Connecticut Cottage Style

I ran across this inspiring 1775 Connecticut cottage the other day and just had to share. Isn't it charming? I especially love the quilts all over the place, so beautiful.

Green Door

I am so adoring the front of this lovely 1810 house. The big tree, the gorgeous bricks, the hydrangea bushes and of course the totally rad green door. Isn't it great?

(Via here)

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Awesome! A book that combines some of my favorite things all together. History, architecture, Virginia, gardening, home design and photography. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Already I want to dig my nose into it.

Amazon.com Says: "Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a superb collection of essays, adorned with beautiful color photography, that showcases this American treasure. Designed by Jefferson himself, Monticello is a model of elegance and symmetry. It is also home to Jefferson's world-class collection of art and porcelain from France, scientific instruments from England, the finest American furniture from Philadelphia and New York, and enduring furnishings made in Monticello's own joinery by enslaved craftsmen. The celebrated gardens and grounds form an experimental yet breathtakingly lovely landscape featuring flowers, fruits, and vegetables of the Old and New Worlds."

This is definitely on my wish list now.

A House by the Sea

I'm totally in love with this beautiful 105-year-old Rhode Island house called Clingstone. Isn't it amazing!? And the scenery is the same, is it not?

Henry Wood, the owner is a 81-year-old Boston architect who bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades! It's hard to believe that a house that beautiful could have ever been empty, isn't it?

Anyway, Mr. Wood has now restored it beautifully and thankfully now it's filled again. Lucky people.

Flaming Lips Pad

How about this totally crazy and kaleidoscope-like house? Awesome isn't it? It belongs to the Flaming Lips singer, Wayne Coyne and was designed by Fitzsimmons Architecture. Gee, I'd love to hang out there. It's just too cool.

(Via Black*Eiffel)

Interesting Restaurant

First of all, sorry for not posting for so long. I've had a horrible cold (or something like it) for the past few days and so haven't felt much like posting. I was just sick about a month ago too. But anyhow, today I'm feeling good enough to make a post or two.

Second, check out this awesome Yellow Treehouse Restaurant. It was designed by Pacific Environments Architects for New Zealand’s Yellowpages ad campaign as a way to help people see Yellow in a better light. Isn't it just lovely? Man, I'd love to eat there some day. How about you?

To read more about the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant go here. They even have construction photos.

(Via Lace & Tea)

Hobbit House

I think that this hobbit house is officially the coolest house I have ever seen in my life. This is a real house too, with people living in it! A Welsh man built it himself, along with his father-in-law (and a few passerbys who wanted to help) and now he lives there with his wife and two little sons. Can you imagine growing up there!? That would be just so magical.

(Via Cup of Jo)