Today I smile because....

Wallpaper:: Bigger Than Ever

I was looking at this great slideshow about wallpaper on the Southern Accents website, and came across three gorgeous pictures I wanted to share with you.[all photos from Southern Accents]If you've read my blog for long, you already know how much I love w...

Create Walls of Your Dream

When changing something in our apartments we think about everything but for wallpapers and forget that they are the same attention-getters as the furniture, the sofa, the carpet or the table. More than that, walls occupy the larger amount of squared meter...

Stick it to 'em!

Just because you live in an apartment, there is no reason you have to accept the mental-institution white your landlord decided to force upon you, right? Well, certainly not anymore! These cute tile tattoos by UK firm Mibo, are cheap,......

Sprout^Designer!

Caroline Colom Vasquez While in the middle of my daily Etsy browsing (really, there should be some sort of support group for those of us who are obsessed with that site!) I ran across the beautiful designs of artist Caroline......

Wallpapers With Secrets

Have you ever heard about Shi Yuan? Then, I am ready to bet, you have never heard about heat sensitive wallpapers as well! Why I am talking about them? Because such wallpapers can make your walls something everybody is constantly looking at. In what wa...

DIY - Recycled newspaper wall treatment!

Tired of the Sunday times cluttering your coffee table? It's so easy to turn that trash-bound paper into a beautiful (and free!) wall treatment. Just mix solution of one part Elmer's glue to 3 parts water and you have a......

^Sprout Designer!

These little glimpses into the homes of interior designers give me so many ideas for my own space. True, I live in an apartment and not a gigantic house in Portland but the spirit of the space can be interpreted......

Bubble baths and pillow fights for everyone!

Oh, if only we could all be Audrey Hepburn for a day! At $3500 a pop, maybe this recycled bathtub sofa isn't the cheapest way to live out my Breakfast at Tiffany's fantasy but a girl can dream, right? I......

Finally - paper cuts you're happy to get!

So you never became the doctor your parents always wanted? Well, there's still hope for those of you with a steady hand. Artist Heather Moore proves the hand of a surgeon and the patience of a saint is all you......

Life in Bright Colours

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This is not your grandma's wallpaper!

Don't these clever designs make you want to run home and paper a wall or two? Artist Natalie Wright hand silk-screens and then paints over the clever patterns she's dreamed up. The mustache design (below) has been snatched up and......

Don't cry for me. Design^Sprout goes to Argentina!

Now that I have bid a fond farewell to the good 'ol US of A and am safely nestled in my colonial apartment smack dab in the middles of Buenos Aires - a place full of amazing designers, crafters and......

The Resurrection of Chic

To me, one of life's greatest joys is waking up early, grabbing a latte and looking for that diamond in the rough. Still, there are flea market staples I see all the time that no one seems to be able......