Interior Design Sense

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

I’m emailing with a photo of my handsome little Boston Terrier, Kojo. He’s hanging out on a handmade duvet in my old apartment in Washington, DC.
- Kim

This a picture of my living room with my cat ‘eye’.
- Sophie (France) 

Here’s our dog Hachi trying to catch some well earned zzz’s while I sneak up on her with the camera.
- Toby (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 

We were sent this link to a post called Elegant Cats and Feline Asthma written by Dominique Browning (ex-House and Garden magazine editor-in-chief and NYTimes writer). It included the following incredible cat photos from the book The French Cat by photographer Rachael Hale

This photo is of Marxy watching attentively Sunday morning as my husband, Richard, cooks breakfast. Marxy loves to observe everything from her ottoman. LOL!!
- Cindy 

Please find attached pics of my beloved calico, Jude, and my neighbor’s fawn Doberman Pincer, Coco. (please excuse my exuberance for these dears!!)
-First is the Jude in a beam on our bed. Does the gorgeous Thibaut wallpaper count as “furniture?”
-Second is the Jude on our vintage dining room sofa with a retro spider plant and Block Island beach rocks in the foreground.
-Then we have Coco on the patio table. She does this whenever she is being ignored which alarms us all a bit since she is such a big dog! I call this “dog on glass”
-Last, when we keep an eye on Coco while her people are visiting with thier son who just joined the Marines, ( <3 Kemal!!) she shows us how much she appreciates our attentions. such a peach!
- Samantha

  

My favorite place to sit and read is often taken by our basset hound Finn when I return. Oddly on this day I was reading “Investigations of a Dog” by Franz Kafka.
- Debra

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

Lazy day of Bird
- Gina (San Francisco)

William is 6 months old now. We gave him another chair but he’s taken to this one, much to my chagrin. Do you think our antlers are safe?
- Karen (Oshawa, ON)

This is my cat, Tom Hanks, sitting on my orange director’s that has been with me since freshman year in college – I am now 26 and I currently live in Boston!
- Lex 

I wanted to send in this picture of my 1 1/2-year-old Ragdoll cat, Josephine, napping on my antique 1930s sofa.
- My (Northampton, Massachusetts) 

Please meet our very decorative 9-month old French Bulldog, Martini. The only furniture he is usually spotted on is our bed and we are amazed that he moved downstairs (!) for this photo.
- Andreea (Bucharest, Romania) 

This is Gaspar, an 8 month puppy, crazy like Tasmanian devil but really cute!
- Margarida & Dan (Lisboa, Portugal)

Our three cats LOVE hanging out on the furniture. I happened to snap these pictures early on afternoon when Spurfy, the big grey cat and Hooney, the smaller striped cat were relaxing on my old couch. They love standing on the back of that couch to look out the window as well as attempting to destroy said couch by scratching the arms until the fabric falls apart and I have to buy a new one! They’re really ridiculous creatures, but I still love them! Haha!
- Mrs. Biscuit (Arizona) 

Attached is a picture of our family dogs, Chester (right) and Coco (left), who also happen to be the mascot of our family store- True North Living. Along with keeping me company, they greet the customers with a sniff and lick. Occasionally they like to model the furniture, or should i say, model ON our furniture. The nest chair is their favorite!
- Katie (Oklahoma City, OK)

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

I decided to send some pictures of my persian cat Maggie. She is 5 years old and loves to walk around the house. Her favorite places are our bed, the living room couch and the kitchen chairs.
- Carolina (from Aveiro, Portugal now living in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 

This is Bowie, a gorgeous 8month old ragdoll. He is sleeping on the lounge on the first few pics and on the last one in his usual position in between my keyboard and monitor with his paws hanging over the keyboard. Makes for fun working!
- Natalie (Sydney, Australia) 

I have attached a couple photos of my cats Jin and Polly. The first photo is Jin on my new hand-me-down 70s Norwegian platform bed. The second photo is Polly on her “tuffet” – a Pier 1 wicker ottoman.
- Taylor (Oklahoma) 

A fun tribue to your Pet series!
- Patti  

American shorthair getting a little reading in.
- Anne (Jersey City, NJ)

Enclosed a picture of Diesel, my 6 year old French Bulldog, on a cowhide (I know, not really furniture but I had to try…) and on the couch. His favorite things to do are sleeping and staring out the window.
- Inge (The Netherlands)

I was shooting the new design I did in our fireplace (reuse of parquet flooring) to display on my blog and Kimy, our Yorkshire, was sitting on the couch!
- Marion (Brazil)

This is our puppy “Olive” briefly sitting still.
- Lora (Nashville, TN)

Here is Virgola testing out our brand new Ikea bench and cushions. We hadn’t even tightened the last screw that she had already leaped onto it. She surely seems to appreciate it.
- Teresa (Lodi, Italy)

These are our pets: Trini the dog and Boots the cat. Trini is in her favourite spot, at the corner of my mother’s old couch and boots in his, a decorative bowl of sorts.
- Wria (Toronto)

Thought it would be cute if you had a holiday “Pet by Christmas tree”
- Sunny

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

My shiba Suzaku puts the “love” in “loveseat.”
- JennyB (Washington, DC) 

This is Molly our soft coated Wheaton terrier enjoying the couch in our family room over looking the garden. Her favourite spot in the house.  
- Git (Toronto)

The photos attached are from a home office makeover my husband Brandon and I are currently working on, of course through the supervision of our cats.
- Jill

My late dog, Margret (a shepherd/terrier mix) on her daybed. She always had the best taste in fabric.
- Sue (Los Angeles)

Here is a picture of my daughter’s first fish named Jack. He is swimming around above Kelly Wearstler in front of a chic vintage mirror that can be found on my Etsy shop.
- Melanie (Denver)

Our little british blue, Hudson. 
- Lauren (Australia) 

Sunny Rae on a my sister-in-law’s thrifted chair. Don’t tell her I let the dog on it! lol.
- Brittney

My new estate store find that I recovered in great fabric gifted to me by my best friend and of course Tinkers my 3 year old kitty’s new favorite place to nap. 
- Jen (Lynchburg, VA)

This photo is of Maurice and Brittney the Boston Terriers from New York City in their Lazyboy chair.
- Eric

My cat, Mr.Paw, just loves to take his afternoon nap on this tray. You can see the actual furniture below the server, which is dark brown willow trunk. We keep our sheets and pillows there and consequently get a little more space to our closets.
- Kaisa (Helsinki, Finland)

The first photo is of a dog we met at an Inn my daughter, father and i stayed at in Treknow England, she was very well behaved and friendly, she just loved to sit in the window and see what was happening outside. The second photo is of my husbands ‘interesting’ rescue cat Spike, it’s hard to get photos of him because his definition of furniture is usually one of us, we are here simply to feed him and keep him warm I am sure, he does however find time to take over the hutch above my desk and put me on edge as he brush past the ornaments sitting on top, I often joke he does it on purpose. 
- Katie (Yarra Valley, Australia)

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

I decided to send some pictures of my persian cat Maggie. She is 5 years old and loves to walk around the house. Her favorite places are our bed, the living room couch and the kitchen chairs.
- Carolina (from Aveiro, Portugal now living in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 

This is Bowie, a gorgeous 8month old ragdoll. He is sleeping on the lounge on the first few pics and on the last one in his usual position in between my keyboard and monitor with his paws hanging over the keyboard. Makes for fun working!
- Natalie (Sydney, Australia) 

I have attached a couple photos of my cats Jin and Polly. The first photo is Jin on my new hand-me-down 70s Norwegian platform bed. The second photo is Polly on her “tuffet” – a Pier 1 wicker ottoman.
- Taylor (Oklahoma) 

A fun tribue to your Pet series!
- Patti  

American shorthair getting a little reading in.
- Anne (Jersey City, NJ)

Enclosed a picture of Diesel, my 6 year old French Bulldog, on a cowhide (I know, not really furniture but I had to try…) and on the couch. His favorite things to do are sleeping and staring out the window.
- Inge (The Netherlands)

I was shooting the new design I did in our fireplace (reuse of parquet flooring) to display on my blog and Kimy, our Yorkshire, was sitting on the couch!
- Marion (Brazil)

This is our puppy “Olive” briefly sitting still.
- Lora (Nashville, TN)

Here is Virgola testing out our brand new Ikea bench and cushions. We hadn’t even tightened the last screw that she had already leaped onto it. She surely seems to appreciate it.
- Teresa (Lodi, Italy)

These are our pets: Trini the dog and Boots the cat. Trini is in her favourite spot, at the corner of my mother’s old couch and boots in his, a decorative bowl of sorts.
- Wria (Toronto)

Thought it would be cute if you had a holiday “Pet by Christmas tree”
- Sunny

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

My shiba Suzaku puts the “love” in “loveseat.”
- JennyB (Washington, DC) 

This is Molly our soft coated Wheaton terrier enjoying the couch in our family room over looking the garden. Her favourite spot in the house.  
- Git (Toronto)

The photos attached are from a home office makeover my husband Brandon and I are currently working on, of course through the supervision of our cats.
- Jill

My late dog, Margret (a shepherd/terrier mix) on her daybed. She always had the best taste in fabric.
- Sue (Los Angeles)

Here is a picture of my daughter’s first fish named Jack. He is swimming around above Kelly Wearstler in front of a chic vintage mirror that can be found on my Etsy shop.
- Melanie (Denver)

Our little british blue, Hudson. 
- Lauren (Australia) 

Sunny Rae on a my sister-in-law’s thrifted chair. Don’t tell her I let the dog on it! lol.
- Brittney

My new estate store find that I recovered in great fabric gifted to me by my best friend and of course Tinkers my 3 year old kitty’s new favorite place to nap. 
- Jen (Lynchburg, VA)

This photo is of Maurice and Brittney the Boston Terriers from New York City in their Lazyboy chair.
- Eric

My cat, Mr.Paw, just loves to take his afternoon nap on this tray. You can see the actual furniture below the server, which is dark brown willow trunk. We keep our sheets and pillows there and consequently get a little more space to our closets.
- Kaisa (Helsinki, Finland)

The first photo is of a dog we met at an Inn my daughter, father and i stayed at in Treknow England, she was very well behaved and friendly, she just loved to sit in the window and see what was happening outside. The second photo is of my husbands ‘interesting’ rescue cat Spike, it’s hard to get photos of him because his definition of furniture is usually one of us, we are here simply to feed him and keep him warm I am sure, he does however find time to take over the hutch above my desk and put me on edge as he brush past the ornaments sitting on top, I often joke he does it on purpose. 
- Katie (Yarra Valley, Australia)

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

I decided to send some pictures of my persian cat Maggie. She is 5 years old and loves to walk around the house. Her favorite places are our bed, the living room couch and the kitchen chairs.
- Carolina (from Aveiro, Portugal now living in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 

This is Bowie, a gorgeous 8month old ragdoll. He is sleeping on the lounge on the first few pics and on the last one in his usual position in between my keyboard and monitor with his paws hanging over the keyboard. Makes for fun working!
- Natalie (Sydney, Australia) 

I have attached a couple photos of my cats Jin and Polly. The first photo is Jin on my new hand-me-down 70s Norwegian platform bed. The second photo is Polly on her “tuffet” – a Pier 1 wicker ottoman.
- Taylor (Oklahoma) 

A fun tribue to your Pet series!
- Patti  

American shorthair getting a little reading in.
- Anne (Jersey City, NJ)

Enclosed a picture of Diesel, my 6 year old French Bulldog, on a cowhide (I know, not really furniture but I had to try…) and on the couch. His favorite things to do are sleeping and staring out the window.
- Inge (The Netherlands)

I was shooting the new design I did in our fireplace (reuse of parquet flooring) to display on my blog and Kimy, our Yorkshire, was sitting on the couch!
- Marion (Brazil)

This is our puppy “Olive” briefly sitting still.
- Lora (Nashville, TN)

Here is Virgola testing out our brand new Ikea bench and cushions. We hadn’t even tightened the last screw that she had already leaped onto it. She surely seems to appreciate it.
- Teresa (Lodi, Italy)

These are our pets: Trini the dog and Boots the cat. Trini is in her favourite spot, at the corner of my mother’s old couch and boots in his, a decorative bowl of sorts.
- Wria (Toronto)

Thought it would be cute if you had a holiday “Pet by Christmas tree”
- Sunny

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

My shiba Suzaku puts the “love” in “loveseat.”
- JennyB (Washington, DC) 

This is Molly our soft coated Wheaton terrier enjoying the couch in our family room over looking the garden. Her favourite spot in the house.  
- Git (Toronto)

The photos attached are from a home office makeover my husband Brandon and I are currently working on, of course through the supervision of our cats.
- Jill

My late dog, Margret (a shepherd/terrier mix) on her daybed. She always had the best taste in fabric.
- Sue (Los Angeles)

Here is a picture of my daughter’s first fish named Jack. He is swimming around above Kelly Wearstler in front of a chic vintage mirror that can be found on my Etsy shop.
- Melanie (Denver)

Our little british blue, Hudson. 
- Lauren (Australia) 

Sunny Rae on a my sister-in-law’s thrifted chair. Don’t tell her I let the dog on it! lol.
- Brittney

My new estate store find that I recovered in great fabric gifted to me by my best friend and of course Tinkers my 3 year old kitty’s new favorite place to nap. 
- Jen (Lynchburg, VA)

This photo is of Maurice and Brittney the Boston Terriers from New York City in their Lazyboy chair.
- Eric

My cat, Mr.Paw, just loves to take his afternoon nap on this tray. You can see the actual furniture below the server, which is dark brown willow trunk. We keep our sheets and pillows there and consequently get a little more space to our closets.
- Kaisa (Helsinki, Finland)

The first photo is of a dog we met at an Inn my daughter, father and i stayed at in Treknow England, she was very well behaved and friendly, she just loved to sit in the window and see what was happening outside. The second photo is of my husbands ‘interesting’ rescue cat Spike, it’s hard to get photos of him because his definition of furniture is usually one of us, we are here simply to feed him and keep him warm I am sure, he does however find time to take over the hutch above my desk and put me on edge as he brush past the ornaments sitting on top, I often joke he does it on purpose. 
- Katie (Yarra Valley, Australia)

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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!)

*** A huge thanks to all of you who answered my request for more pet entries for today. If some of you are wondering why your photos aren’t included, I received so many I had to save some for next week.  

My new handmade walnut bed from a wonderful Etsy artisan, against a chocolate wall (my first foray into bold color) and Minnie – my 19 year old geriatric kitty – in her Queen of the Hill mode. The old and the new, merging beautifully.
- Diane (San Diego)

…my dog in my rocket chair.
- Ana 

Riley on the purple chair that he is usually not allowed to be on
- Katie (San Francisco, CA)

Here is our giant Siberian cat Lucas on his favorite chair, where you can find him most of the time. He loves to relax.
- Naomi (Seattle, WA) 

This is Billy the Kit.
- Emily 

Long time ago I send you a picture of my cat Rodolfo acting as a gargoyle…. Now here you have few pictures of his brothers, Catalino, the siamese, and Nicolas, the white deaf baby we found 8 months ago. Frequently they appear in my blog using all the furniture of our house, of course.
- Tami
  

Here are my “borrow-cats”. The tired one is Tess and the other is her mother Sotis. They live with me for some weeks now and then.
- Barbro (Sweden)

These are my two beagles Sadie and Daisy sitting in the kitchen on an antique Crewel work chair.
- L 

There should be a keyboard instead of that creature. But it’s his very favorite place, so…
- una x 

If you’d like to send us photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow our 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 Pixel the Weimaraner trying out our brand new bed! We have just completed renovating our 1920s townhouse and are slowly filling it in with furniture. The bed is our own design made to order for us, and we love it! It is great for leaning on to relax and reading a book in the evening.
- Marta & António (Porto, Portugal)

Noah, our 6 year old weimaraner, lounging on a sunday afternoon.
- James 

This is our three years old pug Lino, on my mom’s red couch. 
- Tamara 

This is the feline love of my life, Minnie. She passed away in August and all the pictures I have of her seem to be closeups, these are the most zoomed out I have. I made her a bed out of a cola crate to keep her from sleeping on my hands and keyboard while I worked. First picture is the trial run where she was slightly suspicious, second picture she was madly in love with it.
- Julia (St.Paul Minnesota)

fifigigi on a DPstool by danielmoyerdesign
- Daniel (bushwick.brooklyn.NYC)

Joey on Crate & Barrel sofa, Riley on Z-Gallerie faux-leopard chair and Jack, Joey and Riley in a rare photo together on our Karastan tea-stained persian rug. 
- Sue (Naperville, IL)

This is old Jessie lying on a new Anthropologie rug wishing she could be on the old Ikat cushions instead.
- Mandy

Lulu, our feisty little chihuahua, lounging on her favorite spot at home.
- Mary

 This is our 4-year-old cat Cosmo we adopted from a shelter who loves to lay on all furniture.
- Sharon (NYC) 

I wanted to submit our Cavalier “FJ”, sitting in the sun when he’s not on our laps, on a much loved chair given to us.

- Dora (Kelowna, BC)