food and fashion

I've lived in my apartment for over a year and the walls are still almost as empty as the day I moved in. I'm tempted to blame a limited budget but the reality is that I just don't know where to start. The wall space seems so endless that whenever I do buy a painting or a photograph to hang, it just looks lonely and out of place. It ends up serving no purpose but to highlight just how blank the rest of the wall space is.

On top of that, my eye for art is relatively underdeveloped compared to my eye for...stuff. Whenever I go to a boutique, art gallery, flea market, etc, i end up going straight for the knick knacks, housewares, books, records and even furniture while avoiding the wall art all together.

Fortunately there is inspiration for turning this kind of "stuff" into decor, simultaneously solving the bare wall crisis and preventing one's apartment from turning into an episode of "Hoarders."

via the thinking tank, coco + kelly, and the city sage

clever shelving + thoughtful (and fastidious) organization = design for the art challenged.