Not exact matches
It brings her
room one
step closer to done (I've ever so carefully not photographed the corner full
of boxes just behind me in this
photo).
I tried to do this with our foyer (sharing decorating decisions before the finished product) but today I'm taking it a
step further with
photos of our (very) unfinished living
room.
After a 30 - minute
photo session with the photogenic ferals, we retraced our
steps out
of the Paseo and up into the park, where Save A Gato maintains a tiny, one -
room building called a Casita.
Olga Grotova's films hook us into the cyclic calm
of nuns who look as if they've
stepped out
of a Helmut Newton
photo; Nika Neelova turns the topography
of a shucked - off exoskeleton hanging below into a coolly folded
room above; Yelena Popova provides both apparently evaporated portraits, as from the deep past, and an empty cut - out awaiting future faces; undeterred by their lack
of tymbals to flex and wings to flick, Neelova and Mira Calix team up to imitate both male and female cicadas in the corridor, crossing sex and species boundaries and referencing the mythical transformation
of people into the insects when first introduced to and overpowered by music.
The great thing about your blog and Shauna's too, is when you two blog about transforming a piece
of old furniture into a one
of a kind personal piece, or redecorating a
room you give every little
step with detail after detail... and
PHOTOS!
I'm still toying with the idea
of painting our fireplace (or regrouting it) as a low budget improvement or a first
step makeover (see some painted fireplace inspiration
photos and my own fireplace here), but I knew the furniture arrangement could make a difference in the
room now, so there was no reason to wait.