black house

 

alas.  i am currently obsessing over black painted houses and after looking around the web i see apartment therapy and door sixteen are all, been there done that.  nothing is new.  copying is the highest form of flattery.  we are all in the process of reinventing the wheel.  whatever.  eye roll.  (here's where the *haha* alternative would come in handy..this time to distinguish between me being a *itch and me being *funny*.)  i know. sometimes the two are indistinguishable.  just ask my husband.

ANYWAY ANYWAY ANYWAY.

aren't black painted houses so super cool?!?  i started mulling it over when i saw this image below on katy elliott's blog.

i likey.

home

I purged yesterday. I took almost everything off the walls, patched, painted. I cleaned and anything I don't love went in the barn. I'm really not a hoarder/collector. I tend to think of my house like I do my paintings. My ideas/ideals are abstract and pared down. I like worn things with history but with each thing having some space to breath. Each thing has impact on it's own or at least in small groups. And it's just as hard to get where I want to go with my living space as it is to put down on paper or canvas what I have in my head. I'm thinking a lot about curtains/drapes right now as a starting point for my rooms. I want something that falls to the floor but not something overpowering. I don't want them to be too dark and I want them to be a source of color and pattern in the room. Because everything I own is plain, really. I want gorgeous fabric, maybe vintage. Any ideas? I'm not opposed to buying them made or buying the fabric and making them myself.

chernobyl

Forgive me if you find this a downer, but googling takes me on some wild rides sometimes. Case in point: Once, in a pretty interior decorating picture book, I saw an image of an artist's garden. The garden was more like a living installation with sculpture and green growing things and all sorts of evocative fog surrounding it. In the distance there was a nuclear power plant. I hope I have most of the facts straight. My memory tends to fade and/or embellish.

In any event, I googled to see if perhaps I could stumble on the image. Instead, I ended up looking through some pretty sad pictures of Chernobyl. These here fascinate me. The top image is of a waste storage facility. But I think it's kind of beautiful. Which, honestly, makes me feel like an asshole. The other two are of homes and a garden in the shadow of the nuclear power plant.

*images found here, here, and here.