Design Spotlight: Four Poster Bed.

Maybe I get distracted too easily, but I couldn't help but get distracted in this post on Apartment Therapy. The post is actually about doing your research when purchasing a new camera, but my eyes are glued to the beautifully-lit four poster bed:

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I honestly couldn't even tell you camera-buying tips from this post, because as soon as I saw that bed I immediately scoured Google Images for four-poster beds. I decided to trade in my childhood fantasy of having a canopy bed with the more modern fantasy of stringing lights over the posts, just like the bed in the photo above. Check out a few of my favorites below:

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Neon Decor

As the weather gets warmer (in L.A., anyway!) design inevitably gets brighter. I loved these photos from Apartment Therapy's recent feature on the return of neon in interior design. Here are a couple of my favorite rooms from the feature: 

Lighten Up!

We all get the winter blues, especially my sunny-SoCal-beach-loving self. Tess Wilson, a San Francisco contributor for Apartment Therapy, paired a mirrored garland with white mini lights in an effort to beat SF's winter blues. Despite the 80-degree L.A. weather, my apartment doesn't get a lot of light and can seem really gloomy, so to cheer up the space I use a combination of multicolored lights and white paper lanterns. However, I love this lighted garland so much I may have to make one of my own! Lucky for me, Tess explains how to make one here.

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Bedroom Makeovers

Apartment Therapy posted their top 10 bedroom makeovers, here are my top 2. I only chose the 'afters' because frankly who cares about what it used to look like? It's all about the transformation!

What makes this room one of my favorite transformations is the repainted bed frame. It was a clunky, dull, brown mess (maybe I should have included the before picture on this one). Bonus: this room looks huge with the mirror placed slightly behind the bed:

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I'm not really a fan of sports, but consider me a fanatic when it comes to awesome headboards. The owner said they took the design idea from a vintage ticket stub: 

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