Okay, I know I keep posting about Marian Built  (and that Michael Marian in return keeps posting about my posts - FYI, he is one of the nicest guys!), but he has a blog too and I especially love this post about one of my favorite pieces: The Mason Jar Chandelier!  I kind of don't want to share this because I don't want any of you to steal it before I can snag it.  These pieces are all custom made and if I am correct, there are typically only one or two of each.  But having written my post before having the opportunity to read his blogs, I was pretty excited to discover what I read in his work is exactly what he was intending to say through it - or perhaps it is more that those pieces were saying the same thing to him as the owner and creator as they communicate to the customer.  I love that integrity in the art itself - that it carries a single voice.  And I fully agree as to the power and draw of vintage right now - we don't want commodities and the  mass-produced.  We want depth and solidness - we want to feel something that has survived.  We want to know the owner of the our favorite restaurant, have our waitress remember our name, buy from the same butcher each week and shake the hand that crafted our table.  We want to return to our community. 

I shared this company with you back in December.  But thanks to my sis, I just discovered their Facebook page today.  Here it is for those of you who liked them and would like to keep an eye out for new pieces.  Marian Built is a local company with incredible industrial modern (my description, not theirs) custom-made pieces. 

You know me and my love for original, and vintage.  Knowing that it is a unique piece is important to many of us, and getting to shake hands with the man who crafted it adds a lot of value when you're making it a part of your own home.  I'm a firm believer in telling a story in your living space... and I like these as fixtures in any story.

P.S.  I noticed some new end tables on their website today.

 A little gift for today: Marian Built.

This was one of our clients at my old firm.  (I think that's okay for me to say?)  He was in on my last day and Kristin dragged him around to me saying, "Show Katrina! That looks just like her style!"  And boy was she right.  The owner is shutting down his construction company and transitioning all his energy into Marian Built, his furniture company.  Take a look at some of his pieces.  Chandeliers, wonderful tables, old pulley and mason jar light fixtures... they're all phantastic.  ;)

[love this chair.]

Why do I have SUCH an itch lately to build things? I really am scared I'm turning into my mom!! :/ I really like this bed/couch. And my thought? Of course: I could totally make that! My style isn't coastal, but I can put a twist on this design to make it all my own for sure. It's already only half-coastal, half academic (for lack of a better term?)