2.17.2010

only thing in the pot is paint

...but it's a'cookin, as I'm painting about 9 12 hours a day now. Couldn't get going until I got rid of stuff, so I donated to charity. Lots. Most was perfectly good but, hey, it's not a waste of money if someone else can benefit from it, right? Who knows, it could even find it's way home with one of you. Just take pictures, okay? Now if you'll excuse me I gotta give that pot a stir and fry me up a messa Benjamin Moore Moonlight White...

Melanie Renn
see it up close


Melanie Renn
see it up close



Why do I bother showing you these digital paint chips? Because I love writing HTML code, I reckon. Since every monitor displays colors differently, it's impossible to make these chips look consistent, let alone accurate. I can tell you that you would never know these are the same colors in my house, so I'll try to describe them.


Benjamin Moore : Moonlight White
Moonlight White

WALL - Moonlight White is a definite bright white with hints of beige, gray, and olive. On my monitor this chip looks more medium warm beige, like the old wall color in the photo above, but that ain't it. Go figure.


Benjamin Moore : Simply White
Simply White

TRIM - Simply White is a very bright white with almost no discernable color to it. Not true, of course, but it certainly doesn't look pink like the chip above.


Benjamin Moore : Silhouette
Silhouette

ISLAND - Silhouette is a deep dark charcoal that looks almost black in my kitchen, with a decidedly olive/brown cast. It's a gorgeous color, kind of dark aged bronze with lots of complexity. Doesn't look anything like the color in the photo, does it? I rest my case. Actually, the photo in my previous post is a better representation of the island color. Take a look.

2.10.2010

lighten UP

Workstead
Workstead
Design Within Reach


Hubbardton Forge
Hubbardton Forge


Restoration Hardware
Restoration Hardware


In between brushstrokes, I've been hunting down an iron or bronze light fixture to hang over my kitchen island. Something that visually connects with the iron curves of my stools. Nothing special, mind you, just a major statement in an early Edison sort of Victorian industrial era Steampunk style, that's all. The island is integral to the main living area, and the first thing you see when you walk in the door, so a statement it must make. It also must make adequate light for kitchen work. Oh, and one more must - I have a thing against incandescent lightbulbs yellowing my paint colors. I know I should be using those fluorescent environmental bulbs, but they're worse. They're as yellow as bug lights and repel me faster than they repel bugs. (Maybe I'm just buggy to begin with.) So of course I only use the expensive burn-out-after-24-hour Reveal bulbs. The whiteness of their light is pure sunshine. Somebody better have a light bulb go off in their head and invent a hybrid so I don't have to feel guilty anymore, that's all I've got to say.


Melanie Renn


This, then, is my kitchen island, my steampunk stools and my missing light fixture. Which of the following would you hang here? Like Proud Mary, we're gonna start out easy, then we're gonna finish nice and rough...


Restoration Hardware
1. Restoration Hardware


Ballard Designs
2. Ballard Designs


Ballard Designs
3. Ballard Designs


Martha Stewart
4. Martha Stewart


Pottery Barn
5. Pottery Barn


Erin Martin Design
6. Erin Martin Design


Barn Light Electric
7. Barn Light Electric


Erin Martin Design
8. Erin Martin Design


Ballard Designs
9. Ballard Designs


Pottery Barn
10. Pottery Barn


Rejuvenation
11. Rejuvenation


Rejuvenation
12. Rejuvenation


Moormann Berge
13. Moormann Berge


Tonic Home
14. Tonic Home


Pottery Barn
15. Pottery Barn


Lindsey Adelman Studio
16. Lindsey Adelman Studio


Lindsey Adelman Studio
17. Lindsey Adelman Studio


David Trubridge
18. David Trubridge


Anthropologie
19. Anthropologie


Pottery Barn

Pottery Barn
20. Pottery Barn


Hubbardton Forge
21. Hubbardton Forge


Early Electrics
Early Electrics

2.09.2010

Snowmageddon!



YouTube user 'amandareckonwith' posted this time lapse video showing the massive snowfall in Washington DC on February 5 and 6. The user writes that the video was made with a "Nikon D200 set to make an exposure every 5 minutes. 328 frames at 12 fps."

2.06.2010

Eames Chair debuts on television in 1956

ouno design
Eames chairs brochure, 1946, originally uploaded by ouno design.


Charles and Ray Eames show their then-new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis "Home" show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956.

Don't forget to turn off my music gadget or you'll hear overlapping sound tracks. If you'd like to see more videos on Charles Eames, just click the YouTube icon.


Part 1



Part 2