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Some of you regulars may be wondering why we haven’t posted anything today. We are sticklers for never missing a day so let me explain. Jo and I have been busy lately. Well, more than usual. You see, we’ve been talking for quite a while about updating the blog and giving it a bit more of a professional look. (Especially since the blog was designed by me and despite the fact that I work on web applications for a living, I am NO designer). And we wanted to get off Blogger and go with something a bit more customizable. So when we heard from Erica at Squarespace over the summer, we were stoked to try out what they had to offer. We are finally ready to get the ball rolling on this, so this afternoon hopefully you will see a brand spanking new desire to inspire. And I am hoping everything will work swimmingly but let’s just say that if you see something wonky, you’ve been warned. Do feel free to email us if there’s anything not working or if you have any concerns. We really hope you will all dig the new look and the new pages we’ll have available for your daily perusal.

We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who reads our little blog, some of you daily, and for those folks who leave comments, which we read every single one. Thanks muchly for all the love and support.

****Update: Due to technical difficulties the new blog may not be available today, but we’ll keep on truckin’.

I found this warehouse conversion on Location Partnership the other day and it had me cracking up. I wasn’t sure whether to run away screaming or gasp in delight (although leaning much closer to running away). The site says this home is a testament to the wonderful world of kitsch. I don’t even know if I’d call this kitsch – it’s more just a collection of completely random vintage pieces. But maybe that’s the definition of kitsch. So I goggled “kitsch” and Wikipedia says “Contemporaneously, kitsch also (loosely) denotes art that is aesthetically pretentious to the degree of being in poor taste, as well as, applying to industrially-produced art-items that are considered trite and crass.” So maybe it is kitsch. 🙂 What do you think? Love it or hate it? Would living here make you insane?

I absolutely adore the home of model An Oost and her boyfriend. It’s a mansion in Ghent, Belgium that they run as a bed & breakfast. It’s got great bones, and I am smitten with all the classic mid-century found throughout and the quirky touches like one orange doorway and a beanbag chair in the bathroom.

Back in April I blogged about Evan Drew Harrison’s dilemma on what he should do about the decor in his fabulous LA loft. He sent an email promising to send update photos as soon as he finishes up (he mentionned vintage Knoll, Swedish stuff, kilims and other ethnic touches….all of which had me totally intrigued), but the real reason he emailed was to share the former home of his dear friend, Maxime de la Falaise. Maxime passed away of natural causes in April in her Provence home, and she was quite a character. “Maxime made Cruella Deville seem like a pussy cat” Evan told me. She was a “celebrated fashion model and artists’ muse of the mid-20th century who was later a designer, food writer and the matriarch of a three-generation clan of international couture models” said her obituary in the New York Times. At one point during her career she also designed furniture and rugs. Evan loved Maxime’s New York loft she sold in the early 90’s and thought we would love it as well. Her loft is exactly how I imagine my home to be when I reach that age – filled with treasures and textures from years of collecting.