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Hey there! I'm so sorry, but those chairs are vintage (I got them from the Time & Life building in NYC when renovations were going on) and I haven't gotten around to reupholstering them, so I don't know where to find a similar fabric. The material is sort of like a wool....felt? Pretty dense and obviously stain-repellant to have withstood 40 years of office use.
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I'm sorry, our fireplace was always painted (it's a 1901 building), so I don't know about primer. When we had the apartment painted I think the painter used regular paint. Good luck!
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Try a sample, for sure. I actually went w Silver Fox based on a photo, without a chance to sample it (we had tried a bunch of things and had to decide while we were 2 hours away). Based on the swatch I would have skipped it. But in our light, at least, it is a warm grey, not brown. Maybe a slight taupe undertone but definitely grey. It's in the living room (bay windows facing roughly East plus one facing north) and nursery (small south-facing windows); our trim is all White Dove.
Cute blog! I want pizza bites. -
I'm on my iPhone so I had some link problems, but I think it's a living room photo? If so it's BM Silver Fox, which I adore.
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Hi Kate! I'm glad you enjoy the blog. I'm afraid I'm not great at thinking vegetarian...I think the split pea soup would be pretty bland without the smokiness of the ham to flavor it. That said, I've had good luck with a vegetarian lentil/rice soup (though I use chicken broth for the liquid) where I brown the onions before adding in the other ingredients. You might try using an additional onion and dicing/browning it and experiment with a bit of smoked paprika or something to jazz up the flavor.
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Ha, thank you! I have to say, aside from projects with my mom and brother, I rarely cook in Eugene--I'm too busy being fed!
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You better believe I had started an inspiration file within a week of finding out I was pregnant! Honestly it's just exciting to get to re-do a room, since there isn't a ton I justify doing with the house at this point.
The nursery will be in what we now use as a tv/guest room (home to the World's Worst Futon, which will go the way of the Dodo this summer, hurray!). It's already painted the same Silver Fox (Benjamin Moore) color as the living room, and I actually think I'll leave it grey and use white and orange as the other colors. I am also tempted by bright greens and blues, thanks to Dwell Studio's Owl bedding.
I had the orange/grey in my head for years, though, thanks to this alphabet poster on Etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16444454
I just wish it were bigger. She long-since sold that print, so I wonder if I could ask about a larger size.
I also like Robin Rosenthal's kids posters, both the alphabet and the green/blue counting poster (if I go with those colors):
http://robin-rosenthal.com/poster.html#
And of course I could easily be swayed from orange to a great yellow. I still dream about Janna Lyon's black/yellow/white nursery in Domino:
http://tinyurl.com/ycsp7c8
Swoon.
I'll do white furniture and a fun rug and hopefully collect some awesome vintage wooden toys to display, like the classic Kay Bojeson monkeys, which are crazy expensive but I've always loved:
http://tinyurl.com/yexxbmd
We have quite a few maps and travel posters and signs and things that could also be integrated into the room, if we want. -
I'm pretty bad at typing out phonetics, but my best shot:
I would say it Kah-dree-l (You barely pronounce the L on the end, but it is pronounced somewhere between a Y and an L.)
My Larousse write the pronunciation as "kadrij" and that j indicated a "semi-vowel", sort of half pronounced. SO I think you're right, and we're typing out a similar sound in two different ways. -
Hmm. I have rarely served the same thing at two dinner parties, so I don't have a signature "company" dish, unless maybe you count the lemon-chocolate tart from the Sunday Suppers cookbook. Ben would love if I made that more than once every couple years!
Maybe absorption pasta with sausage or pancetta, feta and cauliflower? That's the kind of thing I make for dinner fairly regularly. The blog made me try to cook new things or new variations on things instead of settling into much of a pattern, so I only have a few big repeaters in my repertoire! -
Ooh, good question. I guess it would depend on what I got to write about. My years as a magazine journalist taught me that there's a big difference between what you write about for fun and what you write about for work. I can get excited about a lot of topics if I have to!
I'm avoiding the question because it's a really tough call. I'll say food!
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Kate Flaim’s Bio
Freelance writer, food blogger, wannabe decorator
