There is no place like home
We recently had a photo crew come to our home. What an absolute privilege on this earth to have an incredible photographer and team (!!!) come to our place.
ANDREW GRINTON, can you feel your ears burning? Yes, I am talking about you. Awesome guy. Talented Soul. Sweet, hard working….too bad ladies…he is married. I already said I would smooch him once for taking such great pictures, so I better be careful. 
. This is me, acting on my best behaviour.
I literally have a bazillion pics, and they are like having so many babies in a room. Which one do you pick up first? They are ALL SO TEMPTING !
We used a rusted flower, created by a local artisan, to create the pool shower head.
This mosaic has a bit of a story. I didn’t know how to draw a mermaid. I stood in the shower stall and had my Mom trace me. I did advice her to draw me skinnier with bigger breasts. It is a mermaid with a sense of humour. I also DEFACED Canadian pennies. Confession time again. It is ‘kinda’ against the law to glue pennies to a wall, isn’t it ? Ooops. I did it in the name of design.
Oh, I love this Bali bed. Great place to sit and sip …errrhh…tea. I would never sip wine in there. Just tea.
We live in a small town area. This ART was created by a local artist, with an abundance of flagstone. I think he had an abundance of something else GREEN as well….but I am not saying ‘what’ OUT LOUD. Jokes. Jokes. I love repurposing items, and designing with repurposed items too.
The boat bench was created from a reclaimed fishing boat in Bali. So different. So easy to work with. Great product, hand-made, and created with love. Brilliant use of a fishing boat that would otherwise be in a landfill site. Repurposing=my kind of design. Makes one think outside the box. That is a good place to be.
I found this rusty wheel in the old barn foundation where we imagined we could BUILD A POOL. Now that is repurposing a BARN !!! The walls surrounding the pool were the original stone foundation of ’said barn’. The barn burned down many years ago and the land was used to gather garbage aka cool, funky, rusty finds. I threw myself in front of the backhoe many many many times to get my hands on those funky rusty finds. Who could resist? Not me.
As soon as I can pull myself out of this hammock, and stop playing in the tree fort….I will meet you again with more HOME SWEET HOME photos…
Cheers !
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Just happened to stumble across your blog via Pinterest. Ridiculously awesome. Thanks for making my night.
Awwwh Shucks, Thanks soooo much Mariah ! I love hanging out in pinterest at night too. I’m so grateful that you found my blog. I hope you come and hang out with me more often. Big fat HoHo hugs !! Lynne xx
Ok..forget what I said about the Saychelles photos being magnificent….THe outdoor photos of the porch…
The Rusty Wheel, the Bali Bed and the Boat Bed photos are…..well…..breathtakingly spectacular Lynn..! You have a talent….an amazingly poetic, exacting, and brilliant sense of design and color…and I can say that..! I grew up with it surrounding me my entire life, but when I see the above, I stop breathing….
WOWZA!
Thanks Leslie!
Yes, the Seychelles is GORGEOUS, but there is nothing like HOME SWEET HOME
Lynne
Hey Lynne,
James is building me an outhouse for my composting toilet and I’ve been hunting on your blog for ideas. I can’t find the photos of your outhouse on here? Maybe since people are heading to the cottage again and might want to spruce up their outhouse, you could show us some cool outhouse stuff? Pretty please? Thanks :0)
Hey Dymp’s !
Sure !…Ok, if you ever want to search for anything on the blog, just type in the word(s) you want to search in the box called SEARCH MY SITE in the upper right corner of the blog. I love that little feature. I even use it myself, when I forgot where I wrote something !! LOL. I wish I had a button like that for my car keys.
I typed in ‘outhouse’ and found this post…http://www.lynneknowlton.com/2011/08/27/i-am-a-white-cotton-white-loving-natural-fiber-hussy/
There are some outhouse pix there. If you need more, shoot me off an email, and I will email you some more. I have lots ( too many). LOL…I need to spend less time, just hanging out and decorating an outhouse ! haha.
Lynne xx
Hi Lynne, you have a beautiful house. The pool is stunning and the view is just precious. I am so glad that I discovered your fun blog!
Thanks Pamela!!
I’m so glad you found me ! Thanks for stopping by. I will do my best to stay outta trouble. I lie. I lie.
cheers!
Lynne
Your home is beautiful! Wow! It’s exactly the “feel” I’d love my home to be. I did go look around a bit while here visiting from The Art of Doing Stuff and love the Hippy’s Use Back Door sign! We had beads on our french doors from the kitchen/dining area to the deck when we first moved into our home, to keep the flies out, but everyone loved them…..might bring them back…I miss them! Following you now…. xo
Hi Wendy !! I am thrilled that you found me. I am off to check out your blog right now too. That Hippy sign of ours is such a hoot. Beads are super beautiful too…I love organic elements like that too. Have you tried hanging them in a window? I am doing a blog post soon on hanging shells in the windows. It is a stunner look, and makes it feel so warm. Thanks for the follow. So grateful
) Cheers !! Lynne xx
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