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April 2009

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    Frédéric Méchiche’s loft.

    I’ve been obsessed with interior designer Frédéric Méchiche’s Le Marais loft for a while now, and I’ve squirreled away a bunch of photos of it from various sources and taken at various…

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    Alvar Aalto + Tom Dixon + white + Marimekko = YES.

    I really like what Tom Dixon has been doing since becoming the Creative Director of Artek several years ago (2nd cycle, collaboration with twentytwentyone, the amazing towers assembled for the 75th anniversary…

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    Rot and decay (AKA the roof and cornice).

    I apologize for the bad quality of these photos (they were taken with a cell phone by a contractor), but to be honest, a higher resolution isn’t going to do our poor…

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    ENJE roller shades.

    I’ve had a lot of problems getting the curtain/shade/blind (I hate the term “window treatment”—it makes me think of a gigantic box valance) situation in our house where it should be. Six-inch…

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    Casual beds.

    While I can certainly appreciate the work that goes into assembling something that looks like this every morning, I must say I prefer a bed that looks a lot more casual. Messy,…

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    Twitter.

    I resisted doing this for as long as I could, but as you may or may not have already noticed, I’m now on Twitter. Feel free to follow along! I can’t promise…

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    How Much For This Bathroom?

    Instead of just posting photos of my renovated bathroom, I decided to do the “big reveal” as part of the How Much For This Room? series at decor8. Holly is one of…

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    It’s not all clean & perfect.

    Okay, this photo is for everyone who has commented (sometimes in disbelief) on how devoid my house is of excess “stuff”! Yes, this is reality—this is the front room of the second…