Shaking Bad.

With Breaking bad coming to an end this weekend, these fun chemical inspired salt & pepper shakers should brighten your spirits. You can pretend to be a meth maker in the safety of your own kitchen.

Available from $15 right HERE.

DRN

How do you like them apples?

This is the Fruit Wall. Isn't it pretty?

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AFTER

Storing your fruit in a bowl is so last century. Carmina Mahugo and Diego Polognioli, the designers behind Fruit Wall, have set up a Kickstarter campaign to bring their creation to the mass market, and into mass production.

I really like this idea of hanging your fruit & veg on the wall, like a constantly changing interactive art piece.

Could be the future of fruit.

DRN

(via Design Fetish)

Punk is not dead.

I love this 1D mash-up  pillow by Taylor St. Claire.

It's the perfect mix of social commentary and wit that I like in a throw pillow.

Available from WANELO

DRN

Gettin' wiggy with it!

I love this WIG vase from Tania Da Cruz, so clever, and would look great in any room.

DRN

A Beirut Beauty.

When I first saw these images in Architectural Digest, I though this amazing house has to belong to a master of Interior Design. And I was right, this is the Beirut home of designer May Daouk's. Its simply stunning. The high ceilings, and amazing windows, yet her mixture of textures and fabrics make each room look so comforting.

For more images of May's home, go to Architectural Digest.

DRN

Green with Envy!

I imagine this is Don Draper's apartment would look like. If he was a hipster bachelor type.

DRN

Good as Gold...

I picked up this frame in the Somalia Shop a few weeks back, it was down the bottom of a bin and had no picture inside of it. What it did have however was a 50 cent price sticker, which was reason enough for me to buy it.

When I got home I flipped through old issues of i-D magazine I came across ‘Le Saut dans le Vide’ (Leap into the Void) by French artist Yves Klein. I love this image so much, the idea of free falling, and the pain that comes after it. It needed to be framed.



What I didn't Love however was the frame, so dark and clunky looking. Everytime I looked at the Black & White image itself, it felt to me so much more depressing.


Luckily I had some gold paint left over from my CHAIR, and it was all it look to give the frame a new lease of life. I just gave the frame one quick coat, using a sponge to apply the paint, so it wouldn't leave and brush strokes, just a stained effect.



I Love how it now looks on the Wall of Frame. It doesn't look dark or heavy, and the gold does what its meant to do, it frames the image, and doesn't subtract.

DRN

Head in the clouds

Ever wanted to have your head on the cover of Vogue, or TIME? Well now you can with these great pillow cases from Infmetry.

DRN

DIY Darren

So I don't know if I'm the only one that does this, (at least I hope Im not), my clothes live on the floor. I dont mean to disregard them so. But you know how it is, you come home from a long day, and putting your clothes away neatly is the last thing on your mind.


So I figured the only way to combat this problem of mine would be buying a chair. It sounds simple, but I figure if the clothes are not on the floor, and instead piled on a chair it would lessen the appearance of a typical male messy room. and there she is, in all her glory.

Except this chair in paticular isn't looking very glorious at all. I got the chair in my local Cancer Society Shop, it was a steal at just €4. And even though I hated the colour, I figured Id be able to fix it up somehow.

So this was my first job. Getting rid of the wine coloured frame. I didnt know what colour I would paint it, even at this stage, but white funiture is a little too west coast beach house for me, so I ramshacked my Dad's tool shed, to see what he had lying around.


Here's my fabulous friend Jennifer showing off my amazing painting skills.
and luckily I found a tin of Gold paint down the back of the shed. Not just gold paint, but anti rust gate paint, which Im pretty sure was not intended for wood, but it gave the chair this almost dirty looking finish, which I loved. The idea of a golden chair sounded so regal to me, so when this murky gold effect came out, I was delighted.


When I put the seat back on the frame, I liked the end look, black and gold is always a winning combination. Just ask Sam Sparro. But I knew it could be better. Just ask Sam Sparro. So I looked to my wardrobe for inspiration.

and inspiration is indeed what I found, in the form of an old shirt no less. Its actually not that old a shirt, I brought it a few weeks back in another of my favourite second hand shops in town, Mrs. Quinns, but it never really went with anything, or there was never really the right night out for a mustard paisley print shirt. Well, in Ennis anyways. It needed a new life.


and thats just what it got. By simply wrapping the shirt around the seat for the chair, I was able to see how it would look, and it looked great.


All I had to do then was staple the fabric on to the chair. and then nail the remaining fabric down after running out of staples. Simple.


ta-dah! the pin nails actually worked out quite well, they are a lot stronger than the staples, but not long enough to poke through the seat, it also kept the material in place, and I was able to get the seem of the shirt in the centre of the seat.


and there she is. my new chair - slash - clothes horse. Unfortunately I now have no excuse for having a messy room.


And here she is in her new home, the dark gold is a nice contrast with the pale blue wall, and I love the print on the chair, it is much more suited with a seat, than, lets say, on my back. The chair cost €4, while the shirt, from Zara by the way, was just €5. So a new chair for less than a tenner. Quite the bargain I'd say.


DRN

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Wide Open Spaces

I don't know why but I have such an obsession with big tall open spaces, I think it might have something to do with the fact that Im 6'3, but I am in love with tall ceilings, fabulous massive bay windows, when it comes to interiors the bigger the better. And sure in the winter my heating bills will probably be massive, but just think how amazing some of these rooms would look filled with sunshine...

DRN

Shower Chic

Its not everyday you see a fabulous shower curtain, is it?

DRN

1000th Post!

Its hard to believe, I've had this blog now for just over two years, and I have to say it really has kept my creativity going, and gave me my creative gluttony. I have no intension to stop blogging any time soon. It's fun!

So is DIY. Yes, DRN does DIY. Albeit whist listening to Kylie and drinking a Bulmers, but I'm sure thats what all builders do when no one is looking.

The walls of my room have been looking so bare, as you can see for yourself below. Plain Jane.



So with the help of a few photo frames, here's the after. I got all of the frames from either second hand shops around the town, or from the 2 Euro store. Bargain.

So this is just the beginning, I plan on framing more of my own art work, and some more pictures with me and my mates.

So here's to another 1000+ more posts, and more art collecting from around the web.

DRN