katie.norman	Philo Nordlund
FM-29	sandiv999
sverre	elegantxtrash
NickRetroSixty	carissapod (greyanemone)
Moakidi	thematt.

jutta/kootut murut
clumsy bird
babythinkitover
frausieben
nicecruising
sandiv999
WinnieLovesColormisterthieldoorsixteen

My fiancé and I spent the evening at my parent’s place getting the trailer put into place in the back corner of their acre property. (For trailer details check out her blog posts here). It looks TOTALLY adorable and is coming along quite nicely, especially after a coat of paint from my twin sister, and now that it’s off the driveway. My mom wants to have a little deck/stairs built out front of it and do some planting around it. I am hoping we can at least spruce the outside up a bit in the next 2 weeks before the wedding so we can get some photos in front of it. 🙂 That all being said (perhaps I’m rambling because we’re in day 4 or 5 of a ridiculous heat wave here and I’m lacking sleep) I didn’t have much time for blog stuff so I figured I’d just slap up some more photos from the lovely www.micasarevista.com. The first bunch are of a cool renovated apartment that is just the right amount of funky (hello brown leather chesterfield!) and vintage and comfy furnishings. The last 2 are of a gorgeous dining space (I love benches for seating at a dining table).

This reader request comes from Melinda: “My partner and I are renovating our 130 year old semi in Sydney, he wants carpet on the stairs (because apparently I ‘clunk’… which to be perfectly honest I do) and I want to stain the original timber. I’m thinking a stair runner may be the perfect compromise. I would be very much appreciative if you could dig into your amazing picture resources for stair runners.” Here are some photos of inspirational stair runners for you Melinda, the first being my absolute favourite EVAH.

Bill Kingston

Frank Roop	Amanda Martocchio
Lucyina Moodie	Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
Country Living	Kwinter & Company
House Beautiful	New York Spaces Magazine
Living Etc.	Steven Gambrel
House & Home	Design*Sponge

The Selby
Eve Robinson
Jan Showers
House and Garden
Eric Cohler
Domino
House To Home
Living Etc.

A big thanks to reader Lilian for sending us the link to a German website which is going to be a new favourite regular stop of mine. It’s called Freunde von Freunden and it’s a spitting image of Todd Selby’s The Selby, featuring glances into the homes and workspaces of creative people. I devoured the site and selected a bunch of photos that really intrigued me.

Monday was quite a day – 45 degrees celsius here in Ottawa (that’s with the nasty humidex), work all day, a third visit with the florist for the wedding coming up in less than 3 weeks, and then a trip to deliver cat #9 to his new home (he was one of my fiancé’s cats, who wasn’t getting along with my 7). So I’m drained, exhausted and so damn hot (my house has no A/C). When my twin sister sent me a link to a story on Husohem, I figured I’d follow along with Jo’s landscape posts from yesterday and post this gorgeous yard.