My husband Greg is an amateur photographer. He’s taken these pictures of Salt Lake City over the last few months. I love to see what he sees through his pictures. He goes to a lot of meetings downtown for work and notices something interesting each time.
Salt Lake City Capital
Rotunda in the capital
Library Square
The City and County Building and Salt Lake City Library
Salt Lake City Library
Photos by Greg Summerhays
I’m a huge fan of great light fixtures. Over the last year I’ve taken pictures of fabulous ones in stores, hotels and restaurants.
Here are a few of my finds:
I’d like two of these to hang over my dinning room table!
This one I didn’t see in person but these were antique fixtures on Home by Novogratz and I’m wishing I had these for my upstairs hallway. Love the blue!
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I came across these most exquisite, Winter containers in the Better Homes and Gardens magazine. One of my favorite things about Summer is planting containers that overflow with plants and color. I yearn for something interesting to happen in the yard during the Winter months and so when I saw this article it inspired me.
“Deborah Silver is a landscape and garden designer whose firm, Deborah Silver and Co Inc, opened its doors in 1986. She opened Detroit Garden Works, a retail store devoted to fine and unusual garden ornament and specialty plants, in 1996. In 2004, she opened the Branch studio, a subsidiary of the landscape company which designs and manufactures garden ornament in a variety of media.”
Her blog is inspirational and these Winter pots are fabulous.
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Todd McLellan has made art by taking apart everyday objects and arranging them for a photograph. Simple beauty.
Do you like getting the mail? I look forward to it each day. I am a catalog and magazine junkie and for that I await the treasures that arrive in my box each day. I stumbled across a blog featuring gorgeous artwork made from junk mail…check it out.
How about these sculptures made of game dice.
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This post goes out to my many male followers, oh wait I mean for that one man who possibly reads this blog! I must admit that last year I signed up for Pinterest wanting to check it out and stayed on for maybe two weeks before getting off after overload of hairdos, women’s fashion, scrumptious recipes, and more girly things than maybe I have ever seen in my life. Notice how I didn’t say anything about all the great home decor and architecture pins because I dig those. I let some time pass and then signed up again and haven’t regretted it since.
Goal number 6 on my list of goals for 2012: Get more guys to sign up for Pinterest. Why you might ask? Here are a few reasons:
1. In less than two years since it launched, Pinterest has gone from being a little-known start-up site to one of the 10 most popular social networks. That alone should make you want to check it out.
2. It’s brilliant, completely brilliant. Pinterest lets you organize and share your favorite things, whatever that might be.
3. Next you can browse pinboards created by other people to get other ideas and inspiration on whatever you are doing.
4. Ever had trouble figuring out what makes women tick. Here is the answer my friends. Follow your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, female co-worker’s pin boards and you will know exactly what she wants, likes, and can’t live without. It’s fool-proof.
5. Finally because the girls are right this time and we should follow suite.
There are five simple reasons why you (male reader) or for our female readers your husband, boyfriend, brother or dad should get on Pinterest. Now maybe you need some suggestions of what you would pin if hypothetically speaking you (male reader) were to take the plunge and join. Here is a list that might help:
1. Home Repair Projects
2. Workout Routines (what is more manly than that!)
3. Hilarious Photos or Videos
4. Cool Gadgets and Tools
5. Sports Facts
6. Cars and Everything Automotive
7. Hot Women (for the single guys, right?)
8. Jokes
9. Best Graphic Tees Around
10. Work Projects
There you have it, my name is Greg and I do have a Pinterest account. There I admit it. Check out my pinboards if you want! And for you (male reader) if you want an invite to join shoot me a comment below and I will send it to you. Happy pinning! Don’t forget to check out my wife’s pinboards as well.
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When I see a photo of bicycles, it makes me want to own a bunch of bikes. I have to admit, I am not a biker and to be totally honest I don’t even own a bike. We have no room. The kids bikes hang from the ceiling in the garage in the winter and in the summer they sit out on the basketball court and get drenched or parched by the rain or sun. Our shed is in the process of being built.
I guess I am not the only one who is captivated by these images…
photo credit: Judi Roaman
By Judi Roaman,theaccessorator.com. “Recycled, Reclaimed, and Recolored. When I happened upon Billy Taylor’s handcrafted, recycled vintage bicycles in Aspen, I had a momentary vision of riding around NYC on my own retro-chic Schwinn. Thank goodness it lasted only a moment. But, I did seriously consider shipping six to my house, to accessorate my garage. Color coordinated of course!”
Even Robert Rauschenberg was taken with the bike. This is an outdoor sculpture is in Berlin, Germany.
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English: Robert Rauschenberg: Riding Bikes, 1998, Berlin
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When the shed is done and I buy a bike…this is the one I should get!
Posted by Andrea
After a night of light snowfall, I walked outside to find this scene. I loved the pattern the birds feet left all over the snow. Simple beauty.
Posted by Greg
While we were in Vegas we headed over to West Elm to check out all the goods. They had a ton of glass bottles and vases all over the store. They also had some great prints and these really cool retro clocks. Their products were really neat but I thought you could create that same look for less.
Here are the great colored vases from West Elm. Click on the pictures for links to West Elm and the classified ads.
Here are some alternative colored glass vase choices from KSL.com.
I thought this photo collage was really cool and super simple. When you really look at them you can easily create this same look with frames you already have or can pick up at your local thrift store. There are plenty of great images on the internet you could print off or some great pieces you can pick up at a craft/scrapbook store. The “Laugh at every joke” print would be easy to replicate.
Andrea and I became obsessed with these great retro clocks. Too bad we don’t have any place for them.
Here are some alternatives that need a little tweaking but could give you a similar look. You could paint the inside of this clock a great bright color and the one below it you could paint the frame around it the bright color and get the same effect.
Posted by Greg
I love taking an afternoon and just walking around town with my camera and shooting away. A couple of months ago I had some free time and just walked around Salt Lake City exploring different streets and buildings and shooting away as I went.
Here are some of my favorite shots from that day.
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Wallpaper is all the rage these days and I am loving it! That being said, there are still so many wallpaper designs that should never be hung. If you are looking for some great designs here are a few places to find wallpaper that transforms your walls in to art.
Katie Deedy, Grow House Grow. I found an article about her in the O Magazine. Inspired by her mother, who writes children’s books, she tells a story in the wallpapers she designs. Anthropologie has used her paper and Saks Fifth Avenue wallpapered the windows of their Manhattan flagship store in 2010 with her creations.
Payton Cosell Turner, Flat Vernacular. In Elle Decor magazine she was featured making elaborately patterned “wallpaper” by applying various small stickers on a wall. It is absolutely gorgeous from afar and a whole different experience when you get close. She and her partner have a website called Flat Vernacular where you can buy wallpaper they have designed or design your own with their help.
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