week between coughs, I caught up on sleep and TV shows (How I Met Your Mother, the Big Bang Theory, New Adventures of Old Christine, Top Chef, Models of the Runway, Biggest Loser and Modern…

  • A pretty, simple white home.  The family bought this house that had been empty for 35 years and pretty much started from scratch.  It's so orderly, and pretty.  In the photo above, I love the wood floors and simpleness of the room. The little girl, Juliette, is beautiful, but what caught my eye after her…

  • Really like the white + wood…. the white + pastels…… how about just the white?    A home in a former school – featured in Skona Hem. images:  skona hem via emmas designblogg