Displaying posts from February, 2010

Yes, that’s right. How creative must someone be to convert a church into a castle? Tammy emailed us about this INSANE home in Austin, Texas that was the creation of her friends Priscilla Glover and Ivan Spaller of Urban Nature Inc. It was formerly a mission style church built in 1925, and Urban Nature Inc. decided to modernize it with a bit of rock and roll while keeping some old world touches. Talk about a party house! Tammy is their realtor and has since sold the church, but stay tuned tomorrow for another project of theirs just down the road (that is for sale last I heard).

Once upon a time I fell in love with a photo of a room, a bedroom that just spoke to me. Ngoc Minh Ngo took that shot. Ngoc is a contender for my all time fav photographer. We’ve featured her work before but it’s time for an encore. Love everything that she captures with her lens. There’s a spirit, a joy in her images. Photographer crush to the max. Not hard to see why!

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so it takes center stage rather than your pet. (Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture…and your pet happens to be sitting on it). And second, the photo must be of decent quality. If it’s REALLY dark or fuzzy (from a camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Thanks! (Photos can be sent to desiretoinspirekim[@]hotmail[.]com and PLEASE don’t send me closeups of your pet!!!)

***Note: I am out on holidays next weekend for 10 days so there will be no pet posts for the next 2 Mondays, but please keep sending in entries for the Monday after I get back!

“This is ‘Otto’, my french bulldog seating in a Eames Lounge Chair.”
– Juan

“Here are two photos of our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Finnegan, on a French arm chair in our dining room. (I thought it was appropriate to have our pup– whose breed is infamous for its French nobility origins– on a French chair).”
– Jessica

“Big guy on a bench in Santa Fe.”
– Shannon

“Love your ‘Pet’s on Furniture’ special and thought I would contribute two pictures of our cat Heidi doing her favorite thing – napping.=^..^=”
– Doreen

“My name is Ana Hester and I am enclosing a picture of the cat Daragh, surveying the landscape from her perch upon the antique bookcase.”
– Ana

“This is our Cheach, a dilute tortie. It’s rather ridiculous how comfortable she can make herself.”
– Ian

“I wanted to submit pictures of my family’s two dogs. The first is our Chaweenie (dachshund-chihuahua) Peanut. He is tiny but he finds a way to take up the entire couch and use all of the pillows! The next is our Vizsla,Ginger, looking out the window from “her” chair at the kitchen table.”
– Lauren

“My cat Josie…. clearly, she is the queen of the house.”
– Matt

“here are two shots of my boxer, Stella on our furniture…it is a hard life for stella”
– Stephanie

“While this isn’t a fabulous picture of either Gordo or the couch (which my very dear friend and design guru calls the “world’s most expensive dog bed”), I like the shot because the Gord has gone totally cammo in the granny blanket and throw. She’s like: What dog, where? There’s no dog here. Nothing to look at Pets on Furniture Monday Web Site, you, move along. Go look somewhere else for some Puppy on a Pappasan, there’s no one here…”
– Priscilla

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so it takes center stage rather than your pet. (Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture…and your pet happens to be sitting on it). And second, the photo must be of decent quality. If it’s REALLY dark or fuzzy (from a camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Thanks! (Photos can be sent to desiretoinspirekim@hotmail.comand PLEASE don’t send me closeups of your pet!!!)

***Note: I am out on holidays next weekend for 10 days so there will be no pet posts for the next 2 Mondays, but please keep sending in entries for the Monday after I get back!

“Meet Zidane. He’s a 4 year old Boston Terrier and the love of our lives. Sure he snores and farts. But we adore him anyway. Technically Zidane isn’t even supposed to be sitting on our white sofa. But I guess he thought if he sat super still no one would notice he was there. Even though Zidane is the star of this picture, the real talent is davina + daniel, two of the best people and photographers i know.”
– Kate

“Thanks for the invitation. Here is my version.”
– Mona

“attached is a picture of my dog Caramel. she loooves the couch.”
– Mariel

“Beans can often be found on my Plycraft lounge. He really loves modern furniture. And blankets. Mostly he loves blankets.”
– Jaime, Dog Milk

“This is a picture of my ever-growing Isabel. She can’t seem to lay on anything without being upside down. Perhaps the world looks better that way to a cat…”
– Amanda

“My dog Mazie was so excited to be a part of pets on furniture in January that I wanted to send along a picture of my orange cat Gig’em so that he could get in on the fun! Here he is peeking out from his favorite spot behind my Marimekko shams on my ikea Malm bed.”
– Christie

“This is Kitty and his young brother Oliver hanging out in a Bertoia chair. Photo snapped from cellphone, so I apologize if not the best quality.”
– Tiffany
“This is our Spinone Italiano, Al Fresco. Call him Al. In fact, you can call him just about anything you want, but he will pointedly ignore you when he’s on his favorite crewel wingback chair. He ‘sneaks’ – as only a 65 lb dog can – up on it, does his customary turn around, and settles in firmly. All because he thinks I am not home to chase him off. Winter finds his sleep a bit deeper, so we can pretty much go nose-to-nose with him and he barely makes eye contact.”
– Margaret

“Here is Captain Jack Sparrow, know to his friends as Jack, and his motley crew of cats, Al, Socks and What’s It, after a hard day of plundering, they take a well earned nap…….on yet another forbidden conquest.”
– Jan

“If you met puggles Seymour + Mona, you would at times confuse them for little people. (Or at least they would like for you to think so.) We mostly think they are little dweebs with big hearts. If they are not in bed cuddled up napping, they are on their favorite chair, sunbathing or sitting at the table waiting for first course. Sometimes Mona gets a little confused, jumps on the table and lays in the middle, like she is the main course. Seymour loves to watch people cook or sit in front of the oven cooking mom’s cookies. He won’t budget if highly anticipates a fresh batch. Good luck trying to break that concentration.”
– Nicole

“I wanted to share a quick snap of my little girl, Maxine, after a brisk walk in Central Park.”
– Jill

As the sun slowly sets over this last chapter of The Apartment Book, by the editors of Apartment Life magazine, Meredith Corporation, 1980 we bid farewell to perms and platforms, chunky sofas and chunky food props. The 70s are slowly morphing into the 80s and if we didn’t know better we’d be predicting back in the day the final domination of the planet by house plants. Oh how I love this first picture. A market garden in old tins (including if you look closely Pepsi). I’m speechless as to why and you’d be too if you realised that out of “shot” (or scan in this case… it couldn’t all fit on the scanner bed) is a bedroom. A market garden in recycled cans bedroom. Only in the 70s!