Parrot on a PorchA Journey Toward the Little Mansion Dream

Does this living room look familiar?

If it doesn’t, it only means that you haven’t seen yet the latest movie craze in town, Twilight: New Moon. Although not really new because the first wave of Twilight fever hit last year. So it’s more of a craze resurrection, I guess. Actually, even if you haven’t seen the movie, this set would still look familiar because Bella’s Party Scene at the Cullen’s house is among the inviting scenes they feature on the movie trailer. Check out full Bella’s party scene:

A little trivia about the Cullen House from New Moon:

- It wasn’t shot inside nor is a part of the original Cullen House in Twilight or the so-called The Hoke House
- This is located in West Vancouver, Canada
- Built in 1950’s, this was originally designed by Arthur Erickson and restored by Brian Hemmingway
- This house is for sale at $3,298,000 by the real estate agent Jason Soprovich
- It has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms
- It has a total floor area of 5,117 sq.ft. and lot area 20,690 sq.ft.

For more New Moon house pictures, check it out here.

Christmas may still be more than a month away but here in our home, we can already feel the Holiday festive mood. My mother-in-law has taken out the Christmas trees and the other ornaments from the stock room after the Halloween so they’ve been up and giving our home a Christmas feel for more than a week already. However, I think the Christmas tree still lack ornaments to make it a really glowing and lively tree. My MIL approved my idea when I suggested why not we use affordable and unique collectible Swarovski crystal figurines this year to adorn the tree. I found several collections in the Christmas & Ornaments section at QualityOverstock.com and truly they are eye candies.

Quality Overstock is a fine retailer of designer and collectible figurines with crystal product lines such as Swarovski, Lladro, Lalique, Daum, Baccarat and Armani. They also have designer watches such as Baume & Mercier, Ebel, Cartier, Gucci, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Longines.

As previously blogged, I really have a penchant with blue-colored or blue-themed rooms. I’ve come across a site that says the cool color of blue can actually make a small space appear bigger as it appears to recede from the viewer.

Here are just a few inspirations I pooled from my favorite home interior blogs:

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Sub-consciously, emotionally and mentally, our perceptions of colors affect and influence us. Colors affect our moods.

Blue is calming and soothing. Its different shades can be strong and steadfast or light and friendly. Interior designers say that blue is a good color for bedrooms because of its cool, calming effect and it can help you sleep. However, too much blue could dampen spirits as the phrase “feeling blue” conveys.

The color blue has always been my favorite.  According to an online quiz that I took, blue is my primary color and it symbolizes that I am a sensitive and reflective person..which is actually true.

Here are some of the blue inspired home inspirations for our future little mansion.

Photo Credits: Coastal Living

Wouldn’t it be lovely to spend a vacation here? So quite and serene as opposed to the colorful world of Las Vegas Shows.

This is one of the rental lodges at Camp John Hay in Baguio I took shot of December last year. The chimney, the wooden veranda, the homey and laid back style…everything about it is just so perfect. I don’t have an idea how much the rental costs for a night but I’m pretty sure they’re steep. Camp John Hay has several cabins sprawled in the vast land of the camp and I think this is one of the recent additions. In fact,  it was still undergoing construction and completion during the time that we were there before the Holidays.

It’s near the mini-golf course that we played at and instead of concentrating on the game, the shutterbug in me struck again so I took every pleasant things that our “Nikky camera” aimed at and shoot. Even the husband was awed and elated how lovely this house is and agreed that we will indeed own a similar resthouse in the future. Perhaps, even better, bigger and nicer.  There’s nothing wrong with dreaming, right? It is free anyway. Who knows, our wishes and dreams will come true someday.  By that time, we don’t have to book and stay in hotels whenever we go up to enjoy the cool city breeze of Baguio.

You may find this house unappealing from the outside because of the dark colored walls.

But hold your thumbs down sign because look what it got inside.

Don’t you just love the bare yet simple, contrasting black and white look?

And look at the dining chairs, the colors match the grass outside. Perfect color combination inside and out.

See the green basin sink?  It brings ultra modern look to the residential kitchen, don’t you think?

This, by the way, is called the Sinus House in Denmark designed by Cebra Architects. (Posted via Freshome)

If you have seen the movie Twilight, then it wouldn’t take you a second to recognize whose house is this?

It’s the Cullen’s!!!

The Cullen House, supposedly located just outside of Forks, WA, is actually known as The Hoke House or the “Nike” House. It was designed for Nike executive John Hoke and his family and was designed by architect Jeff Kovel via ‘Skylab Architecture’ it’s 4300 squares, built by Metcalf Construction, with Lucy Metcalf as the interior designer and landscaper.

Don’t you just love the interiors and exteriors of this modern vampire house?

Photos snagged from designtavern.com.

We passed by New Manila on our way home yesterday from the doctor’s clinic and I saw once again the mansion I’ve always dreamed to have someday. Well, there’s nothing wrong with dreaming right? In fact, wishing and dreaming about the things you’ve been wanting to have helps in putting them to reality. This is also the reason why I put up this blog to mainly focus on the dream house I’d like to live at someday.

Here are just a few among those first inspirations I stumbled upon on the web.

Cozy, elegant and just lovely..aren’t all they? Well, someday I hope I get to own one of those or any custom dream house that the renowned local developers build.