xoxo,
Gillian
Showing posts with label Interior Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interior Design. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Whimsical Lighting
I've always been fairly obsessed with light fixtures, but lately I've been thinking... Is there any reason that light fixtures shouldn't be whimsical? And my answer would have to be: "of course not!"
Yes, yes... I am in love!
xoxo,
Gillian
xoxo,
Gillian
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
The Best Living Room Ever
I can see it... on the horizon... getting closer... soon...SOON! I will own an actual, real house.
Yup. No more of this rental apartment nonsense. A house with an honest-to-God mortgage and sidewalks and a yard and, if I have any say in the matter, a garage.
I love interior design and looking at magazines and websites and real life places for inspiration for my one-day home. Unfortunately, because we don't yet know what home we'll buy and because we don't have money for renovating, I don't want to fall too much in love with anything so grand as a granite counter top. Granite is a one-day thing. But things like paint and a new sofa are achievable in the not-so-distant future, so that's where my design sights are set presently.
I find myself drawn to bright, airy, beachy interiors. Cold and sparse is not my thing. I love built-in bookshelves, and heaven knows we'll need them, as the husband and I are both former bookstore employees and serious bibliophiles. Here are a few pictures that are inspiring the heck out of me right now:
Yup. No more of this rental apartment nonsense. A house with an honest-to-God mortgage and sidewalks and a yard and, if I have any say in the matter, a garage.
I love interior design and looking at magazines and websites and real life places for inspiration for my one-day home. Unfortunately, because we don't yet know what home we'll buy and because we don't have money for renovating, I don't want to fall too much in love with anything so grand as a granite counter top. Granite is a one-day thing. But things like paint and a new sofa are achievable in the not-so-distant future, so that's where my design sights are set presently.
I find myself drawn to bright, airy, beachy interiors. Cold and sparse is not my thing. I love built-in bookshelves, and heaven knows we'll need them, as the husband and I are both former bookstore employees and serious bibliophiles. Here are a few pictures that are inspiring the heck out of me right now:
These bookshelves make me drool.
This is a beach cottage at The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. We visited the hotel on our honeymoon at my insistence, because that's where Marilyn Monroe filmed "Some Like It Hot." I love yellow walls with white trim, grey furniture, and of course, the ocean out the window ;) I love Marilyn Monroe. I love hardwood. If I could just live there, that would make me very happy.
Hydrangeas just make me happy.
Since a porthole window is likely unachievable, a porthole mirror would work in a pinch. I love me some nautical elements, especially in prairie suburbia ;)
So... when can I move in?
xoxo,
Gillian
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