I’m always a sucker for a good map. It was posted by flickr member neryl walker to our Fresh New Spaces group. What a charming corner – all of these items work so well as a group.

To see this photo and the rest of neryl walker’s work, click here.

Just thought I’d share these pictures I took while flying back from NYC to San Francisco last week. Below is Yosemite Valley.

Mountains are awesome.

Have a GREAT weekend!

Through a chance meeting at a casual dinner a week or so ago, I had the privilege of meeting Heather Knight, a very talented ceramicist who just moved to Atlanta from Asheville. Heather is still getting settled in her new digs (in fact, the kiln isn’t even firing up yet), a live/work space in Decatur that serves as home for her Element Clay Studio.

Heather was nice enough to let me take a peek around and snap some shots when I came to pick up a few pieces I’d purchased from her etsy store.

It was fun to see where she created all of her intricate work, and after seeing it, I appreciated her inspiration board that much more:

This is her assistant and head of security, Henry:

I love the way Heather styles her work, especially these tiles. This is the image she uses on her logo:

By the way, my cruddy cellphone pictures are not doing the work justice. I highly recommend looking at it more closely on Heather’s site or on etsy.

Pardon my exterior afterthought shot with the open car door. I was in a hurry to get to Chik-Fil-A. It’s impossible to go to Decatur without a stop there, well, except when you go on a Sunday, since they are closed, which is always horrendously disappointing when you make a Chikkie run and forget.

I’m trying out the insert gallery button here just to sneak in the extra shots. Yes, I am about three years behind the curve with this. Or is it more like ten? Anyway, yea or nay to the “Insert Gallery” doohickey? Let me know in the comments.

A lot of times on a modern house tour, you tend to see the same stark spaces, blank white walls, and Saarinen Tulip Tables at every house. Not true at on the Modern Atlanta House tour: each one showed the owners’ personalities through a variety of means. Here are a few of the fun design moves I spied last weekend.

A peek-a-boo guestroom, as seen from the stairs on the way to the kitchen. Curtains are pulled aside to expose this room to visitors in other areas of the house. I love that the lucite nightstand and clear glass lamp play off the glass wall.

In the same house, I love this green dresser and great peacock print look together. The frame works really well with the curtain color.

I wish I had a dollar for every cowhide rug I saw. This area around one was really well laid-out:

I totally dug this arrangement of FLOR carpet tiles:

I love this low cabinet full of plants. It keeps everything from being too stark:

This photograph is so perfect over the sink. Now I want some Honey Nut Cheerios:

This gives new meaning to “piano bar”:

I also like to decorate my closet with fun artwork. The silver and red heels are really eye-catching:

Oh good, thanks so much to those who weighed in at the one-at-a-time vs. all-in-one flickr favorites posting. I’m glad you are liking them one at a time, because I love doing them this way. Well, I fell into flickr member soulellis’s sets today and I’m still stuck in there, I can’t get out. It’s funny to track how you get to a place. Today  went something like this – I decided I wanted to do an ideabook on Houzz about big slabs of trees in furnishings, as I noticed a few choice pieces on the Modern Atlanta Tour last weekend. I could not think of George Nakashima’s name (I kept googling “George Nagasaki” and getting a lot of WWII search results) to save my life, so I twittered SallyTV and of course she set me straight from these clues I gave her:

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Thank you Sally! Then I started futzing around and searching for George Nakashima on flickr, and I found souldellis’s George Nakashima Studio set. WOW! I’m only half way through checking out that set, but thought I’d share with you. There are many more pictures here.

*By the way, I had to cut and paste this twitter exchange together – I wish twitter would put things in order. Sometimes people respond to me and I’ve already forgotten what the heck I was talking about in the first place. Am I missing some better way to keep it all straight or figure out which tweet people are replying to? I’m still a twitter nitwit!