Oh, Mr. Camilleri....

Here's the thing: nobody has any authority to decide if our house is set up the way it should be or not. Because it's us who live in the house, and therefore what we feel should be placed there or not it's nobody's business but our own. That being said, I love house porn (as Upton calls it) and porn in general, but I digress. I especially like looking at pretty houses and what people have done with them. Be it because I'm looking for inspo for my own place or because I like to imagine what I could do with mine if I had the money or talent to do what other people do with their houses, I love watching house tours.

I love houses that feel like someone actually lives there. As in there are details galore that tell us the stories of the people who own that house. This house for example, even though it is a remodel, it has so much character that it seems it's always been... like it is now. Take this, for example: he literally removed all the tiles in the old house and replaced them. As in he placed them in different places of the 'new' house, hence honoring the tradition and past of that house. How cool is that? How present? And he collected tiles from friends and family (some are a century old!) and used them to give his house that special character it has.

I love that (like me) he enjoys finding and giving use to 'old' things (that record player/radio? I died). You can also see that in the sofa he's got in the living room and the bathroom's piece of furniture where the sink is sitting. He also has some repurposed bookcases and some awesome light fixtures. And that mirror? Yes, please! I could sit here and listen to him tell the story of the stuff he's gotten in his trips or in some old man's garage.

Notice that the white walls work perfectly fine here, as well as the dark walls in the bedroom (another great use of dark paint in a space). And he's right, at the end of the day it's his house and he loves it and he lives there. It is what it is.

And isn't Lyra a total cutie??

XOXO

P.S. isn't he totally charming? And handsome. Yeah, I'm superficial.