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!)

“I’d like to introduce you to the lovely Beatrice Arthur. She currently lives in Los Angeles. We rescued her from the LAAnimal Services. And Her favorite color is white. I also featured her in one of my post at my blog Old Brand New.”
– Dabito

“This is my Burmilla girl Belle, who only sleeps on my bed AFTER I have made it.”
– Jenny

“Our Iggy, IKE, making himself at home at our friends’ house while we were on vacation. (Thanks, Brendan, for the photo!)”
– Jen

“This is the adorable Chloe sitting on my client Anne’s King modular sofa.She’s right at home with colour scheme we’ve just finished!”
– Adam (Breakfast Point, NSW)

“This is Bosco our newly adopted cat on the sofa (also new just got it from structube!) in my sunroom/office.”
– Elisa (Hudson, QC, Canada)

“Our pets spend their entire days on our furniture! We have Ruby on her throne.”
– Amanda

“Hello, I’m sending a picture of Nina that is a Rafeiro do Alentejo (Alentejo mastiff) a Portuguese breed. Of one morning that she manage to get in the house, and did what she likes to do, that is make the bed her own.”
– Pedro

“photo of my cat from Israel”
-Meirav

“This is our 20 lb cat, Kitty, sprawled out on our bed in his favorite spot.”
– Sarah (Houston, TX)

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!)

“This is my dog Chip 🙂 He basically lounges wherever he feels like it, and lately he’s taken a liking to our white eames lounger… He slept through the whole thing!”
– Curt

“This is a cat that was “ours” for a weekend in Matjiesfontein, (Karoo), South Africa. We stayed in a house built in the early 19th century with amazing interior.”
– Antonia & Desmond

“This is Lula, my nearly-two-year-old cocker spaniel. She alternates sitting in my green $8 flea market chair and lying on the custom benches – just as long as she’s near the kitchen table and whatever food happens to be on it.”
– Rosemary (Little Rock, AR)

“I’ve attached 2 photos of my sweet dog Yoda on the couch in our den. He loves to lie beside me while I browse all the amazing posts on your blog! Thank you for the constant inspiration!”
– Nathalie (Calgary, Alberta)

“My Maine Coon “Gabby” on our Eames Lounge.”
– Kate (Little Rock, AR)

“There are a lot of critters in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and as for the last 12 years our lazy lovable Brittney ‘Jake’ takes it upon himself to keep all of my grandparents’ property. Between his patrols he finds time to relax on the newly built front porch.”
– Steve

“Photo 1: Our older cat Camille (she’s 14) performing her chair hatching pose.
Photo 2: This is Kirin (yes, he’s named after the beer) and Ome, our recently adopted kittens sharing our version of the Ikea changing table hack, we made the bed smaller so it hides nicely behind the curtain.
Photo 3: Kirin and Ome on a cat perch made out of an old coffee table cut in half. We used all four legs to match the window height.”
– Suzanne
  

“Our bloodhound Rufus, bleary eyed and caught by surprise on the couch”
– Colin & Jada (Washington, DC)

“My, excuse me, Speck’s (our mini long hair Dachshund) favorite chair is this leather recliner.  Can you tell how comfortable it is?”
– Mike

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It’s reader request time, and this one comes from Sarah. “I love your site, and wanted to write in with a design problem I’m facing in an NYC apartment into which I’m about to move. The apartment’s front door opens into a very long, very narrow hallway with no room for furniture and no windows. Do you have any wall decoration recommendations to create a cool entrance effect?” Here are some inspirational photos for you Sarah. Now, some are not THAT narrow and have room for a bit of furniture but I found how the spaces were designed very intriguing (ie. the Domino mag photo after the jump).

Marie Claire Italy	Target Living
Gaelle Le Boulicaut	Elle Decor
Apartment Therapy	Adrienne Chinn
Stuart McIntyre	Margaret Mulligan
Sköna hem	Eric Roth
jj Locations	Location Works
Decor Demon	Sköna hem

Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy
Callas Architects
Domino
Elle Decor
Marie Claire Maison
Living Etc.

I found this home on Contemporist and had to re-post it here because I am completely in awe of the architecture. It’s mind-blowingly AWESOME. And inspiring because Jeff and I are in the process of researching architects for the work we want to do to my ok OUR home and I would love to something even one iota as creative as this. The space was created by Spanish architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez and is the attic space of an early 20th century building in Madrid. It’s composed of several different levels and angles yet it’s continuous which makes the space appear much larger than it is (it being all white helps too)….and frankly, WAY more interesting. It’s just plain NEAT-O.