textures.

wool

burlap

sheepskin

wood

velvet

drool.

Anyone else catch the amazing homes featured today on Grassroots Modern? The post was about photographer Eric Staudenmaier, but I'm as captivated with the homes as I am with the photography. I especially love the turquoise shelving with turquoise chandelier. Eek!

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Really, who wouldn't love to have a library like this? My cousin recently posted about her current library and her dream library. I'd like a library in our someday house, and would be totally satisfied if it looked like this. I don't have nearly enough books (I'm more of a book-borrower than a book-buyer) but that can change. Time to start combing thrift stores for my favorites.

I also want to share with you a short email conversation I had with Mr. Nielsen's architect brother today, who introduced me to Grassroots Modern.

Me: Have you seen today's post on Grassroots Modern? I'm drooling over those houses. Any photographs of those houses would look amazing.

Architect Brother-in-Law: Marta, the ultimate goal is for you to have a house of your own that you drool over.

Amen to that. Maybe then my house will be featured on Grassroots Modern.

fancy crap on the walls.

Art is really lacking in my current home, and is something that I want to have more of in our future home. Right now I have a Minerva Teichert print and two prints from Hearst Castle in California (one photograph, the other an architectural elevation drawing of the same building). I mostly refrain from decorating my current house (at least lately) because I don't want to wast time, money, and effort decorating a house that I don't plan on living in for much longer. I want to save that time, money, and effort for decorating our future permanent residence.

So anyway, I have been following the blog of a local designer, Caitlin Creer. I really like her style. She mixes contemporary with antique, a look I really like. Well she recently decorated a model home, and used this awesome poster.

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I think fish (specifically coy fish) are sort of trendy, but I still really like this poster. Caitlin even posts a link to a $4.50 version. This is one of those "can't afford not to" deals. I'm even thinking of ordering it now. Do you think it is a bad idea to start collecting decor without a specific plan for where it should go since our house isn't even designed, let along built yet?