Weekend Project: Decorate Outside

Sunset's latest issue has a section on upgrading your yard �this clipping; a Santa Monica backyard updated by garden designer Jamie Durie.  One idea was to add acrylic exterior wallpaper to a garage wall.  Although I haven't found any product like that - they also mention oilcloth would work too (suggesting retro floral or bold patterns �like Marimekko). Paint, wallpaper, oilcloth - whatever the medium it's a fun weekend project we think. (Image from Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room (2; Harper Design) via Sunset Magazine.

Also love these single pot container gardens they featured where they're ditching the idea of using annual flowers and instead using succulents, shrubs and grasslike perrennials.  By Julie Chai | Set Styling: Birte Walter | Photo's by Thomas J. Story.

Cool outdoor sign (that also serves as a light).  From San Francisco branch of H.D. Buttercup.   By Kathleen N. Brenzel | Photo by Thomas J. Story.

I purchased my Sunset magazine using the Sunset app for the iPad available here.

Preview: I Love Real Living!

Photo Nick Scott | Styling Sarah Ellison.

Another beautiful issue is out from one of my favourite magazines, Real Living.  Lots of eye candy this month  � including this art-filled space from their art director, Carly Townsend and her boyfriend Mitch.  I love all the little vignettes and art pieces everywhere - makes for a cool, relaxed space.

photo warren heath | styling sven alberding/bureaux

Also the bonsai appears - maybe something to consider for our living room?  I'm so focused on cacti at the moment for my green fix, but loving that one bonsai at the top - (they offer a feature on bonsai for beginners which I could so see me getting into). Snip, snip, snip.

top photo birgitta wolfgang drejer/sisteragency.com (staircase) photo: louis lemaire/insidehomepage.com (fireplace)

And a few good examples of some nice paint jobs in their bonus 34-page special decorating with colour.  The block colour on the stairs (love) and the grey wall and fireplace (goes so well with the logs).  There's a few more images from their August issue on their site - click here to see!

I got my copy of Real Living through the magshop app - here's the link!

~Jan
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