When I was a kid...

More clippings of photos I love but really just have nothing to do with my second storey renovation...  Okay, well, some of them do!

(via this is glamorous)

I so desperately want this bathroom...

(Marie Claire Maison) 

(Supermarket Sarah via Design Sponge)

Black and White with Wood

Kurt is worried that pairing wood floors and furniture with black painted doors and window sashes not to mention black chandeliers and other accents will look silly.  Personally, I really like the look when mixed with pops of soft colour and chalky white walls and millwork.  Black and white just looks too stylized for my taste - I'm a bit too rumpled and messy to really pull it off. And going with just wood everywhere is, well, boring.

Behold:

(Coco+Kelly via Plush Palette)

(Lili Diallo via Plush Palate)

(House Beautiful via Plush Palate)

((Marie Claire Maison via Plush Palette)

(The English Muse via Plush Palette)

(Velvet and Linen via Plush Palette)

(Design Sponge via Create Girl via Plush Palate)

(Ferm Living via Plush Palette)

(Darryl Carter via Elle Decor via Plush Palate)

(Domino via Pretty Lovely)


(Domino via Pretty Lovely)

I want to sit in one of these chairs and look out the window. While drinking tea, I think, and listening to music by one of the various Sarah's on my ipod.

Update:  Kurt liked it very much!  All I need to do is show photos and "no's" become "yes'" magically!

Bedroom Inspiration

I love the pops of colour on the all white background. The first is definite fave as I like the freshness. The second works because of the pops of black.

(Design & Inredingsbloggen via Desire to Inspire)

(Lucinda Symons via Desire to Inspire)

(Kim via Desire to Inspire)

I have this exact spread.  It was salvaged from my Grandma's house before she moved into The Bentley.  It will be perfect layered over top of our duvet..

I love rumpled, unmade beds. I also hate making beds. So, I'm thinking this look completely works for me... ha!  Oh, and I am obsessed with four posters.  Obsessed.

(From La Maison Boheme)

(Marie Claire Maison via Desire to Inspire)

(Society Limonta via Remodelista)

I also want a wall of artwork that inspires and entertains.

(Elle Decoration via Desire to Inspire)

(ngoc minh ngo via Desire to Inspire)

I just bought this piece today from the Yumi Yumi Shop.  Her work is beautiful.  Please do go take a browse through her shop!

The Porch

The guy we hired to repour the floor in the basement and replace all our sewer lines ran into our front porch with his bobcat.  I won't get into all of the horrors associated with that particular renovation.   Needless to say, after we take care of the second floor, we'll be moving on to addressing our veranda woes.  I stumbled across a lovely porch renovation from Door Sixteen.  Am likely going to shamelessly steal some ideas such as what they used to create the new ceiling (tongue and grove pine beadboard), the lovely latticework at the base and a variety of other things.  Love the black colour but we've already decided on a palette of soft grey, navy and cream.

(Door Sixteen)

(Door Sixteen)

Settee Lust

I'm really leaning towards either two oversized chairs or two very small settees flanking a nice sized table in the library.  So pretty and I'm thinking likely more comfortable than an office chair.  And, of course Elte has the perfect settee but it's likely nine million dollars and are located no where near Regina.  *sigh*

(Elte)

(Elle Decor)

When I was a kid...

When I was a kid, I used to go through all of my parents design magazines and clip out pictures of rooms I liked.  I kept up this habit as I got older and now I have three separate albums filled with clippings.  I guess that's what this post is... clippings I've found recently of random rooms that aren't libraries, landings, bathrooms or bedrooms that I enjoy!

Ps.  I really miss having house plants.  So pretty!  Unfortunately, our cats eat the leaves off of any poor plant that we bring into the house and then crap in the pot.  Plants.  Not happening...

I am going to need to start separating out this post into rooms as this is getting HUGE!

(Elle Decor)

(Velvet and Linen)

(Envelope A+D via Door Sixteen)

(Joseph Dirand via Door Sixteen)

(Laura Resen via Desire to Inspire)

(Domino via Pretty Lovely)

(Todd Yoggy via Desire to Inspire)

(House Beautiful via Plush Palate)

(Todd Yoggy via Desire to Inspire)

(Laura Resen via this is glamorous via Plush Palate)

(Katy Elliot via Plush Palate)

(Laura Resen)

(Melanie Acevedo Photography)

(Flopes Flicker via Desire to Inspire)

(Trevor Dixon via Desire to Inspire)

Inspiration for the bathroom...

I am having issues making this particular post behave.

The first photo is obviously not a bathroom but we are thinking of carrying a ledge around the entire room to cap off a moulding detail on the walls.  I'm not sure if we want to go shaker-style for the moulding as seen here or do picture frame moulding instead.

The second (from House and Home) and fourth photos (Elle Decor via Urban Grace Interiors), I LOVE the look of the black framed mirror with white wall and chrome sconces.  Our room is primarily going to be white on white but we have black accents in the floor tile and chrome fixtures.  I think we will have a heavy black framed mirror above the vanity and these sconces are an exact match to the ones we bought at Rona.

The washstands in the third photo from House and Home are very similar to the ones we have on order.  I can't wait for them to arrive.  I love the moulding detail on the walls, here.

We will be adding pops of colour with accessories like in the 5th photo I found on Decorology.  I love the white and black scheme with hits of vibrant colour.

We are running a pony wall along the exerior wall to house the plumbing, very similar to this.  We'll be capping it and doing decorative moulding underneath.  I'll use the pony wall to display artworks.  Above our tub, we'd like to hang a black and crystal chandelier.  We've also purchased a clawfoot tub.  It's been sitting in our basement since early spring and I can't wait to finally be able to enjoy it!  Again, I love the moulding details, the crisp, clean look, the vintage accessories and the gorgeous tub.

Like in the photo below from Desire to Inspire, I'm collecting crystal vases and decanters to hold bubble baths and whatnot.  I'll display everything clustered together on a old silver tray on top of the book shelf that will flank both sides of our window.



















































































(Desire to Inspire)