Staging

Last week, Martha Murray (a designer from Bend) and I picked through existing furnishings at Complements Home Interiors to assemble enough borrowed goods to stage a few rooms at the Design Center in Redmond.

See the slideshow here.

It was a fun project and hopefully will be beneficial to many of us. The Design Center looks less like an empty warehouse, Martha and I got to show off a bit, and Patti from Complements has a secondary, temporary venue to display her furnishings.

Mark made me a curtain rod (so handy having a metal artist as a husband) so I could hang fabric behind the bed in an attempt to cover the existing (and to my eye, horrible) wall treatment. Can't tell in the photo, but I used vintage door knobs on the end of the curtain rod as finials...I wanted to mimic the circular theme found in the bedding.

All in all, a very satisfying project.

Mag Wall

Raw iron powder + paint primer = magnetic wall

From the creative minds at Parliment in Portland.

Check out the photos of their world headquarters...

Love the design of their work space.

Idea Box

Leaving for Portland to attend the Home & Garden Show. Most interested in seeing the new Idea Box model.

Click here to see other pics of this pre-fab home.

Planted potholes

Public installations taken to a new level.

I like this.

From the imagination of Pete Dungey

found via here

Busy Time

Staging some of the rooms at The Design Center today with furniture on loan from Complements Home Interiors....

It's puzzling

Back in November, I posted about The Standard Grill's copper penny floor on the High Desert Design Council blog.

So when I saw this photo on the Apt. Therapy site, at first glance I thought it was pennies...raining money on the wall. So clever. But it is actually puzzle pieces. Which I like as well.

But I still think pennies would be cool.

Friendship

I met my friend Julie when we were 15 years old. We could talk for hours on the phone...literally. Sadly for our pocketbooks, it was always long distance. No such thing as internet in the early 80's.

We pose in 1986 in our big hair glory...

and again at my wedding in 1991...hair was even bigger.

Oy.

Happy 43rd birthday Julie!

I can't believe it either.

Slide show

Ingenious.

Determination paid off. Lots of little holes and chain links applied to vintage Kodachrome slides and a pair of curtains is born. Love the jewel tones!

Instructions via the Craftster

Random

Stumbled across this listing while browsing...

Free church pews on Craigslist.

Might be worth the drive to Burns, Oregon...

otherwise known as the middle of nowhere.

Here we go

Before pics of the master bath remodel I'm working on...

Working on a new layout, estimates, etc.

Going to be fun...

Happy Birthday Mom

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world."

~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

Quirky

The perfect set of playing cards for the slightly quirky...

(I qualify)

Tim Burton's Playing Cards

available at MOMA

El Cosmico

Marfa, Texas has a boutique trailer hotel.

El Cosmico opened last fall.

Y'all know I love good trailer design!

(see before & after photos in left side bar)

We have company coming in a few weeks...

they'll be staying in our "guest cottage".

Lan Su

Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden has been open for 10 years and I've yet to visit....must rectify that....

GONG XI FA CAI

Still Water Art Studio

Barely there

Corner shadows

Hey Harriet has more shadow shots...

Links

Maybe there is something to social media.

Like blogging and the connections formed, I'm starting to see the use of Facebook as another way to stumble across inspiration.

Take for instance, the Steel Toe Studios website.

Mark knows Erica, the owner, through the Northwest Blacksmith Association. Erica has an interactive website where one can design their own belt. Check it out.

So cool.

I became a fan of Erica's on Facebook, and found a link to her friend's site, Crafting an MBA which is fascinating.

Read the first post here, and then learn....

Mirror

“Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images”

~ Jean Cocteau

Three mirrors help bounce light around a narrow hallway.

Vintage white framed beveled mirror found years ago at the Roadium flea market near LA for ten bucks.

Click here for other Theme Thursday mirror shots

Silly shot

Messin' around with the computer camera.

A Mac shot of Mark and me.

He says I look like I'm 27.

LOVE this man!

Nap time

“No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.”

~ Carrie P. Snow

These soft daybeds were found while browsing Royal T in Bend, Oregon

via Table Tonic and Obdeedoh

Love the casual cleverness of this pallet daybed with the door as headboard/backrest. And I can't even begin to tell you how happy the collection of paper lanterns and flowers makes me!

Designed by Shirley Watts via Sunset

Monday's hike

We drove out Peninsula to hike along the rim of Crooked River Canyon on Monday. Since I didn't bring my waders, we turned around and drove to Deschutes Canyon instead.

Living between these two canyons is convenient for hiking.

One never has to go too far for spectacular scenery.

A nice, dry trail.

The Deschutes.

Trux is always so happy to be off leash.

Nothing like a smiling dog.

Look twice

Chandeliers by Madeleine Boulesteix

I've seen teacup chandeliers before, but I had to look twice at these to realize what they were constructed from...the clear glass works.

Home shadows - evening

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

~ Edgar Allan Poe

More shadow shots at Hey Harriet

The power of paint

Just back from the Bay area. A trip to visit friends and check on the progress of Teresa's kitchen make-over.

Cheerful paint can do wonders to transform a room.

Next step: decoupaging maps onto the cabinet doors.

I also attended the White Elephant Sale; a fund raiser for the Oakland Museum. The line to get in was over 2 1/2 blocks long...this photo was taken as we neared the entrance.

An extremely well organized jumble sale.