Creating a custom laundry bag

So many times when a conversation comes to interior design, we say "It's all about details". So true, and it never gets old. But when we say that, something rather glamorous comes to your mind. Well, last week we had a quite different experience; we had a lot of fun designing a laundry bag! The photo below shows a drawer of an usual shape: the drawer goes under a bathtub and reflects a configuration of that space. It's a bathroom for 2 little girls, and obviously it'd be very unlikely for cloths deposited by kids into this drawer to stay IN the drawer. You can imagined that their clothes would spill out of the drawer into the opening. So we took the matter into our own hands. First, there was design #1, with a flap that would go over the lower part of the drawer and fastened with Velcro. But the problem was still there; clothes would fall over the edge. Then there was a revelation that you can see in the photos that show you the installation step by step:





















Voila!



The opening is small enough to hold everything that was placed inside and yet big enough to let you "shake" the contents into a washer. The bag is made out of a sturdy canvas used on sail boats. It is pre-washed and has the "loop"/soft side of Velcro on edges so it doesn't damage your garments.

Birth of Impressionism at de Young

Finally I am ready to do my first post. And it’s dedicated to one of the most impressive events of this year- a tour to de Young museum to see the Birth of Impressionism. I would like to thank Philip Bewley at Therein & Co for inviting me!
Well, 1.5 weeks later I still can’t stop thinking about it.
The curator of the exhibition was telling us about every artist and every painting with a personal input.
I couldn’t believe that I was standing next to some of the most famous paintings in the world. It brought my memories back to being a student at art school when I was about 12. We were studying impressionists, and I was looking at paintings in art books and thinking that I might never see them (I grew up in Soviet Union, and traveling abroad was rare). So here I was at the de Young, trying not to step over a guide line painted on the floor craning my neck and bringing my face as close to the surface of the painting as possible without being busted my museum workers.
Just a few of my observations:

Manet- I could not help but go from The Fifer to Asparagus to Flowers in Crystal Vase again and again. How different his style was from one painting to another!




























Caillebotte- The Floor Scrapes- I have no idea why but I just love this painting as long as I remember.

Monet- The Magpie- Living in Bay Area for the past 14 yards, I already forgot that show casts blue and violet shadows. Beautiful!

Renoir- Algerian Landscape- It mesmerized me! I kept going back to it no less than 6 times.

Whistler’s Mother- Sorry I can’t be serious when I see it: Mr.Bean’s face blocks the view!