It’s the beginning of a long weekend and I am really stoked to get some stuff done I have been putting off for months (mostly boring stuff, including figuring out what of my crap stuff around the house I want to sell). Jo is on a blog break today but plans to do some readings lists over the weekend, and at some point I will be asking for blog submission for our blogroll so stay tuned for all that (and of course Monday’s pets on furniture). In the meantime, how about some modern architecture from New York based firm CR Studio. Nothing to “out there” and modern that is easy to live with – my favourite kind. 

 via Studio Preveza

Laura Stein is an interior designer based in Toronto that I was shocked to find out I had not featured here before. She focuses on “creating fresh, lifestyle-based designs infused with comfort and understated luxury”. Her contemporary style is timeless and not at all fussy but quite sophisticated.

Happy hump day for a short work week! I love Easter weekend. Time with family and chocolate and this Easter my mom is making her lasagna (by request)…. I love my Italian mamma’s cooking. 🙂 But onto the topic of the moment – EYE CANDY! Today more from one of my biggest photographer crushes, Paul Raeside (see more here).

Carine Magescas, based in San Francisco, first created Illico Design in 2003 and distributed exclusive lines of home accessories from new French designers to the US (she was from France) and soon moved into interior design. She defines her style as contemporary yet warm with touches of the unexpected. I think it’s modern yet unpretentious and comfortable – a perfect combination.