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Frye Boots

A couple of days ago I blogged about The Frye Company's new flagship store located in New York. Initially, I was more interested in the store's design. I took a peek into their website and have been quite taken with their boots. This is not quite the footwear that I recall from my youth . . . but, an investment in a pair (which is what it would be; they are pricey!) would last you decades. 


I've captured a few of my favorite. Okay, there is obviously a theme going on here:

One Room Getaway

This one-room weekend house has been featured in many architectural magazines and design blogs for the past couple of years. And it is no wonder; it is the perfect retreat. Simply framed and housing the core essentials for relaxation; utilitarian loo, the most basic cooking apparatus, a bed for lazy mornings, and a garage door to unveil the surrounding nature. Anything more is excess.

Frye Boot's Flagship Store

I'm getting ready to head out to New York this weekend and Frye's new 6,000 square foot flagship store is definitely on my list to visit. A recent foot surgery has left me ~ hopefully temporarily ~ with few footwear options at the moment so purchasing a new pair of shit-kickers may not be part of the plan. But, I enjoy the architecture and design almost as much as the boots. Taking inspiration from early 20th-century workshops and toolboxes, design firm AvroKO constructed a cash-wrap desk from vintage industrial drawers and blackened-steel panels. Above the sales floor, locally fabricated brass pendant fixtures flank a ceiling installation of more than 40 leather straps, each fitted with a brass ring meant to recall Frye's Civil War-era boots.

All photos via Interior Design and courtesy of The Frye Company.

My Personal Home Goals

Never mind that it's Aerin Lauder's Aspen getaway, this is actually a very simple home. Granted, it has soaring ceilings and magnificent views, but so do many modest homes in Colorado; we may just not have quite the expanse of windows. Like my inspiration photos posted yesterday, this is another residence that exudes warmth and simplicity that I aspire to in our own home.

All photos via

Sunday Love

After breakfast served to you in bed, this is the next step. Now, that Sunday I LOVE!

From a new development in Bangkok simpley called Oriental Residence. 

My Current Inspiration

We are  s l o w l y  able to work on changes to our house. In the first couple of years here, in our wonderful, beautiful, little slice of the foothills in Boulder, we did quite a bit to the house . . . and there was much to be done. My husband worked very hard from patching in the crawl space (and this is not pretty crawl space that is all visqeened covered and flat. We're talking about bumpy, rock hard, spider-ridden, strewn with rusted beers cans from the yahoos who built the house kind of crawl space) to building lovely dry-stack rock walls and terraces. So, we have gotten a lot of the immediate maintenance issues completed and have moved on to updating. (Don't get me wrong; there are still more maintenance issues but we have made a dent . . . )


Which brings me to my current path. A path that I've long been working towards in my mind. One that I have not quite communicated to my husband because we haven't had the money to do much more than necessities . . . so why bother? I want to leave my design options open, right? You never know, I may veer slightly off my path once we have money to create my path. But, I am generally steadfast in my goals for the house. And those are to de-clutter, visually organize the space with monochromatic colors, and create a clean, modern sensibility that nods softly to a "mountain home" while still be inviting and cozy. One way to create an inviting and cozy interior within a monochromatic color scheme is to have varying textures, both natural and organic, highlighted with hard edged metal.


The next step in updating and "visually de-cluttering" the house is to paint the interior. The walls need it desperately, the doors and trim even more. So, the following photos that I've had for awhile (of which I don't know where I found any so cannot give credit; bad, bad, bad me) are my inspiration. Not literal interpretations, just an inspiration of tones, general mood, and textures.


And one other thing. My husband is afraid of dark walls and white furniture (which I quickly remind him is not white, it's off white).


Are you listening, Love?

Can you tell that I'm kind of a gray-green kind of gal?

It's Okay

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