Cheekystitch

Living Room Makeover:Apartment Decorating

I spent some time getting my living room in order, here are some of the pictures of the decoration I added

The framed print is made by Chanel Kennebrew over at Junkprints, Shes a fantastic graphic and clothing designer.

My friend brad gave me the large painting, it was the first piece of art he bought when he moved to new York, recently he moved to Tribeca and decided he had outgrown it and gave it to me. Its called “Girl With Ginger

Cheap Kitchen makeover: Before and After

I have a really nice apartment but the kitchen needed some work. When I moved in it was completely white but some of the walls were really dirty. The kitchen was the worst, there were a lot of food stains behind the stove and near the fridge.

The second issue is that my kitchen and living room occupy the same space, loft style. The high ceilings of this parlor floor apartment help keep the airy feel but I wanted to define the two spaces.

I picked a sunny yellow for the kitchen, and a light aqua blue for the wall. I was going for a robins egg blue but I think the girl at Lows gave me the wrong color. It was obnoxious at first but looked way better when it dried, like most drunk people

Better than Paint: Contact Wallpaper makes it easy

I have a huge empty white wall in my apartment I dont know what do do with.  I always loved  this wallpaper

I have been obsessed with it since I saw it in apartment therapy a couple of years ago, its from Cole and Son and is called Birch forrest. Tempaper, makes temporarily adhesive paper in a number of different designs and shades.

“Tempaper is a vinyl coated self adhesive wall decor. Our printing process incorporates the traditional technique of gravure or intaglio copper plate engraving with state of the artmaterials to bring a classic look and feel to the finished product. these designs available for your home or decorating needs.”

So you can stick it , move it, re stick it, and brink things like your nasty fridge back to life.  many of the designs are great, but they arent quite what im looking for, I have been ruined by the birch forest. Do you have any suggestions?

Tempaper.com

Raven Burgos

Christina Hendricks is my new Muse: Totally unnecessary and gratuitous photo montage

frank-la-riviere

I would gratefully build anything around this woman. Dark, Chic, and Playful,

Raven Burgos

Pinky Diablos Cheap Art for the masses: Silver skull and animal spoons

Urin Goblet is pretty gross too bad it sold

I really love dark silver jewelry, things with a little but of grime. Check out Pinky Diablos skull spoons.

Pinky Diablo

Raven Burgos

Stripes are all right: Snappy Japanese man makes my day, quiver

Look at this silver fox . I want to have this mans fashionable babies. My womb is both willing and able. This outfit inspired me to paint light grey vertical stripes in my  bathroom, the paint hasnt dried yet but I'm sure it will be awesome.  What the fuck is he made of MAGIC?

Via Sartorialist

Going over to the DARK SIDE: Trend Alert!

Every where I turn ( ok many blogs I frequent) seem to have acquired a taste for black. As an underemployed  city dweller who rents i have a small apartment and not a lot of money to make some fo the improvements or purchases I think would  improve my space. Recently I moved and decided to paint my doors a high gloss black, next is Zebra rug. Check out my apartment inspiration

Pretty cool right?