Colour Dipped Furniture

DIY | Color Blocked Dipped Spoons

A little something to spice up your kitchen, use for your next dinner party and/or gift!

You will need:
Wooden Spoons (available in IKEA)
Paint. Colors of your choice.
Tape
Brush
Jar, for display

1.Wrap pieces of tape around the handles of your spoons. Leave at least 2 inches from where the handle meets the spoon.

2. Select your paint palette (we mixed pink and white to create an ombré effect then punched one spoon up with a shot of neon) and paint above tape.

3. Let dry and peel back tape.

Via| Sophie Monet

Architecture | Dupli Dos House

Originally outfitted with two external staircases, they demolished those and created one staircase inside helping to make one cohesive space. This also opened up the exterior and allowed them to create various outdoor spaces to enjoy.

One of the unique features is that they kept both pools. They made it look intentional with the multiple levels of terrace space in between.

Located in Ibiza, Spain, and designed by Juma Architects of Belgium, the Dupli Dos residencefeatures jaw-dropping views of the Mediterranean. The house actually began as two separate duplexes that they merged together to form the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house that it is today.

Architecture | London 2012 Aquatics Center | Zaha Hadid

ARCHITECTURE

Project: London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Center | Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects | Location: London, UK| Compleated: 2011

I blogged about Olympic architecture buidings here, but missed one Zaha Hadid’s £269m Aquatics Center. As this building needed it’s own post this is my favorite building from the London Olympic Games. The architectural concept of the London Aquatic Centre is inspired by the fluid geometries of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment that reflect the riverside landscapes of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave – enclosing the pools of the Centre with a unifying gesture of fluidity, while also describing the volume of the swimming and diving pools. The diving platforms are moulded out of the same concrete as the rest of the lower structure, making them extensions of the architecture rather than additional pieces of concrete.

Weekend Inspiration | pretty things

It is always lovelier to live oand work in a space that’s light & bright and filled with flowers, beautiful artwork, and most certainly, bits of gold, as in these photographs sent along by dallas of her new office . . .

via |  dallas shaw]

COCKTAILS ❥

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Architecture | London 2012 Olympic Games | Count DOWN

London 2012 Olympic Stadium

Today instead of our normal Colour Fridays we are coloring this Friday with countdown to 2012 Olympic Games. London will be the first city to host the Olympic Summer Games for a third time. Embedded in the London Games design parameters is the need to provide for the future, the Legacy of a major event, which requires transformation of the city and the venues – challenging the concept of building permanence. So here are some beautiful architecture stadiums where the games will be hosted in.

The London Olympic Stadium is sited on a diamond-shaped island between two existing waterways, located within the southern section of the new Olympic Park. The seating bowl is compact, bringing all 80, 000 spectators far closer to the event than previous Games venues. Olympic stadium has simple legible forms which develop, minimizing the physical weight, fabrication time and embodied energy of each component, and bringing together to the whole building, linked by demountable connections. This not only enables the overlay of theater and spectacle in staging the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 80,000 capacity venue, but also promotes possibilities of transformation after the Games down to a minimum 25,000 seat venue form. The black and white seats provide a neutral backdrop for the interior colour of the spectator facilities and pathways, and the animation that spectators will bring to the event. The running track will also be highlighted in a striking colour which will reflect the vibrancy of London in 2012.

London 2012 Olympic Basketball Arena

In November 2007, the SKM/Wilkinson Eyre/KSS design team was appointed to design the Basketball Arena for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The design, which received planning permission in March 2009, is such that two-thirds of the materials and elements within the building can be reused or recycled after the Games. As one of the three key venues on the site, the building will be home to the basketball competition, the handball finals, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and will be a holding area for athletes during the opening and closing ceremonies.
During the Olympic Games the arena will have 12,000 seats for the basketball and handball competitions, reducing to a capacity of 10,000 for wheelchair basketball and rugby during the Paralympic Games. Building work on the arena will finish in time for test events before the Games.

London 2012 Olympic Velodrome Architecture

The London 2012 Velodrome has been awarded the Architecture Award during the Design of the Year 2012 Awards Ceremony at the Design Museum. The awards showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world.

London 2012 Shooting Venue

Three mobile buildings will accommodate the 10, 25 and 50 m shooting competitions. Shooting is a sport in which the results and progress of the competition are hardly visible to the eye of the spectator. The design of the shooting venue was driven by the desire to evoke an experience of flow and precision inherent in the shooting sport through the dynamically curving space. All three ranges were configured in a crisp, white double curved membrane façade studded with vibrantly colored openings.

SPIRAL STAIRS

Travel Thursday | Treehotel Sweden

The Treehotel, set in the forests of Harads, Sweden, offers guests a truly unique experience with one of a kind treehouse accommodations nestled high above ground. Currently open with 7 rooms, my favorite is The Mirrorcube, for its sheer beauty and ability to blend in seamlessly into the forest. Designed to exist in harmony with the pristine natural environment around them, this is the ultimate treehouse experience. What do you think? Have you maybe stayed there.

BIRD CAGE DECOR