This doesn't really have to do with the house, but I want to make these. They would be the cutest little juice glasses. Sadly Dave has vetoed using bottles from the Port Townsend Brewery. Think of other ideas.

I love the horseshoes! This could look so cheesy, but the room is stylish enough to pull it off. We should have a horseshoe above each door. Especially if we can get some of the ones that your grandpa forged.

This would be a great bookshelf/chotchke/shoe thing. Where can you buy fruit crates these days? Do people still use them?

We don't do this in California. But in other parts of the world, the shoes come off as you enter the house and this is kind of a cute reminder. Or even just the words "shoes" would work. Maybe paint it on the wall all graphic like and nice. Hmm.

All right Dave, I have found an outdoor office for you! How awesome is this? And your falcon could live in one of the trees. And you could train it to send me love notes. Though I would like you to write them, not the falcon. He can write his own.

This is probably totally cliche, but I love the classic overstuffed leather chair. Ooh, and this ceiling! I love this ceiling.

This is the perfect rug for Dave. Flor is awesome!

My love of porches knows no bounds.
I prefer the above porch- how it juts out from the structure of the house.

But this porch has a great size to it- you could have an awesome little party out there. Perhaps this is the back porch. This would be a great back porch.

Let's start collecting mismatched rocking chairs! This has so much that I love- the clapboard, the wide porch, the rocking chairs, the sheer little curtains in the window... Wonderful. Except for that fluffy cat.

Is this indoor or outdoor? It's a nice little room.

We both are liking the cobblestone pathways but this herringbone looks rather nice. We should consider latticing the wall of a side door or back door with some nice climbing flower. Are these the kinds of things that only look good for a year or two while it grows?

I am loving this double wide desk. Davey, we could have side by side desks with tops that flip up! Now you are probably thinking that you might not want a desk next to me I point out this: the incline on the desktop would prevent me from piling up all my little projects/wrappers.
And I love the little shelves up top. This is a great piece of furniture.

Okay this would work in so many areas, but it's fairly crazy and probably totally expensive- the windowed garage door wall! It would be awesome in a room like this where you could get an outdoor feel, it would work in a photo studio as a north wall, it would be great on a covered porch...

I adore the gingerbread cutouts on these shelves. I would love to have a short little shelf for spices, where you can get to them all easily and don't have to route around.

This oven is breathtaking. I love all the little hinged doors and the platform covers over the burners. So adorable. Can you find these that are retrofitted to work normally?


Ed. note:  apparently you can, they just cost around $3,000.  

Okay, this isn't so much a house idea... except that it kind of is... Anyway, little random detail of multiple runners staggered in some color harmony. Why don't you see runners very often? These look great. And so much easier to fold than a table cloth.

I love these chairs. They have such a gorgeous sheen and wear. And the flowers aren't so bad either.

The coolest outdoor fireplace! I love the grass coming up between the tiles. But I'm still looking for a picture of an indoor/outdoor fireplace like at the cabin. That would be the ideal situation- roasting marshmallows and hot dogs in the summertime, everyone grasping their kinked metal coat hanger and enjoying a night outside.

All right, Dave. You say you want a dock in the backyard for your pygmy kayak, so I'm going to up the ante- backyard dock, with a swing.

Ooh, we should have your office in the boat house that you have to walk through to get to the dock. The dock could be your backyard.

Let's find this place and squat until the police get involved. What do you think about the different bricks? I'm still not sure if I like the upper story, but I am feeling the stone underneath the window. I love the giant barn-ish front door and the gravel driveway with the tree. So charming.

So if we end up doing the board ceiling I think we need to do with the hardware on these closets. This is such a random detail, but I think it adds quite a bit. Long barn door hinges.

I like this hanging system. It is so uniform and clean and doesn't distract from what you're looking at.

The herringbone pattern of the brick is rather nice.

I would love to have these kinds of doors into a bedroom or office. But only if we could work out some kind of privacy.

Ooh!
First off- the yellow and white striped ceiling. It mimics the lines from a slatted ceiling and adds some energy into the room. The white stripes are matte while the yellow are some satin finish. Very interesting.
Second, the black matte wall. I assume black matte would show less dirt than white matte, right? I am loving how graphic and dramatic this little nursery is.

More mismatched chairs!

And in the library I am soon becoming obsessed about let's put these lights above each set of bookcases! So wonderful! Perhaps we should learn the Dewey Decimal System to further this theme.