Elizabeth Bauer Design & Random Thoughts

So this pretty much describes me perfectly right now...

by Therese Sennerholt

And this is extremely accurate...

byyourleave.tumblr.com via pinterest

And this is very inspiring...

Thanks to Elizabeth Bauer Design (top three images found via Gild and Grace)

I rediscovered how wonderful black and white can be paired with bright or pastel colors.

Umm, not to mention how that malachite sideboard is to die for.

I wonder if its real.

And a thought for the day...

Yay

So, I successfully ruined my sheepskin, even though Louise of Table Tonic (http://tabletonic.blogspot.com/) posted on how to wash it. I should have read that first. Anyway, Lonny mag May/June 2011 (http://www.lonnymag.com/issues/28-may-june-2011-issue/pages/1) is pretty great. If you haven't heard, it is a free online magazine. They have a nice article on the French Quarter in New Orleans, which is #2 on my vacation wishlist, #1 being Salem, MA.
Anyway, here's a picture of a bedroom from the magazine that a friend of mine might like.

Also loving this room in Todd Alexander Romano's home, also via the latest Lonny.

And this bedroom in Caroline Robert's home, also via the latest Lonny.

And her breakfast nook, too.

And this bedroom in Raina Penchansky's home, via the latest Lonny.





Also, I am DYING to get these Lakkari curtains from Anthropologie, which are now on sale for $99 EACH, for my boring dining room. If only Anthropologie wasn't the most expensive store I love. I wish I had the talent to embroider plain white curtains to look like this. Yes, the blue design on these curtains is think embroidery.

A black house and Abigail Ahern

Wanted to share this awesome all-black house.

October 2003 Budget Living magazine

Which, as I'm sure others have mentioned, would perfectly suit Abigail Ahern's style of interiors.

Abigail Ahern via Desire to Inspire

Last 3 pictures Gemma Ahern via Design Sponge



Bedroom Idea Gallery

Time for more bedroom inspiration!

4handshome

Susan Ferrier via House Beautiful

Lonny Magazine

George Lowell via Apartment Therapy

Brandon Barre Photography

Brian Boone via Apartment Therapy

Decorpad

Decorpad

My Mom's Bedroom

I still have one bedroom left to redo, and while I am extremely tempted to turn it into a room strictly for fostered kittens, I have another matress to use, another dresser to use, and the possibility of having more guests than just my parents staying the night sometime in the future.
So I'm sure that I can put a protective matress cover over the bed, reserve my fancy sheets and duvet cover for when there aren't kittens, and restrain myself from buying a bedframe that kittens could dissappear under. For now.

It currently looks like this...

And my mom got us these sheets and duvet cover set for our wedding shower. I put up a paint sample that I really like. Which do you think works best? I can't decide. The dresser in the room will be a very dark chocolate brown. The true color of the sheets is closer to the top picture.

That said, here are ideas for that bedroom...

This first room is all white and has a white canopy bed like I want, but that will have to wait.

Apartment Therapy - Marya Rick

This second room has trees painted on the walls in two different shades of gray. My colors would still be gray, just a little bit darker.

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/06/before-after-jennifers-bedroom.html

This third room also has a painted/stenciled design that I love

The famous? Ohdeedoh pagoda kid's bedroom

And this last one I wonder if a smoky blue paint color like this might be a nice off-set to the golden cream color of the sheets and duvet cover I have

Peacock Feather Blog

A Do-it-Yourself Headboard

When we bought our house we picked out a king size bedframe from Art Van that did not make it past our hallway, so for over six months our box spring has been sitting in the package it came in and it is sitting on the floor. Sometime soon I am going to try my luck at making a DIY headboard to fit our king size bed. It has to be tall enough to reach the height of the mirrors on both dressers, which reach our slanted ceiling. I intend for it to end up looking a little bit like this, specifically in height, only I don't want it to be tufted.

Jennifer Ferreira in House and Home

After coming across this blog post: http://dudeanddudetinteriors.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-diy-headboard.html and then this blog post http://dudeanddudetinteriors.blogspot.com/2010/03/nailed-it.html I decided it can't be that hard to make a headboard myself.

I would really love to make this blue velvet one for my friend, whose master bedroom would look great with this wall color, headboard and a green chair. (Although there are an infinite amount of other options.)

Interiors Magazine via Belle Maison