Domesticated dreamer

SF Girl By Bay's collection of blog posts titled In My Dreams I live here:...will no doubt inspire similar domestic dreams.

This home in Los Feliz is pretty close to a living dream for me.
Space, light, high ceilings, a big kitchen and a dedication
 to aural excellence - records and turntable ahoy! - when can I move in...?

               

Fashionable rooms

Long and lean, skinny black legs and elegant timber veneer are a timelessly chic combination for furniture.
Match that with dizzyingly high ceilings and a whole heap of stylish threads, and you'd imagine a lot of cash is dropped inside Orla Kiely's New York shop (which I found over at SF Girl By Bay).

Mini rooms inside the expansive retail space. 

A bevy of beauties

1960s actress glamour, rock chick model chic or mohawked avant garde cool? Beautiful all of them, no?

Raquel Welch and interior composite image from Sf Girl By Bay.

Mario Testino photo of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, from US Vogue, but found here.

Anakim from Tales of Endearment.

The case for minimalism

There's not much to say really...except maybe "DECLUTTER, CATHERINE!"

Images courtesy of my go-to girl SF Girl By Bay.

Blonde love

Oh, Marilyn. So beautiful.

Image courtesy of The Independent

This image from here.
I found both images at one of my favourite blogs SF Girl By Bay.

On a high note

High ceilings are just the bomb, aren't they!
I read a great tip this week (from Kelly Wearstler, I believe), if you want to make your ceilings appear higher than they are, paint them a dark shade, black maybe...?

Anyhoo..this room - from my go-to girl for all things home style: SF Girl By Bay, doesnt' need any extra help in the height department. Lofty indeed.

Project one-day

Agghghhh!! The tiling is finished and the bath is back in my bathroom.
The longest renovation E V E R! - I'll post photos very soon, promise.
Meantime, my mind has moved one spot down the to-do list and this photo has inspired me to THINK (not do, yet) about painting white the ugly wooden window frames and sills in my dining room. I know it's a sin to paint over beautiful timber, but the time-worn stuff around the windows in my dining room is not worth preserving.

Thanks to the always stylish postings of SF Girl By Bay for this image.

White on

SF Girl by Bay strikes again with a stylish find.
Danish photographer Morten Holtum snaps chic Nordic interiors that seem to epitomise a minimalist interior look I (and many others) aspire to live in!

Home is where the art is

Magnificent art, from a site called Mammoth, to be had by clicking here. Thanks SF Girl By Bay for bringing this to my attention. Check out Mammoth, there's some amazing art there, like this print from Steven Riddle.

Profits from sales are going towards aid in Japan via Doctors Without Borders relief fund.

Home and clothed

The new edition of Lonny is online. This is such a great concept. It still amazes me that you can see an item on a computer screen, click on it and then be taken to a site that allows you to actually buy it. So Jetsons-esque! Ahh...the future. We have arrived.

This vintage homewares spread from Lonny is lovely. And the "keeping vintage modern" advice is spot on.

Who doesn't love parquetry floors, high ceilings and big French windows! Pic from Emmas designblogg

And this is what I'm wearing today. I picked it up from Salamanca market, in Hobart, for the grand sum of $30 (if you look closely you can see my reflection in the doorknobs - haha).

Look at the workmanship on that baby! Not an overlocked seam in sight.

Open the door to a heavenly stairway

A few colour ideas for my front door and the most fantastic stripey colour treatment on stairs ever!
Such great carpet!

An electrical tape work by artist Mark Khaisman. Do I have the patience (let alone skill) to do this?


I like this Tiffany-box blue colour for a front door.

And this pale pink is rather serene. Both photos from Sf Girl By Bay.

Persimmon?

Pale jade?

Yellow or blue?

Could I go pink?

Come on, come in...

Not surprisingly, one of my favourite bloggers - SF Girl By Bay - being a fellow Taurus, is on the same wavelength as moi today.
She's talking foyers. I'm thinking entry ways (foyers sounds a bit...town hall or function centre to me).
Anyhoo...as she says, they are weird little spaces, but, according to feng shui rules, they are important spaces to get right.
So, I reckon my entry way's freshly polished boards (done yesterday, and finished today) that will now greet me when I go home each day, is a pretty good place to start all the good Qi.
In the meantime, I am loving the simplicity and clean lines of this entry way, courtesy of SF Girl by Bay.

Looking up from the entry way to my stairs.
The floorboard polisher man said it costs $80 per stair to have them polished (he hates doing it and said he charges accordingly). Sheesh...maybe I'll paint them?