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House where time stood still

by Allison on July 6, 2011 in Home, home_design · 8 comments

I recently read an article about this house in New Zealand that’s blowing my mind.

retro kitchen

It was built and completely decorated + furnished right after World War II for a navy man’s mother and sister, never to be lived in.

Ever.

record player

All the original furnishings are still intact: dishes, record player + records, light fixtures, original parquet floors.

retro bathroom

I’m honestly melting a little inside just thinking about it.  Can you even imagine?  This little treasure of mid-century modern is just sitting empty {halfway across the world}, waiting for me to come live there.

Oh come on, a girl can dream.

{images and article from The Bay of Plenty Times}

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how to make your own inspiration board

by Allison on March 1, 2011 in Home, home_design · 14 comments

style collage

In January I spoke at a design conference called Altitude Design Summit in Salt Lake City.  I was one of the teachers of a design camp class about making your own design boards.  I’ve been making inspiration boards for a while now and find them to be really useful in helping the creative process no matter what I’m doing.  A ton of you have asked me to guide you to a resource for creating your own design boards, and since I couldn’t find a great one, I’ve created a how to post just for you.

Here’s How To Make Your Own Inspiration Board.  By the way, this post is long.  If you’re not interested, come back tomorrow or go check out my nit-picky opinions on the Best and Worst Dressed Oscars from Sunday night.

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top design sites.

by Allison on January 21, 2010 in cleaning and organizing, Home, home_design · 34 comments



My panel at Alt was about how to find the best design blogs on the web, a tricky prospect at best. The panel consisted of me Petit Elefant, Nicole Balch of Making it Lovely, Jaime Derringer of Design Milk, and Karey Mackin of Mackin Ink. A fabulous panel of rockin’ women.

We came up with a seriously hefty list of our picks for the best design blogs out there in the following categories:

1} Do Not Miss
2} Everyday Reads
3} Next Big Thing
4} Reader Favorites

Here’s how it went down.


Do Not Miss Design Blogs:

Contemporist
Little Green Notebook
Door Sixteen
New York Magazine
The Independent

Everyday Reads:

Today and Tomorrow
MoCo LoCo
NOTCOT
Design Klub
Fresh Nest Design
Housemartin
Design Is Mine
How About Orange
The Scoop
Chez Larsson
BLACK. WHITE. YELLOW.
ish + chi
Creature Comforts
Daily Poetics
Stash Studios
Pour Porter
Mrs. Lilien

Next Big Thing:

Booooooom
IS*LY
On Hand Modern
The Diversion Project

Reader Favorites:

Design Boom
Core77
Dezeen
I Suwannee
Young House Love
Brooklyn Limestone
Decor8

Whew. I know we didn’t catch them all, it was hard to even narrow it down to this list, there are just too many talented design bloggers out there! Consider this a jumping off place to start looking around for your new favorite design blogs.

Have fun browsing!


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what’s your favorite design blog?

by Allison January 17, 2010cleaning and organizing

So, remember how I’m speaking at Alt, a design conference in SLC? Well, my panel is all about how to find the best, most inspirational, wonderful, tickle-your-fancy, design blogs out there. And I need your help. So if you’d be so kind would you tell me where you go online to get inspired? What are [...]

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family room re-design.

by Allison June 26, 2009Home

Remember way back in the Fall when I painted my family room blue? The room is still at a total standstill and it’s driving me crazy. So I enlisted the help of two of my favorite women, Deb & Erin, from Fresh Nest Design. I sent over photos of the space, what I hoped to [...]

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