Obsess This House

A room with so many possibilities…

I was clicking through my bloglines subscriptions just now and this post by Sweet Juniper jumped out at me.  Partially because I love photos of abandoned places, but also because one of them stuck out as being so nice…and because I saw it as being filled with so many possibilities. When you look at this...

Fall is here…time for a cozy fire

photo by Nick Steever, of course.

I have a blog crush…

on Layla and Kevin from The Lettered Cottage.  Apparently many of you already know them considering they have over 2000 followers, but I just discovered them from their house tour on Apartment Therapy.   So late to the game I am!  (Wait?  Why am I speaking like Yoda today?) Anyways…this video of their recent ceiling demolition...

Another idea to makeover the mantle?

Thankfully I know the person who built this.  Maybe I can convince her to show me just how to re-work it for my own mantle…  Hmm.  photo via YoungHouseLove.

Fireplace Mantle redecorating inspiration

This weekend we re-arranged the furniture & art in the living room.  It feels SO much better.  I’m not sure why it took me so long to do it because I’ve hated the way I’d initially laid out the room from the beginning.  (I was probably stuck doing other projects.)  Anyways…the one thing I haven’t...

Found Style Lust

First, let me be transparent in saying that this is a re-post from a great blog All Things Lovely.  This guest cottage from Robin Brown that she posted about is absolutely outrageous.  How can I be jealous, envious, sad, excited, in love and filled with lust all mixed up in one?  I don’t know…but these...
Days at an early 1800's Stone Mill

Days at an early 1800′s Stone Mill

Yesterday and today are being spent working at this old mill in central pennsylvania.  The weather has been nice, the food has been excellent, and cell phone reception has been noticeably absent.  But here are a few pics showing the loveliness of the setting:
More Porch Love:  Sleeping Porches, oh my?!

More Porch Love: Sleeping Porches, oh my?!

In the midst of enjoying (and obsessing over) my own porch, I saw this post over at Apartment Therapy DC and had total porch envy!!  As much as I love my own porch, how awesome would it be to have one that I could sleep on as well!!  Oh. My. God.

House Tour of Huron, South Dakota

I have no reason to not have been posting on the blog since the return from my vacation (other than I got engaged and have been seriously preoccupied!), so I do apologize for my lack of attention to this space.    I honestly can’t promise that it’s going to get better either…but I did take a...

Walking through the neighborhood & coming home with a serious case of house envy

The first thing that is important to understand about Philadelphia (for anyone who doesn’t live here) is the tremendous amount of [architecturally] beautiful homes there are here.   The second thing to know is just how many of those homes are falling apart because the neighborhood is crap or because it’s just plain difficult to keep...

A little Inspiration before the weekend: Faye Toogood

I’ve been meaning to post about stylist / creative director Faye Toogood for awhile now because I love her work so much.  It seems like often when I’ve seen one of those magical photo editorials (in the World of Interiors for instance) it was Faye who helped create it.   At any rate, these gorgeous...

Magazine Review: Premiere issue of Fresh Home

On my way to California last Friday, I was looking for new magazines [I hadn't already read] in the airport lounge and saw that they had copies of the new home magazine put out by Reader’s Digest.   I was very excited, considering 3 of my favorite home magazines have just been cancelled.  So of course,...