Divan-like

This shade of white fabric is not exactly practical on seating but I love how simply they set up the seating area. Looks like a couple of mattresses propped up on wooden boxes. I also love the tropical, easy-going feel.

Image from Lyndsay & Fitzhugh's home at TheSelby.com

Biodegradable seating

Vegetable tanned leather is great. There's depth and variation in its colors (unlike chemically dyed leather,) and it looks better with age. Isao Takezawa Design creates some warm and casual stools with the stuff.

Images from IsaoTakezawa.com

Rock'n Wood

I usually prefer chairs instead of benches since chairs are more versatile, you can move them to other rooms and use them for other purposes, and are easier to get in and out of without bothering anyone else but this is a nice set up here... The table's solid and comfortable, and stone walls last forever without ever having to be painted, and look great!

Image from thrown_art's flickr stream

Shower off your pretentions

A Great no-frills bathroom. Stone tiles last and age well and having plenty of hooks nearby is always a good thing. Make life easier and more comfortable, not fancier and a pain!

Image from boligmagasinet.dk but I saw it in a style-files.com post.

Cushy!

Chris Cushingham of Cush Design Studio created an easy-going loft apartment for himself with a tight budget. There is quite a bit I like in there; like the exposed concrete wall behind the bed, the exposed power lines, the bare concrete floors, and some of the furniture he built himself, like that coffee table. You could build something similar with a few wooden pallets...

Images from CushDesignStudio.blogspot.com

Long live long life!

I love things that last with little or no maintenance. These shelves and the chair below fit the bill. The chair has a warm wooden seat and back and the metal frame will keep it solid for a very long time so it won't become wobbly after a couple of years.

Image from NY Times' Schoolhouse Decor slideshow

Resourceful

If you want to make something out of wooden pallets, take a look at this coffee table the French group doobi created just by adding some paint and casters.

Image from doobi's facebook group.

Waste not

When rugs get old, instead of throwing them in the dumpster you can cut them up and re-organize the pieces into great looking patchwork style rugs, like the Australian company Loom Rugs did with their "Hepsi" collection.


All images from LoomRugs.com.au

Solid and warm

I love the paint on the wall; colorful and it's a nice casual look along with the concrete counter tops. I also like how the place looks very durable and livable, like it's been around for some time and it'll easily survive for quite a while longer without much maintenance.

Image from photographer Nicolas Matheus' website.

Casual outdoors

Elysian Landscapes creates natural looking, low maintenance, low-water-use landscapes using gravel, quarter-minus, and a wide variety of plants. When you combine those ideas, no wonder the results are beautiful and easy-going!





All images from ElysianLandscapes.com