Sofia Coppola's NYC apartment

Nice clean and simple. 

photos via myfirstlittleplace, mylusciouslife

Orla Keily's home

Textile designer Orla Kiely’s renovated London Terrace House says so much about her as a designer. Even though the house is victorian but she decorated it with modern pieces. Yet still has the vintage feel to it.

photos via dwell

Cameron Diaz's West Village apartment

Cameron Diaz's West Village apartment designed by my favorite designer, Kelly Wearstler. I'm loving all these cozy glam look. 

Living room with grass clothe wallpapers. 

I'm loving this gold black splash and gold hardwares.

Mirror tiles. Heart!

Master bedroom

Cozy guest bedroom. 

photo via elledecor

Bonsai Tree Houses by Takanori Aiba

Artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE since late 1970s. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. More work from Aiba here

via thisiscolossal

The House From "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"

Remember that house with the classic Ferrari from "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"? The house is now on sale. I'm glad I get to see the rest of the it. It designed by A. James Speyer protege of Mies Van der Rohe & David Haid. It feels like it been frozen in time. 

Many potential buyers were asking if the home came with the classic Ferrari and the answer is: for a price of $2.3 million!

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Renovation | week 21

After a long wait for city inspection and green inspection(yes we have to do that in LA), fast forward to week 21!!! If I could recall a time during this renovation that we feel hopeful and happy, this might be it. Not only we have walls, but we also have cabinets!! I couldn't be more excited.

I'm proud to say that I have a kitchen. Or at least the outline of what soon to be my very first renovated kitchen ever. We use custom cabinets from this awesome cabinet maker, Oscar Corleto. Since we have all built in fully intregrated appliances, we were told that custom cabinets are more budget friendly in that case. This wood hood is turning out to be really nice. I didn't expect to see it before I actually get the hood insert. 

This is what you see when you enter my kitchen. What a great decision to put a door there. I can see the backyard from here. This opens up the room so much. 

Opposite view of my kitchen. We decided to save the old ironing board(that white thing in the middle of the wall). Because it's nice, vintage and useful. Some people turn that in to spice rack. We wanna keep it as a reminder of how this 1920s kitchen used to be.

We asked for breakfast nook and we got it! It's pretty small. This would seat about 3 people at most. But that's what we could squeeze in to this space. 

I'm crazy about this, lift up seats. Great great storage space for us. 

This is my master bedroom. The faux beams I asked for are up. Everything is looking great. 

Arnarstapi

One lonely house

Arnarstapi a fishing village in Snæfellsnes, Iceland. 

via flickr

Sarah jessica parker's home

Sarah jessica parker's home in Hampton. Very simple and modest furniture and decoration. I like mix range of tailored furniture and simple ikea furniture. That makes the house comfortable and inviting.

via elle decor