WEEK ENDNOTES: Loves, Gains & Pains

I’ve been admiring this bed for some weeks now. Our headboard needs reupholstered, and I’m thinking a luscious olive green velvet like this one would be perfect.

Nicky Kehoe

This bedroom in a Nicky Kehoe-designed Pasadena home also caught my eye. I love the mix of patterns in the wallpaper and bedding, as well as the vintage headboard. The two pooches curled up at the foot are cute, too.

Nicky Kehoe

But mostly I fell for the pooch lamp on the bedside table. I hear it is house-trained, never barks and doesn’t shed.

I also found myself in love with this elegant, midcentury modern shelf in the kitchen of an English home featured in the Finnish blog, Keltainen Talo Rannalla (Yellow House on the Beach). Follow the link for a full tour and don’t forget to ask Google to translate for you.

Face-to-face with a Fornasetti in the flesh

Ever admire (covet) those cheeky face plates by Pietro Fornasetti? Of course you have. Well, that’s his grandson pictured at right, and you can tour his imaginative apartment housed in the former headquarters of the Fornasetti business. Below is a peek at the whimsical surroundings that await.

Aspire

At home: 1 step forward, 2 steps back

All the boxes are unpacked, the garage is (mostly) organized, and the car is parked inside it! Chris added to shelves on the north wall (left) with some on the south wall over his workbenches and the cat’s litterbox (middle) and one up high on the west wall (right) so as not to interfere with entering the house from the passenger side of the car (since our garage is short.) He started to hang a storage unit from the ceiling but decided against it and returned it. A few days later he saw the unit had been recalled for defective bolts.

BoHo Home

Patio furniture frames have taken up their rightful place on the back patio, overlooking the lake, but we have them battened down (anchored to the ground) until further notice because of the pesky wind tunnel across the lake. How do you like the bright yellow ropes and fluorescent orange anchors?

Cushions remain stowed away for now, awaiting a new deckbox. The current one is weighted down with extra flowerpots and bricks left over from the house until we pick out a new deckbox and anchor it. The poor birdfeeder crook may yet blow over but for now is holding its own, waiting for songbirds to discover it.

BoHo Home

I’ve been out of commission with a back injury incurred while working alongside Chris to take photos for last Thursday’s post. I got in a hurry and, trying to circle ’round behind him in too little space, caught my toe on the kitchen rug and went down. No injury to my new knees, as I landed on my ample behind. But I wrenched my back in an effort to keep my head from smacking the quartz countertops. Head intact, back not so much, pride hurt, judgment in question.

BoHo Home

Hence the above photo: I’ve been sitting still a lot and using a heating pad, catching up on season 6 of Outlander while I embellish a kantha quilt with freeform embroidery–an idea I got from one of my design favorites, Kit Kemp. I have five kanthas and gobs of embroidery floss bought in vintage lots on ebay. So all in all, it’s enough to keep my fingers busy for a decade or so of debilitating injuries. Let’s hope I find OTHER times to work on them, like relaxing in the sun on the back porch this summer.

BoHo Home

What’s up next for the Lawsons? Probably mowing the grass ourselves for the first time in 10 years (I mean CHRIS mowing the grass, LOL). I’m chomping at the bit to buy and plant perennials along my front walkway, shift the already planted boxwoods to between (but in front of) the hydrangeas behind them (which you can’t see in this photo very well because they haven’t leafed out), and plant those two false cypress “Golden Mop” shrubs on opposite corners to “mark” the front entrance.

Certainly all but the first of those I can get done from a chair, supervising Chris, oui?

Heal back, HEAL!!

Here’s hoping you had a safer week than mine,

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