A Colorful Touch

It's time for another COLORFUL post!

I love how the simple addition of various colored vases adds so much light and cheerfulness to this kitchen.

It makes me wonder what simple things can I do to brighten up my home?

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Art Filled Walls

Lately I've been thinking of ways to fill the walls in my apartment. I can't paint them but I've gotta do something. Here is the first of a few ideas I'll be sharing on here.

1. Cover with art
There is something about art that just warms up a home. It represents you and what you love. Here are some pieces of art that I've been liking lately.

I love this one from Seattle Show Posters. I think it would be awesome paired with some really colorful pieces.

Weird, I know, but I love the colors! By Remed.

Found this on Stephanie Corfee's etsy awhile ago and still love it.

Finally, here are some art filled walls for inspiration.

Emily Henson on D*S.

Denenge's House.


And Chris's living room.

Colorful Bedspread

I've been seeing so many gorgeous COLORFUL posts on my reader. I thought I'd share a few on here.

First up, this beautiful comforter used in a project by Soren Rose Studio.


I want to try and make one, it doesn't look too hard right?

Stay tuned for more colorful posts in the upcoming weeks.

Beach House For Rent

This gorgeous beach house in Corona Del Mar is perfect for a luxurious getaway. I wish I had taken more photos to show you but I was too busy admiring! If you or anyone you know is interested in a week or two (or longer) vacation, let me know and I'll give you all the details.

Bling Bling!

All those who are fans of glitter, sparkle, jewels, rhinestones, bling and CRAZY AMAZINGNESS check this out.

B.B. Simon in Corona Del Mar, California. Bursting with glitz and glitter like you have never before seen.

Horses head: $12950

Lion statue: $16500

Baby grand piano: $95000

Although, personally I'd rather buy a house.

Chair Of The Week 7 (Emeco at McDonalds?!)

On my trek back from California, I stopped to use the restroom in a McDonald's in St. George and was shocked to find that the restaurant was using Emeco's Navy Chair! With a price tag per chair of $415 and up, you can probably understand my surprise. To me, Emeco is a high class kinda design company, not one I would expect to have fast food restaurants using their chairs.


The original navy chair was designed for navy ships in WWII and could supposedly withstand a torpedo blast. Check out some fun videos of people 'testing' the strength of this chair by dropping it from a 6 story building, catapulting it and even shooting it with a rifle!



Here are some other discussions I found about McDonald's using modern designer chairs (and even some talk about them being knock-offs *gasp*)!

Egg Chair at a MD's in Europe.

NYC McDonald's gets a modern make-over.

A flickr group of Emeco chairs found on the streets.

Chair Of The Week 5

French designer Philippe Stark is well known for creating products, interiors and architecture with a unique flare. Recently Driade, an Italian manufacturer produced a new armchair by Stark. I'd love to sit in this polyethylene beauty.

Chair Of The Week 4

To me, the name Barbara Barry is synonymous with elegance and class. Her designs are flawless, inviting and breathtaking. Just take her Script side chair for McGuire Furniture for example...beautiful.



I had the good fortune of interviewing Ms. Barry for a school assignment. Needless to say, she is an inspiration. The advice I remember most is to be a "design machine"; always create and produce new ideas. Companies want someone who they know will never dry up.

Chair Of The Week 3 (and international searches)

Sometimes I like to search for things on other country's Google homepages. Lately Afghanistan has been on my mind because my brother in law is in the Marines there. So I decided to search for a chair on the Afghan Google. Here is a simple how-to so you can do your own international searches.

1. Decide what countries' Google homepage you want to use. Here are a few that have searched on before:

Italy - google.it
Czech Republic - google.cz
Germany - google.de
Iceland - google.is
and (as of today) Afghanistan - google.af

I usually just guess what the ending is, or I'll do a search for "Italy's Google". But make it easy on yourself and look here for a nice list.

I thought this one was funny. Arrrr. Um ok, back to chairs and doing international searches.

2. Decide what you want to search for and translate it into that country's native language.

3. Copy and paste the translation into the Google search bar and hit enter.

4. Examine results. I prefer to look at images because I can't understand the text! However, there is sometimes a translate option or you can always use this again.

I hope you have fun with this! I think it's a great way to search outside the box and find totally new things.

Now I have finally come to the chair of the week! This giant introduction may not be fitting of the chair I found. It is a very unusual one, not attractive in my opinion and very bird cage-esque. However, I finally present to you...

Ya I know, it's strange. But to make up for it, I'm going to give you TWO chairs this week! Now time to unveil the second...
A very luxurious Arabian style. It's kinda growing on me :)

Wow, I learned so much about Google while doing this post! It ended up being more about teaching a search method than presenting an awesome chair, but I think it was worth it. Now go experiment with those international searches!

Chair Of The Week 1

Starting today I will be posting an awesome looking chair each week! I love love loooove chairs, and can't wait to find some that I have never seen before. So stay tuned for all sorts of sweet seats.

To get things rolling, here is a funky little chair from edra that has always amused me. I actually got to sit in this one at the Isaloni furniture show in Milan 2 years ago. Feels pretty good. Be sure to check out their site for some unbelievably creative furniture, Italian style (click on the 'eng' link for easier navigating).

Ornament Coveting

Some day I would love to have a white artificial tree. And when I do I will cover it in fun vintage style ornaments like these:

from Pink Grapefruit Style

from CB2

from Hannah Bella Memories
But for now I will set up my tiny tree with the ornaments I got from Savers last year!

p.s.
I also really like this set of ornaments from Crate and Barrel.

Dave's Gorgeous Bathroom

This bathroom has been completely remodeled by my Mother in law's boyfriend Dave. I can't even explain to you what the bathroom looked like before, but lets just picture it something like this:

Now feast your eyes on the incredible transformation! Dave is so talented and Sheri has great taste and decorating style.


Dave bent the wood to make this cabinet as well as the white one shown above.

This ceiling used to be lower but Dave knocked it out and made it recessed for the chandelier.

I LOVE this shower with a jacuzzi tub. All the tiles have been cut and placed by Dave.

Dave carved this by hand out of a piece of walnut!!!

WAIT there's more!

I have searched everywhere for this wallpaper and my eyes have finally been opened. Anthro has rolls measuring 33 feet by 20.5 inches for $198. It looks like they are actually sourcing it from Cole & Son, a wonderful wallpaper company.

Retro Pillow

I just purchased this GORGEOUS pillow from Crate & Barrel. Next Comes the fun part of designing my entire living room around this one, inspiring accessory. It's got to be design on a budget seeing as I am a poor newly married student. The other challenge is finding attractive items in Utah County. The following weeks should be interesting as I scavenge for good deals and a nice color scheme.

Or maybe I'll adapt the colors in this photo. I definitely want a happy and relaxing room so I'm thinking greens or yellows.