I love this photo for its beauty
and feeling of solitude. It may be
just that January feeling. This is
a palazzo in our main Piazza in Foligno, Italy. I know the view well. I like the contrast of the modernity of
white lights with the antique façade behind. It warms my heart.
Showing posts with label design idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design idea. Show all posts
Pendant Pomegranate
I can’t believe it is
raining right now in California as I write to you. The ground is quenching its thirst from months and years of
disappointment. It is November first
and it is raining! Happy November everyone.
These photos I took earlier
in the week. I wanted to pay tribute
to this pendant pomegranate. I
have been tentatively watching it remain, consistently hanging low for
weeks. To me here at Sette Design
it is poetry.
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color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration,
simple life
Display Empty Frame and Flowers
Oh it is almost the weekend… and
today for your pleasure I have a simple display of just a single empty frame
and flowers.
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color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration
Homemade Chalk Paint
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color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
Small Spaces
The Simple Life
Now since we live in our little California cottage I need to force myself to think small and organized. The days of rambling around our huge Gothic Italian apartment are gone. Guests used to actually get lost and not find the way out. There were a lot of doors!
I like to play with scale and so I set up this pretty scene just for YOU.
A little chest of drawers, a silly tiny ice cream swirl chair and a bunch of flowers.
A big rosemary topiary.
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cool ideas,
design idea,
painting techniques,
simple life
Painting Furniture
For Inspiration
Today I’ll show you some of the
furniture I have been painting.
I always want to keep all the
pieces for myself. This is silly
because it is supposed to be my job not a hobby, but it is like they are my babies. This little five drawer dresser I really could have put
anywhere in our cottage here in the wine country. It would have even fit up on my loft
bed right below the eves.
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color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
Ukrainian Egg Dying
Around this family compound
there is lots of Ukrainian Egg Dying going on. Since this is the wine country, I can also say that friends
bring over bottles of precious wine and then sit down and let their creativity
go. It is interesting how good
people are at it. Everyone wants
to dye eggs!
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color inspiration,
cool idea,
design idea
Crazy for Camellias
I go crazy for Camellias they bring vivid color to any environment in the winter, in Umbria and where we live now in the Wine Country of California they are abundant. To me they always seemed like a Valentines flower because of all the varying shades of pink, red and white.
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color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration,
simple life
Two Houses I Love
If you read this blog a tiny bit, you know that I love houses, tiny houses, rambling big houses, colored houses. As I wander through my days I fall in love with so many houses.
Today I have for you a couple of houses that I LOVE.
One is a playhouse covered in brambles and winter leafless wonder.
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simple life
Making a Forest Christmas Wreath
All the way across the world in
Cali (California).
I got my freedom.
We are moving into a tiny
cottage and I don’t exaggerate when I say tiny. Now the Simple Life will be truly tested.
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design idea,
design thoughts,
simple life
How To Grow Rosemary Topiaries
Hello EVERYONE
Yes I did tint the colors on the photo above, did I get your attention?
I have been working on this
project for so long and I have been excited to show you. Why, because it is easy and simple and
so pretty. This is what we just love here at Sette Design.
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cool idea,
design idea,
faux finishes,
simple life
Painting a Restaurant - Distressing Walls
Here are the finished shots of the restaurant I have been working on in the center of our city, Foligno, Italy.
Everyone was thrilled with the the final look, rustic, distressed, aged walls and two smooth plum colored back walls, which gave a nice accent.
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Color,
design idea,
design thoughts,
faux finishes
Autumn, Apples and Apple Pie
The Simple Life
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baking,
design idea,
simple life
Antiquing and Distressing Furniture
For a long time I have wanted to paint a piece that was
painted brown underneath and then creamy white on top.
A while back I found a beautiful antique dresser that was
already painted a good chocolate brown.
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design idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
Wall of Furniture
I love the idea of furniture or living in design being
alternative, day dreamy or fantastical. I believe that if our eyes are intrigued, our minds expand.
I took a class in University called Architecture
Futures. I was so in awe of the
professor that I hard time speaking to him (I think my eyes watered or my face
became blotchy, some bad action) he was splendidly smart and interesting to listen to, he
believed that in the future our rooms and interiors would be made out of water
in an organic way.
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design idea,
painting techniques
DIY Beaded Painted Crystal Lamp
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color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration
8 Photos with Some Design Advice
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painting techniques,
simple life
Painted Bohemian Side Table
Recently it had been a bit discarded and I thought I’d give
it a new look. I think now I
almost love it! I work so much here in Italy painting stores and homes for clients often in the tones of
white, cream, taupe, gray, which I understand is calming to the eye. Yet, it is making me crave some color
and motif.
Painting My Floor Kiwi Green
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I want to ask you to take a deep
breath before you continue on, now try not to judge me on the hideousness, the
profoundly abusive, ugliness of the before shot my linoleum floors. If it hurts you to look at for a moment
on the Internet, think what it has done to me and my family, all these
years. O.k I’m being silly…kind
of.
Tin Can Planters
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design idea,
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simple life
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