House Tour: My Mom's Little Gray House. Part 2.

I wanted to share a quote from an email my mom sent me recently: "Let's put it this way----I don't think too much about my so called design (crap choices), I just keep hauling this shit in till I don't like it and then out it goes, only to be replaced by more (shit)." Yes, she talks exactly like me. Or I talk like her. Or something like that. We're a pair of high class broads, that's all I know!

Continuing on from yesterday, we'll start in the dining room/kitchen. I should add that my mom also has a thing for balls. Bowls of balls, rows of balls, colored balls and black ones too, she just can't get enough of 'em!

Oh, what is that? Another Lotte lamp? Yup! She loves pottery too, brown, earthy tones are her very favorite.

And check out the great starburst clock she just found the other day at the thrift store!
(Of course, it too has lots of balls).

Her cute little kitchen is adorned with lots of vintage wooden bowls along the top of the cupboards. She even decided to keep the old school gas stove because it has brown faux bois detailing on it!

Dansk peppermill + Copco kettle + mid century pottery spoon rest = awesome.

Wait, hold on, are we still in the kitchen/dining area? No! We're now in the bedroom where the matching Lotte lamp lives on yet another amazing teak credenza.

This is where my mom sleeps and dreams of teak and other vintage brown and/or wood items. She also reads decorating magazines in here almost nightly looking for new inspiration. See that thing hanging over the bed? It was an old piece of tin ceiling that was rusted and beaten up. She found it at one of our favorite junk shops run by a small little leprechaun woman. She sanded the worst chunks of rust off and then lacquered over the rest, which really brought out the rust color and detail.

She has this cool old shoe form hanging on the wall just outside of the closet.

She also loves old luggage as well as vintage art posters which are on display around the house.

Even her basement is decorated well, although I couldn't get much in the way of photos because a) she kept following me around yelling, 'Don't take pictures down there, it's a dump, it's a shit hole!' and b) it was too dark. I did manage to get one shot of her globe collection that is on display beside her little laundry area though.

And that's it folks! This concludes the tour. In a few weeks, I plan on revisiting her house to photograph some of her great dishes and collections of chrome kitchen appliances. She has quite the array of vintage collections that I look forward to showing you all. Oh and one last thing, did I mention she turns 61 on Saturday!? Happy birthday, ma! xo