Beautiful spaces

Antiques

2012-02-20T11:24:00.001-08:00

Old is Gold. Can you believe these could make some money?

These old cameras were atleast 40 euros each and many were even more...who would have thought?! save up your stuff so you can sell after 40 yrs...may be the windows PC ;-)

Solicit love advise

2012-02-20T11:17:00.001-08:00

Alright...I am LOVE and I want to take it with me...fair enough ya?

The question is - is it the red or the blue coffee cups...What do my readers suggest?

The chickens are coming with me :)

Spanish kitchen and garden

2012-02-20T11:09:00.001-08:00

Its been a day and i wanted to have normal sleep hours atleast in this trip. I escaped from work by 5 and didnt want to go to the apartment instead I decided to roam around and hunt for some designs. Look what I found...

LOVE 'EM ALL :D

(Have some patience,long list)

(I did buy one of the bowl in the above pictures :p)

Check out the handle

Nice floorlamp..best if you are going for industrial look

Outdoor piece

Check out the legs

You will be surprised to know below pictures are Pot for plants!! LOVE it

My apartment in barcelona,spain

2012-02-20T10:38:00.002-08:00

After 18 long hour flight with no personal entertainment TV :((( I reached barcelona on late sunday evening to a beautiful spanish apartment which was in the middle of everything! It is like staying in T.nagar in one of those quite streets. It has large living room with exposed brick (I always wanted to see if I like to have them in my house and I love it), 2 bedroom, small kitchen. Living room and kitchen look out to a cute(aka little) courtyard...Here are the pictures (Again, apologise for the quality of the pictures..1) its night 2) I used my cell phone. I am buying an awesome camera. So, its going to get much better)

Entrance to the apartment on the road

Spanish staircase leading up to the apartment

Inside apartment..step up to the living room

Living room as soon as you enter

One of the bed room is down few steps

Living room

Looking out to the courtyard

Cute Courtyard from kitchen

2012-02-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

Off to barcelona....coming up spanish designs and architecture! Ciao

Dream white kitchen

2012-02-16T22:03:00.000-08:00

My dream kitchen will be clean,crisp WHITE kitchen with lots of light. Some of the features I would like to have -
Few transparent glass cabinets, white back splash may be a subway tile, stainless steel appliances, white quartz counter top (difficult to maintain but worth it)...would like a island if the kitchen is large but I dont like big grand kitchen but decent sized cute one. Some white kitchens that I enjoyed in the web....

Check out the stove...LOVE

Not a fan of the cabinets but liked the wine rack

Beautiful light in the room and cute pendants. Liked the counter top as well..

This kitchen floorplan is very similar to my kitchen...i am already imaging being in that!!

Nice cabinets and wooden floor!

Nice light fixture, LOVE the floor. I have been having super love for light wood floors..

By now you already know what I like and dont :) I liked the splash of yellow in the white space

Cozy corner....super like!!

When will I have a WHITE kitchen?!?!?!?!dream dream dream :-)

Kitchen beauty

2012-02-16T19:55:00.000-08:00

This is a woman's territory, well most women and it ought to be kept clean and beautiful. Everything here is an accessory. Imagine a kitchen with everything put in beautiful containers and kept neatly...i bet even if you dont know how to cook ..you would want to try something :) I tried to make my kitchen as pretty/organised as possible just so that i get motivated to get in there and try something...

Space savers

2012-02-15T16:12:00.000-08:00

Right size furniture is going to decide the look of your room. I have seen houses with all kinds of furtinure clog up the room and make it to appear small. To me, a room with lot of moving space works the best and the furtinures should match. On that note, here a tip..

I like the idea of space saving furnitures...check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAa6bOWB8qY&feature=player_detailpage

What do my readers think?

Lets recycle

2012-02-15T11:21:00.000-08:00

I mean literally...pleaseeee

5 min time out stool

2012-02-15T10:28:00.000-08:00

Would you want this? :-)

My first potterybarn!

2012-02-13T22:01:00.000-08:00

After 1 week of wait and $300 later, I become the honorable 1st grabber of this beauty and it joins my cannot live without list!!

Outdoor fireplace

2012-02-12T21:13:00.000-08:00

I saw this beautiful fireplace in lowes today...

Design on its way...

2012-02-09T18:43:00.000-08:00

My friends apartment (continuing on my previous post)...

(click on the picture below to enlarge)

The inspiration for the rom was the wall art. I picked the color from it (red,green,yellow) and built the room around it. Selected a red rug, green and red pilllows and a black coffe table. Added a bowl with mixed color potpuri/green candle. Still something was missing...needed a yellow to tie things together, so added a yellow leafy stand. Put together formed a beautiful room!

Picture of the room in the previous post..

My First freelance work

2012-02-09T08:02:00.000-08:00

One of my very close friend was living away from her husband for a long time. One fine day, she got to know her husband found a job in her city and going to move..yeeee!!! She was going to live with him for the 1st time after their wedding and wanted to setup her apartment. She asked me to help her with the process. I jumped with excitement and said abso-freaking-lutely...yeeeee!!!! She was on rent and didnt want to invest too much. I had to work with limited budget...so we went out shopping for furniture and accessories to not so expensive stores but can get good stuff if we dig . Just like you need side dish, papad, pickle etc with your meal... accessories make the space more interesting and to me they are a must when you setup your house.

We got a nice sofa, coffee table, rug, wall art, dining table, more wall arts and few other accessories. Unfortunately I dont have many pictures of my work but heres what I have....

Thank you Bhavani for letting me do this for you!! I would love to do this for all my friends...so you know my number!!

Few picks for this week

2012-02-05T18:09:00.000-08:00

Its 1 week since I came back from sweden and still suffering with jetlag....i knew nothing but looking at interior designs is going to keep me up! So I went to all my fav stores in bay area and found some wonderful pieces...

This chandelier sure makes a statement...

Zgallery clock

Pottery barn floor lamp..

I want all of them in my house but the winner is the pottery barn floor lamp...i am already digging my purse!

Continuing on the inspiration...

2012-02-03T15:23:00.000-08:00

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I was inspired by this beautiful pier1 table lamp and decorated one of my bedroom. Those are the only light source for the room which makes it very warm and cozy. I added cream bedding, a aantique clock, wall decor and few other accent pieces which I will post later. Heres the bedroom look...

My cozy family room

2012-02-02T16:25:00.000-08:00

This is my cozy family room....as much as I love this setup, I really need a change...I am tired of the brown look. I am thinking white paint with turquoise accent wall, white couch, accent chair and white frame picture collage.. Its a fight between heart and mind, what do you think. Should I or not? Any voters for turquoise room?

something like this...

Baby steps

2012-02-02T12:25:00.000-08:00

When I mentioned in my initial blog that I will persue my interior design career, I didnt mention about the course i took....no secret but I felt its not worth mentioning yet. I joined "profession certification in interior design and architecture" course in Berkeley! I did a 3 months course on the Design principles and elements and learnt a LOT! It changed my perspective about looking at design.. its more than just decorating the house but a little more deeper into the design and how it talks to us...anyway thats a different world inside my brain...but here are some of the designs I made during my course...

First project:

I was asked to design a pattern and here it is...

Second project:

Create a structure, I designed the following and I imagined it to be a sports stadium. Someone in my class mentioned, she would use it as a outdoor space in her backyard .....

Later, we were asked to build something based on our 1st pattern and I imagined it to be a wall candle holder. I made one and hung in living room which is black and white theme remember ;-)

It could be used as a pattern in gift wraps,tiles,rug or your imagination :-)

Turquoise beauty

2012-02-01T11:44:00.000-08:00

Turquoise is one color that undoubtedly makes you feel relaxed. Turquoise beach, turquoise pool with turquoise interior = ??? I will let you fill that part :-) Now enjoy the lovely hawaii resort pool area..

Inspiration

2012-01-29T20:26:00.000-08:00

How are great designs created? How does one choose color,furniture and texture to design a room? I wonder!?I dont know how designers do but this is how I tried...

I liked a light fixture in a store and bought it. I built the entire room around that. In this, the white/grey lamp was my inspiration and I designed my room with black,white and grey color. Once I decided the color, it was easy for me to pick and place the rest of the things. I gave personal touch by adding pictures taken by me. Ofcource I converted them to black and white picture. The sofa in my fav, its formal and can accommodate 6 people atleast (the coffee table has 2 seats hidden), perfect for a living room! Grey rug, picture stand and few accessories completed the look.

I did the same for one of my bedroom...will post picture later..Hope this inspires you to design your room..see ya :-)

Creativity

2012-01-28T22:39:00.000-08:00

This is what I call creativity!!I love this building. Wondering if you have seen this building somewhere in the background and its blurred....I don't blame you..how can you notice this when the gorgeous Sirman is dancing in front of this beauty, it surely will be out of focus (check panchathandiram ennodu kadal vandhadhu song) :-)

Last walk...

2012-01-27T09:38:00.000-08:00

I was tired walking around looking for swedish design, my feet hurt. I just wanted to go back to the hotel and crash as I had an early flight to catch. Ok thats a lie..i did stop at few places to check out some dress..womennnn!! ahem..ahem.. moving on... I came out of the store, looked the beautiful city, I had no idea when I would come back to enjoy this beauty. The streets were well lit...surprisingly the swedish govt waited for me to visit before they took down the xmas decoration! It was bright and festive everywhere...I started walking back and felt the fresh snow on my face...it was beautiful...I was freezing but it didnt bother me....I couldnt go back....I took one last walk in the streets before I returned!

The decorations on the trees were the one that grabbed by attention (apologise..I really have a bad camera)

Scandinavian design

2012-01-27T09:24:00.000-08:00

It was my last day in sweden. Now it wont be fair to leave sweden before checking out some swedish design, would it? I quickly finished my work this afternoon, packed my things and left work. I stayed in a hotel that was right in middle of everything, I decided to take a walk in the streets of stockholm which had lot of shops to look.I like swedish design. They are simple, stylish and comfortable. I did spot some cool stuff which I have posted below. Hope you like it...

Lets begin with a chair...

I soo wanted to buy this window treatment but i couldnt imagine any place to use in my house :-(

Loved the bold flower...would be wonderful to be a bed spread or a duvet/pillow cover in a white room..

Beautiful piece...If only KLM allowed 2 luggage..sighhhh!

This candle holder was BIGG...good one to have in an patio..

Color...color...color

I usually would like to see 3 such things hang. But this worked with each other so well, I didnt feel the need for another one...cute

This is what I call 'space well used'. This was under a staircase with water sound creating a quiet place for a coversation or reading a book. Love it!

I couldnt really figure out what this was..It was in swedish and I am guessing its a window treatment. It looks cute.

My cute little patio

2012-01-26T22:43:00.000-08:00

Its 23F outside. No one can recognise me or appreciate my beautiful dress as its burried under layers an my 50pound jacket....I can barely see beyond 10feet.. This is all I could think now...SUMMERRRR

2012-01-26T09:27:00.000-08:00

Do you rush clean your house when you have a guest coming???well, heres something that could hide your clutter. One of my fav pick

You can get it in target for less than $150.