My favorite Design Star winner, HGTV host, and all around beautiful
person, Emily Henderson, has posted a design challenge/contest for her
blog readers. The contest is to "style" their nightstands and possibly
win a pair of Serena and Lily nightstands. Oooohh! Aaahhh! Well, the one
thing she perhaps did not take into account is that if you want to win some nightstands you probably are in need of some nightstands. So what do you "style" in order to win? Hmmmm?
The
back of my toilet is very well styled. Lovely art, a candle, owl shaped
room deodorizer, etc. How come no one ever asks to see picture of that?
Well, instead of getting sad, mad, depressed and giving up, I got
creative. I borrowed a side table from the living room, a free off
craigslist beauty. Thank you very much. Of course now that I've had a
moment to think about it using that or something similar is probably
what Emily had in mind all along. To stretch our creativity and see what
we could put together to prove we really want those nightstands!!
You're so clever Emily, how silly of me to doubt you. I am slime.
See
my lovely before and afters below. As I said before I am in deep, deep,
need of some nightstands and currently my husbands side of the bed,
which I styled here, has just a floor lamp and a bunch of junk dumped on
the floor. So for the "before" shot I've posted a pic. of my side of
the bed which uses a lovely rolling file cabinet that a friend gave us.
Which I will use until I can afford something else because, when we
returned from our trip something was better than nothing. Right? Sort
of. After doing this I was fairly tempted to keep the "after"
arrangement but, then where would my wine glass go whilst I'm sitting on
the sofa enjoying another episode of "Secrets of a Stylist" on HGTV?
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
sunday morning inspiration: the new artisans
The New Artisans: Handmade Designs for Contemporary Living, written and compiled by Australian blogger Oliver Dupon for Thames & Hudson.
I know I am a little behind the times on this review since this book came out in 2011 but I picked it up in the library for the second time and wanted to share how wonderful it is. Every page is filled with such interesting people and their beautiful art. If you are an artist or just always dreamed of being one check out this book! It is an inspiration for the return of truly artisan made goods.
(image:Amazon)
I know I am a little behind the times on this review since this book came out in 2011 but I picked it up in the library for the second time and wanted to share how wonderful it is. Every page is filled with such interesting people and their beautiful art. If you are an artist or just always dreamed of being one check out this book! It is an inspiration for the return of truly artisan made goods.
(image:Amazon)
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