NOT!
Remember "NOT!"?
Phrase trends are odd.
We have an agent but haven't started seriously started looking yet. Maybe this weekend...
The above photos were taken this past weekend during "Open Doors Denver." Historical homes, museums, and other sites open their doors once a year and let visitors come in and poke around. We visited a few mansions. They were beautiful, but the idea of actually living in one doesn't really appeal to me. I prefer cozy to colossal.
we visited the site of a future HIV clinic in la ciudad juarez.
it's going to be an amazing place.
even it's bones are inspiring.
i hope it's in leoben, austria.
yes, i believe in prisoner rights.
yes, i believe too many people are sent to jail.
still, it is a little disconcerting to look at photos of a prison nicer than my home or office.
hey architects from hohensinn! wanna come redo my apartment?
(the firm also designs beautiful modern homes and getaways.)
i would love to read a book in this room housing ana's collage (photo by nadja stemmer).
perhaps the pages will transport me to a classroom in the school of restauration arts at willowbank (photo taken by achim hering) in ontario, canada. i am their star pupil.
or, maybe, i will watch the young blushing nun occupying this room (image from marie claire maison). she brushes her brown hair and writes her mother a short letter. she sleeps here every night until a midnight in june when she runs away through the fields of grapes and wildflowers to the open arms of her forbidden future lover.
then i close my book (which is apparently the mundane tale of a student who fixes up old homes and furniture or a cheesy romance novel), admire ana's collage one more time, walk out of nadja's room and back into my living room where i sit and type on my computer.
i really love a good juxtoposition of old and new. (photo above obviously from istockphoto.)
i am particularly interested in a combination of victorian and classic modern. (photo from quibbly.)
but it's not easy to find this done well.
i enjoy door 16 but would also love to find more examples where both styles of furniture are integrated.
any ideas?
le look cosy et british (boy do i love french! especially phrases that describe something british.)
mélange de récup' et de charme
un coin de la cuisine en rose dragée
une cabane pour les amis (what a perfect little guest house!)
waste away your day looking at these images and more at marie claire maison.
it may be a restaurant, but i can't help imagining that the inside looks like denitsa's home:
did you notice the hearts on the floor?
have a great weekend!
ps-thank you for agreeing to accompany me to sweden! tomorrow i'm going to start saving for shoes...
thanks to door sixteen, i now know that the designer who chose the color scheme for our bathroom was following a chic art deco trend. it makes me think our tiles may be original to our 1920's building.
(photo of ernest hemingway's florida bathroom taken by arlo617.)
i'm sorry i haven't written in awhile. i had to make an unexpected trip to new york due to some family stuff. the day before we left we signed a lease on a small 2 bedroom apartment in the above building. it's a 1920s building and has some funny details like the arches in the photo below. it will be a great temporary space until we're ready to buy.
once we move in i'll take photos of some of the other period details. we're going to paint the walls as metallic gold is a little too disco for me. we're thinking something soft like a light brown or greenish-blue. maybe one in the main room and another in the dining room. what do you think?
and if we decide we want to make a little extra money we can always convert it to a moroccan restaurant. :)
