Category: Honor Roll

• Old houses, structural or interpersonal, are like this.

• David Sedaris hates overhead lighting.
  Notable line: “Do other guys lean against their dressers, admiring the play of sun and shadow on their Gustav Klimt posters?, I’d wonder.”

• This is along the lines of what I want to do in our house! I love mod lighting with ornate ceiling medallions.

• Grandparents and their 20-something grandchildren swap clothes.

• What works, and what doesn’t, with three furniture arrangements in one living room.

• Ha! R-rated movies, cutely illustrated. (And available as prints.)

• Get the look: stenciled walls as a wallpaper alternative.

• Just how long does painting take, anyway? (Hint: you can totally do a room this weekend. I’m planning on it.)

• Motherhood, portrayed in photographs.

• Don’t give up hope for a Dr. Horrible sequel!

• Awesome: Dr. Seuss’ hat collection.

• Who’s your literary crush? Mine’s Gilbert. (Sigh.) And my grandmother brings up Heathcliff from time to time!

• Olympic courses superimposed in Manhattan. The scale in that context is nuts.

• This is the most interesting paint application of an ombré effect that I’ve seen.

• Get the look: an eclectic dining room. That wallpaper is so fun!

• Another get the look! This time, more modern dining. With amazing architecture.
  p.s. I love doing these, but I’ll try to space them out so that I don’t have two in one week, and then none the next. Whoops.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are a whole bunch of links, almost none of which have to do with the day. ;)

• The new Ace Hotel in LA is stunning. So much inspiration to be found!

• Might you be looking for a gorgeous landscape alphabet from the 1800s?

• This interview with Tim Gunn is revealing, and wonderful.

• The Lean In collection with Getty is a positive step forward for stock photography.

• Big fish are, alarmingly, not so big anymore.

• I’ve been nominated for The Homies, Apartment Therapy’s blog awards, in the Home Design and Inspiration category. Thank you! I would appreciate your support with a vote, if you’re so inclined. You can nominate as many blogs as you’d like!

• Some fantastic pieces to consider if you’re looking to add some enamelware in the kitchen.

• I’ve started working with Sulia, sharing my favorite finds throughout the week. Would you arrange your books by color? How about throwing a Queen of Hearts Valentine’s Day party? Check it.

  I like to share a lot of non-design links here on Fridays, but the Sulia posts I share throughout the week via social media will be pretty heavily design and DIY focused.

• Garance Doré’s keynote was my favorite presentation at Alt Summit this year, and now you can watch it even if you didn’t make it to the conference this year.

• “We thought it better to not pretend.”

• How Diane Keaton learned to love Pinterest.

• Sounds like we should be glad if we don’t ‘get’ how it is in advertising.

• 80’s style wasn’t all neon, remember?

• The Lively Show podcast has just launched, and the first episode (featuring Erin Loechner) was fantastic!

• Some great ideas for arranging furniture.

• “Toodaloo, good bye.”

• White ceilings are a bore. How about some pattern up there?

• Get the look: mismatched dining chairs, united by color. (And all the sourcing work is done for you!)

• Lorde, interviewed by Tavi. This next generation of women is going to be awesome.

• I remember being asked by my parents to shield my eyes during the racier (not really) parts of Dirty Dancing. How uncomfortable would it be to see Nymphomaniac with your folks? Filmmaker Craig Johnson accidentally went to the screening with his, at Sundance. Here’s his mom’s review.
  “I might have looked away a little bit during the montage of penises, because frankly that wasn’t very attractive.”

• Honest labels for handmade gifts.

• You should probably think twice before spray painting frequently used hardware. It’s probably not going to hold up.

• Walking a mile on ice is terrifying to me (you’ll fall in and drown!), but I’m fascinated by the Apostle Islands’ icy caves that are otherwise only accessible by kayak (you’ll tip over and drown!).
  We honeymooned up at the Apostle Islands. It was May, before tourist season, and it was creepy and desolate. Also, I thought that our nighttime ferry trip, during a bad storm and lit only by flashes of lightning, would capsize and we’d drown, but… pretty islands! Cool caves! (…I’m afraid of large, open bodies of water. Could you guess?)

• Grace’s State of the Blog Union Address was a fantastic summary of something a lot of us have been noticing lately. Kottke also wrote about the shift recently.

• “What’s the worst song of all time? It’s ‘We Built This City,’ right?””

• IKEA’s $50 RÅSKOG cart is at home in more than just the kitchen.
  August’s bedside table is that cart, in gray.

• A few clever ways to add plants to your home office.

• Do you play kids’ music for your kids, or do you skip it? Justin Roberts has a new album out, and several local musicians weighed in on it for their kids. Then they were called pretentious.

• A mommy blogger’s lament.

• Can Daniel Dienst, the new CEO of MSLO, turn things around for Martha Stewart?
  via Hands Occupied

• Moroccan wedding blankets are gorgeous and have been trending in the design world for a few years now, but they’ve recently hit the mainstream in a big way. How would you incorporate one into your home?