EvY at HomE

I'm up at 4:30 wide awake even though I totally have another hour to sleep before I have to wake up for our shoot. The past two days of shooting I perfected my warm legs all day winter in New York setup. 1) long socks 2) on top of long socks, thermals, that's the striped thing you see 3) on top of thermals, warm socks 4) on top of thermals and warm socks, leg warmers. This combination will help endure the shoot though I am cozy and warm in a Motorhome unlike the rest of my poor crew that had to endure snow and rain. I guess I picked the right crew position. Matt sent me photos of the pets to cheer me up. It has been apparent for some time that Woz is a ridiculous creature. I miss my home and have the sads (not the seasonal one, just frowny face) just in time for the last shoot day and only three more days to blow this Popsicle stand. I want to post more fun house stuff but I have had zero to minus zero time on the shoot. BUSY JOB. Send pictures of puppies. There's always ti...

Let's get real people. This house we're going to buy is not the forever house. This is our first house that we plan on spending 10-15 years in so instead of deciding on the kitchen of my dreams, I'm gonna aim on the kitchen that is fun and I will love for 10-15 years. Which I think looks like this: I think that's the same mentality I'll have for the rest of the house. Not forever and ever but for a long time. So let's have some fun with it and be bold. Don't kid yourself, committing to something for 10-15 years is still scary as crap and a big deal.

The living room has a long way to go to be planned but here's some of the basics I'm thinking about. Haven't decided what exactly is going in there but I'm playing around with the various options as you can see. And while I do imagine the room as a collection of geometric shapes, I need to find ways to soften the room since it's all rectangles in there. I guess I'm going with orange and teal in there to go with the black or white furniture?

It's cold out. I miss my house and my honey. I know its exciting and amazing and its the big city but after a week, this girl could go home. And to think we still have another nine days. - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

Weather at home: Weather NOT at home: That's called snow I guess. Falls out of the sky. White. Never heard of it myself but supposed to happen sometime today. I hear rumors its cold to the touch too. What will they think of next.

It's two bedrooms and surprisingly large for this area. My boss has one room and I have the other. I gave her the one with the bigger bed cause I'm generous. It's an example of just the basics and suits us to a T. And proof that I am living here: popcorn. Selection of cheeses. We bought some groceries. Just breakfast foods and snacks. It's funny what a person considers essential. Like Italian truffle cheese. - iPad Post

The kids at the blog did a breakdown of the overall paint colors in their whole house including cute little swatch blocks that show the colors together. So I did a sloppy one of the colors I'm thinking about for the house. Currently every single room in the house is painted the same beige-y yellow color and it's fun seeing all the colors I'm thinking about together and thinking you know what, all those colors aren't as crazy as I think they are. Of course the emails back and forth between Michelle and myself are hilarious. ARE YOU INSANE, A ROOM ENTIRELY OF TEAL?! Whatever Chelle, I'll do what I want. (No but seriously folks, I'm gonna post the email between Michelle and myself over paint colors specifically: teal). Just kidding, I listen to you, I'm just gonna do small things of teal. You were right. Love you.

I just stumbled upon a new blog and the woman was looking into my soul (cats, recently moved, lives in LA). I saw this board of pretty things for a bathroom and loved every single thing in it and I tried to define the overall aesthetic and it's a little bit hipster, a little bit handmade, a lot modern, a little artisan and it hit me: it's Portland. So.. I think that the guest bath in our house will be inspired by our chilly coffee loving neighbors in the Pacific Northwest. Coffee beans in a jar, rose scented hand soap, a bicycle print, a bird somewhere, green walls, lighting by Schoolhouse Electric Company.  This might be one of my more brilliant ideas. Check out almost makes perfect for lots more brilliant ideas.

It's a lot better being in New York a second time around. Our job had money to travel my boss so she generously decided we could just bunk in a rental apartment so we're staying in the East Village in a pretty spacious 2 bedroom apartment that's pretty adorable and clean for New York. My friends, it is in a building with no elevator. Humping my 50lb suitcase up four flights of stairs on the morning we arrived damn near killed me. I think we're slowly getting used to it. I'm no longer the bright eyed New York visitor and have some experience with the city and thankfully did the town up last time because I would be very bummed out to have only seen New York from bus to walking up and down 5th in the Flatiron before and after work. I haven't even seen the skyline on this trip yet! We hope to have the weekend off at least and maybe hit up the High Line which I missed last time and finally see the Upper West Side since I seem to constantly miss that place. I bro...

I was wildly optimistic slash in denial about how well the whole packing thing was going. I mean I did three rooms in one day so I thought, man, how hard can this be? I think I forgot that those three rooms didn't really have much in them to begin with and oh yeah I forgot about this little room: Blurg! Where did all of these things come from? And why are they all breakable and require a copious amount of bubble wrap to be packaged?! Damn my habit of hosting dinner parties and cooking. I'm paying for it now. In other moving news, we're reserved our movers (of course Matt chose the movers with tattoos and skulls but they're very well reviewed) and the moving date is set for the 9th. While we're scheduled to close on the 2nd, it's just gonna be too much for my feeble body to return to Los Angeles one day and then start moving my life to another city the next so we're giving ourselves a week to wrap things up in La Mirada before we head on up to th...

In what could be the most ill timed travel jobs in my life, I'm heading back to New York on Sunday for a few weeks for a shoot. It was hard deciding to take the job what with the house purchase and moving pending but we do have to pay for said house so my wonderful husband is gonna take care of things here while I freeze my butt off in NYC. I return the 31st, we are supposed to close around the 1st and able to move in around the 2nd but won't move in until the 9th so we can have time to wrap our lives in La Mirada up especially since I've been gone for 2.5 weeks. How is the packing going EvY? Surprisingly well. The drum room, guest room, linen closet, and guest bath are all boxed up and since I'll be gone for awhile its gonna be easy to pack up things I won't need: since I won't be here. Unlike the last trip to New York where I was a carefree renter now I'm a responsible home owner and plan to only spend money on food. Also it's gonna be a busy job so we...

I don't plan on changing the color scheme of the kitchen when we move and since it's hard to mock things up since I have no furniture or layout decided since I want to live there a few months and see how I work. I still want a blue wall with mostly black, white, yellow, and turquoise/teal accessories. But for now here's where we are and where we hope to go in terms of overall kitchen aesthetic.  The kitchen is located in the middle of the house with no windows but gets light from the opening into the dining area and back door.  Of all the houses we saw, this one had the best layout potential for a kitchen and most storage. Whew. This is one side of the kitchen with the microwave, stove, and sink. No dishwasher but don't you worry, I plan on changing that. And here's the other side. After working in my kitchen for the past four years and looking at this kitchen I know, there is not enough workspace for moi. I do keep my countertops pretty bare and the fac...

In the move I get two kitchens. I know. Smack. Lucky. I also don't get a garage but whatevs.  This place might be rented out eventually in a few months but for now I am pretending I'll have the glorious-ness of being a hostess that can not only offer her guests their own room but their own little house.  I'm really hoping this will be helpful when we completely gut our kitchen and will need a place to make foods. I'm gonna take advantage of the extra kitchen (!!) to store my excess kitchen things that won't fit in our kitchen and of course this image of a tiny NY kitchen is my inspiration. I am also digging this minty kitchen too I mean, if ever there was a place to be daring it's your little kitchenette in your house. I'm already rating certain items as good enough for the main kitchen or heading to the back.

I am back to work but didn't want you to feel neglected. The dining space would be right next to the kitchen and living room in this corner under the chandelier. Eventually I want to knock down that wall and replace it with an island so I can have more of a work surface and to add some casual seating. Here's what I think the dining area should look like but I am concerned about the teal color being way too dark in this place since it's connected to the living area and the first color you see when you walk into the house like BLAM it's dark! Plus I have a lot of dark furniture. On the plus side, it would be nice to make it more cave-like in there since we mostly spend our time watching movies and tv shows and it gets hot as hades in Burbank during the summer, maybe the teal would make us think cool thoughts?  Thoughts? 

The office will be the room sharing a wall with the living room and at the front of the house. It's a pretty decent size, a bit longer than the room now. This is it from the hallway. Just like the office now, I hope to put the sofa against the wall here with a side table on the side closest to the window and on the other side of the sofa it might be cool to have a book stack  shelf . I didn't really want to have books in the office before but slowly all the design and EvY-centric books have found their way to the shelves in my office now and I like seeing them all together, especially since they're pretty. This is the wall across from the sofa. I think I'll put the big cabinet that holds the tv in the corner. And since there is a bit of space underneath the window and since it might look a little uneven, I was thinking of putting a shorter cabinet along the bottom of the window and then placing the tea tray on top of it, sort of like a mini bar. Matt ass...