I just spent a week in LA selling Scout & Catalogue at the Unique LA gift show. My friends Sophie and Steve were wonderful and let me stay in their tiny apartment and fill it with pillows (50, 22" cushions don't make for a lot of living space). They have just bought a house and it is an EXTREME fixer upper and in exchange for free room and board I helped them with some of their reno's. Over the past few months I have started to become more and more interested in couples that are buying run-down homes and spending their time and hard earned money renovating them on their own. I have been really inspired by 2 bloggers that are both slowly refurbishing their very old and very beat-up homes. Both of them have different taste than myself (and each other) but their passion for staying true to the original spaces while still reflecting their own personal aesthetic is really inspiring. The top 2 photos are from Katy Elliot's house in New England and the bottom 2 are from Anna's renovation blog in Newburgh, New York.
I am still digging paint out from under my fingernails...
