Pink cake

This cake is my new best friend.

Here's the recipe.

Dream porch

Has it really been 2 months since I found something for my house of dreams? No. But it has been 2 months since I decided to post it.

I found it on design sponge, natch.

AND OH MY GOSH. If I could move there this very instant, I would. And apparently the woman that lives there once saw the house and vowed that one day she would move to Charleston and buy it, and then SHE DID. I love that.

A screened porch is basically all I want from life. And if it could be painted blue--DAYUM.

Kate Spade is my best friend

Can you BELIEVE this dress? It is killing me. I can't believe how awesome it is. And it has sleeves! It's completely Mormon appropriate! I love it I love it I love it. Plus, I love this adorable ad. Geniuses. I just love stripes in general. And especially these candy shop ones. Let's find more pictures of this dress.

In other news, I have started a charity. It's called Help Erin to Own This Dress, and you just give me money, and then I buy the dress. It's a really simple idea, but those are the best kind, I think.

I need to have a baby and buy some blue paint ASAP

I found this on House of Turquoise. And she got it from Lay Baby Lay.

And I CANNOT get this color scheme out of my head. I want my entire house to follow some variation of this grey, coral, and aqua sceme with touches of black and white. I LOVE IT.

BLUE!

Would you LOOK at that couch? That could just be your bed! The wall color is exactly what I want to happen in my house.

I would move here as is (minus the seashell on the side table)

It came from The Glam Lamb.

This is really just so beautiful. I love big family rooms with lots of seating. I love the idea of inviting lots of people over and all of them having a place to sit. I would love to someday not have to pull out folding chairs and stuff for parties, but to just already have adequate seating. Plus I LOVE this color scheme. I really love calming rooms.

This looks like a temple waiting room, even. It's just so bright and calm and beautiful. I really love it.

Like I said though, I would ditch the seashell on the side table. I'm really not into beachy things at ALL. I hardly even like the beach that much in real life. Why would I want to bring it to my house? Plus it just seems sort of tacky sometimes. Unless you can SEE the beach from your house, I don't think beach things have any place in your home. And maybe from this house you can. I'm not one to judge that. Because I've never been to this house, so I really have no idea.

The other thing I can see is that if you truly love the ocean so much that you can't bear to live somewhere with no reminders of it--fine. Incorporate some beachiness into your house. But for peeps like me, who go there maybe once a year, and have fun for like half an hour before they start complaining about the amount of sand in their swimsuit? No seashells for you.



Orange

This room from Elle Decor seriously made my jaw drop. Look at the shelving! You could put books on those, or rotate through collections of vases or dishes, or just leave them blank and they would look like stripes on a wall, which I love. I really love that.

Balloons

I don't know these peeps. All I know is that a few years ago my friend showed me some blog of some friend, or maybe even a friend of a friend, and they had these adorable pics. And today I thought about how cute it was, with the balloons taking him away and all. So I googled "salt flats balloons wedding" and it came up. I love the internet. I found the picture here.

YES YES YES!

These photos were found here.

So, contrasting this house to the last one I posted, I have to stop and ask myself--what do I want? I don't really know. I would be very happy to live in either of these houses. Although if I'm honest, I have to lean toward the first house. It's more boring, but it's more me. I'm more traditional than I am modern. But that doesn't mean I can't LOVE this place. Because I do love it.

I started with the room I like the least. I'm just not really a warm colors sort of girl. BUT--for a TV room, I love it. And that chandelier is off the chain. Except probably not off ITS chain, because then it would fall down. GET IT?

Um. . . . WHAT? So good. I love the texture on the walls and ceiling. I'm definitely attracted to texture more than I am to pattern. In my clothing, at least. And I think in my home tastes I am too.

This bathroom is WAY COOL, but I can' help but think it's a little bit Rec Center.

I love the windows though! I love windows in a bathroom, I think they would make your whole day better to start out in a well lit room. Plus you could put on your makeup and know what you're going to look like in the great big world, and not just what you look like in your bathroom.

Is that a painting of food above the bed? It looks like a turkey on a platter to me. Like Liz Lemon's office.

 These last 3 were too incredible. I could not let them be restrained by the confines of my blog column. I CANNOT handle how much I love these. The light! The sunshine! You wouldn't even need light fixtures in this place until the sun had completely set every day.

I wish we got a better look into the kitchen, because it looks like there is a TV in there. I dig that. Other things I dig:
-The white buffet by the dining room table
-The chairs at the dining room table
-The light fixture above aforementioned table
-The living room furniture and lamp
-The openness, I love that it's basically just one big room and they've used furniture to create separate spaces. Even the kitchen is involved, with that window peeking out into the rest.
-The mirror above the couch.

Things I don't dig:
-That sweater pattern or whatever it is underneath the windows in the living room.
-The ceiling. It's cool, but let's be real. I don't want it in my own house. I would feel too Disneyland.

Beautiful,clean, spacious, bright, calm

All words I would use to describe these beautiful photos. They are from here. They are all from the same designer, Linda Burger. What an overly silly name for such beautiful stuff, am I right? I hope her business is not called Burger Design.

These are in no particular order, I just think they are all really pretty.

I LOVE the windows on either side of the fireplace.

And I love how many windows there are, period. I've realized recently that lots of windows are possibly the single most important home element to me.

I LOVE this exterior shot. I love farmhousey/Craftsmaney/Bungalowey houses. And in such soothing colors. I just want to move there and wear a white button up shirt every day, you know?

I just feel like having this kitchen would make me a fabulous cook. How could it not?

And then after dinner we could all take a dip in the pool. How perfect.

I LOVE when houses don't ignore their surroundings. I feel like there are lots of houses built right by mountains that totally disclude that fact--no big windows or openings oriented around them. But this, no way. They built a master bedroom with huge windows and a balcony looking out at the water, and oriented the house in a way that would work for that. I LOVE that.

Pretty landscaping. I want that to be a hot tub, but it's probably a fountain.

I'm not sure what this is all about. Incredibly beautiful townhouses? The house, driveway, stables, garage, and guest house? Perhaps.

I love how classy and calm this is. That being said, I don't think I would want to LIVE in this room. I need a little more personality and color. But I would love to vacation here.

I love the ceiling, and I love the light fixture. I am always a fan of decorative wood mouldings, especially when painted white. And I really love the windows. I'm not sure if they're open or something on the bottom, but if they're closed, I love that they don't have the fretwork in them like the top panes do.

This room makes me feel like I'm on a cruise ship. But not in a tacky way, in a "Look at those views!" way. Also, windows again. I love how decorative they are.

I love that mirror. Also the rug. I'm not usually super into Persian rugs, but I love the neutral cool tones of that one.

OH MY GOSH. I love the backsplash, I love the chopping block of an island, I love the stainless steel fridge (s?), I love the light wood floor. And the hardware on the cabinets. And the stools.

I feel the same way about this living room as the other one. I want more personality, but it's SO beautiful.

I love the fireplace in this one. And I think that's the same rug from that other one I love. I like the orange pillows, that's the color I need.

I know this is nearly the same as that other kitchen. I love it too, just to clarify.

I think I would make this my library. Line that right wall with shelves.

I love the legs on that island. Again with the white painted wood, I can't get enough of it. But I love that you could stick stools there and have it be a bar.

And here we are again with remembering that right outside this home is a gorgeous view. I love the high ceiling too.

 

I love this. It would make me feel like I was in a spa. I have this fantasy of having a bathroom with a window that opens up to a forest, so you can feel like you're showering amidst the trees. A few years ago my family went on vacation to Glacier, Montana (where it immediately became my favorite place in the WORLD) and we stayed in a rental house while we were there. It was in the woods, and we couldn't see any other houses from our house, even though there were some not too far away. There was a window in the shower that you could open all the way, and I LOVED it. I really felt like I was showering outside, and it was so amazing. Ever since then I've wanted to have a similar bathroom set up in my house some day.

I know this picture is going to burst the barriers of this blog, but I HAD to make it bigger. I WANT TO MOVE THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This is the most beautiful room I've ever seen! It might be the same room as that other one, just from a different angle, I'm not sure. Whatever the case, I LOVE it.

I don't love this bathroom as much as that other one, but I SUPPOSE it would do. I like the light fixture and the lamp.

Pretty. I imagine this is the home teacher room, or the "so you're taking my daughter on a date" room. I love the color scheme.