Fabulous House Designs

This is a quickie today guys, as you can tell from “Inspiration Monday” and “Organization Wednesday” faltering as of late, I’m a disorganized mess! More on how to fix that on Wednesday, hopefully! I spied this backsplash on Jetsetter.com (I love to peruse the gorgeous hotels they have on there and dream about trips that will never happen). This one’s from an apartment that was for rent in Paris:

The backsplash is made of vintage postcards. I think because everything is so slick and shiny and the cards are lined up perfectly it doesn’t look kitschy or cluttered. Love It!

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Sharing down thoughts, dreams and wild business (or personal) ideas in a journal, is a past time many look forward to each day.

While the activity of journaling can give great pleasure, the journal itself is a thing to take great pride in. Whether arty or functional, pretty and lacey or tough and durable – the journal is a thing of true beauty.

Pictured above is a lovely journal made with lots of TLC by the monks at Abbey Press who design and create earth-friendly journals made with FSC certified fiber and printed with soy based inks.

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there’s a brand new housewares collection that i have been eagerly anticipating the launch of — Sparrow & Co. i kinda couldn’t wait to share, as i’ve been following them around twitter for a while now, awaiting the opening of his online shop.  Sparrow & Co. is a unique homewares collection brought to you from glasgow, scotland by Samuel Sparrow – i love even just his name, right off the bat!

Inspired by traditional crafting skills the Sparrow & Co. collection will have an emphasis on handmade products from countries including Morocco, Uzbekistan, Asia, Central America, and of course Scotland. Full Post…

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A favorite tweet this week led us to Wallpaper*’s slideshow from Art Basel in Miami.

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