Mid Century Modern Shelves

image taken this morning by GGinteriors

Today I rearranged my family photos and frog collection and some colors using crystal glass, blue glass, the frogs are mostly green tones. I feel so lucky to have these shelves. They are so much fun to play around with. So many ways they could be re-imagined.

Yesterday I made an emotional plea to San Francisco to save me from all my dreams fantasies and imaginings of a life in a well appointed cottage on no higher then the 3rd floor of a dwelling in upper Castro or perhaps Cow Hollow. Anywhere a unicorn such as myself would feel at home.

In my last post I wrote about the quest for finding my dream apartment (in San Francisco) even though I already live in a rad pad, which gets more rad with each transformation).

But with only so many hours in the day for designing, blogging, cleaning, puppy training, reading, sewing, I mean there needs to be five of me just to get all of this done. That's why San Francisco makes more sense. I should live there. Because I would think better while sipping a coffee and eating a lemon pie from Tartine (or a banana cream). I'd get a lot more done because it's cooler up there and while I love summer in the desert the heat makes it feel like a never ending vacation everyday and what do people do on vacation? They look for a pool and they postpone washing the car because you know that's just not a high priority.

I haven't given up on finding a dream home in San Francisco. Today I am asking the universe to lower the rent by $1,500 (for me). I am a Venus ruled sign and just want to live my creative life in peace is that asking too much?

Oh well. If it's not meant to be I can always just live in the sunshine in a bikini, work on my tan reading Hemingway (who I do not really comprehend but I try) and work at perfecting those pink grapefruit margaritas. I really need to buy a blender for that.

I guess I should get back to the topic of mid century shelves now. Okay so then below.....

Below is an example of mid century (built in) shelves. This example is exactly how my childhood bedroom wall was built. With a large vertical window in the center, vertical shelves on both sides. I remember constantly decorating and rearranging my shelves with toys and found objects.

About the photo below it's from Beau Arts Mansion in St. Louis. Speaking of mansions. I'm in the market for a cottage size mansion in San Francisco. Hey San Francisco, can you reduce the rent in upper Castro or Cow Hollow (for me) by around $1,500? I could be up there right now offering my expert design services to the tired out Silicon Valley elite who need a Unicorn like me to transform boring into rad. I need a quaint 1 bedroom (with a full kitchen) and a bathtub is a must. Close to Bi-rite would be awesome and sunny windows much appreciated. No higher then 3rd floor please as 3 is as high as i want to be in a dwelling.

about the pinkish peachy coral (all colors I love by the way) photo the website says

"Beau Arts Mansion in St. Louis with peach pink walls and built-in bookcase nooks flanking window. Eclectic art gallery over red mid-century modern sofa with matching bolster pillows. Pair of green tufted mid-century modern accent chairs flanking vintage brass floor lamp and Oly Studio Pipa Cocktail Table over tan bound sisal rug."

image source:Amie Corley Interiors

See that coffee table there? It cost over 2 thousand. Just letting you know. I would rather hack the basic idea and maybe find something similar made of a nice extra white wicker.

Hey San Francisco My Pad is Rad.

Today I put up my extremely rad surfer Abercrombie & Fitch model. Just adding this art to the wall makes the house feel 10 times more beachy.

I've been spring cleaning in between training my puppy Georgiana (see the tiny white chihuahua on the couch?) She is absolutely adorable and goes well with the decor. Aside from how pretty she is, I had no idea chihuahua's are so much fun.

I hung the Abercrombie & Fitch model canvas because there's been a problem with extreme sunlight glare behind the couch. That messed up my life as a comfy couch computer geek (could not see the screen to well) and so the solution was a perfectly sized canvas that just fit as if custom made. The glare is 100% gone.

We acquired the Abercrombie Model canvas when my daughter worked for them back in her high school days in Palm Springs. So the total cost to help the room be rad was zero which makes it that much more rad.

You can see lots of blues throughout the room. I'm adding more greens too. More living things as in house plants are coming soon. Punches of pinks and coral are a must and I like a good yellow-lime color too as an accent. My walls are a type of gray but I like that because it gives my pad more rad and stays away from the often too boring, too serious, pure white room.

Family Heirloom ==> Abercrombie Surfer Model on Canvas

I would love to decorate (for a living) in San Francisco. Why save all the radness just for myself when so many undecorated spaces need me? And when I get my Google Glass eyewear (because officially I am a GG explorer by invitation from Google) just think of it....

• living in my dream pad in SF
• painting walls for millionaires who haven't any time for all the fuss
• turning homes into radicalness
• while documenting it on Google Glass
• Me and Georgiana 2 designing geniuses in hot demand
• people just throw money at us. we are that good. 

In fact, I search San Francisco rental property ads all the time. I see ads that say "$1,900 200 sqft no Kitchen" I think of exactly how I would decorate my bay view pad and all the food I would eat from Bi-rite. I think of all the coffees I would consume at Philz Coffee :-)

and all the flowers... I would buy pretty flowers at the flower market. I think of all the French bread, pastry, cheese, wine and chocolate I would drag home, even climbing up the steepest hills, never complaining even if I was caught in a downpour with gusting winds. I would not complain because I would know that after just one more hill, the rad pad awaits.

I think of all the art shows I would be at every night and all the designing I would do by day. The fact that a one bedroom in San Francisco cost $3000+ does not stop me from dreaming my dream. It just makes me dream more. I think of all the places I would take my Chihuahua and how much she would love wearing all the sweaters I would crochet for her. Anytime we wanted we could just walk over to the best donut shops in SF or dress up fancy and eat Italian food at night. I know a place in North Beach that would even let GG inside (i think.)

well oh well. someday this dream will all come true. Until then I will just have imagine my San Francisco.  

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