from Joel Henriques' studio

I love this homemade paint rack and brush holder from Joel Henriques' sneak peak on Design*Sponge. A really clever way to keep one's supplies easily accessible.

More interior photos on my interior tag; more workspaces, specifically, in my cluttered spaces post.

white rooms

In many of my other posts about interiors, I've been mentioning the sparse, white rooms I love. This post is a collection of some of my favorites of these unattainably (for me, anyway) clean, white, and empty rooms.

Picture above via sfgirlbybay. I like how all the disparate things work together in this room, from the amazing chandelier, to the books in the fireplace, to the almost-invisible TV screen, to the slightly mismatched white armchairs.

Cozy architecture, lovely sunlight, and low furniture via seenandsaid.

Pretty white floorboards and white background with bright, joyful prints via lolita blog.

Warm porcelains and etched mirrors via lost dot net (a whole post of more white rooms).

Awesome white backdrop with amazing bell jar and bird's nest lamp via design*sponge.

For more, see my tag for this on my tumblr.

in-between clutter and unrealistic sparseness (unrealistic for me, anyway!)

After my post on attainably-cluttered rooms and my post on sparse, white spaces, I found a few more cluttered and cluttered-ish or in-between spaces that I love. 

Above is one of my favorite interior decor pictures ever, via the style files. (It was also one of my very first tumblr posts.) It has color! Plants! Flowers! Porcelain! Rustic wood! Sunlight! Slanty ceilings! Pots and pans and things hanging! 

From Meryl Smith's feature on the Selby. This is some clutter I can seriously relate to! All the specimens and natural items on the walls really make this room for me. 

The above and remaining pictures are from Ann Wood's sneak peak on design sponge. I love Ann Wood's work a lot (I post her work and in progress pictures all the time on my tumblr) so it's a treat to see what her place looks like. I love how much like her work her apartment is, especially that decaying curtain in the picture above. 

plants make all houses beautiful

I have this idea that potted plants make rooms like awesome, and can overcome clutter and other setbacks just by being alive and green. So here's some more interior decor pictures, of rooms with plants. 

The above picture is via design sponge.

Besides the plants and all the light from these windows, I also really like all the baskets and textures in this picture, via seenandsaid. 

Another plant-filled room via seenandsaid. 

I think this is a great example of how much power plants have for me, because other than the beautiful windows and the plants, I don't really like this room! By Petra Bindel, via sfgirlbybay. 

The above and remaining photos are from Nicolette Camille's sneak peak on design sponge. She's a florist, so there are plants aplenty! One of my favorite things about this series of photos is that, other than the huge amount of plantlife in the last photo, these are photos I love but are still somewhat attainable for me. A lot of my furniture and belongings are already in the same style that I love in these pictures, which is promising! 

cluttered and beautiful spaces

In my post about the Society, Inc., I talked about how I tend to love interior design pictures of huge, sunlit, white spaces sparsely decorated with minimal furniture and a few splashes of color. I will probably never have a place like this -- I just own too much stuff. And now I'm about to move into a tiny bedroom in a teensy-tiny apartment, where I don't have a living room to dump to my extra things like bookcases and knicknacks, let alone a separate studio to put my art supplies. 

So this post is devoted to beautiful pictures of cluttered spaces, with emphasis on workspaces. 

Above: photo by Jeremy Levine Design on flickr, posted on Pitch Design Union. I found it on cmongirl's tumblr. This is still a bigger room than my bedroom, so I have no hope of this much open space (even if I had only a bed and a dresser). It's not exactly "cluttered," but not exactly sparse, either.  I love the wall shelves to keep surfaces clear, the tons of stuff under the desk areas, and the stacks of books.

Kitchen clutter! Someday I'll have a kitchen with more than one unit of counterspace (not including where a dish drainer would go) but that day is not now. 

Picture above via Hello Neëst !. 

This sewing shed belongs to Artemis of Tales of a Junkaholic. I think this picture shows pretty much the entire shed. As I'm planning my new teeny bedroom, I'm appreciating elements like the cute, compact baskets and other storage she's using.

Picture from designsponeshop flickr, discovered via please sir. It's hard to see just how cluttered this space is in terms of furniture, but I love all of the color, pattern, fabrics, and textures. 

Another one I mostly like for the clutter on the walls, via the steampunk home. I don't think I could pull this sort of thing off in my place, though. For one thing, I think having walls this cluttered, in addition to my necessarily cluttered furniture, would make everything claustrophobic. 

Another workspace cluttered with baskets, books, and wall adornments. This one is by Angie Cao, via tea for joy. 

the society inc

I love interior design photos -- my tumblr "interior" tag is so overflowing, tumblr won't even show you all of the posts -- but the photos I like don't always have to do with the interior decor and furniture I own, like, and am likely to ever own. 

The Society Inc. is brimming with the rare interior photos that include everything I like in a photo, in a room, in an image, in color, in patterning, in clutter. (It was even a big inspiration for my butterfly boxes-- because I'm not as big a fan of actual dead critters.) 

Also check out her book, Etcetera: Creating Beautiful Interiors With The Things You Love.

Photos are from the Society Inc website and Sibella Court's Design*Sponge sneak peek. Also, as many images as are here, there are even more on my society inc tumblr tag. 

my studio

I've finally set up my studio! You can see in these pictures my new book of tea bags. Wish I had more work to post, for now I'm still getting back into the swing of things.