What? It is the 28th already? Eye Candy will have to do...

****Update**** It is now the 3rd of February and I am finally finishing this post. Josh & I talked about the blog last night & we are getting it together.


Well, here it is the 28th of January and this is the first post that we have written. I have a feeling that I might be the one who writes on our blog on a more frequent basis...Josh will probably enjoy it more once we have more After Photos to post!

So, in the meantime, I am going to post some eye candy...nothing mid-century specific, just some stuff that I like:

1: Starting with the photo below of a refurbished caboose, which belonged to the great Frank Sinatra. This is an excerpt from Architectural Digest:

“Orange is the happiest color,” Frank Sinatra said of his favorite hue, which showed up in his clothes and his houses. Sinatra bought a modest house at the Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage in the mid-1950s and lived there until May 1995. A caboose, a gift from some of his employees in 1971, became the compound’s full-service salon, complete with barber’s chair, a professional hair dryer, a massage table, a scale and a sauna, at rear."

Love the Orange & love the Plexiglas chair!



2: Maybe this would solve our problem: We have 3 small bedrooms, with no real place for a guest to stay. I could definitely make room for The Finn Lounger from CB2 in what is now my craft room. I just love it!

3: The furniture & accessories I could do without, but I am loving the bookcases: This is from Candice Bergen's house, also found on the Architectural Digest website. While the overall look is not our style, there is something about floor-to-ceiling white bookcases that make me drool. I also like the artwork on the wall leading out of the space.

4: I love this Peacock color. I was asked to help choose some new paint colors for our recent office remodel. I picked a color that was slightly lighter than the one that we ended up with, but it still looks really good. It is fresh & modern, without being The-Color-of-the-Moment, which usually leads to people getting tired of seeing it everywhere. This photo is from Apartment Therapy's House Tours: Best of 2009. This is actually the "bedroom" of a reader's 250sq ft studio in Santa Monica, CA.

Well, we are working on getting our Before & After photos organized and we are really looking forward to getting our blog up & running. Actually, I think that we are looking forward to starting some of the projects that we have waiting in the wings. I think that anyone who has a house that has required some updating or lots of work would agree that it is hard sometimes to find the balance between Home Maintenance & House Projects.

See you soon!