Showing posts with label My Friday Fix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Friday Fix. Show all posts

Friday, October 22, 2010

My Friday Fix

I have decided to call the new Friday thing "My Friday Fix". So here it is...
 
This week's theme is Look Up:

I've lusted over this ceiling for some time now:
 























And this one, too...



















Usually things would bother me if they were this high up on the wall, but somehow the mirrored candle holders work very well at this height:

























I love how high these book shelves are. It works really well in this space (I wish I could pull it off in my own):






















So I'm extremely picky when it comes to bedrooms. But this is one of six that I've held onto for some time now. The stripes on the ceiling are fun, too:



















1. Still trying to find source...
2. Sarah Story Design
3. Jill Brinson, via House Beautiful
4. Sharon & Chris' House Tour, Via Apartment Therapy
5. Trying to find original source...

Friday, October 15, 2010

Kind of Drab

So this is going to be kind of a boring post. See what happens when you don't visit a thrift store for a couple weeks? Haha, just kidding. I am working on a couple projects that I hope to finish by Tuesday so I'll let you in on those when they are complete. One is a front porch makeover (the halfway point, anyway) and the other will be fire pit progress photos. 
Today it's just this:

I picked up this little wooden tea box at a rummage sale this spring (which, btw, has a screen printed design on it). We don't have many warm colors in the house because somehow I converted from warm to cool in the past couple years...I think to root cause is from working at a job with very LOUD colors all around me and subconsciously craving a retreat from that when I got home. It seems to work with our house, though. But anyway, here is one small thing that I do have:


















I didn't know what to use it for until one day when I found all of my memory cards and USB cables and earbuds and they managed to gather into one pile, which was a nice change compared to the 7 separate places they resided before that. And so the most obvious home for them was close to the couch, where I do all my internet stuff at. But since I didn't want it all out in the open, I threw everything in the tea box and it seems to be quite practical:















See, I warned you. Boring post.
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So maybe I'll just show you a few things images have brought me happiness over the past few weeks. A new Friday blog feature, perhaps? I think so...I will have to come up with a name for this new feature, but for now I'll just say that it will be 5 photos with a common theme each Friday.


This week's theme is Come Together:


Love these old wooden fruit boxes & the bright jars inside:



















Just another reason to start collecting old yardsticks:



















I have been wanting a quilt for some time now. This will do:
 


















If I'm ever feeling really ambitious, I'll take apart some of my old soda crates that aren't in the best shape and do something like this, which I think would be perfect for a bar/lounge area. Too bad wooden floors in the basement is no good...although I could figure something out: 



















And another quilt, although I was originally attracted to this bedroom because of the wall color. Isn't it great?:














Links found via:
1. re-nest
2. design*sponge
3. decor8
4. unsure, but i think design*sponge
5. ohdeeoh

Have a nice weekend!