And did someone tell you about the fabric softener trick and wallpaper stripping.
Ah, you're soft enough.
Cool! I can't wait to see the spread. As my wife would say, Dysons are geek sheik.
I highly recommend the furminator for your shedding dog. You can get one for home use, but having it done by a groomer is rather nice. They'd be able to bathe him in the de-shedding shampoo/serum and then use their high-powered blow dry on him before furminating for maximum efficacy. Having it done even just once or twice a year can make a huge difference.
hee-hee-hilarious! Thanks.
Yeah, but... Yeah, but...
Oh damnit. I've got nothing to say.
Even if I wasn't living with my in-laws I could only hope to have a place that looks like that.
*goes back to envying the juniper's now at ridiculously high levels*
Sounds like Wendall is a very smart dog. Can't wait to see the photos!
I covet a Dyson. But damn -- we have a vacuum that works perfectly well.
Damn.
two words. shedding blade.... will change your life. take him outside and go to town. you should be able to knit yourself a new dog by the time you are done....
You should have asked Melissa for help with the wall paper. She's an expert you know!
We bought a Dyson as a Christmas present to each other. Romantic, huh? I love my Dyson. I have 4 kids, 4 pets, one of them a Collie. We don't know any of the kid's breeds.
It excites me far too much to see all the dog hair that fills that little cannister.We have high ceilings, and spiders build little subdivisions faster than the developers west of town. I take my Dyson and suck them into oblivion. That thing could suck the paint off a Chevy.
I need a life.
truly hoping to see a shot of the bloodshed bathroom before it's all over. you are brave people to let someone else's camera in your home!
Can't wait to see it! It's always so thrilling to me when I redo a room. I still have 3 hideous rooms (and two closets) in my house that need major redoing.
I only have one room of my house with carpet (and one area rug). The rest is just hardwood flooring or tile. I can't imagine there'd be any way I could justify a Dyson with that. :-(
there is a way to make wendall your, um, bitch. friends trained their fetch-aholic dog in a manner most brilliant: mason would bring the ball to them on the couch and sit. they would hand the ball back and yell, ok go! mason would run upstairs, turn around, drop the ball, watch it bounce down the stairs, chase down after and return to the couch. you have to admit that is near perfect.
i dream of a dyson.
Ah, the Dyson. There are no words that do it justice.
I am divorcing...and we are SHARING custody of the Dyson. That's how good it is, good enough to cart the thing from one house to the other.
Of course, someday one of us will just have to buy our own damn Dyson I imagine.
wow, I would love to see that custody agreement!
"Melissa will get the Dyson on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, as well as every other Sunday. Both parties will deliver the Dyson promptly at 8:30 a.m. on the following morning. If either party fails to deliver the Dyson promptly for more than 3 consecutive days, his/her custody will become limited to supervised visits and take place only at an agreed-upon fast food restaurant."
Our spaniel is obsessed too, bringing us her lobster at particularly riveting moments in all movies, dinner parties and naps. It helps to bring in Macbeth: Is this a lobstah I see before me?!
And your bedroom makes me want to cry, and I'm not showing my architect husband, because he'll make me throw everything away. Where do you put all your stuff? Thanks for admitting the pile of crap behind the camera, which is probably the secret to all those architecture magazines.
Oh, to just have one bathroom wall of paper to rip down. I have one bathroom that goes by "the ugly bathroom." It's pink and green and floral all over. Every single surface needs to be redone. Love your new paper.
"showed only 4 rooms of our house?" Good Lord, my friend, how many rooms do you have? I think I need to get out of the concrete jungle and move to the Motor City! These walls are starting to close in one me.
In a side note, there are very few things that I find as relaxing as vacuuming the apartment with our Dyson. The only other thing that comes close is when the wife and kid are gone, I sometimes get high and scrub the bathroom.
I guess we're both bitches.
Oh yeah, two black German Shepherds + 2 Shelties, + 4 horses + 4 chickens = 1 Dyson. And you would be amazed at the amount of horse hair & feathers that end up in it this time of year even tho the horses & chickens live outside (most of the time)
We actually bought a Dyson just recently because our previous TWO vacuums sucked at sucking; and we had reached the end of our electrical cord. We even bought the cheapest Dyson, but good googly moogly. My wife continued to praise its wonders, and I had to give the thing a whirl. Its like driving a sports car... smooth, great handling, and "takes a corner like its on rails".
Funny thing, our dog is STILL freaked by it. He never had any issues before, but for some reason,the Dyson sends him to the farthest corner of the house.
Anyhoo, love the house, love the new wallpaper, can't wait to see it in the pics of the fancy mag.
Cheers
holy shit am i the only one that is staring at wood's sculpted arms and going blind with envy? is it the tearing out of wallpaper or the root cyclone upright vacuum technology (if you were my husband i would have given you 'the look' for that comment, btw) that brings that about? i might be willing to try either more often than the bi-annual occurance they seem to be getting lately.
love the new wallpaper. hope it's the magazine i subscribe to that your gorgeous home is shown in. thank god for big reasons to get your shit together! i need one of those. big time.
We also have a Dyson and I love it. My oldest has asthma and because the Dyson doesn't spit filthy air back into the room, he can stay in the house when I vacuum. Also, the Dysons are pretty cool-looking.
Can't wait to see the pictures!
I too love my new Dyson. Charlie offered to vacuum the other night and I turned him down even though I was beat and my back hurt. It really is fun to vacuum with that thing. It's frightening.
We have the poor man's Dyson (a rather ostentatious lime green Hoover that's trying desperately hard to be kicky and modern) and it's just....meh. Honestly, I get more satisfaction from sweeping. Sweeping is awesome!
But a Dyson is on the horizon, because as my (rather frugal) mother admitted to me a few weeks ago: if you're going to do something you hate, at least get the best tool to do it with. Then you won't hate it so much.
Sounds like it worked for you! And Wendell.
i have been sending my hubby not-so-subtle hints about the dyson slim (my birthday's just around the corner...) since my fateful meeting with the dyson lady in best buy... i soooo want one.
I first read that as, "Vacuuming with a Dyson is kind of like BEATING a streetwalker with a heart of gold," and I thought, huh. That seems uncharacteristic.
I am not a vacuum man, but then we don't have a Dyson.
I do like to wash dishes. My work projects take months or years to complete, while dishes only take a few minute. Plus my wife thinks I the coolest husband ever because I do the dishes. There is nothing emasucalting about that.
I just found your blog and got really excited when you talked about the birds committing hari kari on your glass walls (um, that doesn't sound quite right). I searched around your site until I found those pictures of your place. It's wonderful that you truly appreciate Mies's architecture and are doing such a wonderful job decorating your home in the International Style.
Thank you for being so cool.
I wanted to call your house a true machine for living in, but I think it was Corb who said that. So I'll just say that God is in the details and call it good.
Cheers.
ah, this looks so amazing! i find nothing more satisfying than new drywall and some pattern overtop of it all. my poor house is screaming for it! i can't wait to see which magazine this all will be in.
also, when did mcdonalds roll into FM town? at least they know the good sites to pick.
Dutch...Wood...okay, confession on my end...you know how this cool mag's visit kickstarted your cleaning/renovation? Well...as you know, nothing too dandy about SF flats, but when I saw that Grace posted the write-up, and your photos last month on her site...I yanked Faez over to the computer and pointed "LOOK HOW COOL & SPOTLESS THEIR PLACE IS"...What's our problem"? Now, mind you, with one child, it was a bit easier...maybe not. With two...we're like preschool central. So, thanks to your photos, you kickstarted our cleaning frenzy into full-gear...equivalent to 10 pregnant nesting-phase women. No, more like 20. That said, when I read your post today...that behind those still so fabulous pics that there are in fact carpet stains and laundry piles, I felt, well, relieved. But, thanks for being our motivator. And I hope this mag spread is the start to a Juney design school college fund.
Jen & Faez
Great punchline. The use of "bitch" might have ruined any opportunity for corporate Dyson kickback, though.
I only take corporate kickbacks from Wal Mart and McDonalds.
You're everybody's bitch, huh? At least your bathroom looks awesome. And you have no idea how much better the cat lady wallpaper/piles of dirty clothes confession makes me feel. Those pictures made me feel guilty as hell about my shithole apartment, and now at least I know that you're not quite that perfect. Even if you do have better wallpaper. And dead birds.
It's an odd thing but every time I read this blog, I encounter something which causes some small but noticeable pang of envy. I'm not an envious person, really I'm not. Why is there always some ignoble little twinge?
I'm talking about the dyson right now although I do also want to live in your house. (I'm almost over that, though.) And the fact that you actually vacuum your house. And that you like to vacuum your house. I guess I could envy the dog, also but I don't at the moment.
I am a research scientist and the Dyson so appeals to my experimental nerdy side. Every time I use it I rush to show my husband all the stuff in the canister. "Do you see all that?, That was on our floor!". "Yes dear" (for the 1000th time)".
Needless to say I love it!
Vacuuming is awesome. I have a Miele. It's like you can make a new life every day, just by picking stuff up off the floor.
until that last poster mentioned that she had a miele, i was kind of wondering if dyson had just obliterated miele. my parents have a miele, and i have had to listen to my dad rave about it for years (even though he rarely uses it; my mom does all the vacuuming). to hear them talk, there is NO OTHER high-end vacuum company. it's a good thing they don't know about all you dyson owners--they'd feel obligated to try to convert you.
And speaking of vacuums, until very recently, my mom and sister BOTH had these ANCIENT, antiquated old Kirby machines, the kind with the chrome head and the 50's era fabric bag in obnoxious colors. Which sucked up just about NOTHING. And my mom's was broken sort of, where the back roller feet wouldn't even stay on the ground. You had to PUSH it to the ground. For what purpose, I don't know, because it DIDN'T SUCK ANYTHING UP... I had to listen to how wonderful Kirby machines are, how great this old hunk of shit worked, blah blah. I used it. I knew it was horrible. Ended up buying her a new vacuum. A LIGHT WEIGHT one. That SUCKS. In a good way. 
i was wondering about the bagless aspect of the dyson- does it make a huge mess when you empty it? we have two dust-buster type things and they are both bagless and damned if they don't make more of a dusty mess all over themselves and around the garbage when i go to empty them. just wondering if the same is true about the dyson?
pnutsmom - nope - emptying the dyson is easy and not dirty. at least in my house, it sucks up so much hair with the dirt that the dirt basically dumps out like a big furball.
dutch and wood - a house question for you, since we're talking about your house (and I love the Orla paper - in another shamless plug for the MoMA store, they have some fun things of hers right now). anyhow, did Juniper's bed come with that safety rail, or was that a separate purchase? we're gearing up for the 'big boy bed' and investigating good looking options. ikea has one called the robin that's cute but I'm thinking I'd like a little rail like yours on it.
thanks guys & have a good holiday weekend.
yeah, that's shamEless.
although I'm shamless too.
LOVE the new bathroom. to tears. And also have a request for a post: I know you keep saying that you are just a humble SAHD w/ no real design flair, or whatever, but clearly you have SOME flair... and since I just moved and am trying to get the new place to look 1/100000000th as good as yours, I was wondering if you could do a post about how you decided how you were going to decorate your house? not like an HGTV special on How To Decorate or anything... maybe just a reflection on the process you went through (if there was any) or where you got your ideas from? because frankly, I'm impressed.
Also:
If the universe has any sense of irony, the next family that moves in there will enter the bathroom and gasp. They will recoil. They will murmur to each other, "Floral! Why?! I was hoping for an environment more conducive to butt-labor. Something more...womb-like. Something red." And it begins again.
I'm shaking with envy over those photos on design sponge. Even your books are sorted by color, and not a sign of spit-up stains or doggie gnaw marks on the Eames chair. Wow.
Those pictures are amazing. Your house is amazing. I love Juniper's room.
congrats on your magazine shoot motivation to finish up your place
i saw your pictures + recommendation on design*sponge recently. thanks for commenting on my flickr. i browsed yours too. i really appreciate being a voyeur into people's personal lives with children like mine, but i am too afraid of psychos to ever post personal pictures + then i don't let in the nice people to make friends with + have a magazine photo spread. woo hoo! congrats!
It's official, we have ALL become our parents...we're chatting about vacuum cleaners for pete sake!
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