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Tuesday 03.16.10
garden party.
via garden rooms.
i’m pretty darn excited about having a garden in the new house, and not just because i plan to grow some edibles — i do, but i plan to dine out there and eat them, too! i love the idea of an old picnic bench or farm table, with some mismatched cafe chairs tucked up around it. dining al fresco just makes everything taste so much fresher and better, doesn’t it? i thought i’d share some ideas of what i envision for my new garden party.
via garden rooms (above & below).
i’d like some cafe chairs, made comfy with some vintage bleached white cotton throw pillows. i’d also love some paper lanterns, or those little globe bulbs strung through the trees to add to create a peaceful, yet festive atmosphere. nothing too manicured, perhaps just some lavender and rosemary and other herbs and edibles growing wild.
via lonny magazine.
via citypix.
via Anahata Katkin.
via garden rooms.
via lonny magazine.
via martha stewart.
via lonny magazine.
via lonny magazine.
via lonny magazine.
via sfgirlbybay.
via lonny magazine.
via garden rooms.
Tuesday 03.16.10
tuesday’s girl: cassia beck.
this week on tuesday’s girl we’re hopping across the pond, to brighton u.k. so that i may share with you the magically gorgeous images of photographer cassia beck. when cassia treated herself to a Holga camera, thankfully, for us, photography then became her obsession. cassia’s been adding inspirational images to the sfgirlbybay flickr pool for awhile now, and i am always so happy to find them there. you can see more of cassia’s lovely images in her etsy shops, and on her blog, cassia.
Tuesday 03.09.10
through the view finder with nicolle.
hello everyone, it’s nicolle from sacred lotus photography. a couple weeks ago i shared a few images that were inspiring me while on my quest to decorate my new place. i’m still in the process but i thought it would be fun to share a few photos i took of how it’s coming along. back in the beginning of february my husband, son, and i rented a townhouse in southeast portland, oregon. it’s a small space (only 900 square feet) so i wanted to purchase a few used vintage pieces that were small yet would provide enough storage space for our living room.
the first piece i picked up is a vintage credenza that i bought for only $20. it holds our tv and has a lot of drawers for storing our sons games, toys, and art supplies. the next piece i purchased was a vintage side table to go next to my reading chair. i love the fact that it already had lovely vintage wall paper lining the drawers when i got it. i’m sure it must have belonged to some sweet old lady! my living room also doubles as my office so i did some shopping around and found a tiny white desk for a great price at ikea that fit the space perfectly.
well, i hope you had fun taking a peak inside my home. i look forward to sharing more with you when i finish the other rooms! have a fantastic tuesday! oxo, nicolle
[ thanks to tuesday's regular guest blogger nicolle from sacred lotus. you can visit nicolle's shop here. ]
Monday 03.08.10
moving on out!
eclectic simplicity via emma’s design blog.
i’ve got some pretty exciting news today! sfgirlbybay is moving! or more precisely, i am moving into a cute little rental house in san francisco’s noe valley neighborhood. and you may have seen this house before, because my good friends eszter & dan used to live there, so i’ve shared it here, and it’s also been on atsf. the house has come available again, and i swooped on it! now the packing and purging starts! i’m one of those weirdos who actually likes moving, and looks forward to starting fresh in a brand new (old) place!
a couple of eames eiffel dining room chairs to mix it up, via the brick house.
so, you guys are gonna be forced to watch me redecorate the new place, and i’ve got quite a few rooms to contemplate. it’s two bedrooms, one of which will be my studio/work space, a living room, dining room, a funky old kitchen complete with beautiful old gas stove, with a breakfast nook and small patio off the nook. it’s also got a garage (if you don’t live in san francisco, you can’t understand the significance of a parking spot!) and a small backyard with a patio and garden! i am excited beyond words (although, i’m doing a pretty good job of gushing right about now, aren’t i?).
some butterfly chairs for the patio, via the brick house.
i went to some of my usual suspects — the brick house, door sixteen, design*sponge and emma design blog, to name just a very few — in search of inspiration and i’ve got a pretty good inkling of what i’m going for. thanks ladies, as always for your excellent taste! here’s what’s inspiring me right now for the new place. you know how obsessed i can get, and how much fun this is for me, so stay tuned for more!
i’d like a painted chalkboard wall like this in the dining room, via emma’s design blog (above) and maybe in the kitchen too, which has black & yellow vintage tile, like this wall via door sixteen and design*sponge (below).
maybe some black and natural wood kitchen accessories, via emma’s design blog.
a simple, well organized studio like some of these via emma’s design blog, design*sponge and the brick house.
maybe some spalshes of bright colors in the studio, like these from the brick house (above), and skinny laminx (below).
fun & funky chairs like these i found on skinny laminx (above) and design*sponge (below).
a clean, simple looking bedroom with lots of calming white and dramatic black here and there, via the brick house.
lots of comfy white bedding like this from design*sponge and emma’s design blog (above), and maybe even one black wall via door sixteen (below).
Thursday 03.04.10
good reads: appartements de filles à paris.
i love paumes books, even though i can rarely read a word of them. the photographs speak volumes, though, so a pretty picture book is never a waste of inspiration. paumes is a small, family-run Japanese publisher, working in close contact with artists and designers all over the world to bring you these beautiful books featuring designers’ homes, apartments, studios and ateliers.
the lovely yvonne from yvestown blog is a distributor for paumes, so you can easily order these books directly from her website. she recently sent me this beautiful new paumes, called ‘appartements de filles à paris‘ which is the sequel to the well-received book ‘Petits appartements à Paris‘. the new books are so popular, they hard to keep in stock, but if you don’t mind a short wait, you’ll find the wait well worth it, and plenty of older titles are readily available in the yvestown shop! thanks yvonne!
