FAB-U-LOUS!!!! Beekman Boys

Once upon I time I bookmarked this soap, mostly 'cause I am a sucker for a great logo.  Also, extreme pushover when it comes to goats, so I've got that goin' for me.

Add some pigs

Not to mention a llama named Polka Spot, cheese (I love cheese), Farmer John (loves his goats so much it makes him cry!  My kind of farmer!)

Not enough?  Insane mansion straight from my dreams...

Check!

Gay reality show?  SOLD!!!!

THE FABULOUS BEEKMAN BOYS!!!!!!!

Just started on a Discovery channel subset, Planet Green.

Love, love, love, love, I am in LOVE!

IKEA takes a lot of flack for being "IKEA".  It carries with it connotations of cheap and immature, something you use until you become a "grown up".  I will tell you that I have a very love/hate relationship with IKEA.  I love the catalog, it's arrival is one of the best times of the year.  I hate the store!  They never have what I want, I can never find a person to help me, and I usually leave my cart in frustration at the end, with out going through the line.  But here is what makes it all worth while.  I love this bed.  I want to completely redecorate both of my girls rooms around this bed.  It's amazing!

PS, it's the IKEA PS Veranda

I need 3 dollas

Craigslist is an amazing resource

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Little girl wants her wall to be purple.  Her headboard is a soft aqua (but UPDATE, the bed is turned sideways now, in a daybed fashion)  and the other large piece with color in her room is her kitchen (which I was gonna link to my blog post about, until I realized I never posted it! oops, next up DIY play kitchen), which is kind of a bright peachy, pinky, slightly coraly color.  So I did not want to paint bright purple walls and end up looking like a mish mosh out of one of those dated “How to decorate a Kid’s room” books.  The plan evolved to this, use a lilac paint with a Moroccan tile stencil.  This post is getting too long, I am boring myself.  Looked everywhere, couldn’t find stencil, then thought of Etsy, stencils found.

How to steal this idea, while being totally lazy.

Lauren, from Pure Style Home clearly has much more energy than I do, probably from still being “20-something”, and she is putting it to good use!  I love her kids nursery.   
purestylehome via design*sponge

Specifically the “canopy”.  So here’s what I figure.  If you are lazy like me, and don’t mind black vs blue (which could be a deal breaker in a nursery, but maybe not in an older kids room), I think you could fake it with this…
paisley black table cloth

It comes in a 60” x 110” for only $70.  Of course if you have more energy bubbling up inside (or don’t want black) you could do it with this…
Cutting Edge Stencil

From Cutting Edge Stencil on Etsy.  Not exactly the same, but close enough.

Somebody, please tell me why I don’t live…

HERE.  no, not you.  Only people that get it.

A Quickie…

We gave the facade of the store a little makeover today.  It seems to have worked.  We more than doubled foot traffic!  Hooray!  And all for under $20!
Just 2 of these in black and white, folded in half, and a staple gun.
What do you think?

Scavenger Home – Vintage Dealer to the Stars!!

We got an order the other day from a customer by the name of Catherine Bell.  I thought, surely it can’t be THE Catherine Bell.  But it was!!!

She bought  these lovelies.  Can’t wait to see pictures…

I love bad ass, hardcore women (especially ones that buy stuff from us), and trust me, she is!  She’s got a resume of television series (Jag, Army Wives), a movie career, she rides motorcycles and she’s a mom!  I only do one of those things (guess which one), might be time to get my act together, huh?

The NEW section at IKEA makes me smile…

Whuck?

I don’t know if you can tell that it is pouring ice from the sky with total abandon.  This has been going on, off and on, for 2 days.  In between the slush and hail sessions, we have periods of the bluest sky and bright warm sunshine.  The weather is so bizarre, I would not be surprised if it rained meatballs next.  Pacific Northwest is going through an identity crisis.

Oh, and how’s this for hard working… In an effort to make my chimney FABULOUS, he worked until the scaffold was covered in a treacherous layer of hail, and then called it a day.   The outside of my house almost looks finished, after merely 3 years.  Mother Nature, don’t screw this up for me, or else!

How many bars is too many bars?

It would be inappropriate to have a bar setup in every room of your house, right?  I mean, it would suggest something about your priorities, I think.  But still, would this not make the most amazing bar?!

I have a moral opposition to paying retail on craigslist, but still, it’s not a bad price…here

Spotted

Well, I don’t think it would be presumptuous to say that I am the first person in the world to own something from the Liberty of London line for Target.  Yesterday, 2 full days prior to the launch, I bought this lampshade. So, my photography skills are even better with my cell phone, right?  Anyhow, don’t even have a place to put it.  I was thinking about putting it in Leah’s room, but I think it may be too birdy.  Peacock feathers, song birds? This is her lamp.  
Too much.  I will find a place.  Mostly, I just wanted to be first.

I just saw this on All The Best

All the blogs that I read are decor blogs, like All the Best.  Exclusively (except fupenguin, but he quit).  Sometimes they throw in fashion, which I tolerate, because I have no choice, and occasionally I try to not look like an idiot when I get dressed, so it’s helpful to have some idea what’s in style.  (more so, now that I have the store)  Anyhow, here is one that I will read.  In fact, I would like to print it, and read it from the beginning, like a… you know… what’s that called again… oh, right, a book.

read here…. Thank You For Asking

Oh yeah, by the way

We were mentioned on Style Court.  No big deal, I mean, being noticed by a well respected blogger and designer that has been mentioned in ELLE Decor, design*sponge and InStyle happens to me all the time.

No, it totally doesn’t!  This was super exciting!  It happened a few days ago, and we got a ton of response, which has kept me busy as a little bee talking with clients and doing our first Greyhound shipment.  This is why I didn’t even have time to post about it. 

Oh yeah, I should also point out that the post wasn’t really so much about Scavenger Home, as it was about a particular desk.  Our lovely shiny red number with the fab lion head pulls, but still…

Happy day and a little DIY tip

It was a truly happy day when I stumbled across this little chandelier.  While my initial instinct is to have everything painting in some amazing, fresh, bright color, I end up restraining myself, so that the customer can decide for themselves.  (they are always right, you know)  But this needed a little pop, right away.

Here is the DIY part.  This is soooooo easy.  I made a little navy chevron print on photoshop and printed it.  You can also just search Bing images for whatever pattern you are looking for.  Make sure it is large enough and high enough resolution that it will print well.  (not advocating copyright infringement. whatever)  Then just cut and past.  Easy breezy.  You can take the little round plastic tubes off your chandelier, run a line of double sided tape or adhesive down one end, stick it on, roll it around and another strip of adhesive down the end.  I know these instructions seem stunted and a little vague.  This is just SOOO easy, that I don’t want to over do it on instructions.  You can figure it out, it’s pretty obvious.

So far behind…

I am so far behind in my blog posts, it’s ridiculous.  i have a permanent case of writers block and every time I think of blogging, I get sucked in to craigslist or eBay looking for new yummy things.  To start filling the silence, I present this wonderfully worn Westnofa chair.  The perfect shade of chocolate, it is low slung, inviting and warm.

Blown Away

I just love it when I can make my world more stylish and fantastic using nothing but stickers, like in my bathroom floor makeover.

Jenny, from one of my favorite blogs, Little Green Notebook, just posted this mind blowing “sticker” from Surface View.  They are in the UK, so you know, the dollar sucks right now, and then there’s shipping, blah blah blah, but I am telling you, this is still cheap.

Here are a couple more that I will have to have at some point in my life.

I really need to do this in a powder room, I think.
 Can you imagine this covering an entire wall behind some fabulous yellow velvet daybed in a kids room.  Something like this…
    via anne coyle interiors

Oh Bill, you’re a funny, funny guy

It has come to my attention

that my headboards twin (actually a queen) is currently residing in this over the top guest bedroom in designer Jay Jeffers house.  Talk about versatile, this headboard can clearly swing both ways.
 
So, I have to say that Fyndes has been really great.  They seem to really give personal attention to their dealers.  I kindof assumed there was just a computer on the other end, but Mark @ Fyndes is actually who pointed out the whole headboard thing to me.  It was also mentioned here.  Isn’t that nice?

Vicariously Bad Ass!!!!

Is it sad that I want to be someone who is probably younger than I am now, when I grow up?

Kishani Perera has been all over the design world and does amazing work, plus is clearly overwhelmingly cool.  I mean, just look at her!! 

So, what does this have to do with me, you ask?  She shops at Scavenger Home!  Ok, fine, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but she did actually buy something from us!!
Now, I can’t say who she bought it for, but if you are the curious type, you could peruse her blog and make some assumptions.

surprise, surprise, surprise!

Imagine my surprise to find my humble little blog listed here , on “Design Dish”, the design blog for Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine. 

It’s pretty cool to be on a list that includes the likes of Velocity Art & Design and Revival Home & Garden, (2 of my absolute favorites!)  I know, I know, it’s not like it was merit based or anything, like I somehow rank up there with these folks (yet), but let’s pretend.

(side note:  I was thinking about saying “unbeknownst to me” in that first paragraph.  Have you ever seen that word written?  Have you ever written it?  It was just too ridiculous to go forward with, so I didn’t.)

Missing summer…