Organization & Storage. Walk In Closet by EasyClosets.com. Stacking Books. A girl with pretty blonde hair, decided she needed a bookcase. She also needed highlights, so she had a decision to make. After much thought and debate she went with the bookcase. And the highlights. Photograph by Donna Griffith for Style at Home When I redid my house I knew the first thing I wanted to do was get my books out from under my couch and into a bookcase. I had books everywhere and whenever someone wanted to borrow one or I wanted to re-read one (I can do that because I tend to forget anything I’ve read/watched/heard within 2 months of reading/watching/hearing it) I had to go searching willy nilly all over the house.
At any given moment a book I was looking for could have been a) under the couch, b) in the basement behind a large sparkly reindeer and 2 dead centipedes, c) under my bed or d) shoved under the leg of a table I found in my neighbour’s garbage. The bookcases I chose are Billy bookcases from Ikea because they’re only 11″ deep and don’t take up a lot of space. Black walls with black trim. « Door Sixteen. After some consternation and consideration, I decided to go ahead and paint the trim in the bedroom black, too. I’ll take some photos later (I left my camera at my mother’s house!) , but here are a few photos of other mostly Victorian-era houses with black walls and black trim that are really inspiring me right now. You know, inspiring me to paint my whole house black.
These photos are all of interiors photographer Graham Atkins Hughes’ own home, Location78. I know. I knoooooooooow. Seriously, right? I’ve posted this old print ad for Ligne Roset before, and I still love the room. All of these photos are of Gemma Ahern’s apartment outside of London. Last but nowhere near least (though not Victorian), this is my painting hero AB Chao’s bedroom. Living Room. Black vs White Bed Room. What is up, people of the vast and illustrious world-wide web? I mean, you’re world-wide. There’s probably a lot going on. AB Chao, for example, has various things happening and can’t be blogging for a minute.
She’s out DOING. Let’s face it, she’s dewing. You’re at your house like, “I think I’m going to get up and go do that thing that I have been thinking of doing,” and you go to do it and it’s done. Because AB did it while you weren’t looking. I’m silly, but a lot of people I know, AB included, really are busy with just… DIFFICULTY, man. I once wrote a song, in AB’s dining room, about a house on fire. Your house is on fire.