Saturated Colors.

Here's my favorite example of a home with very little white. Isn't it warm, inviting and just fun? I'm so reluctant to go white again...

Palette Change.

It had been my hope to keep white out of the cabin for the most part. Right now, our walls are a very dark brown and we have a bunch of neutral furniture with shots of saturated color. This was the direction I had planned on going, keeping things warm and cozy.

Then came the orange stairs...Now I'm not sure we can keep the dark walls without it looking really funky. I'm trying to get my head back around the idea of white walls again...

Midori Hirose.

Found via Tell You (Today)

Upside Down.

"I also liked the idea that somehow there's a parallel world which coexists with ours."

Ji Lee's ceiling installations are delightful.

Damn.

Before we decided to remodel the bathroom and stairs/closet, we were torn between working with the existing structure or just putting up a Wee House and calling it a day. Prefabs are just so cool, and they sound quick and easy to install and fun to live in. In the end, we were concerned that the setting was too difficult for the delivery truck to access, and that it seemed environmentally wasteful to tear down the existing home altogether.

In hindsight though, this would have been a much better idea...

Chaos.

I'm sorry for the lack of posts lately. Life has just been doing that thing where it completely gets ahead of you and you find yourself just trying to catch up.

Things have not been the best at the cabin. After a four month, over-budget "project" we now have a half painted bathroom, orange stained stairs and a carpenter ant infestation. On top of that, the snow pile-up on our deck has caused it to bow and parts of it are beginning to break away. The pressure on the deck from the snow is literally pulling the house down, and the floor is beginning to bend at the spine.

All in all, it has not been a very good couple of month for the cabin. We are trying not to get too overwhelmed, but it looks like this summer will be full of more "small projects", including building a new deck, jacking up the pylons, installing a new gas stove, removing stumps, killing carpenter ants, sanding, painting and installing new doors and windows...Fun, right?

Oh, and getting married of course...