Showing posts with label design sponge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design sponge. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Wednesday Work: Lunch!


It's about that time around here - time for lunch! Almost (but not) more than eating my lunch - I love preparing my lunch, styling my lunch; and looking at pictures of lunch once the eating is done.

You can see my measly offering up above (we're talking some serious constraints here in accessibility and styling - the carrots would not agree to be shot head on: I'll have to check their contract).

But alas, there is puh-lenty of B E A U tiful pictures of lunch out there in web land for you to look at.


I saw this cake as an angry face, until just now. I was attracted by the humor ... that apparently isn't there. But anyway,
Design Sponge has a lot of great recipes and A LOT of wonderful food photography.
You can find images like this below, outlining the ingredients of a dish,


Or you can head over to Grass Doe 's Johnathan Levitt, who takes a viewpoint more so on the side of commercial restaurant photography.

My favorite food photography is one that sets up a scene, a scene with a story. Then not only can I daydream about the food I would be eating, but imagine who it is I might be sitting across from and what we might be discussing.

Some kind of "When Harry Met Sally" road trip rendezvous or an afternoon at home building a print shop in the basement,

Or my favorite - - traveling with my lover through Iceland's cold countryside, boots crunching the snow, perspiration freezing us to our scarves, on our way to the next, then the next town for a bed and breakfast and a cross-country ski trail, stopping for a hearty bowl and a delicious brew,
Check out 101 Cookbooks for more images like the one pictured below.

All this talk of food! With Thanksgiving right around the corner! What will your holiday table look like?

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Wednesday Work: We're gonna do it like this...


Did you know we're moving? That's right. We've got to be all packed up and ready to go in 7 days! Suffice to say there is a lot to do and we can think of nothing more. Hence, this week's Wednesday Work: Home Design - images collected by Design*Sponge.

Design*Sponge is a fabulous blog offering insight into beautiful homes, DIY craft and home projects, beautiful art, and more! Its always been my go to when I am trying to brainstorm, and especially now that we are embarking on a new adventure.




So now you know we're moving, did we tell you our new house is a dump? That's right.

The up-side? Our lovely landlord who we rent from now is also owner of the new property and he is giving us the green light to do whatever it is we want to do. Not only that he has offered to pay for all of our home improvement supplies!



So wait, why are we moving into a dump? It's twice as big for the same price! Twice the studio space, a built in nook for The Sea's record player, and a fully finished basement with a sink and a drain!

(liz demos of @ home)


So - what do we want? As you can see from these images I've collected here, some of my favorites from Design*Sponge: Sneak Peeks, I want open rooms, natural light, calm, and comfortable.


(marianne van ooij)


Not too cluttered, but not too organized either. I want that lived-in feeling, ideally lived-in-by-wonderful-people-you-would-want-to- invite-to-your-next-backyard-bbq-and-be-best-friends-with-forever.



There are some limitations of the new place we won't be able to get around. There actually aren't that many (nor are they big) windows. Its just not the style of the old row home architecture of the neighborhood.
But we CAN make sure to put plants in the bathroom,


And awesome art in the bedroom,

And a garden in the backyard, pretty curtains in the living room, colors that pop in the kitchen, we've even been discussing painting the back wall of our backyard (the one that is concrete blocks painted white right now) with some nice stencil work!
Stay tuned, as all of these home-improvement projects are sure to be shared here.
And in the meantime, check out more of these lovely homes, plus many more, by visiting the Sneak Peeks section at Design*Sponge, here.
Wednesday work: Over and Out!