bar stool ideas

my husband's bff greg just built an original hand-crafted kitchen island for us.  my husband is home painting it right now while i am traveling for work.  hopefully it will be set up in the kitchen when i return home!  with a new kitchen island must come new bar stools!  we haven't had much time to shop yet, but i am having a good time scavenging the 'net for ideas...



design sponge





by delight via trendir



the k65 stool by alvar aalto (designed in 1933!)



reclaimed wood stools by edwards moore, via cmybacon



50's danish upholstered stools from enroute studio

 


a double-wide and a shipping container. home sweet home.

i love homes.  i love the beauty of an old house and the minimalism of a modern one.  i love tree houses and barns and airstreams.  i had a friend who once lived in a caboose which was converted into a home with a small kitchen and bathroom.  oh, how i envied him!  every time i stepped inside, that caboose took me back to a favorite childhood book, "the boxcar children." 

i grew up with two big brothers who also happen to be architects and some of this love certainly comes from them.  they taught me that not all houses are homes and that one could take a shipping container or two and turn them into an awesome home.

so with that, i'd love to share a couple finds from small house style which is about small houses, but also innovative design.  i found two lovelies from texas tonight including this double-wide which was converted into a pre-fabricated sustainable cabin built by urs peter flueckiger with his students at texas tech university.

courtesy of small house style

and the second is a converted shipping container (with a rooftop garden!) designed by jim poteet.

courtesy of chris cooper for dwell

a hand-made home

in 2008, my friends greg, a musician, and lorraine, a nurse, set about building their very own mid-century style bungalow. greg got his contractor's license, and with the help of family and friends, they put together nearly every inch of the house themselves. greg milled local lumber for the hardwood floors, installed the roof using salvaged slate, and lorraine tiled the bathroom floor.

they moved in around august of 2009, and have since added 3 chickens and 1 baby to the family.

check out their blog.

boone, nc farmhouse

boone, nc architect chad everhart rebuilt this 1930's mountain farmhouse using both local goods and salvaged materials from the original house. he used salvaged pine to make a stunningly red front door, and local white pine was used in place of drywall. his efforts paid off; the house and land cost a total of $159,000! the house is warmed by an environmentally-friendly wood-burning stove, and ceiling fans keep the house cool in the summertime. read more at dwell.