Monthly Archives: April 2011

April 24, 2011 • 3 Comments

Stellan Herner

Photos by Stellan Herner

The past two weeks have been insanely busy and I feel completely out of touch with the rest of the world, but more on that in another post. For now, I’m really loving these photos by Stellan Herner.  These are all from my bank of second-floor inspiration and I’m pretty sure we could never do anything similar with our space but I can dream, eh?

I’m also pretty sure I’d panel my whole house if I could.

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April 19, 2011 • 4 Comments

The Selby… FILMS!

Wow, I had no idea that The Selby was doing short films so this was really of interest to me.  While I have always loved the idea behind his photos and loved his subject matter, I was always a little less inspired by his actual photographs.  Not to say that I don’t think he’s talented, just that I was less enthused by his technical approach.  But… his films?  Love these.

The Selby found via swissmiss.

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April 12, 2011 • 16 Comments

Paint!

Hallelujah, we’ve found a paint color!  A few weeks ago I decided that an after-dinner coffee break was essential to life-with-a-child-productivity and I can honestly say we’ve done more in the past few weeks than we have in the previous four months added together.  The main thing accomplished?  The exhaustive process of picking out paint colors and painting.

I don’t know why we are so bad at settling on a color but within the past month we’ve had twelve different swatches of paint up on our walls. Giraffe-esque in a very bad way.  We tried every single light gray/white color we could think of but our living room gets such strange light that any color we tried ended up looking completely different in the day than it did at night.

From left to right: Revere Pewter, Stone Harbor, Smoke Embers, Barren Plain

We tried Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter, Stone Harbor, Barren Plain, Smoke Embers at 100%, Smoke Embers at 75%, Smoke Embers at 25%, and a few other random colors that never made it beyond a 2′ x 2′ patch on the wall.  Side note: I am well aware of just how completely neurotic we are—it’s not Nathan’s fault, I bring him down.

After sitting with each of the light colors for a while, we decided to go dark.  Really dark.  Gentleman’s Club dark.  We desperately need some things to warm up the room but I’m totally digging it!  Nathan thinks we should paint the woodwork dark as well, but I’m on the fence… it’s so much work and I just don’t know if we have the energy even with my post-dinner coffee break.

Archived in House, Rehabbing
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April 3, 2011 • 13 Comments

Bathroom: Part Two

I’ve been feeling a little on the down-side of things for the lack of time life seems to have as a full-time working parent, but getting the bathroom finished up helped momentarily perk me up.  There’s still a long list of things left to do but I’m not sure we’ll ever get to those (quarter-round, trim piece under the mirror, patch holes, etc., etc..).  In the meantime though, I can’t say I’m not excited with how things turned out.  :)

The towel bar was found in the coat closet when we bought the house, which we prepped and painted glossy black.  The screws are brass which stand out nicely against the glossy black—an insignificant detail I’m sure no one notices but it’s one of my favorites.

And there above… that tiny, tiny orchid, is the only “color” I’ve managed to bring into the bathroom.  Le sigh… my color phobia continues.

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