Best Made Axes

I don't know when I'd ever need a really cool axe but if I did....how pretty are these? Found here.

Lace in Translation

The Design Center at Philadelphia University presents Lace in Translation starting September 24th. The Design Center commissioned 3 world-renowned artists and designers - one of which is Tord Boontje, a regularly mentioned artist on Design Sponge. You may recognize his lamps.

The exhibit will run from September 24, 2009 through March 31, 2010. Find more info here.

Guest Room

Over the weekend I purchased 2 rolls of this Julia Rothman wallpaper for our guest room. One wall will be papered while the remaining walls will be painted. We're thinking of something in the light blue/green school. We're still trying to decide if we should tackle the wallpaper hanging ourselves or hire an expert....

Also....

I'd like to buy this Rubie Green bedding (sheets only, topped with a white bedspread)
Paint the existing dresser white.
Get some knobs from Anthropologie (so many to choose from!)
Buy white curtains and trim with yellow grosgrain ribbon.
All by October 1st.

Can I do it?!

The Designer's Attic

Shannon Darby, over at Pink Wallpaper , just announced a new project, The Designer's Attic. She'll be listing stuff for sale from, you guessed it, her attic. Fabric, wallpaper, lighting, furniture.... She has great taste so we're sure to see some great stuff. That bamboo lamp would be perfect in FL....

Bunk Beds

I'd love an entire room lined with bunk beds, where the 10 year old me and my brothers and friends could stay up late telling ghost stories on a rainy night like tonight.

Maximalists

I'm not around this weekend but if I were I'd be at The Flaming Lips show on Saturday night. Which reminded me of an article I read in NYTimes (I'm realizing that I mention them a lot!) a year or so ago, "At Home with Wayne Coyne." He, of course, lives in a super wacky home in Oklahoma City.

"Seen from the street, it resembles a do-it-yourself version of a Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie House; inside it feels mazelike and eccentric, qualities the couple have tried to enhance with color. Ms. Martin-Coyne painted an upstairs bedroom “breathless blue,” she said, after a sky blue shade of nail polish, and her art studio across the hallway has a pink rubber floor."

Yep.

And for all those not familiar with The Flaming Lips they're a psychedelic rock band known for their outrageous live shows complete with life-sized stuffed animals. Check them out Saturday night, the 29th, at Festival Pier.

Cleaning House

I recently got a new computer (finally a Mac-only household!) and have been slowly but surely transferring all of the images from my old computer. It's kind of no surprise my PC was on it's last legs... I came across these oldies that I saved as inspiration when we first moved in to our house. Which reminds me I still need to do some good before and afters. If only our stairs would finish themselves!

PS: I don't know where I got any of these images, sorry! Please take credit where credit belongs and I'll make note.