The artist's beach shack
Artist David Bromley's Byron Bay lair no less. Art and soul, living large and outrageously. A series of charcoal coloured cottages and sheds complete with outdoor baths, airstream and rusty truck. And...
View ArticleMonday's pets on furniture and a plea for help
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...
View ArticleSeductive Interiors
Interior designer Sera Hersham-Loftus is the queen of romantic, seductive interiors. We love her work so much we've blogged her work several times over the years (here, here, here and here). I was so...
View ArticleLuxury family living
Once again South African design firms SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and ANTONI ASSOCIATES have shared another of their projects. Luxury family living. I'll let them explain ... The...
View ArticleSticks and stones
Rising from the grass, shaded by a stand of trees is a simple beach house celebrating its surroundings and the lifestyle of surf and sand, sun and fun with family and friends. This is simple building...
View ArticleReader's home - Phyllis' to-the-studs renovation
Today's reader's home comes from Phyllis of Henhurst Interiors, and boy is it a DOOZIE!The house was built in 1913, a traditional and modest Vermont village house, with an unfortunate 1980’s addition...
View ArticleAmelia Handegan
In keeping with the traditional theme I started earlier today, let me introduce you to Charleston, South Carolina interior designer Amelia Handegan. She has had the pleasure of working on several of...
View ArticleSarah Lavoine
I recently stumbled upon the portfolio of Parisian interior designer Sarah Lavoine and was completely blown away. Her spaces are contemporary, eclectic, modern, sometimes poppin' with colour, sometimes...
View ArticleSarah Lavoine encore
Here is another breathtaking project designed by interior designer Sarah Lavoine. It is pretty obvious that this Parisian apartment is the home of an art collector. Most people who design spaces for...
View ArticleWhite, light and dappled shade
Another day, another daydream, another dream beach house from Martín Gómez Arquitectos. The more I see of Gómez' vision for Punta del Este the more I need to move to Uruguay. If white and wood and...
View ArticleStalking cute little white cottages ...
I know it is wrong for a woman now in her 50s (just ... just) to get all cutsie pie over little white worker's cottages but I can't help it. I always want to pinch their chubby little house cheeks and...
View ArticleReader's home - Janelle's tropical oasis
It seems Apartment Therapy is having a Room For Color 2012 contest, and photographer Janelle has entered her home. The tropical colour palette she went with in her new home began with her obsession...
View ArticleMikael Bergquist
I thought I'd do a quick post of some really simple, serene vacation homes in Sweden to calm the senses. By architect Mikael Bergquist.
View ArticleThe great Australian dream ...
There is something in the Australian psyche, a primordial urge to own the quarter acre block with house or the ultimate dream ... to own a pub. Yes, yes there is that crusty old joke about the perfect...
View Articlesietemares
Seems we haven't gotten enough of gorgeous beachy homes in Uruguay. Here's yet another one for you, again by Martín Gómez Arquitectos. sietemares is a gorgeous residence also in Punta del Este located...
View ArticleDesign Crew
Got a problem? Need some help? Just standing there shaking your head? Don't know what to do? You're not alone. Send us a link to photos of your design quandary and let the Desire to Inspire design...
View ArticleA vacation home in Spain
I found this gorgeous vacation home located in Cantábrico (northern Spain) and fell in love. It's just the right amount of funky vintage furniture, doses of bold colour against white walls, and WOW do...
View ArticleTiny house
A tiny house big on style, mighty where it counts. A small footprint, big use of re-use. Reclaiming, recycling, reinventing but definitely not rehashing. Fresh green design capped off with the...
View ArticleCreative space
Fresh and bright and white and wow. Love this home office/creative space by Jesse Moyer of Jette Creative. A clean, simple aesthetic that marries the past and the present, vintage and modern.
View ArticleMonday's pets on furniture and another plea for help
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...
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