The May Lonny magazine has a feature on Jamie Meares, who is a Southern designer who blogged and then opened a shop. Her style is extremely layered with eclectic, traditional and industrial elements in most rooms. I love it. All of it. Corey tells me it is too busy, but he's a guy and he has no creative vision.
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| From Furbish Studio. |
This room makes me so happy I could piddle. It has watermelon walls! With those blue and white curtains and a couch the same color as mine, if I lived in my own half of a duplex, I could do all of this. I have that mirror in the boys' room. I have a porcelain animal (turtle) under a table in my house. See that blue and white box on the coffee table with the dragon on top? I have that exact box by my bed!
You can see more pictures of this room, and others, by visiting her website, but here are a couple more I pinned this week.  |
| From Furbish Studio. This is the bar area from the same room above. Now there are ZEBRAS on watermelon wallpaper (Africa) with Asian accent pieces (pagoda lamps and ginger jars) and industrial elements. It's genius. You don't see it? Also, there is wine. There must always be wine. |
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| From Furbish Studio. My office has to move out of the guest room and it will likely not go back in there. But I am thinking about how to incorporate desk space, especially as Jake gets older and needs more privacy for his work. This parsons desk is not styled as a workspace, but could certainly accommodate the need for one. |
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| From Furbish Studio. I have a little guilt for kicking Corey's bookshelf full of books out of the bedroom to make way for my new secretary. I love these semi-floating shelves, full of books and accents to break up the monotony. Corey vetoed anything involving attaching things to studs, so it looks like his books are exiled to storage until we get another house. |
You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when you stick something in a spot in your house because that is where it needs to go, but it never feels right? I have this afflictive relationship with my laundry room. It is not really a room on its own. You pass through it to get from the kitchen to the sunroom and out the back door. The storage is nice. There is a window. And the appliances are pretty. But it's an area I walk through 27 times per day and I wince when I do. I tore this photo out of a magazine once and now I have added it to my Pinterest this week.
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| From This Old Property/Southern Living. |
It's a curtain, trimmed in poofs (a favorite since college) with a countertop! Not just any countertop, but a BAR on top. We do not have good flow for entertaining, which we do not do, but having an extra counter is never a negative. The tops of the washer and dryer have become a makeshift tabletop to drop all sorts of odd items. I actually have a cabinet and a window above the appliances, but a counter, some curtains and a flashy light fixture, and I could be living with a space that has just as much form as function.
Lastly, I troll Pinterest until my eyes are dry looking for the Aha! for what to put above the boys' beds. There are pictures beside their beds, so I'd like something with some depth to hang above them. This would silence the ache I've had in me for two years about where and how to accent a wall with one of these, even though my aunt tells me "Careful, your roots are showing" when I've asked about them. But they're BOYS, and they obviously need humane versions of slaughtered animals on their walls.
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| The picture is from Restoration Home Baby and Child, but I do not think they sell the deer. |
I must excuse myself now to go search Ebay maniacally looking for "deer heads" that are not actual dead deer. Actually, by the time this blog posts, I've finished a mulligan in the kitchen and am in my chair with the iPad in my face, having shown Corey so many pictures of faux animal heads that he has moved to another area of the room.
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