Posts filed under 'for the house'
So let’s just start with the fact that I *heart*Â Pantone books. There’s just something about ALL OF THOSE COLORS! ALL THE POSSIBILITIES! that makes me downright giddy. I have a set of books that I’ve owned since graduation (where we did, in fact, have Pantone colors taped to the tops of our mortarboards), in it’s handy little case, safely stored away in a dark drawer so as not to fade my precious colors.Â
A few weeks ago, I ran across this house on Flickr that honestly just blew me away. I swear, if I had super high ceilings, massive amounts of time and painter’s tape and a willing husband, I’d totally go for this look.  But I don’t. So, alas, no Pantonization of the house. Â
Until yesterday, when I spied these stairs over on Apartment Therapy. Oh yeah. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with our basement stairs — they desperately need work and we were thinking of painting but hadn’t settled on anything yet. There are tearsheets laying around the house of various painted staircases, some of which I really liked, but nothing that I lurved. The main problem was that most of these had the treads painted, some in white (ack!) and I just couldn’t see that working for this five-person, two-cat, minimal-cleaning household. The Pantone stairs will work. Ok, so we won’t use the actual Pantone paint because we’re not bazillionaires, but I’ll break out my trusty swatch book and start picking colors now. For 13 risers. Egads… that should take, oh, three or four months. Anyone have any requests?Â
April 24th, 2008
I, for one, am glad that Corian Loves Missoni because the love child of that union is a color explosion, the likes of which you have never seen…Â
April 23rd, 2008
but don’t worry about any of that primary nonsense, go vote for my entry in the “Now You See It, Now You Don’t” contest.
Somehow I made it through the first round (ok, there were only four entries and three got to go on… whatever!) so now we’ve moved on to the big Cookie magazine contest. That’s me, Ramona, with the row of hooks in the Entryway section — the one with the non-staged, non-stellar photography — so, yeah, I need all the help I can get.
Winner gets a gift certificate to Dwell Studios (*LURVE!*) and it looks like they’re also randomly awarding a gift certificate to one lucky voter. $900 smackeroos. So go vote already!
April 22nd, 2008
We’ve looked before at the awesome textiles of PataPri, but today I was actually (finally!) moved to buy something in her etsy store. So she got together with illustrator Linzie Hunter (whom we also *lurve*), and lo and behold, look what they made… this fabulous alphabet kitchen towel.
But this won’t be going in my kitchen to get smeared with red sauce and orange juice. Hooo, no, it’ll be either stretched or framed and hung on the wall. Wahoo for the cheap art!
The alphabet towels are linen and come in three colorways. They go on sale today and are a limited edition so get one quick!
April 16th, 2008
Ok, this Mr. P lamp makes me laugh and laugh. And, no, I wouldn’t dare put it in the living room but ya gotta admit it would be awfully cute in a little boy’s room.
You know what else makes me laugh? The thought of saying, “Hey Mom, would you flip on that lamp over there?”
bwahahahahhahaha.
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(lots more HI-larious Mr. P products here)
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April 11th, 2008
That’s it, just $15 measly dollars. Which, after these past few posts, seems like mere pocket change for this super-cool 2-in-1 wooden trivet set.  It has asterisks… Woo! Love me some asterisks! Â
April 10th, 2008
How amazing is this little glass Pulcini bird by Vistosi?
ummm, yep, just what I need… a 40-year-old $2,000 glass bird. Maybe I’ll just start printing out pictures of all this cool, breakable stuff and line a shelf with it. And call it an installation.(heh, I didn’t go to art school for nothin’!)
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April 9th, 2008
well, you know the rest. I do love this painting by Tom McKinley but I’m fairly certain that I won’t be buying it anytime soon. You know, not if we all want to eat and stuff.
8:30 pm by Tom McKinley, currently on exhibit at the John Bergruen Gallery.
April 8th, 2008
Hey, run on over to ohdeedoh’s Now You See It, Now You Don’t Contest and vote for our entry, #10 Hook Salvation. I think you have to be logged in to vote, but this is the children’s arm of the Apartment Therapy empire, so if you’re a member there, you can use that log-in.
I think voting is only open for 24 hours so vote early, vote often (heh) and thanks!
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April 7th, 2008
So we’re nearing the end of the basement playroom remodel and I’m starting to think about what we’re actually going to put IN the room after all the hellishness of construction is said and done. And what’s a playroom without some sort of beanbag? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s a room with $700 to spend on something else, that’s what it is. I first thought I’d just make a couple but then thought, “there should be a ton of these out there — save yourself the grief.” Ha.
So I trolled around and found various “meh” beanbags but my first love was the Fatboy. They have great colors but I was really looking for more of a box-type cushion and the only one of those they have is round. And large. And $230. Which is expensive but, turns out, not really super out of the ballpark.
Next we hit upon Sumo Lounge — ok colors, great price, structure is still too floppy.
Which brings us to Eazy Bean. They have great colors, lots o’ cushion styles including my favorite, this 3′ square one but oh, there’s a catch. To the tune of $685. What?! For a damned bean bag?! Sit on the floor, kid…
March 31st, 2008
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