House Dreaming

From a very young age I have designed my house. I always had trouble sleeping and on these nights I'd fill my sketch book (or the back of an envelope, or whatever was at hand) with detailed versions of my latest house plan. It did occur to me to do architecture, but I never was very good at maths or neat drawing. Over the years, the designs changed as I became inspired by the book I happened to be reading or what era we were studying in school. I remember always loving open plan, wooden beams, a wide kitchen and deep set bathtubs, with the house set on a wild block of mountainous or coastal land. As I have travelled, influenced by the local architecture, my ideals have begun to take a more consistent form. Functional, minimal, mindful. My recent trip to Japan has only intensified my love of wood, space, nature and the beauty of simplicity. I guess we do become our parents ;)
Here are a few of my pinterest pins to illustrate my current plan...

all images via my pinterest page

snippets: Cafe in Nara, Japan. Umeshu (plum wine) in the window, bonsai arrangement, wooden door. x

Pinterest love on a Thursday

I have such a massive pinterest love. more love than can possibly fit in my body, it oozes out at 4am in flighty knitted necklines and hurriedly scrawled pattern ideas. i could spend so many, many hours crooning over the houses, gardens, knitteds and food i find. i just want to live in my pinterest page. i really do. one day i will, i guess. 

p.s. tomorrow morning is a lunar eclipse, getting up to watch?

all photos stolen from my pinterest page (where the links are) here!