10 things that rocked my world this week. 10.25.14

ashlina kaposta October 25, 2014

1. Exciting news is in development. If you have been reading then you know that I have a new project in Dallas coming up and I am so excited to get to working on it. This picture is of a photo shoot I did recently in Austin and to celebrate my final days working in Austin, I wanted to share this photo. It was my favorite from the shoot.

2. Elements of Style the book is so so so good. I especially love the spine. Black and white stripes will look good anywhere. Even if you don't need more books, this one can be used as decor. Hint hint.

3. Every once and a while I will go thrifting and find something that gets me over the top excited. This week I found this gorgeous malachite ice bucket with gold details. I really couldn't imagine anything else more perfect for me for holiday entertaining. It was 5$. I also scored this gorgeous big black obelisk for 10$. Gotta love a good thrift.

4. I am also a HUGE fan of rams head. They are like the Birkin bag of the design world. Everyone wants it but not many can find or afford them. I spotted this triple rams head here in Austin and I was over the moon about this one but I don't have the space for it. That just broke my heart.

5. Gold is always a good idea...thats my motto. So I had some art prints made up that speak my decorista language. Check them out.

5. The other day I was having some art framed for one of my favorite clients and I found these amazing gold + silver geode frames. I have seriously never seen anything cooler in my life. They belong to rockstars. We naturally went with the gold.

6. Speaking of gold. If I ever were to get a tattoo it would need to be gold. Thank the good Lord for Flash Tattoos. They are so cool and pretty and last forever. I have loved having my little gold feather.

7. When you get ready to pack your things up and move, its always fun to go through old things and get rid of them. I am all about cleaning things out. The hardest thing for me to get rid of are perfume bottles, I absolutely love them. They make for such great decor.

8. Anything in the beauty & fashion realms make for great decor. Especially pretty fashion books like these gorgeous Chanel ones. I love collecting books for my coffee tables. Here are some I love...

9. I'm also really into black and white palm tree art these days. Either that or I am just really missing California. I would love to see a pair of these on either side of a bed. It would just add something a little fun and fresh to the bedroom.

10. I've found this to be so true lately. Who you surround yourself with determines your direction in life. Who you are with is who you become. Words of wisdom for you all. Xo

One Room Challenge Week 4: how to art wall

ashlina kaposta October 22, 2014

Hey hey everyone! Welcome back to the One Room Challenge. It's now week 4 and we are well on our way to a finished and styled up space. Luckily for me, this room is a loft space so not much painting or super hard work had to be done. Thanking my lucky stars. We are just tricking out a stylish office space for a super creative gal. If you need to be brought up to date {see links below for past weeks}. This week, we put the rest of the furniture in the space. We still start with my focal point of this room, which is the desk area. We want it to be full and fab. Here is what we are with now...

We went with this sleek ikea desk because of its large size and thin legs. It's not easy to find a large desk with such light legs. She has two computers and a whole lot of camera equipment she needs to work with so we needed some real depth. We also got her 2 beautiful white Eames chairs, the chair is perfect for a loft space. We finally got the art prints from minted. I also have created a little collection of wall prints from my decorista sayings "black is my crack" + "gold is always a good idea" . The black one is perfect for Sarina.

[ The Stendig Calendar | black is my crack print | nude sketch | three feathers]

We decided to fill the spaces with these 4 items because they all go so well with her personality. Originally we had the bull art on this wall, but it looked so much better above the bookcase and lends for such a show stopping effect. He is way too masculine to be with the other girlie prints.

Doesn't he look good there? We will be hanging him soon. It's really difficult to drill into cinderblock so we have to get some special tools for that. We also added up some of her inspiration images with black tape for a funky effect. Underneath that area we will have a plant, to fill the space with green. I'm all about bright green in a black, white and grey space.

To the right of the shelf we put a black matte vintage credenza and it looks so good in the space. Sorry about the photo, the sunlight is soooo bright at certain times of the day. I'll get a better photo soon. Right now we have the art for the art wall leaning there, because thats what we plan for that space. Leaning art. I am obsessed with leaning art and so is she. We also have her collection of sunglasses there right now because they go with the scheme of the space and you need them in the bright room.

Here we brought over her drafting desk which used to be in her bedroom. Her black and chrome stool is the perfect fit too. We want to put some more greenery around this space, to really inspire her and maybe some more shelving for storage too.

Now back to the art wall game plan:

We knew we wanted a staggered art look and for it not to look too finished. By balancing out the weight and taking other factors into consideration {ie chair, air filter, computer} we were able to come up with a balanced look for the vignette. It's totally her personality which is so important in a work space.

So, we've got to actually hang the art, get the rug, add some greenery, find some really fab leaning art for credenza, add in a guest chair, etc. We may even just be finished early. Woop Woop. I guess that's how it goes when you aren't painting anything. lol.

Be sure to also check out my girls and their progress too: