Perfectly Disgraceful

New furniture

If I believed in astrology, I would think that some weird alignment of the stars lead us to make three major purchases (the Ikea kitchen is the first) in one week. We'd been looking for a new bureau for Eleven for months, trolling Craigslist and a local place, Uhuru, but we hadn't found anything that all three of us, Eleven, Rex and I, liked. Rex is especially hard to please, but his recalcitrance worked out this time. If he hadn't been holding us back, we would not have ended up with gorgeous bureau (which does have all its hardware, even though the pic makes it look otherwise).  Don't you love how the all-white room makes it look like it's floating?

I still can't believe I'm letting Eleven have this instead of keeping it for myself. I must be an exceptionally good mother.

Image round-up

The Ikea cabinets-- glossy white Abstrakt with birch counters-- are purchased, but not yet delivered. All the decisions have been made, except for handles and lighting, so I really should stop scouring the internets for inspiring pictures, but I can't. It's a sickness.

So cute. (Two following pics.).

I'm still contemplating chalkboard paint.

Dinner conversation with Rex

"You are the most temperamentally secular person I know."

"You are emotionally Marxist."

"Most religious people are murderers at heart. They have to cling to the knees of god, otherwise they go for the knives."

Products I like

I will admit that I bought this mascara based on the packaging, even though the name is embarrassing. And you know what? It it the best mascara I've used in 25 years. I used to use that pink and green stuff. I thought it smudged all over the place because my eyes water a lot. You know what? It wasn't me, it was the crappy mascara. The first time I used this Buxom stuff, someone thought I was wearing fake eyelashes. Yes, I was blessed with long eyelashes, but still, this stuff is amazing.

Winning the Nobel just for being awesome

Actual paper as wallpaper

  The walls are papered with blank sheets from an old ledger.

From the NYT.

This guy's house isn't really to my taste at all-- because I'm not into country, gruesome or collectibles, but it is a really interesting house. Worth a look. I think this wallpaper looks gorgeous and ethereal. I like the bedside light, too.

215 - 2009

   215 Festival. Or click here for the Facebook group.

That show at Brickbat Books tomorrow looks really good, doesn't it? Come by and get your copy of The Good Thief signed by Hannah Tinti. What do you mean you don't have a copy of it? It's one of the best new books I've read in years.

 

  

Does this look like a kitchen?

It's gorgeous. And it's making me rethink some of my kitchen ideas. Decorno posted about this kitchen yesterday, but then I found more pics here. I had decided to use one of Ikea's pantry cabinet in the redone kitchen, next to the fridge. Like this:

We badly need a broom closet somewhere. Anywhere. I really like how the Ikea pantries have all the little places for everything, but it would probably be a lot more interesting to have a pantry cabinet made from reclaimed wardrobe doors.  Hmmm. One of our original ideas was to use new cabinets beneath the counter and reclaimed, interesting-looking cabinets above the counter. But then I started thinking new! shiny! cabinets are what I want. And now I am possibly returning to our original ideas. Remember how it took us nine years to buy a couch? Yeah.

Blik

I've been wanting a Blik decal for my office wall-- to hide the smudges caused by parking my bike against it. I haven't yet found the ideal thing, but whenever I check out their site, I always see something I like.

Mina Javid's designs are delightful, especially the warehouse pendant light:

Shallow sink

I die.

Pic by Simon Watson found at Remodelista.