Aside from the guest room and a planned flower garden for the front of the house, the actual yard part of the backyard is all that’s left to take care of at my house. I’m forever futzing and rearranging but those are the only larger projects, and I think I’ve been delaying them for just that reason. I’ve taken care of the decks but I want the entire backyard to feel like an extension of living space. These spaces have accomplished that in spades and are full of inspiration!
Muesli, aka raw oatmeal, came into my life several years ago on a business trip. I was looking for the healthiest option at the hotel’s grab and go breakfast and went for it, having no idea what I was eating other than cold oatmeal. But I really liked it and noticed how it kept me full for a long time, atypical for breakfast foods and my body. I’ve since made muesli for myself and am always looking for ways to mix it up and take advantage of seasonal fruit to add in. Check out these twelve recipes and let me know, are you a fan?
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Around the age of 10 I wanted anything in my bedroom other than the twin canopy that had been handed down to me. I had my sophisticated eye set on a white metal framed daybed, you know the kind with the gold finial balls on each post? In other words, the cheap one. My grandparents had offered to buy me a daybed, just not That One. Off to the furniture store we went, eventually settling on a real beauty – cherry wood, scrolled head- and footboards, spindled back. After I moved off to college the day bed was retired to my Grandma’s spare bedroom, where it still sits in wait for me to one day (hopefully) hand down to my own daughter. All of this is the longwinded way of saying how thrilled I am that daybeds are having a moment again!
1/Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought to life by film director Gustav Deutsch. 2/Ralph Graf documents the emptiness of abandoned houses and military bases. 3/In Pizza Hunt friends travel the world taking photos of old Pizza Huts. 4/Laura Zalenga creates dreamscapes inspired by the Brothers Grimm. 5/Lee Stewart‘s minimal tattoo style mimics brushstrokes. 6/Haruka Misawa‘s 3D printed waterscape aquariums. 7/Molekule, the molecular air purifier. 8/A wheelchair that might actually change lives. 9/Truck-A-Float, a hotel in Rockaway. 10/Vivid Sydney cloaks the city is a display of vibrant lights.
1/Jidouhanbaiki is a photo series that explores Japan’s obsession with vending machines 2/Chihiro Ogura creates cookie masterpieces inspired by cultural Japanese motifs 3/Inks, a modernist art app disguised as a pinball puzzler 4/Rippling liquid marble mimics a flowing river in Petit Loire5/Serpentine tattoos by Mirko Sata weave black and white ink together 6/A model painted with glowing makeup lights up beautifully under UV light in Neon Dream7/Paper flowers by Haruka Misawa8/Hair stenciling in the new trend everyone will be trying 9/France has a wine theme park, La Cité du Vin10/The Beach Vault will keep your stuff from getting stolen at the beach
In my first house the guest room featured a wall of patterned navy blue wallpaper behind the bed’s headboard that I loved. But one short year after completing the room I picked up and moved halfway across the country, and the walls in the 1900 house are paperless. Having been in the space for nearly two years I’m beginning to see things in a different light, and considering an accent wall here and there. The second floor bath or perhaps a wall in the dining room, maybe something subtle or something bold that knocks your socks off the moment you walk into the room. Here are ten wallpapers I’ve got my eye on – thoughts?
Maybe you’ve noticed that Happy Weekend has been inconspicuously missing since last December, or maybe you haven’t. To be completely honest it’s a time consuming post and didn’t seem to be garnering much interest, so I thought no one would notice if it just went away. But as in many things in life I was wrong, and its demise has been mentioned by several of you in the past few months (including my own father.)
So without further ado, here’s Happy Weekend in its latest incarnation! A slew of links from other sites that I share on Facebook throughout the week as well as a roundup of what you may have missed out on right here on Design Crush.
1/Bitchin’ Bugs, a groovy book about the insect world directed towards an adult audience. 2/Abandoned in Place is photographic exploration of forgotten relics of the American space race. 3/ReGen Villages is a self-sustaining utopian village in the Netherlands. 4/Your food is delivered on tiny rollercoasters at the aptly named Rollercoaster Restaurant. 5/Scientists have developed see-through wood. 6/Explore the forgotten spaces below highways and bridges in the Skies of Concrete series. 7/Mini golf gets a modern marble redesign. 8/Cinema Palettes generates the color palette used in iconic movie scenes. 9/Play Werewolf. 10/Instrument 1 aims to make playing music less intimidating.
