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Knock on Wood

A lion built entirely from wood found in nature — driftwood pieces stacked into a mane, muscle, even a curled tail. This is amazing work. I love it. Spotted on X.

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Koi in Graffiti

They are so cool.

Love these koi in Graffiti Alley.

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The Library I'd Never Leave
Twisted Brick Shell Library This library in China might be the coziest building I've ever seen. It's two brick domes joined by a twisting wall, shaped like a shell that wraps around whoever steps inside. The architect designed it to "cuddle visitors" out in the middle of an open field, and …
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AI as Interior Designer? Didn't See That One Coming
I ran across a piece on Apartment Therapy about a writer who used ChatGPT to reimagine her entryway, and it stopped me mid-scroll. She snapped a photo of the space, uploaded it, and asked the AI to add wallpaper and a chandelier. The first try wasn’t quite right, so she kept feeding it references — …
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700 Square Feet of Magic
Deer and rabbit vases — Anthropologie I just read about Marcelline, a mom of three in a 700 square foot Upper West Side apartment she furnished almost entirely with curbside finds and her Buy Nothing group. The writer described stepping through her front door as walking into "a fanciful fairyland …
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What an amazing transformation. Check out those before-and-after photos.

A Family’s Sentimental 1970s Camper Got a Second Life After a Bright Revamp

This DIYer was inspired by fond memories of the passed-down camper from when she was a child.READ MORE...

apartmenttherapy.com

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Learned a new word today: silly-maxxing. It’s basically decorating with just enough weirdness to make a space memorable. I love that word. Right up my alley — I’m always looking for ways to make a space feel interesting over just pretty.

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Is 'Silly-Maxxing' the Antidote to an Overly Pretentious Home? Why This Whimsical Way of Decorating Makes for More Memorable Interiors

No one wants a home that feels overly curated, or worse, boring.

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TIL the entryway is the most underrated room to paint. Small space, quick job, huge visual payoff. Kind of obvious in retrospect, but I never thought about it that way before.

If You Paint Just One Room This Year, Designers Say Make It This One

apartmenttherapy.com

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I’m really fond of the bamboo-and-steel canopy. If I had a bigger yard, I’d definitely choose this… it’s truly beautiful.

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Stems of bamboo create vertical screens around the spaces

via Eleena Jamil shades guesthouse with bamboo and steel canopy

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If I plan to redo my tiny house, I would go with this exterior wood like this… It is a beautiful house.

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