Displaying posts from August, 2012

I still have writer’s block. I just don’t want to play the game today. I have the energy for real estate stalking but not for writing copy. Call the doctor I must be sick! Enough of my excuses. I know you come here for the room porn so I present to you this yummy Darlinghurst terrace house. Link here while it lasts.

Usually I wax lyrical about homes and designers, photographers or stylists. I can rattle off all sorts of sentences, parlay a paragraph. But today the muse has abandoned me. I want to blather about kitchens and bathrooms and outdoor spaces brimming with veggies but I cannot find the words. I’ll let the pictures tell the story instead. Real estate stalking per usual. Link here while it lasts.

As I get older, my tastes have changed drastically and I am definitively finding myself more attracted to neutral spaces, that are designed a little more on the sophisticated side. The London based interior design firm Cochrane Design seems to specialize in just that – simple spaces that feel so warm and calm with lots of cream, silver, taupe and grey with dark accents to add a bit of drama. So gorgeous. I adore this first bedroom, and I am a big fan of substantial kitchen islands like the one in the third photo. They can turn an ordinary kitchen into an extraordinary kitchen.

If you’d like to send me photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow my 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 that you want to show off…and your pet happens to be sitting on it. And second, the photo must be of decent quality. If it’s dark or fuzzy (from a camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to desiretoinspirekim@hotmail.comand PLEASE don’t send closeups of your pet! Thanks!

Hjalmar, my Boston Terrier, soon 5 months and Elmer, the fatcat, 1 year, enjoying their favorite chair.
– Janne (Norway)

Oscar is a 7 y/o Rhodesian Ridgeback. He adores a good mid-century modern chair, but not as much as ice cream and baked goods. When he’s not sleeping like a log, he blogs about his charmed life at www.oscaratemymuffin.com (illustrated by his patient mum, artist & designer Natalya Zahn)
– Natalya

This is my cat named, Tabby who has been living with me for 7 years. She is sitting on an original George Nelson steel sofa that has been recently reupholstered. She and her brother, Pazu compliments well with my furniture.
– Waka

Attached is a photo of my cat Josie, sleeping on my new vintage kantha ottoman. She has taken quite a liking to it!
– Kobie

Lucia the cat
– Marta (Vancouver)

This is my sweet dog Lucy.  Every morning when I leave for work, she sits and waits for ‘Mommy’ on the bench until I return.  She is a 7 year old Bichon-Poodle who thinks she is the Queen of the castle.
– Natalie (Ajax, Ontario)

Here is my princess Siena making full use of mom’s DIY ottoman. She barely fits, but it doesn’t seem to bother her!
– Soledad

We rescued Wylie from the Kentucky Humane Society last year.  He is part arctic fox, part princess and total snuggle bunny!
– Sue (Louisville, KY)

What started out as just a corner of the couch, has led to total ownership. Here’s Libby Lou’s favorite spot in our house.
– Sarah (Chicago, IL)

I was upstairs when I heard “Jimmy,” the little cocka-poo’s agitated bark from the living room. I ran downstairs and saw that “Crush”, the American bulldog was sitting on poor Jimmy. Had to snap a quick pic. They fight over the dark brown leather chair in my green living room in my little house in Salt Lake City, Utah.
– Felicia

Designed by David Boyle Architect two semi detached houses designed to different plans and sitting on an inner city block provide the perfect home for the owners and a second property to rent or sell to finance the project. Sounds simple and clever. Equally simple and clever is the design solution reached by the DBA practice. A great example of small scale urban consolidation but more importantly a wonderful starting point for the expression of the owner’s own aesthetic. Interlocking positive and negative spaces, layering of building materials to provide texture and interest, passive environmental design and salvaged and recycled materials. It’s practical, clever and quirky.