My favorite movie set..."Down with Love"

The other day I remembered one of my favorite movie sets and how it inspired me to decorate with this style in mind.. Have you seen the sets from "Down with Love"? I love that movie because I love the sets- They are so colorful and don't even get me started on the fashion.... The movie itself is definitely something you should catch on cable but set drool factor is a perfect mid century modern 10 !!
Check out what I mean-



YUMMY!!!!

Oh yes.. I remember THAT project too

While living in Chicago I had the chance of decorating 2 of our apartments. This design was totally inspired from the movie "Down with Love" We had this huge wall that needed that special "something" and I was dying to try to replicate this wall sculpture for our place.. check it out-

This is what the set looked like...


This is what we did to our apartment




I think it turned out great! We used vinyl (again) for the strips and we got the curtain rod hangers from Ikea. It was a fun project.. I was really sad to see it have to come down- The best thing about the project was knowing that it could all be done- on a budget!

Taking it back..old school

Since I've been in the process of 'nesting" I have been able to take a look at old projects that I've done... (some of them I wish I still kept) Here's one project that I did in our old Chicago apartment. It was inspired by George Nelson's marshmallow sofa - But instead I made it a headboard.
Materials needed :
A plain metal headboard with bars ( the one I found was at the Brown Elephant thrift store for $20)
8 plywood circles
Colored Vinyl ( I used orange and red)
Thick upholstery foam
16 "rigid ties" used for wood or "conduit fasteners"
Staple gun

Here's what I envisioned it to look like when I made the plans...

Here's what the fished product looked like- I'm still bummed that I didn't at least get to keep the padded vinyl circles I made but I was in such a rush to get out of Chicago and back to LA, I figured.. it was so fun making it- I probably could make it again someday.

Slowly but surely..

Ok, I know it's been a while but here I go with the latest update. We finally got the chance to paint the bricks in the front of the house. I think it turned out very nicely. It looks a little "colder" and "industrial" then the look of brick but we think we like it so much more than what it did look like. I finally got the change to organize all my stuff (putting pictures in albums, turning VHS tapes into DVDs, throwing stuff out and organizing our lives) before it gets all turned around when our daughter arrives.
Crappy things that are going on with the house... We are going to have to move to San Francisco in January for God knows how long so we're going to have to rent out our house again. Hopefully this time we find some decent tenants that won't jack up our house by letting their pet rabbits eat away at our moulding or decide that they make our home into a marijuana grow house. ( Yes people, this has been done to us!) Now our kitchen sink won't drain properly and unfortunately the house wasn't built with a "clean out pipe" to let the water go directly out into the sewer.. This doesn't happen to homes that are built on foundations- Our home is built on slab. So money is really tight right now.. I guess that's what you deal with when you own a home.. it's always something. I guess the other improvements are going to have to wait till the sink gets fixed- May be finally getting that rock garden done or putting in all that horsetail bamboo and taking out the rose bushes...Yeah, things are going to have to wait.

Nesting and getting things done!

Hello all- quick update.. Since I've been pregnant and slacking I haven't been able to write about all the things that we've been doing to our home to prepare for our little girl's arrival. Well, I finally got her a piece of art work for her room. Since she will be joining a pack of girl pugs ( all of them I like to refer to as her "sisters") I thought it would be appropriate to get this piece for her .
I found this on Cafepress and I thought it's not a typical thing to see in a baby's room but since she has 4 "sisters" she might as well abide to the rule.."Peace, Love and Pugs" just the way we've always liked it in our home!

Do you have 1.5 Mil around?

Hizees,
Yes, I'm back after a long absence from my Mod blog. I've been very busy nesting in my 1953 Atomic ranch getting ready for my baby girl to arrieve in July. Today however, I came across a new development in Westchester ( next to LMU) . They have built a new condo village there where they had a bunch of different models for sale. My favorite, The Mondrian. Here's a couple of pics of the new condos.. If you have 1.5 Million and you like several levels to your floor plan, you can live in this condo but me, I'll stick to my house.

Happy New Year!

Wow, It's been a hot second since I've posted on this blog. I'm almost 4 months into my pregnancy so I've been pretty busy on my other blog posting about baby stuff.It's funny, everyone asks me if we're going to anything special for our daughter's room. It's usually the kids room that has all the crazy colors but our entire house is that way.. why should her room be any different? I do have some plans for her room.. I don't want the typical pink because she's a girl- I've been planning to put alot of colorful pop art up perhaps some Litchenstien, and of course some Warhol.. ( just to expose her to the modern asthetic early;) Here's a couple of things that I'm planning for her to have... to start her early with a modern eye!