I grew up in a log cabin my parents built: Log cabin contemplations
It was 1975 and my parents’ “back to the land” impulses were in full swing. Although they had an infant (me) and were a geography professor and a nursing student (him, her) with no experience in construction or building (any of us), they decided to build a log cabin on Bainbridge Island, WA. My father, ever the researcher, read a bunch of books about the subject, and March of 1976 they broke ground on the 1000 square foot cabin I grew up in.
In 2011, I temporarily moved back in.
How we created a co-sleeping minimalist hippy bedroom!
How on earth can you create a minimalist bedroom with hippy decorating tendencies? Especially when you happen to be a family of co-sleepers who resides in a 100+ year-old cottage.
I know. You’ve probably wondered this question A THOUSAND TIMES. Wonder no longer, dearest. I’m here and I’m happy to help!
Change the color of your cabinets without pissing off your landlord
I kind of hate wood. I’m one of those terrible, sinful people that will paint old wood furniture aqua, yellow, or antique white rather than treat it properly. I don’t whisper sweet nothings to my wood furniture and seductively offer to apply another coat of stain to it. I mostly just paint it and eventually forget that it ever had a lovely cherry finish.
This led to a small problem in my apartment. No matter what I tried… I HATED those damn cabinets. Until I found this solution.
Learn all about Antoni Gaudi’s fantastical, organic, completely real architecture in a free YouTube vid
Antoni Gaudi is the guy who designed those incredible works of Spanish architecture: the Casa Batlló and Sagrada Familia. Now you can spend over an hour watching a poetic collection of his work — for freeee!
Library furniture in the living room and boosting your wifi with something from your fridge
Every Monday we do a roundup of reader photos and interesting links from across the web.
In the Clicky Links this week, you’ll find a trailer for a documentary about cosplay, a way to combine an appliance and closet door to up the storage space, and a designer’s idea to make a table out of anything.
Aerial landscape rugs of the US, Europe, and Africa make it easy to pretend you are a giant
Have you ever pretended you were a giant? Bring that dream to life with new rugs based on aerial landscapes from around the world.
How to keep a bed from dominating a mixed-use room
I live in half-a-house, sealed up and separate from the rest. The other half is occupied by my dad. As a space that wasn’t really built as an entire house, it’s a kooky space, but it’s fabulously cozy. The back “room” is our study/music room/art studio AND guest bedroom.
I have a king bed in a pretty prominent corner. How can I make this look less like a bed that got lost on its way to an ACTUAL bedroom, and more like some sort of daybed situation?
Two homes with mobile-origins and beachy interiors — even when they sit in the snow
An old caboose becomes a new white-interior one-person home, and a Canadian couple builds the cutest clapboard caravan this side of The Hamptons.