Photos: Eric Laignel

I was poking around on DesignShuffle.com and I came across this beautifully decorated apartment. This space doesn't feel like an apartment at all, well done! It was decorated by Workshop/apd a design team based in NY. I took a look at the their website and they've also built some amazing buildings. check them out!

Architect Ira Rakatansky

Rakatansky studied with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard in the 1940s. He began building homes and his own home in Providence, Rhode Island. Check out more of his home on Apartment Therapy

Michael Haverland + Alan Tranksley: Ellenbogen Triplex: Grammercy Park

An incredible renovation by architect Michael Haverland and interior designer Alan Tanksley. What a great space! I think those brass sculpture/sconces would look great on my home.

More photo's found at the http://thenorthelevation.blogspot.com

New Rug

A few weeks ago I blogged about carpet floor tiles. Well I purchased some thinking they would go in the entrance hall, but it just looked too loud. I think they look better under the table. This rug is is made by Flor.com, but I purchased them at CB2. It wasn't cheeper there but I had my eyes on these decorative color balls, which now live in a bowl on the table.

House Design

Love the gray and citrus in the living room, that is currently one of my favorite color schemes.

This mid-century house was designed by Jill Lewis and Lane Williams of Coop 15 Architecture. Later renovated by Robin Chell Design studio. Click here to view more pictures.

Frank Roop interiors

Loving Frank Roop's interiors! He is based in Boston, but some of his designs look more suited for a warm beachy location.

Frank began his firm in 1998 after a career in fine men’s specialty store retailing. The principles of design he learned in menswear helped give him the basis for formulating and conceptualizing his design schemes.

Thrifty Nest

Check out the colorful and thrifty home of artist Carolyn Burgess aka squirrelpearl. Here is what she had to say about her home:

We live in East Nashville, TN in a little brick Tudor style house for about 5 years. We are both native to the area, grew up in suburbs outside of Nashville. We have been working to restore our house and make it our own since the first day of ownership! We started knocking out walls and tearing off the siding that covered the stucco on the exterior...so much fun to do demo!!

Our house was built in 1940 and has arched doorways and a brick arched side patio, so when we wanted to open up our kitchen to the dining room - we wanted to mimic that arch to try to keep the house as close to period true as we could. We also retro renovated the kitchen by removing the mdf type cheapo cabinets that were installed by a previous owner, and replaced them with vintage Youngstown metal cabinets that we had stripped and powdercoated. They are from the 1950's, so they aren't what would have been original to the house, but they are close! We also removed the cheapo kitchen tile floor and refinished the hardwoods beneath this year. We love it now!



We love hitting estate sales and the local flea market (went just this morning!) for all of our little treasures. We love finding weird knick knacks and things that aren't run of the mill. I lean more towards 50s and 60s, my husband leans more towards 70s. We try to find a balance, but also have some new modern items so that it doesn't feel like a time warp when you walk in the front door!

We typically don't spend a lot of money on any of our purchases, but do spend a good amount of time out there "hunting", it is a sickness, I swear! Do you have it too? We have a basement full of odd chairs and stuff, that occasionally I'll think, "I have the perfect thing for that spot!" and it will have been in our basement for two years, not yet knowing it's purpose!

I get a lot of questions about our new (to us) yellow couch- it was free, but in it's current state, no one would've wanted to sit on it! We had it reupholstered and made it our own, we love it and the matching chairs so much now!! It is made by Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates, his work was similar to Vladimir Kagan, which I see you found a side table-- jealous!! ;-)

check out her "Before and Afters" folder on flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/imacookoo/sets/72157623365104751/

Be sure to check out her Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/squirrelpearl

Moose Hill Modern House

Saw this home on Apartment Therapy and though I'd share. The home is located South of Boston near the Audubon Society’s 2,000-acre Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary.

Living color

Check out Viviana's AMAZING home! I love the colors, the patterns and especially the vintage items.

Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes

Design Research in Cambridge, MA
A friend of mine sent me this Boston Globe article and I though I'd share. It's about a new book that tells how Design Research spread modern design across America. What is Design Research? It was a store that started in 1953 that sold modern wares in Cambridge, MA.

"Ben Thompson, who later chaired the architecture department at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, began the store because his clients couldn’t find appropriate furnishings for the modern houses he and other architects were creating. D/R, he hoped, would supply that need. It was never particularly expensive. The concept was that good design could be found anywhere, from Peruvian mountain sweaters to modernist chairs by such name architects as Aalto, Breuer, Saarinen, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, and many others." read more here

Becke & Lee's Vintage Cabin

Check out more of this home at apartmenttherapy.com

Interior designer Amy Lau

Beautiful images of a home decorated by Amy Lau. I really love that wall unit, I want to build something like that in the foyer, but way bigger.

My husband is actually making process on the platform bed. I'll post some pictures some time this week.

images via: access.decorati.com