Loving Subway Tile

I love everything about this...

Classic meets modern in the kitchen, Via La Maison d'Anna G

Black and White Love

Because it’s never too soon for another black and white blog post!

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Great light fixture in a lovely black and white Nordic residence.

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Loving this black and white kitchen and softly colored details. Love, love, love the light blue pendant.

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Here, industrial details mix wonderfully with the elegance of sharp black and pink.

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This uncluttered office space has just enough black peppered in for contrast. Love, love the floors.

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This is just a dog I want, bad. Happy Monday friends. xo, co

Go Green

Green is nature’s color and represents health and growth.  It also has a calming effect on the human brain– Celebrities waiting to go out to a TV interview often wait in a ‘green room’ to calm nerves, and mint green is the choice for many hospital rooms because of the proven calming effect it has on patients. Personally, I just like this kitchen….and you’re less likely to overeat around the color green, unlike it’s compliment, red, which is very stimulating.

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Black Is The New Black

In the spirit of the darker days of autumn and winter, I picked out some of my favorite ‘dark rooms’ to share. Glamorous and bold, intense, mysterious and sharp… how does black in interiors make you feel?

Birch, My favorite flower shop! Via Dreamer After All

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I love chalkboards.... Via Pinterest

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oh my! these herringbone dark wood floors! Via apartmenttherapy

To the walls…

Over the weekend it dawned on me- I need to get my knives out from the cluster they are presently in- lying all over my top kitchen drawer. They wound up there in the first place because I don’t have the counter space for a traditional knife block. The solution? Look to the walls…

Pukko Knife Holder

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Father Time

Today marks the 6 year anniversary of my dad’s passing and so I’m writing about clocks. Any of you who knew him know why- my dad loved clocks. And watches. And pocket watches. He would often browse flea markets and garage sales for them, constructing cases for the smaller pieces, winding daily the larger ones. If he was still around I might inquire a little deeper into this fascination of his…watching time, when it doesn’t even really exist unless we do….

My mom is of the opinion that it is very cool to find little artistic spins on everyday mundane things- salt and pepper shakers, staplers….wall clocks? I agree.  I looked around a little and came up with two favorites: A chalkboard kitchen clock at Terrain (surprised?) and the “twice once clock” by designer Jonas Damon.

Terrain' s kitchen chalkboard clock

The Twice Once Clock

Inspired by traditional railway clocks, you mount the twice once clock (fun to say, too) on a wall, rendering it visible from either approaching direction; two clocks that actually operate independently of each other. (And now that I am thinking about it, I recently saw this clock hanging in a restaurant somewhere and commented then how much I liked it… where was that?!)

love you, dad. xo, co

Upcycling is Cool

Photo via: weheartit.com.

Old Crates, metal, wood re-purposed into shelving equals feel good furniture.

Black and Orange

Did I mention I love the Giants?! However, I have to admit I have never really welcomed orange into my favorite color club. Red-orange? Yes. Yellow-orange? Maybe. Orange-orange? Ehh, I’m trying.

What do you think about the use of various oranges with blacks in these interior spaces?

A bright Orange kitchen with medium-dark gray and white.

A light gray and beige bedroom with red-orange and dark grays.

An orange, white and dark gray bedroom.

White seems to be present in all the examples shown, and I think it’s an important balancing factor with a color as strong as orange.

Love it? Hate it? Is it better in small doses? Or should we just leave black and orange to the Giants? Beat L.A.!!