Fleeing The Nest

I think the thing that is most inspiring to me these days is the prospect of moving into a better apartment in a few months. While I believe we have created the best thing we could visually--mutlicolored walls, a studio I love, and all that--here's what you can't record with a photo in the blogosphere: the INSANE neighbors we hear daily both next to us and above us, the various "details" that our former super put in--plywood hammered onto a door to make it fit into a doorway, shoddy, cheap wall to wall carpeting that reminds me of office spaces and fur balls coughed up by my cat.

I love using my home as a pallet for creating art and experiencing life a little differently. I grew up with parents who loved to dabble in the psychedelics, but wouldn't let me paint my bedroom wall any colors, stating that I would get bored of colors. Oh, really? And white is so...NOT boring? For some reason, this reasoning stuck, even though I yearned for bold rooms of colors--especially after seeing the movies Amelie and the Royal Tenenbaums. Thankfully, when I shacked up with the G man, he was ALL FOR painting and I have to say, I will NEVER go back to not painting my home. I hope I always have this green in SOME room in my home. Plus, what' s not to love about a studio that is TOTALLY PINK? Well, don't answer that if you don't like pink. Frankly, I love it.

My new thing this last year has been to try to recreate elements of places I really love to be in. The famous Magnolia Bakery has an aesthetic I love, so I went inside one day and just took notes. One of the things they had were old framed magazine ads of cakes framed. I have a few old magazines from the 50's and so I combed through and framed a couple food pictures and put them in my studio. Yesterday, while walking in the village, we stopped and looked at the window display of Three Lives Bookstore and Graham and I talked about creating something akin to it in our own home.

I love looking at how people set up their homes. I always have. In New York it is so much easier to meet somewhere OUT that it is rare to be invited over to someone's house. When I am invited over to someone's home, I feel like it's this BIG EVENT. More exciting than a night at Carnegie Hall! As a result of all this anticipation of moving and of just loving to look at people's nests, the most INSPIRING things to me on the web right now are about homes. Look at the this artist loft space of the painter Ruben Toledo and his fashion designer wife Isabel Toledo--I mean, HOLY TOLEDO! It looks like something out of a MOVIE.

I am totally into the home tours at Apartment Therapy. I am sure everybody knows already how Apartment Therapy rules. So does The Style Files. And while I have no children, I am TOTALLY obsessed with the Cookie Mag house tour blog.

It's all like a veritable FEAST for the eyes. I tell you, I cannot wait!