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I is for Interiors

Lately I've had a real fancy for wooden objects, this fancy has been fulfilled many times by the photos on Ashley Rose Helvey's blog. These are images from her home, I love the sun bleached look of the wood, natural and functional furniture-sculptures.

When you get invited to a squirrels home you'd better take your camera, memory isn't enough to capture all the treasures they have collected for their den.

I call Maureen a squirrel, alas she is a woman, a lovely friend and the owner of Elsie's. Maureen bought this amazing house last year, it had a lot of character to begin with, and by adding beautiful wallpaper and her pick of the crop possessions she's made herself a cozy little home.

Maureen is a talented finder and decorator with a discerning eye, each element in her home is carefully picked and spaced wisely leaving this flea market frequenter's home without any sense of clutter. ( I cannot say the same about myself!) Every piece has a story to go along with it, when the granddaughter and grandmother figurine belonged to Maureen's grandmother it fell and broke into tiny pieces, which her grandfather painstakingly glued back together, and there's the miracle yard sale couch story which you'll have to ask Maureen about ;)

When you visit here is easy to feel like you are nestled in the trees surrounded by birds, foliage, sunshine and an extensive collection of teas! There's a perfect balance of earth and air within the walls, some rooms are light with shades of blue and yellow much like the view from tree limbs while other rooms are dark and cozy like the little dens carved into trunks, such a nice place to curl up!

Many thanks to Maureen! To see more photos of the beautiful home, you can visit my flickr.

My friends Bree & Bob just flew back into the city after living in Victoria, and their nest is coming along very nicely. I stopped in last week for a coffee and peak at the apartment I had been endlessly thinking about after my first visit. Bree is a collector of all things beautiful, like the antique mourning pillow and an abundance of crystals, which she artfully displays throughout her home. Everywhere you look there is something interesting to look at, yet it's arrangement is so well placed, there is never a sense of clutter. I am so happy to be able to visit such an inspiring home, and thank you to Bree for letting me take photos of the living room in progress!

I is for Interiors

The Selby is photo web site featuring the homes of many creative/unconventional/rich people.

It is refreshingly unpretentious, with detail shots of collections collecting dust, and little hand drawn Q&A's by photographer Todd Selby to his subjects. The project started in 2008 when T.Selby started posting interior shots of his friends homes, then by the power of the internet it escalated to big money corporations getting T.Selby to shoot photos of their friends homes (i.e Louis Vuitton). It's a fun exploration in what makes people's homes their homes, how their life interests are portrayed through interior design, which makes me wonder why all my walls are white and bare....