Mirror, mirror on the wall

Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the fairest one of all? My kitchen bench! I got an idea for an awesome, high back, leather tufted kitchen bench awhile ago, which visiting friends in New York last fall. We had stopped into Cafe Ost in Manhattan and that’s when I saw my future kitchen bench:

  

I couldn’t quite get the image or the idea out of my head for quite sometime, and decided to recreate in the VIB kitchen.… Read the rest

Treasure Hunt Our house is not comfortable. It doesn’t have hooks, it doesn’t have sh

foyer dresser

lamps

second lamp waiting for a shine

letter opener, russian decorative plate

Treasure Hunt

Our house is not comfortable. It doesn’t have hooks, it doesn’t have shelves, and it doesn’t have that much closet space. (In fact there is not a single closet downstairs – but that’s a whole different post). There’s clutter and stuff everywhere, because we have nowhere to put it.

So this past weekend, I had to have something to go into foyer to catch mail and keys and provide at least some storage.… Read the rest