Floors. Simplified.

Is it yesterday's news that I like white wood floors?  Can you take the hint?


What other kinds of floor do I approve of?  Excellent question.

Unpainted wood if fine too.


Rugs are invited to the party if they are:

A. Sisal


B.  Oriental




C. Dhurrie




And tile in the bathroom.


That's all.

Peter Frank

Did anyone else say, "Hubba hubba" when they saw Peter Frank's home in October's House Beautiful?  I drooled over the issue on the long flight from Portland to Portland.

True love.

Kimberly Cornelison and Alfie Ferreyra's condo-away-from-home appeared in Country Home magazine March 2007. I've been stalking it ever since.
Photos of their home (taken by Kim) have appeared frequently and everywhere. Most recently on Design*Sponge.

It's an all time favorite of mine.

Here is the original article... too cool for school.

Another shot of the entry:

More shots of the living room/office:

The other side of the dining room:

Curtians, No curtians.

The kitchen:

The bedroom looking a smidge different:

Slopes.

On the 2nd floor of Cape 18, you will find two bedrooms tucked up under the eaves.  The ceilings go all the way to the  roofline, complete with a sloped ceiling and beams.  Decorating the slope (or around the slope) is proving tricky.

Do I paint some parts and not others?

Do I turn the knee wall (knee wall? is that the right term?) into shelving?

Skylights?

Wallpaper the whole mess?

A canopy?

Celebrate the area?

Or ignore the entire confusing problem?

Nook.

I want to sleep in a built-in nook. They look so warm and cozy! Of course the downside means that I might never be on time for work again.

I blame this on my love of Gnomes, circa 1978.

White on white.

I love white on white in theory...

But do I have the willpower to pull it off?

I mean what happens when I fall in love with this...

this...

or this...

What to do, what to do.

Operation Bathroom Redo

Cape 18 and I have been dreaming of a little bathroon redo for 6+ years.
The bathroom needs some love... A little sugar... Some white tiled sugar

A few years ago I bought a bee-u-tee-ful, Josef Frank-esque shower curtain from The Pottery Barn. That helped in a "lipstick on a pig" kind of way.

The sink is a cabnet sink with gold fixtures.  So many things to dislike, so little time. Thankfully one of the cabinet doors was recently, accidently ripped off by a visiting child. YAHOO! Instant excuse for a new sink; I want a pedestal sink. Fortunately the bathroom has a big closet, so storage space is not an issue. Kohler Memoirs or something similar, square and classic will soon be moving in. (Minus the gold fixtures).

A pedistal sink means that I need to get a new floor. Bye-bye old linoleum, Hello hex tile!

If the floor is changing, the bathroom deserves a new tub and toilet too.  The existing tub/shower is a biscuit "surround" single unit thing-y. Enter a REAL tub and 3 walls of white subway tile.  Yes, yes, I know the picture below isn't subway tile, but it's the idea - white tub, white tile walls, white tile floor.  Yum.

Images: Pottery Barn and unknown