my pretend home: {element 1} the glass wall

glass wall via interiordesign.net

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converted loft via say yes to hoboken

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glass wall home by john lautner architects via housedesignidea.com

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landscape room via architecture and interior design on flickr.

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the frank lloyd wright fallingwater home

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it may be all the lego fantasy homes i build these days or my happy chance to work-from-home every day, but gosh i could day-dream away a week or two designing my dream home in my mind! so here's a fun new feature on the blog: my pretend home. each installment focusing on a fun designerly element i adore.

i'd love to hear an element from yours too!
yay dreams!

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element one: the glass wall

walls of glass ... practical in a home design? not likely.
a life without curtains feasible? hardly.
would i really like the non-privacy of it all for the family rikrak? doubtful.

but oooh oooh oooh the natural-light lovin' photographer in me would love to have walls of beautiful glass that look out onto inspiring scenes.
{yes - i think the precursor of the glass walled dream home is a visually inspiring view - otherwise eek to that!}

love the fresh, modern, minimalist stylings of these lovelies. suits me just fine!

think 1960's californian oceanside glass home with a dash of the frank lloyd wright fallingwater house meets urban city loft-o-light with lots and lots of windows.

there... now i've got my walls up!
how 'bout you?

play along!
what's one element you'd love in your dream home?

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allendale house by peter guthrie via handmade evolution

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the volente lake house via Bercy Chen Studio LP

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the fabulous moop's studio via etsy

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the glen ellen estate via home edit

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an * inspiring * little game! { part two }

wall A

it's time again for another fun round of gaming! last month, we played part one, seen here.
so try your hand @ round two and be inspired!

the person who guesses the most correct matches wins a little feature!

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i love games.
and i love seeing others' inspirations!

so here's a fun game for all of us.

i've become very fascinated of late with the idea of inspiration boards or idea walls. i've seen images of many amazing little walls or boards dedicated to carefully collecting different little goodies that inspire the artist! i love it!

i'm fascintated with how they look. how they feel, and what folks choose to add to them. i'm also interested in how they relate (or not!) to the artist's work! i love it!
so i found some of my faves in the blogosphere, and I thought we could do something fun with them!
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the FUN RULES:
take a look @ the images below (and the one at the top!) .... each inspiration board or wall belongs to a fun artist whose work I’ve featured at the end of this post in the *the artists* section.

see if you can, without looking/researching, match the inspiration board to the artist. (i.e. A1, B2, etc).... please post your guesses below in the comments!

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each image links to the artists’ photostream... BUT try not to look until after you’ve entered your guesses. it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong - i just thought it'd be fun to try and guess!

thanks so much to the artists for sharing their amazing boards and work.

i’ll be posting the answers later in a separate post. at that time, i'll also feature the person who commented with the most correct answers! so be sure to play!

(but if you're REALLY eager to know which belongs to who.... just click on the board photos!)

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wall B

wall C

wall D

wall E

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the artists

artist 1: photographer paper pony

artist 2: one good bumblebee

artist 3: red velvet art / o!rachew!

artist 4: phatsheep textiles

artist 5: paper valise provisions

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ps: have an inspiration board? let me know!
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the answers: an *inspiring* little game {part one}

yay!
i'm so glad some folks added their fun answers to part one of the *inspiring* little game post from yesterday!

PLEASE NOTE! if you haven't had a chance to play the game yet,
please stop reading this post lickity-splitly and head on over to the game post here!

then you can come back here to see the answers!

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the answers to the game are:

A3: laura bucci
B4: mundo flo
C6: yvestown
D2: marion hearts
E7: photo bird
F1: patchwork pottery
G5: erin lang norris

thanks so much to everyone who played!

and special kudos to the wonderful nesting emily, who played, and had 5 of 7 guesses correct! woohoo! go see emily's beautiful shop to be inspired!

Silk Star Stitch porcelain VASE by nestingemily

look for future *inspiration* wall posts in the future... and be sure to add your own to the comments so i can feature some of them!

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an *inspiring* little game! {part one}

wall A

I love games.
and i love seeing others' inspirations!

so here's a fun game for all of us.

i've become very fascinated of late with the idea of inspiration boards or idea walls. i've seen images of many amazing little walls or boards dedicated to carefully collecting different little goodies that inspire the artist! i love it! i see amazing ones all of the time on flickr from some of my fabulous contacts. i see folks talking about them in the news and in lovely magazines. and in the past few weeks, i've seen some great posts about inspiration boards
(i'm thinking here especially of kotori's great post!)

i'm fascintated with how they look. how they feel, and what folks choose to add to them. i'm also interested in how they relate (or not!) to the artist's work! i love it!
so i found some of my faves in the blogosphere, and I thought we could do something fun with them!
........................................

the FUN RULES:
take a look @ the images below (and the one at the top!) .... each inspiration board or wall belongs to a fun artist whose work I’ve featured at the end of this post in the *the artists* section.

see if you can, without looking/researching, match the inspiration board to the artist. (i.e. A1, B2, etc).... please post your guesses below in the comments! it’ll be fun!

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each image links to the artists’ photostream... BUT try not to look until after you’ve entered your guesses. it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong - i just thought it'd be fun to try and guess!

thanks so much to the artists for sharing their amazing boards and work.

i’ll be posting the answers later today in a separate post.

(but if you're REALLY eager to know .... just click on the board photos!)

wall B

wall C

wall D

wall E

wall F

wall G

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the artists! :


artist 1: the amazing patchwork pottery





artist 2: the wonderful marion of the marionhearts blog



artist 3: the talented laura of laura bucci.etsy.com

artist 4: the wonderful adriana of mundo flo




artist 5: the incredible erin lang norris



artist 6: the brilliant yvestown


artist 7: the oh-so-talented simply photo/photobird

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PS: do you have an inspiration board? where do you keep your inspiring goodies? please share a link to a photo of it with us and i’ll use as many of them as I can in the next inspiration board post guessing game!
please tune in next week for MORE!

have fun!

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