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 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. Thanks! (Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to desiretoinspirekim[@]hotmail[.]com and PLEASE don’t send me closeups of your pet!)

***Pets on furniture will be put on hold for the next couple of weeks while I am on holidays. Feel free to continue submitting photos to me. I will resume these posts on March 14th.

Here you have our hairy persian cat Bengt, six years old. He loves our furniture, here on a armchair from IKEA and a footrest from Englesson.
– Maria

Pets Name: Sabine aka Bean, 6months old on Feb 18th
Pic 1. Nice Chair: Her strong attempt at looking regal upon her Louis the 16th chair…
Pic 2. Nice Chair: Apparently her strong attempt at looking regal bored her to sleep… upon her Louis the 16th chairs.
– Margaret
  

Our pug Mischa, who lives a life of leisure.
– Heather & Greg

Our fourteen year old Brittanies, Ruby and Kiki, spend so much time on this sofa that I can count the number of times I’ve sat on it on one hand (and we’ve owned it for years!).
– Sara (Chicago, IL)

This is Primo, our 10 week old Lagotto Romagnolo puppy.   Primo loves to hide in the flokati rug in our dining room…as you can see, it is a perfect hiding spot for him.
– Brooke (Boston, MA)

Trying to photograph my Spanish Water Dog on a bench. He is extremely camera shy so it took 40 unsuccesful tries, very cold gloveless hands, and a dog in a bad mood. Of course, whenever I do not bring my camera he sits leisurely on this favourite bench of his!
– Anna (Paris, France)

We feel comfortable.
– Yolanda

I had to share the following email with my pets on furniture fans. It’s from a French reader named Margaux:
While reading your blog, I discovered your “Pets on furniture” articles and thought that it would be interesting to introduce you to Valerie Mayan. Valerie is a french artist really interested in animals and paints portraits of them. She chose an image of your “Pets on furniture” article and painted one of them. Valérie is used to work this way : She recieves a picture of an animal, the owner tells her which kind of colours they like and Valérie paints it. So if a reader is interested by her work they just have to send her an email at the following address : valerie.mayan@gmail.com and they may also visit her website: www.valeriemayan.com

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 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. Thanks! (Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to desiretoinspirekim[@]hotmail[.]com and PLEASE don’t send me closeups of your pet!)

***Pets on furniture will be put on hold for the next couple of weeks while I am on holidays. Feel free to continue submitting photos to me. I will resume these posts on March 14th.

P.S. I’d like to wish my husband a very happy thirty something birthday! How about a trip to Mexico for your pressie? 🙂 Love you Jeffrey!!

Here is my kitten Harriet-who I usually just refer to as Muffin Top ( “…is all that whole grain low fat” 30 rock anyone? )- on a mid-century looking chair i found for five whole dollars  recently. Two of my favorite things.
– Amber (Salt Lake City, UT)

Pierre on (his) ottoman.
– Robert

Here’s a pic of my German Shepherd Major Dukes, lying pretty in a ’29 Spanish Revival apartment in Hollywood, CA. Of course, he’s got a Facebook fan page, too.
– Kristopher

This is Lola (the bulldog) and Winston (King Charles Cavalier) that have grown up together.  The couch was an awesome “hand-me-down” find, with hand-made zebra pillows and tribal print pillow from World Market.  My favorite part of the couch is the substantial brass studs that go up each arm.
– Rachel (Dallas, TX)

Dots likes to help with DIY, and this day she was helping me pick a paint color for my window seat. You can see another picture of her (and the paint color choice) in this blog post.
Dots has claimed our guest bed as her own.
– Cait (Florida)

The boys, Bernie (sofa) and Stuart (Chair), appreciating the Mid-Century Modern Furniture.
– Meghan (Toronto)

We recently adopted a stray cat who, as it turns out, was pregnant with 6 kittens. Here is a photo of Teeny, the kitten we are keeping, at five weeks this past weekend on our couch at home next to one of our colorful throw pillows.
– Katherine (Montreal)

My great dane, Roxy, taking over the couch!
– Marie-Eve Lussier (Montreal, Quebec)

I am in panic mode now – my trip is less than a week away and I have hardly crossed off any items on my TO DO list. AH WELL. As a result I did not have time to travel around blogland looking for my favourite photos of the week to post today. Rather, I had to spend some time digging through my photo stash looking for photos of the exterior of homes because my architect emailed the other day wanting to know what we were thinking of (we’re replacing the ugly-ass siding on the existing house too so it will be a BIG job with a hefty price tag). I have no freaking clue what to tell him – all I know is because it’s pretty much 2 flat 2-story rectangles perhaps some of the windows could protrude a bit and at least 2 different materials could provide some visual interest. I have never had the opportunity to deal with the exterior of a home before so I figured we could just send him some photos of inspiration and he could figure something out for now. I narrowed it down to the photos below. If anyone has suggestions please feel free to leave them in the comments (plans we have so far for the new house are here).

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!

Hillery Priest

Charles & Hudson

Hus & Hem

Buttrick Wong

Dwell

Carl Dahlstedt

Elle Decor

Hartslane

Elle Decor Italy

environa studio

Johnston Architects

I typically LIVE for the weekends. During the week between the day job, blog, cooking dinners, tending to the cat herd etc. I get hardly any chill out time. On weekends I manage to squeeze some in between running errands and house chores….but I am dreading this weekend. I have to get my hair cut/coloured, dig out my summer clothes from the dungeon basement, decide what I’m bringing on my trip south (we leave next Saturday), stock up some blog posts, cut 140 cat nails…. Unfortunate plans but hey, at least at the end of it there’s a beach and lots of sangria. (Hope you’ve got a more interesting weekend planned than mine). The photos below from the portfolio of photographer Pierre Wester are just what I need right now – some eye candy to take my mind off of my TO DO lists. (I’d love a holiday in the cabin-esque home in the first few photos).

Today’s reader request is from Bonnie: i saw the ‘casually draped sofas‘ but i was wondering about slipcovered sofas. can they be chic? i have very young kids and i love white and cream sofas. dilemma. so i’m thinking my only options are leather or slipcovered sofas? am i right? can you do an entry on this? thanks. I have cats not kids so I’m no expert on sofas that are kid-friendly but I think your best options would be as you mentioned, slipcovered or leather. I think you should go for a white slipcovered one – that way you can throw the cover in the wash with some bleach if the kids decide to dump a glass of fruit juice draw you some pictures on it. Below are some photos mostly of white slipcovered (at least they look like it) sofas with a few cream ones and a couple dark colours thown in for the hell of it. Hope this helps!

Fri

Sköna hem

Hus & Hem

Sköna hem

Sköna hem

deko.

Apartment Therapy	design*sponge

Lonny

Lonny

Brides

ElleDeco

Family Living

Jan Eleni

Le Journal de la Maison

Le Journal de la Maison

Happy Homes

Lonny