Displaying posts from September, 2018

If you would like to participate in the Monday’s pets on furniture series please send photos, your name, location and a brief description to kim[at]desiretoinspire[dot]net, or hashtag your photos on Instagram with #DTIpetsonfurniture. Thanks!

This is my cat, MeeMee taking a break. I needlepointed the pillows in the background. The one on the right is my design and the one on the left is from a book.
– Valerie (Culpeper, VA)

My friend Deb sent along this photo of the gorgeous Tessie, whom she adopted from the Country Cat Sanctuary. She’s living the good life now!!

A couple from me. I sold my massive leather sofa so I scavenged some furniture from my storage room to put in its place. It took no time before Felix claimed my Green Light District chair. And Bernie having a morning lounge in the media room.

I dream of living in a home with a black exterior. This one in Summit Park, Utah by Park City Design + Build would certainly be a dream to own. Nestled among pine trees it blends into the landscape with the help of its cedar-clad exterior. It is currently for sale via cityhomeCOLLECTIVE. The TreeHaus is a site driven, highly responsive design + build project.  Reacting to the steeply wooded site, the house is arranged in a series of cubic geometries that imbed themselves into the thermal comfort of the hillside, coupling the stepped retaining walls as external boundaries.  Socially, the spaces are arranged so that the primary public living areas are vertically sandwiched between to levels of private spaces, utilizing the stepped rhythm of the form as deck and patio space to create an open indoor outdoor experience.   

When it’s not all about work and family, commitments and never ending errands. When it’s all about you, your well being, your inner peace. Then it may be time to visit Willow Urban Retreat, a wholefood cafe, movement and meditation studio, day spa and detox facility by Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio Meme.

Stalking number 2 is a Victorian era freestanding house in St Kilda. It’s just a few hundred metres from the famous Luna Park funfair, the beach on Port Phillip Bay and Acland Street’s fabulous food (not counting the Golden Arches just a few doors up!). Historic facade and modern interiors mean the best of both worlds but I’d need to inject just a little more of my own personality into it. Don’t miss the video because I think it showcases the property so much better than the photographs. Link here while it lasts.

I’m in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote stalking a modern timber-clad urban fort. Just joking. I’m stalking a relaxed yet sophisticated contemporary home that is all about private and public, in and out, solid and see through. Link here while it lasts.