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Interior Love

Jess — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:50:15 +0000

All my favorite interiors over the past month!

LOVE the wall of windows and that light blue door. One of my favorite colors for sure. I’m getting more into yellow gold again.

Pretty kitchen…I really want a low bookshelf for cookbooks and stuff in my kitchen.

Cute bed, love the low platform in an attic bedroom, seems so spacious!

I love this apartment. Pretty blue walls, lots of artwork, lots of color. What’s not to love?I really want to attempt a gallery wall soon. Love that chest, too!

Another gallery wall over the couch in the living room.

Wouldn’t you just love this loft movie area? I’m imagining Drew, Goliath, and I snuggling up at night after dinner to some House or Lie to Me. A much better alternative to those horrendous double chaise couches!

Love this apple green, bamboo, and white color combo.

Like this color combination too.

Aren’t these skylights to die for??? Must replicate. Sometimes I really do want to be an architect.

I really like those curtains.

Yeah, love this whole room. Just wrap it up and send it my way.

LOVE this kitchen. When I was putting all these together I realized all my kitchen shots were of white cabinets and light gray granite countertops. I guess why mess with a good thing? Also I love those floors. Must remember a white and heather gray checkerboard floor, a bit more chic than white and black, no?

Another view…love the subway tile and the plank wood table.

What a delightful bedroom…I love white.

NEED this bathroom. Big windows, wainscoting, powder blue walls, and a claw foot tub? Ummm, YES.

Is it bad that I’m digging 70s-ish wood beam handrails over metal spindles? I think it is.

Love this dining room set and the wall to wall windows!

See what I mean out white and silver? One of my favorite color combinations right now. It just needs a nice splash of butter yellow walls!

Okay, I kinda like these blue cabinets, too.

Cool studio! I love when adults still incorporate childish elements into their design.

Pretty bedspread.

LOVE this. Salvage wood table, white modern couch and bright, bold throw pillows. Yum.

So chic! Bedrooms absolutely require symmetry. Love the wall treatment (wallpaper?), curtains, tufted headboard and matching bench at the foot of the bed–and of course the white bedding!

Those walls look like the same color as my old living room!!

Kind of like this white and sand kitchen as well. Can’t decide what I think about that backsplash…what do you think?

Fun, clean bedroom. Clearly I need some white sheer curtains for the bedroom.

Love these stairs.

I’ve been all about gigantic fireplaces lately. Really digging this entire wall brick one, though I think I’d paint it white and then the walls a musty apple green with medium gray furniture and light blue patterned pillows.

Mmmmm, kitchens.

Love this little breakfast nook! That window and molding up top makes it look so grand! I just adore window seats. I’d love one with thick tufted cushions.

This is a very masculine look for me, but I really enjoy the deep blue and gold color combo.

Gallery wall in the kitchen! And is that a houndstooth tile floor?!?! STAR STAR STAR

Hmmm, not sure why I starred this originally…isn’t it funny when that happens?

Love the leaded glass window and built-in bookshelf!!!

The rest of the room.

Mmmm, brick walls.

I do like the gray walls and butcher block countertop look as well.

Pretty vanity and clear glass shower…love!

Really pretty bedroom. Really enjoy that white shelf of art above that headboard!

Dark accent wall and pretty plates! Fun!

Kinda crazy wall color…but really enjoy the idea of a fabric bulletin board above the dresser for jewelry, etc.

Hope you enjoyed all of these! I just took out two loaves of bread (light wheat and marble rye) and it smells SO GOOD in here. Blog posts coming, after my ridiculously long hiatus from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge!

[images via Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Craigslist, and House Beautiful]

Tagged: art walls, backsplash, bathroom, bedroom, cabinets, countertops, gallery walls, interior design, kitchen, living room, painted doors, platform bed, subway tile

Interiors

Jess — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:16:54 +0000

Oh my goodness, the past few weeks I have been saving up lots and lots of images for this post, and I hope you enjoy them. Apparently in my time of unemployment, my hobby (besides baking bread) has become searching Craigslist for fixer-upper real estate and dreaming about how I would renovate and decorate each space. Honestly I would like to fix up my own house or flip it to someone else, but as I have a mound of student debt and no income to speak of other than past TA jobs that keep trickling in, now is not the ideal time to be planning real estate investments. But that doesn’t stop me. So here are some of my inspirations that have been floating around up there…

An old image, but I still love the color, the cozy corner of paintings and books (organized by color), and the dog! We are still waiting for a furry friend of our own…

LOVE the white built-ins, the stone fireplace, and the wood spiral staircase.

More built-ins

LOVE the butterfly mobile, and the graphic print sheets…

Painted staircase runner!!!

I really like this whole space…the built-in bookshelves, the chaise up against the smaller credenza, the big painting over the fireplace and the large mirror against the adjacent wall. Of course this would never work in our home as Drew is planning to buy a large flat screen TV as soon as he can, but, I can dream

I really like the layout of this room…if our living room was a bit wider I think it would have been nice flipped. And there’s even an unobtrusive spot for a desk!!! (which by the way he never uses)

From the IKEA catalog…lately I’ve been really into stripes. This room might be a little too over the top for me, but good ideas on how to use a round table so that it looks in proportion…

More stripes…I just LOVE this idea of white bedding with a striped skirt. I’d love to use this against my blue and white dream bedroom.

Mmmm I just love this color combination of pale blue and red/orange–but mostly white! I can’t tell if that’s a chair rail or waistcotting, but I love it! And the rattan shades…

Speaking of waistcotting, I LOVE this idea to incorporate a darker color paint that isn’t too overwhelming. I like the chest and the painting on the wall, but not too big a fan of the table and chairs.

Similar color and LOVE the painting over the bookshelves!

Really like this idea to display many photos in an organized way…

LOVE this Tiffany-painted kitchen!

Similar in color…love this idea for a painted hutch.

Don’t you just love this milk glass chandelier from Tonic Home?

More pretty white beds with a bold pattern pillow…

And finally–this one I like because of the window braces (they remind me of my grandmother’s old house), and the calm, modern color of everything else in the room. We have similar yellowy walls, and I have been at a loss for how to decorate with them so that everything isn’t a beige mess!

Ooops, just one more. Don’t you love this tiled shower? I rather like the little round ones.

Tagged: art, bedding, bookshelves, built-in, butterfly mobile, craigslist, credenza, interior design, kitchen, living room, milkglass chandelier, painted staircase runner, shower tiles, spa-like, spiral staircase, stripes, waistcotting

House Fun!

Jess — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:42:39 +0000

1.I like the contrasting neutral patterns here, and also this is to remind myself to display cute and cozy blankets like this!

2. This was a DIY project I saw on HGTV!!! Basically you carve out all the drywall on the ceiling back to the rafters, then tile with aluminum panels…so awesome!

3. Ohmygosh I love this workspace. Drew, you don’t mind if we have this in our apartment, do you?

4.I kinda like this bedspread…

5.So bright and happy with the skylight and white walls…and I love the grass box over the glass door in the far room!

6. I just love the color palette of this room…I love that painting, the gray papered wall, those photographs with wide white backgrounds, the pretty flowers and blue lamp! Mwah!

[images via Design*Sponge, HGTV, Apartment Therapy]

Tagged: bedroom, built in desk, ceiling beams, living room

Inside the Home 2

Jess — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:20:24 +0000

Welcome to round 2! This should finish off my current desktop…

Not sure what this is, but I like it!

Yeah I really like that server…

Good news! I’ve found a tea I actually like! So far it’s just Earl Grey (found at Intelligentsia, which apparently won an award for best tea/coffee in Chicago? I hope I’m not spoiled now! I have yet to try the grocery store Earl gray…) But yeah, I kind of love this teapot.

What a lovely bedroom! It’d be such a joy to wake there every morning with the birds singing and the breeze blowing inside!

What do we think of this? I don’t think I’d ever have it in my house, but it’s kinda cool…

I like this rug.

Windows! I like the bright white look.

A lovely reading nook

Get ready for a rainbow of living rooms. Here’s yellow!

The other side of the same room!

Blue!

Green!

Orange!

Okay back to normal. I like the print on those pillows with a dark neutral couch.

Neat fruit basket!

Cool bookshelves

To preface, I really do not like soapdishes attached to the wall in bathrooms, but I kind of like them next to the door to hold your keys! What do you think?

Nice entryway.

Yeah I don’t know what I was thinking here…looking at this now (this has been on my desktop for months…) I must have been in a real folksy mood. Testament to the fact that tastes do change!

Torsby cabinet from IKEA

NOW get ready for…outside the home! I know you’re excited

Tagged: bedroom, birds, black and white, blue, bright white, bunkbed, entryway, fireplace, french doors, garden, green, ikea, living room, metal fruit basket, orange, pillows, reading nook, rug, soap dish, teapot, tiles, tosby, understairs bookshelves, wall art, white brick, wood server, yellow, zigzag

Inside the Home 1

Jess — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:56:01 +0000

TONS of stuff sitting on my desktop. Please pardon the picture dump as I attempt to clear it out and start fresh! I just love looking at all these pics that inspired me…

Tone on tone green living room, so pretty!

Lovely window bench with lots of windows!!! Looks like a great place to read!

I wish I had gotten an apartment on Woodlawn Avenue so I could put my desk in one of these bay window areas.

Happy bright painted dresser!

I like this nightstand a lot.

I’ve posted this pic before for the plate wall art and the sputnik chandelier, but I also really enjoy this rug!

Love those light fixtures!

Pretty kitchen

Hehehe books in the kitchen, sounds like my kind of kitchen:)

Cool couch and I like this print!

Nice Hollywood Regency chair

More fun chairs

Yesyesyes to this laundry setup!

Funky pepple-like mirror

Bookshelves

To-die-for sunroom

Ceiling wood beams

Cool idea…painted stair runner

Kinda funky dresser

Mmmm! I love this one! I think I will copy this look in my next living room.

With a womb chair of course

More ceiling beams

Pretty dining room…love the red lamps!

Lovely Erin‘s living room, so posh!

Sophisticated collages, so fun!

Hope you’re not bored yet, because there’s more to come!!

Tagged: bay window, bookshelves, circle rug, collage, color, desk nook, divine laundry, funky dresser, funky mirror, green, hollywood regency furniture, kitchen, living room, modern industrial lights, nightstand, painted dresser, painted stairway, pillows, reading nook, sunroom, tone on tone, window bench, womb chair, wood beams

Small Cool from Apartment Therapy

Jess — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:27:07 +0000

So…here are my favorites from Apartment Therapy’s Small Cool competition. People are really creative!

Tagged: interior design, kitchen, living room

rooms with a view

Jess — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:59:00 +0000

how about this living room for my apartment next year? i’m really in the mood for an older space with character, that i can make all modern and beautiful with furniture and paint, etc. i just love the amount of light!

also a pretty bathroom. i really like the old tub with the wraparound curtain (though i’m pretty sure i would hate that if i had one like that for myself…where are the shelves to put your soap?) against the newness of the sink…console. actually a cool piece of furniture!!

and finally, i like this idea for a mantle, a mismatch of photos and art in all different size frames and arranged in random…