Beautiful images from Paris

Wish I'm in Paris. Image from Little Brown Pen.

A room to work in

ROOM OF THE WEEK 8.12 from coco+kelley

nice little room. not the conventional study to work in, the desk is probably a bit too small for my preference too, but I'm pretty certain it fills one with inspiration working in a room like this.

How about a Chandelier in the bedroom?

I've never really fancy having a chandelier in the living room. Perhaps it has become too common, too glam, not for me. But the idea of having a chanderlier in the bedroom feels different. A little romantic, a little classy...
Love this from Apartment Therapy, house tour of Harriet Zaretsky

My version:

Street scenes of Shanghai

to a tourist, even the wires are intriguing.

Where is the traffic police to direct the traffic when he is most needed?

Old photos shot in year 2004.

The zigzag staircase

photo by Chien-Chi Chang

Saw this photo in a magazine many years ago. Shot in New York Chinatown, I thought this must have been taken 20 years ago. (I've not been to New York before seeing this image.)

I was taken by surprise when I next see this photo again. This time it was as a huge poster in front of National Museum of Singapore. I never did forget this image after many years! Chien-Chi Chang is the great photographer, belonging to the prestigious Magnum group. I think the works of all great masters leave you with a deep impression, whether or not you know his name in the first place. See more of his works here.

See the zigzag staircase in the background of Chang's photo? For those who are not familiar, these are actually fire escape emergency exits. The main subject in Chang's image is also sitting on one of these.

The strangest thing is that the moment I see these zigzag staircases in my recent trip to New York, I thought of Chang's image again. No foreign workers eating at the staircase this time, but I must shoot one of these staircases as my own interpretation of New York old cityscape, especially when I thought these old structure no longer exist in modern Mahanttan.

Love the lighting when I was shooting this.

Here's another image of an emergency staircase, a very different style.

photo from Rear Window

A nice substitute?

I may not be able to afford a designer chair, but isn't this a nice substitute? 3 chairs for the price of 1 rug. Get the rug here.

Bringing nature into the house

What a nice grassy patch. Design by Lotta Agaton. See more here.

More nice rugs, spring and summer inspired:top row from left: unknown source, Pjatteryd Ikea, butterfly rug, Sex and the City rug
second row from left: Swing rug by Patrick Norguet, Martha Stewart coconut rug, Zebra in Green Hooked Rug