So far 2010 is shaping up to be craptacular. This does not bode well for the next 10 FREAKING YEARS, does it? Let’s recap the already long list of stupid stuff that has happened in this very new year: the entire nation has been living in a subzero meat locker. The Hunny, Baby Ike and I, have been passing around a disgusting cold. I am on a no sleep plan, thanks to Ike’s first tooth. Because I’m exhausted, every night I scarf down a bowl of ice cream with hot fudge about 3 seconds before I go to bed. The scale refuses to even register my weight in the morning — it just laughs. Oh, and the cat puked on our rug in the middle of the night, for the 854th time this month. Aren’t you jealous? Don’t you wish you were me? SAY YOU WISH YOU WERE ME.
Yeah, it could be a lot worse, but I don’t really want to hear about context or perspective or any other gross thoughtful stuff today. Instead, I’ve been fantasizing about painting everything in my house white, and getting all white furniture, and all white accessories. It’s my new happy place, where it’s clean and fresh and everything matches, and there is no orange puke or chocolate sauce, and everybody sleeps all night long.
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. (Remodelista)
I used the google to find this, therefore I have no source info. What? You think I shouldn’t occasionally resort to googling my post material? I don’t have time to read blogs ALL day. Update — thanks to Nicole for letting me know this room was designed by Alexander van Berge!
Is that sofa inflatable, or is it just me? (Per Ranung)
This room is so anti maximalist, but I am in sweet sweet love. Even the buildings across the way are white. (Francois Halard)
I don’t know where this came from, and those clothes are really buggin, but hot damn! White just photographs so beautifully.
So. restful. can’t. keep eyes open.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. (Marie Claire Maison)
Om me padme hum a zoom zoom, just shake your rump! Uh, that’s totally not where I meant to go with that. I just got a little overexcited thinking about all that white. (Living Etc)
Get out of my room, fugly brown boxes.
How not to do a white room. I want to punch that DREAM banner in the face and rip that stupid Z Gallerie pirate chandelier out of the ceiling. Repeat: this room bad. Bad white make Erin angry!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Anger level receding. (Remodelista)
Um hmmmm. (Desire to Inspire)
Oh yeah. (From the Right Bank)
Almost disqualified due to a preponderance of off white tones, but so pretty I couldn’t help myself. Whatever. You can’t stop me. I’m high on white. I’m unstoppable. (Style Files)
Pure as the driven snow… and the number one reason I can’t actually have an all white house. (Ohdeedoh)
I think I’m actually feeling better, thank you very much, but now I’m seriously jonesing for more white crack. So tell me, smart, savvy decorating friends: do any of you have white walls? Do you like them? Does white highlight every imperfection — like the dreaded wall cellulite — or does it smooth over the ugly drama? Any particular colors, tips, etc? It seems like great architecture and serious windows are needed to go white, but I’m oh so tempted…
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I, too, have always dreamt of having all white. In this house, the light is too dark and it does weird things to white. Plus I have two little black hairballs.
But someday my apartment in Paris in the 17th Arrondissement will be all white. Ahhhhhh.
I had an all-white bedroom in the mid-1990s and at the time I loved it. It’s not where my head is at right now, obviously, as I just painted my master bedroom deep navy from tip to toe.
P.S. It comforts me to know someone else’s 2010 is off to a hellacious start.
I love the all white – it makes whatever space 1000x brighter, which is great if you are living through dark times.
Yay, my eyeballs are very very happy.
I live in an all white fantasy world.
I my reality were some of these rooms.
We’re slobs so the only way it would stay perfect is in jpeg form on my laptop screen.
These were beautiful. I especially love that dressing room with the screens and floppy lace chandelier. I hope you feel better- ’10 is just messing with you. It’s going to be a great year. You just have to be immunized to all the caca.
*wish
Hey — I took a social media training course yesterday (thus my new attempts to actively twitter… also on the account aliceuniverse, and my blog aliceuniverse.com has sort of started…) and look, they’ve given me a handy dandy resource that I thought you would just love for this post and others… a reverse image search engine! http://www.tineye.com/
You can put the URL of your uploaded pics, and blammo, like that first one, shows up at Apartment Therapy where they cite it as being from Colour Me Happy… well, who knows where THEY may have gotten it from… a quick scroll on that blog, it seems to be captioned Thomas Pheasant.
Ok, back to the peaceful perusal of white white rooms, and wishing you some restful times soon!
they do make an inflatable chesterfield, so that must be it (the real thing can be very $$$)!
http://blofield.com/default2.aspx
Sorry you are having a rotten month honey… it’s only January, it’s not all of 2010 that’s rotten. January sucks for EVERYONE.
I can’t think of all white homes without thinking of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/garden/02dirt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22white%22%20apartment%20clean&st=cse
But I hope that’s not another downer. All-white bedrooms do seem like a cloud of simplicity.
Cassie, that actually makes me giggle. Something about the pic of Noriega-Ortiz propped up in shorts. Hilarious!
Lisa Ann, I knew it! Thanks for the link.
WPZ, so great to have you back in the house
Melody, “immunized to the caca” made my morning.
Everyone else, thanks for the well wishes, and hoping that your new year is going awesomer than mine! It’s not really THAT bad; it would just be vastly improved by good health and good sleep.
So what do guests to the Noriega-Ortiz household wear?
No guests! No guests allowed!!!
Sounds like a rich, full life they’re living there. But at least their house looks good!
yea i’ve recently gone off the ice cream deep end too. We need the extra padding in the winter, right?
Enjoy your white cyber room paradise. I’ve been battling with the boy over white walls. i’m brilliant and i want a white living room. he wanted YELLOW. Hells to the NO. We may settle on gray. Which is like a dirty white, I guess.
OMG, you’re in my world now, Erin! The unidentified picture woodley park-zoo thought might be by Thomas Pheasant is in my inspiration file, so I can tell you it’s definitely NOT by Thomas Pheasant and is originally from a post on Desire to Inspire about photographer Alexander Berge: http://www.desiretoinspire.net/blog/2008/8/29/alexander-van-berge.html. There are a couple other delicious white rooms in that post.
Also, if you’re contemplating painting white, I couldn’t advocate it more strongly. It’s my favorite color for interiors but I was nervous about using it because our house isn’t traditional with lots of fat white-painted moldings. Well I finally took the plunge a couple weeks ago and I LOVE IT. Check it out: http://wedgewoodparkmodern.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/house-updates/
It’s BM Decorator’s White in Matte. DO IT!
Nicole’s house is insane and amazing but i’m not sure your house, Erin, can hold it’s own with white, i think it will just look unfinished since you don’t have strong architectural details. I say keep it how it is and keep white in mind for your next house.
Is it white Wednesday or something? You might like http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/2010/01/white-paint-and-other-white-necessities.html
Love your work – hang in there, you will get your time/sanity back eventually. (But by then you won’t remember what you needed it for)
Nicole, your house is amazing and awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing
Karlypants, I *think* the architecture of my living area may actually support white — vaulted ceilings, beams, big open space, etc — if I painted everything from floorboards to ceiling (including the beams). However, I don’t think I have enough windows. It’s so dark — I’m afraid it would come off as really dingy. Although I often think the pale gray I have looks dingy, too.
Plus most of my furniture is dark, and I’m afraid it would look really unbalanced with super white walls.
Mostly, I am too lazy to undertake such a giant project when I am considering selling this house. Methinks most buyers won’t respond to a white home, although I could be wrong.
I just dreaming.
Clarity, thanks for the link! There are some beautiful rooms in that post… and they all have big, gorgeous windows. sigh.
Maybe I should just knock an exterior wall out and glass it in.
Im not really on board with the whole white thing myself. It seems a bit soulless to me….also I had a friend who had white floor boards in her house – it always looked dirty & festy!
I think it’s beautiful…all white that is. But only in my dreams. ‘Cause in my house all white would go all gray in the blink of an eye.
Oh, and the scale, toss it.
Hope February is all hearts and flowers!
xx-nelya
Makes me want to go buy gallons of paint and yep that is a blow up couch !
I’d love to have some white walls. Unfortunately, my beloved life partner thinks that if every inch of wall and counter space is not covered, the room is “cold”. It drives me NUTS!!! I just want some damn white space already!!!!
Ok, Kristin, take a breath…
This is a definitive vote for all white.
Very enjoyable blog! I have also driven myself crazy wondering about all-white rooms. I especially long for white floors but a poster above says they look dirty. My apartment has very dark floors and they drive me nuts too. Need to start 2010 by promising myself not to obsess about the floors anymore.
Hi Madaboutchairs, thanks for stopping by! Yeah, clean floors are very important to me, too. As much as I love the white look, I think the dirty floors would be a dealbreaker.
Ain’t nothin’ in the world better than a white on white interior! Nothin’! Thank you for the link love too. xoxo
This actually made me laugh out loud ‘Erin mad!’