Good Wood.

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...

Stone Cabin.

Wow.

(found at Freckle Farm)

Log Cabin.

While playing around on Erie Basin's blog, looking for wedding bands I stumbled across this amazing "Log" Cabin and had to share.

(more images here)

Wow.

Iceland.

(found at Hearthrobs and Villians)

Cabin.

Love that they exposed the ceiling -- even though there isn't anything particularly special about it.

(found at Unruly Things)

I Like.

A little unexpected bedazzling.

(found at Little Grey Book)

Incoming.

(via Texturism)

I Want.

This blanket. Sadly, it's only available in Europe...

(found at Remodelista)

Cozy.

I like this. Instead of sitting by the fireplace, you can sit in the fireplace.

(found at RadKat)

Antlers.

I have a very small collection of antlers started. Right now they are spread throughout the house, but this makes me want to group them all together again.

(Found via Auburn and Ivory. Thanks!)

Christmas, I'm done with you!

Just took our tree down and can't really say I was sad to see it go. Since "they" decided to start Christmas before Thanksgiving again this year by January 1st I was officially over it.

(images via swiss-miss)

New Stairs.

So, I had a chance to see the (almost) finished staircase this past weekend and I LOVED it! Thank God. This whole renovation business is so nerve-wracking. It just feels like months of paper-clipping money to balloons and letting them go.

Glad that I didn't see this staircase until just now. It's not as if anything like this would be possible, but I'm sure I would have tried.

(Image found via Texturism)

Shadows.

(Images by Marcus Buck via The Dark Victory)

Neglect.

Hello Blog,

Please forgive me for neglecting you for the past few weeks. I know I have been absent and distracted, but it's not from a lack of interest in you, I swear. It's not like I didn't think about you often. I hope to be able to give you more attention in the New Year, as you deserve.

Yours Truly.

(image from Vena Cava)