whiteout

i loved this little house call in november, and i really love this house tour.

i love white walls.  when we bought our house, it was kinda nuts inside.

i'm keeping these pictures on the smaller side for your benefit

gaggy.  i mean, those rooms are adjoining!  and the walls that appear to be white in these photos are actually peach.  peach!  peach and mustard yellow and cornflower blue!  duuuuuudes, noooooooooo!

people always lament renter's white walls on apartment therapy, but at least it isn't customary to paint rentals peach.

that wood stove is still in the house, by the way.  some guests find it charming, but those are usually guests who haven't heated their homes with a wood stove.  i grew up in the country, folks.  i'm never lighting a fire in a wood stove again in my life, if i can help it.

most of my favorite house tours have white walls.  i've posted this hot little number onto my facebook page twice.

an introduction

my name is misa.  i'm 28 years old.  i live with my husband, three cats, and two dogs in longmont, which is twelve miles northeast of boulder.

welcome to our house.

luckily, the cat has an mfa from the pratt institute

we bought our house in april, 2009.  it was built in 1976, largely in a factory a few blocks away.  the factory is now a ymca that is teeming with old men in tennis shoes and dress socks.

it's not an amazing house.

i have no time, no money, and no diy skills.  i have only ever kept one houseplant alive.  but i have a lot of enthusiasm, an ace rewards card, and about ten years' worth of design magazine tear sheets.

she could be a great editor, but she's always drunk

i can't guarantee that my house will ever approximate this, or that i have the aptitude to do something amazing like this, but i promise to share embarrassing pictures of my tiny, ramshackle kitchen that will make you feel great about your own homes. 

i covet everything you own

michael mundy is my secret boyfriend.  which is to say that even he is not aware of this. 

have you seen this?  like whoa.  further proof that people with cool names are destined to be cool.




that chair on the left makes me regret every chair i've ever purchased.

how does one become a prop stylist? 

image: michael mundy, from an afternoon with...

what a miracle!

this is a blog about my house. 

i read a lot of design blogs, set in victorian row houses, mid-century brick ranches, and manhattan apartments. 

i live in a seventies pre-fab in longmont, colorado.  if there were good period details to be had in the seventies, this house doesn't have them.  it has a rock wall and wood paneling and a rust stain in the laundry room where a solar tank used to sit.

it has carpet in the dining room. 

come on in.  the heat's cranked up, "16 and pregnant" is blaring on the tv, and the dogs are drooling on the sofa.  i hope you like it here.