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 both pet and furniture takes center stage. (Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture…and your pet happens to be sitting on it). And second, the photo must be of decent quality. For example, if it’s REALLY dark or fuzzy (camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Thanks! (Photos can be sent to desiretoinspirekim@hotmail.com) **NOTE: I will be out of town from Thursday to Monday so there won’t be a pet post next week but feel free to send along entries for the following week’s post.

 “My boyfriend Charles Brill and myself have a gorgeous 5 month old ragdoll kitty named Larry David.  We have taken a bunch of pictures I hope you will find fit in your pets on furniture post.  Just to mention, the chair and the bed in the pictures were made by Charlie who is 1/3 of the design group rich, brilliant, willing (www.richbrilliantwilling.com) – you may have seen their stuff around.”
– Merrill

“From the city of Philadelphia I am sending you this picture of our Miniature Schnauzer, Owen on our new Saarinen table.  He has been scratching at me all day to get up on it.  So I finally let him up and of course he posed for this adorable picture.“
– Gretchen

“My little chi-weenie dog Chuy climbs up on the throw pillows on any sofa and sleeps there, he’s a little old man-13- so we just let him. My husbands cat-Tommy- is huge (no, not fat, hairy and really big)and lounges where ever he wants to.“
– Lorijo

“I miss Tique like hell, she went to doggy heaven last week. She was my cuddle parther for 13 years, and she loved to make herself comfortable all over the house – much to decorator-mom’s dismay.“
– Krista

“I would love to post this picture of my big boy Copper (he is a Goldendoodle) on a chair that was my Grandmothers.  It is a chair carved out of the trunk of a tree.  It is such a cool piece!  He fits just perfect in it and he loves to sit in it and look out the window.“
– Kristen

“Here’s my pomeranian Luna doing what she does best, posing pretty for the camera!”
– Kristen

“Here is a picture of my parent’s dog, kioshi, on our sofa. we were pet sitting him and this was his spot.“
– Brandi

“The file attached is a picture of my dog liz lu on a chair she isn’t allowed on but she loves it so much, that when’s my mum isn’t here she sleeps on it all day! she is an amazing dog and likes to watch the world go by from this spot.“
– Amy

“Smokey was reunited with her throne after 5 years.  She took to it quickly.“
– Matt

“Here’s a picture of my step-cat Special getting the footstool I had just reupholstered nice and furry. (The stool fabric is from ikea and the cushion covers on the chair are fr west elm).“
– Krista

“Attached are two pics of our long-haired dachshund, Zuzu. When she’s not being a tumor and following us all around the house, she’s hanging out on the couch. She always seems to be posing, ready for her close-up. We call the second one her sorority pose!“….
Thought I’d send one more pic for your amusement.  When she’s had enough of my wife and I, she’ll go into “her room,” which is really just the space beneath the couch, for some privacy.  Not knowing how long she is, she always leaves her back legs and tail sticking out!  We have to pretend we don’t know where she is 🙂
– Peter

“All our furniture pretty much belongs to our pitbull and two cats – we humans just have to squeeze in around them.”
– Noe

“This is my car Trevurr basking in the afternoon sun! – how could I not submit for the Pets on Furniture post!!“
– Camilla

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Jason Martin is a familiar name around here. Jo blogged about his interior design work some time ago here and here, and then he guest blogged for us in our DIY+ series of reader’s room dilemmas. Jason emailed yesterday with some photos (by photographer Edward Duarte) that had me wiping drool off my laptop and picking my jaw up off the floor. They are of his latest project where he designed almost all the furniture you see in the spaces (sofas, tables, bed) with the owner of the house who was the visionary behind the materials/architectural remodel. The view spans downtown LA to the ocean. If I had that view I would absolutely never leave the house. Nor would I be able to get my arse off that incredible loungey sectional.

And might I add that Jason is included in House Beautiful magazine’s “Next Wave” list of the 20 designers to watch in 2010, which you can check out in their Dec/Jan issue. Way to go Jason!!!

Rylie wrote us the other day with a dilemma and I thought I’d post it here to see if anyone has some brilliant ideas to help her with her space. “I would like to ask you if there’s any chance that you might chance upon some wonderful ideas for rooms that are narrow. Its because my bedroom is kind of narrow and long, and I have no idea what to do about it. I mean I can hardly move stuff around without blocking the way. I’ve attached some photos of my room, pardon the mess! I’ve tried moving some things before but it always looks so… cluttered to me, so space-less!”

I TOTALLY know what she’s going though, as my house is 12′ wide and the second bedroom is 7′ wide. I have to run off to do some errands so I’ll give my quick opinion and leave it to the rest of you to hopefully help her out.

I like the bed at the far end. I’d leave it there, and hang draperies all around that end of the room from floor to ceiling (even huge painters canvas tarps from Home Depot, and you can try dying them). That will give it a cocoon type feeling. I’d put the white Expedit shelving unit where the desk is to separate the sleeping area from the rest of the space. Then leave the dressers where they are and put the desk opposite them or vice versa. I think you need alot of storage bins and baskets (particularly to store all the items in the black shelving) so you can keep less of your stuff visible. And if you’re allowed, paint the front part of the room something bold. 🙂

It takes a special kind of person to come up with the idea of a moat (2 actually) and a bridge in a loft. That special kind of person in this case is David Ling, an architect. He converted a former dental factory in NYC into his own work/live space, with a moat and bridge separating his office and living space, and another moat separating the living space from the bedroom mezzanine. Now that’s ingenius, and breathtaking.