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Post #44: Shapely architecture

#warehouse interior office #curvacious #architecture #industrial #commercial interiors #warehouse design #concrete interior #vintage interior #round window #retro design #designporn

Post #43: Orange of the 70′s workspaces

photos from Jeremy Jae: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jerjae/

Post #42: Madrid car wash ‘Burbucar’ by Lina Toro

#madrid #interior design #eggshell blue #modern #Lina toro #square tiles #not boring #floor design #monochromatic #lighting design #carwash #interactive #transparent design #blue epoxy paint #linear design #European

Post #41: if David Lynch liked postmodernist design

#warehouse interior design #vintage interior #David Lynch #twin peaks interior #postmodernism #80s design #blue velvet #Saturn lamp #red and black #industrial #70s #Italian architecture #Terence conran #the black lodge #invitation to love #mod #carpet

Post #40: MiLLENNiAL THiNGS -Aesthetically interesting but concerning for my Generation Y and the upcoming Generation Z. The offices coddle employees like lazy teenagers who just want a place to veg out and stare at their Mac laptops. What's left to work towards if your "office" is more tony than your own home... and you couldn't afford to duplicate it if you tried. -my small opinion

Post #39: emerald green sandstone lobbies

#warehouse interior office #lobby #emerald green #sandstone #soapstone #milano #entrance halls #interior design #green #industrial #wall panels #retro office

Post #38: sage

#warehouse interior office #commercial workspaces #sage green #indoor plants #industrial #Sony office #room with a view #ambient #colorful interiors #millennial approved spaces #new interior design #minimal

Post #37: vintage & industrial interior spaces

#warehouse interior office #industrial #tiles #checkerboard #yellow #gold #green #red #high ceilings #stained concrete #staircase #Dutch design #interior design #commercial interiors

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Mcmansion Hell’s Kate Wanger argues that in a culture that continually celebrates renovation, what our homes actually need is to be left alone.

I wrote this article after seeing the people in my life struggle with the image of their homes: whether or not they were ready for the judgement of company (both loved ones or strangers), or the peering eyes of social media. Folks who work in the worlds of architecture or design feel this need for personal curation particularly badly, because the ability to craft a space is tied to their profession.

For all the joking on this blog about contractor errors and heinously tacky decor, part of the reason I only use houses that are for sale is because the majority of these houses are staged to sell, and (with the exception of maybe a few family photos) are relatively distanced from the lives of the individuals who live there. This makes them ripe for cultural or social criticism, because staged houses are an excellent presentation of what aspects of a home are explicitly culturally desirable, commodified, and consumed, across several decades.

If anything, the McMansion is the ultimate form of the type of house-fussery I discuss in the article. They are houses designed to impress others, to serve as material, architectural signifiers of the American aesthetic ideal of financial security and social success. They accomplish this at the expense of creating architectures of isolation (every space is demarcated and communal spaces are for once-a-year “entertainment” rather than day-to-day familial existence), anti-social sentiments (distance from city/town centers/neighbors, gated communities, hostile HOAs), and waste (the power bill, suburban sprawl, interior space wasted on empty architectural gestures, e.g. the great room or the lawyer foyer).

Really, the big question being asked here is this: what would our built environment look like in a culture where we felt free to build what we really wanted instead of what we are expected to want? Examining why we want something, why we like something is an edifying exercise.

This is something I do on a regular basis, because I struggle with the same feelings of not living in a space that’s Instagrammable enough. Ultimately, so what if my book collection has outgrown my Ikea bookshelf? So what if my apartment has banged-up walls and black kitchen appliances? I have a roof over my head, and the items I own are reflections of what makes me happy. In today’s charged political and cultural atmosphere, the last thing we should be stressing about is whether or not some person on Instagram is going to judge you for having yellow LACK tables that don’t match the rest of your living room.

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Post #36: it’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got

While I love renovation and architectural design, I feel like I needed this reminder about the pressures we feel to make our spaces look a certain way.

Today I will make a concerted effort to love the spaces I live in and appreciate them, flaws and all. And I will let the professionally photographed, architectural masterpieces I find on tumblr and Pinterest be enjoyable- but not necessarily something that I have to attain to be happy.