Like many white things, plain white sneakers are a blank canvas just waiting to be embellished with permanent fabric markers or paint. Here are two favorite iterations for summer.
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deconstructed slipcovers like paola navone’s fab ghost chair
Recently at Style-Files, Danielle de Lange was mulling whether to buy the pricey ($1,000), chic or a Ikea’s cheap, rather clunky and traditional alternative, the Ektorp chair ($199), below. She inadvertently pointed out a great lesson in slip-cover assumptions: the usual, standard approach with piping or neat seams is NOT the only way to go. Paola Navone devised a…
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chic diy graphic design tees (+ furniture)
On Sprinkles and Springs, we came across this diy striped tee inspired by the modish tee-shirt Marc Jacobs recently featured in his chic, stripey collection. It is a great example of I COULD MAKE THAT thinking that has infiltrated many a clever head. Sprinkles and Springs saw it and figured out how using a plain…
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painted fabric redux: clothes!
Even though we’d recently imagined painting cloth-covered chairs and sofas, tablecloths, pilllows and curtains, we didn’t think about CLOTHES! This timely reminder came from Ebay, via An Ambitious Project Collapsing. Imagine the possibilities… Related posts: copy this: paint a pillow…sofa…bedspread…curtain… blank canvas furniture
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“why doesn’t everybody paint their own shoes?”
The bold and many-faceted Howard Rheingold, who we blogged about yesterday, once did a little internet art piece that asked: “Why doesn’t everybody paint their own shoes?” Yeah, why doesn’t everybody? we wondered. Shoes are basically a blank palette; it would be easy enough to do. Then you could look down and see… Rheingold has…
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