Between Mates and Coconuts: April 2013

Matt and I just moved to a new house, which to my eyes, means opportunity to re-decorate! Ha! The down side is, we are renting. And when you rent there are projects that are off limits. But as I heard Alice Cooper saying in the radio* yesterday "Instead of thinking what is the worst part of the situation, think about what the best part is".

My first quick and easy move was to change the wall art. Maui's rental properties are characterized by a whole bunch of cra**y tropical style. This includes: furniture (a looooot of wicker!), prints (both in furniture and walls) and fake interior plants -as if the enormous amount of real plants outside wasn't enough! Anyways, since our landlord was adamant that "what is IN the unit, stays IN the unit", there isn't much I can do about the fake flora... I guess we will have to learn to live together. What I did do was taking out all the "wall decor" and start putting up my own style. I started with the easiest, least ambitious of all rooms: the bathroom.

On the first wall, next to the mirror, I put two strips from the Argentinian artist, Liniers. He has a very sweet style, his drawings are exquisite and his lines are simple yet profound. I absolutely love his work (and that's why it's in my bathroom? : / Sorry!). On the other wall I put together a photo series that I found looking through my mom's old pictures' box. It's from around 1970, when my dad was in Veterinary School in Buenos Aires. To me, not only has sentimental value, but also a great sense of style. If you follow the story, these vet students are catching a cow, and after the action, they are all relaxing... I set the pictures in two pieces of wood I found, following the storyline. The third wall has a photo I bought in one of my visits to Buenos Aires, several years ago. I was already living in Maui at that time, so something that it was totally normal to me as this "Buenos Aires sky", turned to be a great image I cherish. The image belongs to an Argentinian photographer, Agustin Del Rio (Unfortunately he doesn't have a website and couldn't even find it on Google).

As everything, it's still a work in progress. It will need a couple of weeks to settle, and some more changes to the rest of the details (shower curtain is screaming for an urgent intervention!). But for now, this is my bathroom: