don't you love....flowers inside

This is what the spaces in the moody masculine post would look like with flowers.

The Voice of Reason can't deny that they make the spaces sing.
From top left: Elle Decor, Mia Widlake's home (right) and bottom both via Number-Nineteen.

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Don't you love...Moody & masculine monochrome

Moody masculine monochrome energy, this post is for the Voice of Reason who has always dreamed of the industrial inner city loft.  I do love this look, the textures, the contrast, nothing that a lovely bunch of flowers wouldn't be able to soften to my taste.

images: top left & right by Richard Powers, magazine stacks via Abigail Ahern, skull print on old paper by Mia Widlake

 I want a jelde lamp like this one above (via Artilleret).  One of those things I noticed recently and now can't stop thinking about.

left via Blood and Champagne ,right again via Artilleriet this time with a flos lamp I covet for our lounge

There is that lamp again. (via Gifts of Life)

And to go with the loft the Voice of Reason would have this country bolt hole.  Imagine the parties you could have here! (photo by Richard Powers)

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Don't you love.....double the function

A friend of mine has had me thinking about furniture layouts for smaller living spaces, with fewer, larger pieces of furniture, investment pieces to use in a future home.

So I am thinking - dining table doubles as console or desk.

Image via Number Nineteen
Cute set up as a desk for two.Images via Shannon Berrey from Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles 2008 Designer Showhouse
Works as eating space for two.  Pull table clear and place chairs all around when more people come over.  What do you think?  Any ideas?

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