Dreaming about the Knit House
Jon and I are moving to Williamsburg in less than a week! Can you believe it? We’ve lived in Manhattan for three years now and I will be sad to leave our awesome little apartment. When I leave the building every morning, I see people jogging and walking their dogs across the street and I wonder how we got so lucky as to find a tiny home of our own, with the most famous park in the world at our front door. I’m always reminding myself that I’m not dreaming (usually, I realize I’m awake when I trip over the coffee table or bang my knee into the bed frame because, boy, is this place cozy!) and that this is my real life. (Am I gushing? I get really emotionally attached to apartments. I cried the night before we moved into this apartment. So many memories!) I’m sad to let this charming steal go but we couldn’t be more excited about the new apartment and the fantastic neighborhood. It’s changed a lot since I lived there last but so have I!
We’ve been making a lot of plans for the new place. We’re going to build some custom furniture and we’re thinking about painting the walls black again (since repainting the bedroom back to all white, it looks flat and sad). These plans will take some time and we’re on a pretty strict budget. But that doesn’t stop me from dreaming! Here are some things I’d put into my dream Knit House.
1. Knit Wallpaper by Fargerike
2. Mid-century Bed Frame from West Elm
3. Tripod Wood Floor Lamp from West Elm
4. Knitter Pouf from CB2
5. Caitlan Chair from Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co.
6. Birgit duvet cover and pillowcases by Ikea
As you can tell, we’re going for a midcentury, dramatic look with lots of neutrals and pretty, maybe reclaimed wood. Our real apartment will rely much more on DIY but that will be a fun project for us! Also, if this were my dream knit house, it would have one floor just or yarn and six tape measures in every room. I couldn’t put those into the nifty graphic, but they’re there.
What would you put in your dream house?
ps. In case you missed this floating around the knitterverse: Ponies wearing Cardies.
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Tags: BIrgit, black, black walls, CB2, Eames, fargerike, Ikea, knit pouf, knit wallpaper, midcentury, modern, Schoolhouse Electric, tripod lamp, West Elm
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Oh gosh, I just love that knit wallpaper!
The most important part of my dream house would be a dog. I grew up with dogs but can’t have any in my rented apartment, so that’s all I really want right now. I want dogs like other people want kids.
Hope you can get a doggie soon!
“What would you put in your dream house?”
Aside from Richard Armitage?
I want a window seat. I don’t have anything more specific than that but I have spent YEARS daydreaming about a window seat in which I could read or knit or just daydream while looking out the window onto whatever was happening outside.
Oh that sounds lovely! I love staring out the window. I’m like a cat.
OMG I LOVE the Ponies!!!!
Had a feeling you would
Pretty much everything you’ve included in your dream knit house I would include, too!
You have great taste!
OMG PONIES IN CARDIES!
Good luck with the move, and have fun decorating your new place! I would love to see your process. We moved into our house 6 months ago, and I’m still trying to figure things out. Of course, I’ve never lived in a place I cared about enough (or had enough money) to decorate the way I want to. So figuring out what I want is a weighty process. I have a feeling, though….that my hubs would kill me if I covered everything in knit wallpaper. Not sure why. Just intuition.
cheers!
Daisy
What I’d love is the cable knit wallpaper in Taylor Swift’s video!