Well, I managed to miss my Flickr Faves pick this week somehow, so I’m combining it with inspiration Monday. I love the way flickr member Danielle Anthony has used this crate on the wall as a shelf. It adds some vintage appeal and some lovely wood and rusty crusty details to the wall. Great job and thanks for posting this to our Fresh New Spaces Group!

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Thanks so much to my blogger friend Maya (of Visualingal and more recently, of Seed Bomb MANIA – they are EVERYWHERE!), for tipping me of into this peek into Charley Harper’s house compliments of House Trends Cincinnati. Not somewhere where you can obtain a copy of this regional glossy? They are generous enough to post the entire thing online. Here’s a little teaser of the layout, it’s going to make you want to click that link and check out the entire article!

I first was exposed to Charley as a child, as our Cincinnati Nature Center was filled with his wonderful work. I never realized how famous he was until I spied Todd Oldham’s country home in Met Home awhile back (RIP Met Home, we miss you!).

By the way, my cat loves Charley as well:

More Charley-related Hatch posts from the past:

Inspiration Monday: Cincinnati Architecture

The Cardinal House (a reader even commented and let me know more about how this house – I love it when stuff like that happens!)

The Art of Display

Charley-inspired Office

Book Recommendation: Charley Harper Monograph

Photo credits:

• Photo 1: From Cincinnati Home Trends, home photos taken by Ross van Pelt, others courtesy of the Charley Harper Estate
• Photo 2: From Todd Oldham.com (if anyone knows the photographer, please let me know; is it Todd?)
• Photo 3: From my iPhoto library

Does the picture above look familiar? I remember the first time I saw interior stylist Lili Diallo’s DUMBO apartment and it was like a breath of fresh air. She has this way of making what could be clutter, or a chucked sofa, or found objects that one might find on the curb into art through the way she celebrates and arranges them. In that vein, she’s a curator, and her style crosses from eclectic to collected (a phrase I heard from Annette Joseph at an event that I much prefer to “eclectic” lately). In fact, I seem to remember trying to post about her years ago after I saw this place and finding no information whatsoever. That’s why I was so thrilled when this…

…arrived on my front steps today. Thanks Amazon fairy! Anyway, Lili Diallo wrote this book, full of secrets from a stylist. Her writing style is friendly, approachable, and makes you feel like you can do it. This is the perfect gift for anyone you know who is still lamenting the demise of Domino, or yourself! To order (and to preview a lot of the book; I’ve never seen so many preview pages before) click here.

All images from Details: A Stylist’s Secrets to Creating Inspired Interiors by Lili Diallo via Amazon.com.

• Picture one by Annie Schlechter
• Picture two by Annie Schlechter
• Picture three by Annie Schlechter

Today I’m off to a very slow start, I blame stupid “spring ahead.” In better news, the clock in my car is accurate for the first time in six months so I’ll have to remember to stop doing math and that I’m no longer running an hour early. Today I got thinking about groovy, funky wood. The kind of panels you might see in an original Sea Ranch house, or in some sixties cottage on Fisher’s Island or in Truro or Welfleet on Cape Cod. Wood is back big time, whether it be live edge counter tops, faux bois lampshades, driftwood coffee tables or even a that thing that keeps your iPhone from shattering. I’ve rounded up a few favorite wood and wood-inspired products from the site to share with you:

Wonderful Wood by thebubbreport on Polyvore.com