Celebrity Home Perve.



Reese Witherspoon's ranch in Ojai, California.





The interiors of the ranch before Witherspoon brought it.



For a bit of entertainment news -  lovely actress Reese Witherspoon got married this week at her home in Ojai, California. For a bit of celebrity lifestyle perving, I found images of Witherspoon's Ojai ranch in its former guise as the home of American interior designer Kathryn M. Ireland. Who knows how different the interiors look now, however, it was here that Reese married her man in a "rustic farm-style" wedding. Nice. If you want to see more, go here.
Photographs via Hooked on Houses.

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The Ribbon for Japan by John Pawson

Architect John Pawson has designed The Ribbon for Japan to support the disaster relief effort. You can go to his website to be connected to the Red Cross donation site here.
Photograph via John Pawson.

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Grey Homewares from Country Road.

Here is my pick from Country Road's new Winter homewares range. Yummy.
Photographs via Country Road.

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Triflow Kitchen Mixer

Here's a kitchen mixer that I have just ordered for my client's kitchen. It is a Triflow tap - which mean it has hot, cold and filtered water all in one. This a great solution as there aren't many nice looking water filter taps out there. It also keeps the area around the sink clean and minimal - this is ideal when the sink is located in the kitchen's central island in the middle of an open plan kitchen, dining and living area.

Photograph via In Residence.

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Kitchens by Vincent van Duysen

I have been designing several new kitchens of late - for inspiration, I have been checking out kitchens designed by Belgian architect, Vincent Van Duysen. These kitchens are refined, have simple details and subtle colour/material combinations that really work.
Photographs via Remodelista.

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Toile

Toile is having a resurgence right now and I have the above fabric for one of my clients right now. She loves powder and duck egg blues. We not going as extreme as this though - just for some curtains...
Photograph via Manuel Canovas.

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Emeco 111 Navy Chairs

I was talking with my architect sister the other day. She was after some dining chair suggestions for a client that needs ten chairs for their extendable dining table - hence not too expensive! I reminded her about the cool 111 Navy chairs - they come in several colours, are made of recycled coke bottles, look great in modern or traditional homes as well as being useful in any room.
Photograph via DWR.

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Dark Floors

I am designing a new kitchen and the clients are keen on a dark timber floor. I've had a look around and I tend to like the matte stained version like the example above. This still lets the timber grain come through and give depth to the floor.
Photograph via April and May.

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