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chez nous

a little blog simon and i made to post design inspiration for our apartment renovations that will begin in fall 2010. bienvenue chez nous deux!

  • (via World inside out | Recyclart)
Beautiful “chandelier” made of 15 world globes. This 2m high piece of art was made by Benoit Vieubled and called “Monde à l’endroit, Monde à l’envers”.

    (via World inside out | Recyclart)

    Beautiful “chandelier” made of 15 world globes. This 2m high piece of art was made by Benoit Vieubled and called “Monde à l’endroit, Monde à l’envers”.

    Tagged: lamp chandelier benoit vieubled design decor home art globe

    Posted on May 22, 2012 with 3 notes

    Source: recyclart.org

  • fromscandinaviawithlove:

Photo by Swedish Stellan Herner for Ikea.

 i love the sleek simplicity of the cupboards

    fromscandinaviawithlove:

    Photo by Swedish Stellan Herner for Ikea.

     i love the sleek simplicity of the cupboards

    Tagged: kitchen dishes decor wallpaper pyrez

    Posted on January 19, 2012 via From Scandinavia with love - design & style with 137 notes

  • fromscandinaviawithlove:

A home in Sweden.
Photo by Marcus Lawett for Residence.

    fromscandinaviawithlove:

    A home in Sweden.

    Photo by Marcus Lawett for Residence.

    Tagged: full-length mirror mirror gilded mirror decor home white clothes rack

    Posted on January 18, 2012 via From Scandinavia with love - design & style with 155 notes

  • lisa congdon’s glorious studio as captured by victoria

    Tagged: art knick knacks studio lisa congdon sf beautiful decor home design cards

    Posted on December 4, 2011 with 2 notes

    Source: sfgirlbybay.com

  • source?

    source?

    (via princessbeancurd)

    Tagged: decor herbs interior kitchen credit?

    Posted on October 5, 2011 via Fräulein Design with 1,081 notes

    Source: weheartit.com

  • (via misschickadee)

    Tagged: blue decor design dining room interior marie claire maison sweden white windows

    Posted on September 22, 2011 via Peace - that was the other name for home. with 2,913 notes

    Source: marieclairemaison.com

  • (via SUSANNA RYAN: art & stuff: Friends don’t let friends hoard ironic woodland creatures.) this article is great. any thrifter or lover of things vintage/antique/kitschy can appreciate this sentiment:
“Unlike real owls, though, this isn’t one of those things that is going  away (oooh, Endangered Species joke, what up!) It almost seems like an  young adult rite of passage: The awkward kitschy owl housewares phase (AKOHP).As much as I’d like to be holier-than-thowl (yeah, I  said it), I am not immune to this phenom. However, I have a rule: One  owl. That’s all I get.Find one really great owl-something and  love it. Or don’t. But should you want to, search high and low. Be  picky. Don’t buy the first thing you see, because I guarantee you it  will not be the last one you see. And when you find that one very  special owl, you’ll know it, because it will be hooting and hollering  all over you.My owl of choice is a clock. The details, the  shifting eyes, the lack of a putrid 1970’s color palette, I like things  made out of wood, I needed a clock, it was $4.00… It had a lot of  things going for it…
This being said, however, if you ARE going to take the plunge into your  own AKOHP, for the love of all that is good, please do not buy your owls  new. This is a crime against humanity and all better judgment. I know  it’s difficult to enter a thrift store and take one short walk down the  knick-knack aisle, but spending twenty times as much money to buy  something that LOOKS like you found it in a thrift store knick-knack  aisle is ridiculous.”

    (via SUSANNA RYAN: art & stuff: Friends don’t let friends hoard ironic woodland creatures.) this article is great. any thrifter or lover of things vintage/antique/kitschy can appreciate this sentiment:

    “Unlike real owls, though, this isn’t one of those things that is going away (oooh, Endangered Species joke, what up!) It almost seems like an young adult rite of passage: The awkward kitschy owl housewares phase (AKOHP).

    As much as I’d like to be holier-than-thowl (yeah, I said it), I am not immune to this phenom. However, I have a rule: One owl. That’s all I get.

    Find one really great owl-something and love it. Or don’t. But should you want to, search high and low. Be picky. Don’t buy the first thing you see, because I guarantee you it will not be the last one you see. And when you find that one very special owl, you’ll know it, because it will be hooting and hollering all over you.

    My owl of choice is a clock. The details, the shifting eyes, the lack of a putrid 1970’s color palette, I like things made out of wood, I needed a clock, it was $4.00… It had a lot of things going for it…

    This being said, however, if you ARE going to take the plunge into your own AKOHP, for the love of all that is good, please do not buy your owls new. This is a crime against humanity and all better judgment. I know it’s difficult to enter a thrift store and take one short walk down the knick-knack aisle, but spending twenty times as much money to buy something that LOOKS like you found it in a thrift store knick-knack aisle is ridiculous.”

    Tagged: owl kitsch clock decor thrifting

    Posted on June 16, 2011 with 10 notes

    Source: susannaryan.blogspot.com

  • Tagged: kitsch kitchen 1950s dish towels decor design

    Posted on June 11, 2011

  • living room (by julia caron)
collage piece by catherine mcinnis. shelf and all of the things on it thrifted over the years.

    living room (by julia caron)

    collage piece by catherine mcinnis. shelf and all of the things on it thrifted over the years.

    Tagged: decor apartment art

    Posted on February 3, 2011 with 10 notes

    Source: Flickr / garconniere

  • moonbrains:

holy shit this is my dream living room how did you know internet

    moonbrains:

    holy shit this is my dream living room how did you know internet

    Tagged: kitsch amazing decor floral beautiful

    Posted on December 12, 2010 via Kitschy Living with 204 notes

    Source: kitschyliving

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