The Rainbow House, London from Ab Rogers Design on Vimeo.

Want. To. Live. Here.

(via Ninainvorm on Etsy)

There is too much adoreableness going on up in here.

I love those old blueware plates you find from Northern Europe to begin with, but with the extra little splashes of colour? Oh, my, too cutie cute!

(via Ancient Industries)

If your looking to re-create that summery, cottagey feel in your home (and aren’t we all?) take a look at Ancient Industries. The little web shop is bursting with lovely, rustic, old fashioned, European wares, in lickable ice cream colours.

I particularly love this Wedgwood dish set.

As babies, me and my brother and sister all ate off of a set of the ubiquitous Royal Doulton Bunnykins dishes. I think we even had the matching silver spoon – not that my upbringing was in any other way very privileged. They were indulgent shower gifts, that proved to be incredibly practical – good china lasts forever, even through 3 children. And of course, now we know plastic leaches all kind of icky things into baby’s food anyways.

I feel like this set is a much more modern and design-forward interpretation of that old tradition (but retains some very similar traditional origins). It would make a perfect shower gift for an expecting Graphic Designer friend.

(via KITKA)

Speaking of Cottaging, the couple who run the Kitka design blog  (and Mjolk design shop) here in Toronto have a breathtakingly gorgeous one!

They have jam-packed it full of gorgeous, minimalist, rustic design pieces – (many from Scandinavia) mixed in with plenty of vintage Canadiana to anchor the place firmly in cottage country. Please do click through the link and check it out! Every photo is an inspiration.

I am sooooo very jealous. I would love to own something like this someday.

(via Design*Sponge)

I think one of my favourite things to see in interior design, is when a space is throughly imbued with the style and personality of their inhabitants.

It’s why I have very little patience for celebrity homes – no matter how beautiful – they pretty much never have anything to do with the person who lives in them. They often feel cold, and inauthentic.

This home of a designer from Fossil (which has long been a favourite company of mine, design-wise) is a great example of that.

In particular, I love to see artists whose art lives as a part of the decor itself, not just hung on the walls. These saturated-pastel, illustrated, studio doors make me swoon a little.

(via seesaw)

I saw these images in my RSS feed today, and I knew I had to share them, as their combination of a bright stark white base, with unexpected pops of colour peeking out  reminds me so much of the Vodaphone building from yesterday.

If I lived across the street from that amazing building, I’d definitely want my interiors to look exactly like this. Though, I’m not sure with my eccentric, eclectic, colourful decorating style I could ever be disciplined enough to go through with it properly.

hot pink girly-girl dreams

(via Design*Sponge)

As much as I believe in gender neutral decorating for children, Sometimes I dream of having a little girl so I can coat her room in the palest pastels, and tulle, and sparkles, and splashes of the hottest pink, like a Marie Antoinette acid-trip. Just like this room from a recent sneak peak on Design Sponge.

I am so compelled by that neon pink, against my will. I have a hard time pulling myself a way from it. So far, in my own home, I’ve managed to quarantine it to my little dressing table.

Kid’s Circus Room

(via poppytalk)

I don’t know what it is with me and circuses and carnivals right now, but I am strongly drawn to things that remind me of them (especially time worn vintage ones). Even my wedding was, very subtly carnival themed (a friend actually said Liam looked like a carny from Carnivale on our Save the Date – that’s a compliment in my book).

This little boys room is, then, pretty much the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. The colours are perfection and don’t you just love anything red and white and stripey?

styling by Camilla Krishnaswamy 

(via Agent Bauer)

This weird 1930’s Chinatown combination of almost-fluorescent-bright colours and faded vintage chinoiserie is my absolute favourite. My living room would tell you the same story.  I actually have an old chinese beauty product poster (with one of those gorgeous “Shanghai Girls” on it) kicking around someplace that desperately needs to be framed and hung.

For whatever reason I want to live like this.

dottie angel’s house

(via seesaw designs)

At the moment, I am really feeling quite compelled by softened, faded, vintage tones like these. What I love about this image is the way the faded tones pop against the modern clean lines of the same era. It’s an interesting juxtaposition of two very different – and yet contemporary – design aesthetics.

little adventurer room

(via poppytalk)

I love this style of decorating for children. I would live in it myself.

I worry a little sometimes about adults need to impose their own rigid designs on their children (literally) but this style of decorating seems like the best of both worlds – a neutral base that is sophisticated enough to not be outgrown, with pops of colour and fun on top that can develop as you learn more about your child and their personality as they grow.

Flaming Lips pad

(via black eiffel)

Wayne Coyne’s house looks pretty much exactly like you’d expect it to look like – in your wildest dreams.

I love how total-rock-star this abode is, but that it is also warm, soft and totally livable. I think living inside it – with all the warm white, pale teal, pastels and iridescent tiles – must be a little bit like living inside a pearl floating in a swimming pool.

I dig.

poppytalk: Hula Seventy: Letters Letters Letters

Love love love this: the letters, the colours, the message, the placement.

La Hora del Te (via colorblok)

Carnival – Envelop

This would look soooooo cute on my couch. I wish I wasn’t firmly committed to sewing my own throw pillows. *sigh*

poppytalk: Milan 2010 Design Week Preview

I wish I had the space in my house for these lovely wardrobes (I’m generally a sucker for colour-blocked furniture).

The Recipe Door | Dinner: A Love Story

Recipes painted on the inside of Kitchen Cabinets? Sheer. Genius. I love this so much I think someday I want do this on the OUTSIDE of my cabinets.

Envelop

How have I never heard of this site before? Lovely, quality illustrated goods of all varieties? Yes please!

This is our new little media centre.

Yeah, it’s pretty sweet.

I like that I’ve contrasted our new (not so classy) gigantic tee vee with (classy) antique copies of Dickens procured in England. That is how we roll.

The new tv bench is one of my favourite parts of this set up though. It’s just from Ikea (of course) but is built rather solidly, out of wood rather than a wood-like product. It’s birch, and reminds of Scandinavian kindergarten furniture for some reason. There’s something pleasantly minimalist, and somehow friendly about it. It’s open in the back (meaning cords from all those consoles are an issue) but we rather cleverly stuck some baskets under it to hold all our various componants and controllers.

And warning everyone: because of all this I may just become even more of a hermit than I normally do this winter. But wouldn’t you too?

My parents recently got back from a lovely vacation in Greece and Turkey, and brought me back (along with Ouzo, Turkish Delight and olive oil soap) something I’ve wanted for quite a while:

A pouf!

It’s not the fanciest pouf (it’s large, unembellished and a plain off-white) but it makes the perfect ottoman for my vintage velvet club chair…

And a good cat bed on occasion.

The best part is it comes unstuffed, so it didn’t take up a huge amount of room in my parents luggage, and it was TEN EUROS.

Which, if you’ve ever looked at purchasing one on this continent is about 1/10th the price you find them for here.