5 Apr
Laura Stein is an interior designer based in Toronto that I was shocked to find out I had not featured here before. She focuses on “creating fresh, lifestyle-based designs infused with comfort and understated luxury”. Her contemporary style is timeless and not at all fussy but quite sophisticated.
5 Apr
Love this little apartment in an art deco complex in Potts Point, Sydney. Stylish black and white with wonderful wooden floors slap bang in the middle of the Macleay St action. Lunch at Fratelli Paradiso anyone? Yum! As much as I love those floors I wonder if a graphic rug wouldn’t help? Maybe the Bazaar rug from Freedom. (Smooth segue!) Perhaps in the bedroom if you can’t face covering those boards in the living area. Link for the apartment sale here and don’t forget our Freedom rug giveaway finishes last thing Saturday. You can enter here.
P.S. I won’t be blogging tomorrow. I have a hot date with my Faded Empire website. A solid day of ironing out the bugs and fine tuning for the launch next week. But I’ll be back Saturday with 3 days of Easter reading guides. Yay! Lots of new blogs to discover!)
5 Apr
Help I’m stuck at the beach! Palm Beach, Sydney that is. It seems like it lately with beach side properties around the world. I couldn’t think of a better place to real estate stalk though. Today I have found another beach shack with a big price tag. (POA … always a good indicator of an “interesting” price.) But oh what a cutie! Unassuming outside and hipster cool inside. So cool in fact that it graced the pages of Inside Out magazine. The owners and agent are proud of the fact too. They included shots of the layout. Link here while it lasts. If I had the money I’d be moving in for Easter.
5 Apr
Happy hump day for a short work week! I love Easter weekend. Time with family and chocolate and this Easter my mom is making her lasagna (by request)…. I love my Italian mamma’s cooking. 
But onto the topic of the moment – EYE CANDY! Today more from one of my biggest photographer crushes, Paul Raeside (see more here).
2 Apr
If you’d like to send me photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow my basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so it takes center stage rather than your pet. Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture that you want to show off…and your pet happens to be sitting on it. And second, the photo must be of decent quality. If it’s dark or fuzzy (from a camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Thanks! (Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to desiretoinspirekim@hotmail.com and PLEASE don’t send closeups of your pet!)
This is my cat, Otter (or Mr. Otter Pants, as he’s more formally known), having a snooze on a reupholstered antique chair. It’s part of a set that my mom found at a rummage sale for $5 many years ago. I had them recovered and refinished when she was through with them, and now they’re my favorite pieces in my house.
- Amie (Wisconsin)
This is Lovey Howl on her very own mini Adrian Pearsall style sofa. Hipsterrrrrrrrr!
- Sabrina (Silver Lake, Los Angeles) 
This is my Boston Terrier, Harriet, killing our Barcelona chair because it’s the best place to see out the front window.
- Kari (Madison, WI)
This is Westan [Rowan Brown] after a long day at work. I’ve been with her for 5-weeks but I can’t recall event a minute of life before her. (She is part of my late-twenties’ becoming an adult.)
- Dylan (Boston, MA)
1 - The first (2) images are of two newly refinished teak chairs I just bought from a mid-century shop in our ‘hood. They only just got placed by the window as I brought them in, and five minutes later they became the new favorite sleeping spot for our three-legged kitten Tabitha (and her big brother Mr.Mister). Of course, the chairs are still in the same spot couple of months on.
2 - Not sure if this counts as furniture, but it is our renovated bathroom I sent to you pics of last year. The black walnut vanity was a simple design I had made by a local furniture maker. The sink was a gift from a contractor relative. Our adopted three-legged kitten cat (Tabitha) has a real keen interest in water….anytime, anywhere.
- Paul 
Here are my four-legged kids:
1. Chester – who has always loved to sleep on his back ever since he was a kitten…napping in the vintage Bertoia Bird Chair, aka his favorite spot.
2. & 3. Lily – she is oh so photogenic & decided to strike a pose on one of my favorite Ebay treasures: a vintage 1960′s “Love” chair that I had powder coated bright white (original color was iron gray) and upholstered the seat cushion with Hable Construction fabric.
- Susan (Santa Monica, CA)
This is my cat, Junior Lollipops, on my vintage rocking chair. This is her favorite spot.
- Amy (Los Angeles)
Yesterday (28th) we brought our new puppy Kate home from The Humane Society. William couldn’t get enough of her. This morning he’s a little mellower – happily sharing his grey couch. William and Kate – it was meant to be;)
- Karen
Lucy and Riley lounging at the office on Linen Slipcovers and Antique Fragment Pillows!
- Katie and Kim of Ginger Barber Design (Houston)
I present you my Sun Cat perched on the top of my library (billy Ikea) just next to a basket of offerings and a South African sculpture.
- Dominique 
This is Silky the Maltese. She’s been in our family for nine years now and she’s our little hairy baby! Of course she owns the arms of the sofas and the whole arm wing chair, even though she has her own pillow on the floor!
- Olga
Here’s my Rocko sitting on his own couch in the living room.
- Michael
I’m writing from Brazil, to send a picture of my pug Cid sitted on the sofa, taking care of his precious bone…he loves to take pictures, but is hard to capture a good pose…
- Tais
Actually, i don’t have any pet at home( except for fish) but i really wish i had one! But I have a sweety toy of elk ( haha , i know, it’s crazy). It’s just on the top of my favourite sofa. It’s white leather sofa from Relotti store. At night it can change into soft single bed. And the toy – into pretty pillow
- Vitaliya (Russia)
2 Apr
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… from a bright light. Love love love the light, the depth of field, the composition but mostly the intimacy of these photos by the very talented Daniel Farmer. Love the faded beauty of the rest of his portfolio as well.
2 Apr
I find myself walking in the dunes staring at houses that front the sea from Australia to England and now I’m feeling the sand between my toes in Massachusetts. A family home in Aquinnah by Hutker Arcitects. It’s a modern take on the simple New England beach vernacular. No big old money mansion here. It sits quietly in its surroundings with its shingles slowly greying. Just a cosy, family home with a big picture windows framing what it is all about … the view across the waving dune grasses to the sea. Yes please.
2 Apr
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