Interiors Contest is over!
Thank you to everyone who voted on my interior contest!
Congradulations to everyone who voted for the winning interior, number 2!
Come back soon for more designs and more contests!
Nautical Bedroom
This nautical bedroom is one of my new favorite designs.
It started as just the built-ins on the left and a plain bed, but I soon realized it was destined for much more. I was inspired by a bed I found online and updated the plain bed with this headboard and foot board. Then I added the seating area and accessories.
It started as just the built-ins on the left and a plain bed, but I soon realized it was destined for much more. I was inspired by a bed I found online and updated the plain bed with this headboard and foot board. Then I added the seating area and accessories.
Nautical is a trendy style right now, so here are my tips on making your bedroom more coastal:
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Keep the walls a light neutral like tan or beige. This will be relaxing and fits in with other styles when nautical sails away.
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Layer textures and patterns while keeping to a simple color scheme. Nautical design is very eclectic, but keep accessories light and interesting by following this rule. (And sometimes the best accessories are those that don’t cost much, so get crafty! Glue sand on the top of a thrift store find table! Glue shells on a hand-me-down mirror frame! Reupholster and paint that chair that’s been sitting in your garage for ever!)
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Don’t overdo the blue and red. These bold colors will make your room less mature.
I’m vacationing at the beach, wait, no, I’m just in my bedroom!
Interiors Contest
Which of the following interiors belongs in this house?
Interior 1
Interior 2
Interior 3
Interior 4
Interior 5
You have untill October 18th 2010 to vote. The correct interior will be posted on October 19th 2010.
To vote, simply use the poll titled “INTERIORS CONTEST” on the top of the page. Click on the button next to the title of your vote (example: If you want to vote for the bedroom, click “Interior 5”) And then click “Vote”.
Thanks and good luck!
Floorplans
The first floor of the house. At the far left is the great room (kitchen, dining, living) and in the middle bottom a bedroom, and sharing the middle top are a bathroom and a laundry room/hallway to garage. Speaking of the garage, it’s at the right. The entrance to the house is at the bottom towards the left.
The second floor of the house. The stairs from the first floor lead up to the family room. At the left you have the master suite and at the right you have another bedroom and bathroom. At the top middle is a small office.
I’d like to say that the interior of this house is breathtakingly beautiful, but sadly I didn’t do much to it so I’m keeping it a secret and not posting pictures.
Realtor talk:
3 bed, 3 bath, with 2 car garage, and office,
2 story, open floorplan,
about 2000 sqft.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of what the interior of this mysterious house looks like!!!
Hey… that could be an interesting contest…
ferm LIVING’s clever spaces and Rue Magazine
A friend emailed me about Rue Magazine, a very inspiring and fun new e-magazine (a magazine that you view on the internet.) I fell in love with their premier issue, featuring fun articles including “shopping cart” and “rue shops: San Fransisco” and “Studio Tour: Maemae Paperie” (which I absolutely adored because I love paper arts, check out my paper arts blog, hannahmade cards!) and “It’s My Party” featuring Emily Henderson, HGTV’s newest Design Star! (My favorite show ever and not to brag or anything, but she was my favorite from the beginning!) but one of the best things this magazine did was introduce me to the amazing company, ferm LIVING and from there I found there inspirational blog, ferm LIVING’s clever spaces.
So stay tuned for some ferm-inspired designs! YAY
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Modern Inspiration
This house began as a sketch. This sketch;
A sketch of a kitchen.
And it grew into two sketches;
the kitchen sketch and
the living room sketch.
And from this sketch pair another sketch was created;
The dining room.
Well, I was away from home when making these sketches. But as soon as I arrived back I started turning my sketches into a house. (Seriously, I walked in and turned on the computer)
And the house grew…
Here is the floorplan for this house.
Time for my realtor talk:
This house has two and a
half bathrooms. Four bedrooms.
Master suite. Open Floorplan.
And large backyard.
Hey, what’s that horse doing here?!?
If walls could dream… they’d dream of simple sketches exploding into full homes!
My “Clerestory house”
Most people would just about shrivel up and die if you asked them to define (or even pronounce) “clerestory” And just yesterday I would have been one of those people.
Different forms of clerestory are found all over architecture:
Egyptian temples,
Roman palaces and churches,
Italian churches, and more recently,
modern-style homes.
But you may still be asking: what is a clerestory?
(And if you aren’t asking this, you probably got confused by the big words I used earlier and stopped reading)
Well, your answer changes with time:
During the Roman time, the clerestory was a level of windows in a large building (like a church or business center)
In current modern architecture, clerestories are windows above eyelevel.
An easy way to remember the meaning of clerestory is to separate it into two words: clere (or clear) and story. It’s a clear story; a high window.
Well, enough of that technical talk. Here is my “clerestory house”:
If walls could dream… I probably put them to sleep with all my boring “architecture history” talk. Sorry!
Coffee Kitchen
This is a series of photos marking the changes in this builder-grade kitchen when becoming a magnificent kitchen. (The pictures of the actual steps aren’t exactly in order)
My inspiration for this kitchen re-design was a ‘coffee’ brown color. It was painted on the walls and the other elements followed it’s path. The accent color is red. It’s picked up in the backsplash and the accessories. There are also flecks of red in the countertop.
Without ripping down any walls or even cabinets (the cabinets were painted), a room can change it’s mood. With a little virtual elbow grease, this kitchen went from ‘just moved in’ to ‘just moved up.’
By just taking a few of these steps, you could change the mood of the room. Lighting is always a key element of a room’s mood and by updating your lighting, you update your mood. Paint is important because color is known for creating atmospheres. Like red has the reputation of making you hungry (good in a kitchen, unless you don’t want to have to cook…) And if we’re talking for staging a home for sale, then accessorizing (and staying clean) is a must.
To view the picture larger, just click on it.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of simple kitchen style.
Julia Child’s Kitchen
At the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington DC, Julia Child’s kitchen has been replicated.
A few facts about the kitchen:
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The blue and green color scheme was chosen by Paul, Julia’s husband, in 1961.
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Sixteen baking sheets wee stored vertically in slots next to the dishwasher.
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The kitchen overlooked Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The kitchen measures 14 by 20 feet.
A few facts about Julia Child:
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She was born on August 15th, 1912 as the eldest of three children.
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She was a government inteligents agent for the Office of Strategic Services
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She and her husband, Paul Child, met through the OSS.
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Julia attended the Cordon Bleu cooking school in France.
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She and two friends created the cooking school l’Ecole de Trois Gourmandes (The school of the three gourmandes)
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A cookbook she made with these friends lead to her TV show, The French Chef.
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She won an Emmy award in 1966.
Learn more about the kitchen at http://americanhistory.si.edu/juliachild/
If walls could dream… they’d dream of a government inteligents agent’s magnificent kitchen.