Oh Baby!

Nurseries and children's rooms are always so much fun to design. I, personally, have a soft spot for bright colors and the mixing of vintage items with hard-lined modern ones. For example, this toy chest below

would look amazing when paired with this antique dresser.


Add in a cushy, modern chair

and a whimsical lamp (note how the crystal finial on top coordinates with the crystal knobs on dresser)


and this light


hanging over this cool twin bed from 2modern


and a healthy dose of accessories - both vintage and otherwise...







(Globe pillow)


(vintage-look dolls)






(bench from Ikea)

(fabric wall letters from Anthropologie)


(sprout pillow)

Table Talk... Let's Dish!

I am so inspired by great ideas, especially ones that can find a way to reuse what would otherwise go to landfills. Sarah Cihat is an amazing artist who takes salvaged dinnerware found at local thrift stores, Salvation Army stores, or the reject bin at retail stores and re-glazes and re-fires them, adding a ghostly silhouette of anything from cassette tapes to owls atop the original plate design. The contrast between the delicate florals of the original plates and the guitar wielding rocker emblazoned upon it seems to work. I am in the process of searching for interesting dinnerware and Sarah Cihat's Rehabilitated Dishware certainly makes the cut!

Another great find I came across while hunting for table accouterments was these cheerful (and cheap - a set of 4 is only $32) glasses from Anthropologie :

And wouldn't these glasses go great with a collection of Sarah Cihat's dishes????