PINKING AROUND

The blogs were abuzz the other day when design*sponge posted this image of a room with a shocking pink coffee table. Some have had serious objections to its bright pop to the room, but I have to say, I fell in love immediately!

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I think the neon pink livens up what could have been a dark and stormy room! So it got me thinking, in what other ways can we incorporate unexpected brightness?

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The pink on the chairs here really makes that boring table fun.

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I would adore a huge pink desk for my office! I don't think Andrew would like it very much, but its just so glam!

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The shocking pink interior of these heavy carved bookcases are JUST sublime! The Gothic feel of the room is much softer by bringing in the unexpected.

SO what do you think of these uses of the color pink? Not exactly something I would have thought of doing, but I really love the element of surprise each one of these rooms evokes.

CAT VERSUS HUMAN

While following twitter today, Grace Bonney at design*sponge shared a very cute website: cat versus human. Its written by a woman in San Francisco who is an illustrator {and a very good one at that} and her various comics involving life with her cats.

This particular comic made me laugh thinking of Andrew and I living together with Chaplin. He gets up on the weekends and makes breakfast for us... and I am usually laying in the living room playing with Chaplin while he scrambles eggs. I can only IMAGINE the 'conversations' he hears between me and Chaplin - which is really just human talk and kitty meows.

Life would be so boring without furry babies running around the house after mice.

image via cat versus human