What I'm Looking At Today: Miniature Furniture

So now that my mini house has been shipped, and I am anxiously waiting for it's arrival, I have started scouring for vintage as well as new furnishings....well, what a rude awakening i'm having!!! it's not that there isn't a lot of furniture out there, there is.....but some of the items I'd love to have cost as much as the real deal!!!! now granted, I can mix as in real life, but there's some really amazing  stuff out there....and I'm sad to say that i may have to splurge every once in a while....

Since this isn't a period exercise and I'm just decorating rooms as I would for myself or a client, there's going to be a good mix and a healthy dose of modern art...but I am planning a rather severe bed room and thought this El Greco might be nice over the fireplace.

I'm planning a tented room and thought a little Empire might be fun

two different sets of tables...I can always put a pair in the hallway...

collectors are insatiable  and these are really nice....as are the globes below....thinking I'm going to need a library....

below are fantastic William IV bookcases and a kneehole desk....pricey but great quality....

I'm thinking I will need to take up furniture making as soon as I finish building the house.....

What I'm Looking at Today: A NEW Hobby

Being a little impetuous, I've decided, much to poor Ric's chagrin, to take up model making.....again....albeit not plastic ships and planes. I am now waiting to join the ranks of the miniature  world....As I write this, Ric's making fun of me....saying I need an alarm system and a subway stop so people can get to it....but I am now waiting for my Gloucester Front Opening Dollhouse from Greenleaf....and have made copious sketches for it's improvement.

We live in NYC, so finding the right house was a bit difficult. I wanted something grand but not ridiculously so and it had to be a front opening house, because turning it back and forth is not an option....as it is, I have NO idea where it's going to live, but it will find it's place once it arrives. As in real life, every door is in the wrong place and the stairs need to be moved, and the facade should look dandy once the front has rusticated stone on the ground floor and four pilasters above....Brick or stucco...I'm thinking stucco, like london houses...painted white..balustrade and maybe a balcony at the parlor floor...there are only six rooms,so forget a kitchen, it's a city house anyway, they'll eat out..maybe a tented room ala Malmaison upstairs and I'm thinking a Tudor or Jacobean bedroom with grissaille painted walls....but I want lots of modern art....will have to commission Ric to make some...

The box that will be the house..have to give it a name....Ric says Bestopia or Ricistan....I'm thinking...NO.

Sketches of what I'm thinking it should do...now after the house is built, I'll have to find furniture...in all honesty, I've already bought a few items and will have to ferret out others..or maybe make them...when will I find the time?

The entrance hall, have to think how I'm going to situate the stairs...trying to make it seem as if it's larger than it is....

Russel Wright : making modern cool.

We've come a long way......bathrooms......

As I've been working on a few bathrooms lately, todays post is on that most essential of conveniences.......the loo....and have we come a long way.

Glamourous Bath featured in WOI a few years back. I especially love that it is modern in an antique shell.....kind of like me.

I like to approach bathrooms and bathroom renovations in a slightly different way than others...assuming you have the room a bath should be as elegant as any other room of your house. Simple natural materials are always best. Marble is classic but tile will do if you don't have the budget.....always remember to do away with anything that might be just a little ugly......you don't really need to 'decorate' anything if it's well designed....and always edit, edit, edit.