buzzwords...

fun

edgy

sustainable

cool

mc wife and custardbydesign and friends and white...

mc wife and i met with some friends last night who are considering buying a new house in our neighbourhood...

anyway...we went to look at ideas for remodeling their kitchen and we got to talking about other ideas for other areas of the house and we discussed clean white classic interiors...

then i saw these pics today and i clearly had to share...

from i.o. metro in tulsa...in tulsa above all places...

i dunno why i say 'above all places'...well i do actually...i think of tulsa and i think of friends and chandler and shark porn but sure thats neither here nor there...

simply fantastic interiors...love the pops of colour in the andy warhol inspired prints...

i must share our own madonna, elvis and marilyn monroe prints with y'all soon...

moving colour...

what about this for new and innovative technology taking glass tiles to new levels...

these temperature sensitive textured glass tiles change colour with the ambient, body of water temperature...when someone touches them or if warm water form a shower hits them, the tiles simply burst with colour...

"Clients can also choose the activation temperature of the tiles which will then go through 3 shimmering phases, each with a 6 – 10° rise in temperature. ”Once the temperature peak is passed, the base color returns and remains the same until the temperature drops...”

with this product range in your shower...washing your bits will never be the same again...these are actually so cool they're hot...

alphabet soup...not exactly...

i love this idea from finnish designer lincoln kayiwa...

a room divider thats not soup but it is a wall storage unit also...

adaptable...yes...

i love how it conforms to hold almost anything...books, magazines, cd's, bric-a-bracs etc...very clever...

it's called the aakkoset and it comes in loadsa colours so it's nearly perfect for any space...

as usual i want one...

like...

i was checking my emails today and i found one that made my day...

i received a nice short little email from a designer telling me they "just wanted to drop a line and let you know how much i enjoyed the post on the dishes - very cool plates - it was a nice break from designing''...

now that made my day...

weekend wanting...

we're off to eureka springs again this weekend to hang out with the mc-in laws...

looking forward to a nice weekend...

a visit to a haunted hotel is on the cards...

the picture above isn't haunted at all - or at least not that i know off - yet the colour palette's provide an eery theme with a phunky, vibrant and fresh vibe...

more to come on this hotel relaunch on monday...

belly...

gluttony is one the 7 deadly sins....but when you spend an hour and a half eating pancakes on a team lunch it's kinda hard to forget thinking about food for the rest of the day...

thoughts of food led me to thoughts of things to put food on and those thoughts led me to anthropologie because they've recently opened a store in littlerock, ar, which beats a drive to kansas city, mo, by like an hour...

7 boxes...

7 boxes to commemorate my guest post here...

thank you ronan for the invitation...

up and down...

up and down...i need a big glary disco theme tune sounding out as i trundle down these every morning...

not my stairs...i saw it here and they saw it there...

renovate or restorate...

i was driving through the neighbourhood this evening and something caught my eye...

we've been really adoring a remodel project on a house nearby....corner plot, wrap around porch, 2 story building, beautiful lawns, etc...

anyway, as i was driving by i notice a sign in the yard that said 'lovingly restored'...

and i got to thinking...really...???

restoration...???

the original hardwood sash windows have been replaced with a modern pvc window, and i'm sure there are plenty of other modern interpretations of original detailing throughout the house and i got to thinking...

that sign really ought to say 'renovation' or 'lovingly renovated' or something to that effect...

what do y'all think...???

what's the difference...???

who's right...???

the power of colour...

bringing you lots of colour inspired posts this week...

we have spent a few months now discussing colour, picking colours, painting walls, finding accessorires, framing prints etc etc...

so i think this week i shall share with you all our inspirations and what we have done to date...

introducing the hired help...

i mentioned in my last post i had somebody new around here to help with creative input, research and post editing...

i didn't advertise the position...hr or legal or somebody will likely be on to me as i hired from within...nepotism if you will...

anyway, here's the new addition to the team...darby...!!!

darby is 8 weeks old, we've had her for 2 weeks now...she is a standard poodle, her colour is deemed 'apricot' amongst the poodle set...