Enjoy the holidays everyone! Eat too much, drink too much, maybe get in an argument with your family. The holiday spirit is in you (and by spirit I mean that alco-alco-alcohol).
Next year I hope to get my act together and get a tree, or at least, one decoration. For now, tiny bows on tiny dogs.
Much love, good cheer and many thanks to you and yours.
Hug hug hug, french kiss, nom nom nom = my plan till the new year. See you on the other side!
Coffee table switching has now effectively slid into the madness zone.
It was only what? A month ago? That I switched yet again for what is now probably the tenth time? Problem with glass top tables (if you use them all the time) is that they get fingerprints and crumbs and water rings and look like slovenly frat boy lives in your house in a matter of a few days. So what? I’m lazy and I got a little tired of wiping it off constantly.
I know this new Craigslist burly slab coffee table will probably get a mixed reaction – but you may already know how I feel about burl. I love it. I marry it. I have it’s burly babies.
If you missed it, I might have twittered about this bad boy when I got it. Yeah, I twitter. What’s the big deal? Wanna fight about it? This is getting irrationally confrontational.
It must be that I’m feeling a bit defensive about this coffee table thing, because I know how crazy-town it is. But guess what? All those reject coffee tables…they are just sitting in my garage…looking to be resold…
This puppy likes it and if a puppy likes something – argument is over. Puppy love trumps all rational or logical rebuttals about the 70’s or poo or lacquer through the power of adorableness.
It’s big. It’s chunky. It’s dark. It’s shiny. It’s indestructible. It’s organic vs. modern. I am into that.
Well, at least for the next month.
I’m not normally in the habit of reposting house tours, but there was a lot to love in THIS ONE even though I’m not really sure what is says. Google translator made kind of a mess of what I believe to be a well written and articulate article about what I’m assuming is a wonderful interior designers home in Sweden.
Marie Olsson Nylander’s best tip: “Stop over decorate the window sill … Decorate a bit!”
See what I mean? Translators make a mess. I agree with my assumption of the gist of her tip. I don’t like window treatments either.
Love the mix of vintage and the great scale shifts that happen in this big box of white. Feels like a comfy, eclectic home with just the appropriate amount of well curated clutter. Trust me, there are lots things to love. Things that are about to get an inappropriate amount of this: !
Exhibit A: That sofa! That rug! One and two on my most wanted dream list.
Exhibit B: Those ceilings! Those floors! That Bertoia! (Although, I’ve used a Bertoia as a desk chair and all you get is waffle butt and a backache.)
Exhibit C: That coffee table! That lamp! Those textiles! That desk! Those Lucite chairs!
Exhibit D: That blue Eames mixed with the black! That lamp! That sofa! That rug!
Exhibit E: Magical view into Swedish paradise. That’s totally photoshopped, right?
Dammit! I just noticed that Desire to Inspire just posted this as well as a bunch of other great sites when I googled to see if Marie Olsson Nylander had a website. Well, this is why I don’t normally repost house tours. So if you’ve seen this, I apologize.
It’s still awesome.
