I grew up in a farmhouse where most of the rooms were covered in wallpaper. Flocked wallpaper in the entryway became the backdrop for my wedding photos. Big orange and white panels of wallpaper led the way to my bedroom. Fish swam on bathroom walls and English gardens bloomed in the kitchen. In my grown-up [...]
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Friday Things: The Near Miss Edition
Last Friday I put together my Friday Things post and stepped away from my desk to meet a friend for lunch. Twenty minutes later I was hit by a car as I was crossing the street to meet her. Yes, I was in the crosswalk. And no, I hadn’t looked both ways before crossing. I [...]
Harvest Decor
Having grown up on a farm, I’m nostalgic for the harvest season that starts in late September. Perhaps that’s why I loved this image of grapes hanging from the ceiling of an Umbrian farmhouse. According to the story in the September issue of The World of Interiors these clusters of moscatello, trebbiano and malvasia grapes [...]
Friday Things: That Old September Feeling Edition
Over the summer I’ve been re-reading Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose” and thinking how much more I bring to this reading now than I did when I read it in my 20s. Today I came across this quote near the end of the novel— “For several weeks now I have had the sense of something [...]
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Friday Things: The Standing Desk Edition
Ever since I read writer Susan Orlean’s New Yorker piece about working at a treadmill desk, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of walking or at least standing while I work. When we bought this house we thought it came with a built-in office desk. However, when we moved in we found that the (not built-in [...]
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Tagged body image, creativity, dance, Humanscale, IKEA, interior design, Joan Rivers, office furniture, photography
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Earthquake
Yesterday I woke up in the early a.m. dark because my bed was shaking. Actually, not just my bed, I realized, but the whole room. Eyes wide open now, I recognized that it wasn’t just my room but my entire house that was shuddering in the night. “Earthquake!” I elbowed M.J. awake. “Earthquake!” He stumbled [...]
Friday Things: The Floor Tile Edition
After taking a few months off from home-remodeling projects to travel and entertain house guests, we’re back at it. Today I’m trying to hear myself type over the bang-crash-clang of demolition. If I didn’t know better I’d think some super heroes were duking it out upstairs. But no, it’s the super-duper tile guys demo-ing one [...]
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Tagged home remodeling, ice bucket challenge, interior design, journals, tile
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American Craft Council San Francisco Show 2014
One of the unique features in our living room is a long, narrow display niche. I don’t know what the niche will ultimately hold, but for now it showcases various “blue” objects that came out of the moving boxes. Things like the Korean pottery M.J. picked up in Seoul when he was a Mormon missionary [...]
Alonzo King on Creativity
I’m always interested in how successful artists create their work. A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to hear four different “creators” talk about how they do what they do at a discussion on the “Structure, Art and Expression of the Creative Process” at the innovative San Francisco showroom Coup d’Etat. Panelists included designer [...]
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Remodelista and Gardenista Design Contests
As I’ve been putting this new house together, the home renovation site Remodelista has been my go-to source for design inspiration and resources and I’m certain that Gardenista will be just as instrumental when it comes time to renovate my garden. (Can’t wait to “dig in” come fall once the days are cooler and there’s [...]
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Tagged creativity, design contests, gardening, interior design, landscaping, remodeling, sharing
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