artist feature: jeanne opgenhaffen

blauw tussen schijn en zijn - jeanne opgenhaffen

Belgian artist, Jeanne Opgenhaffen, uses porcelain tiles as her medium. Overlapping thousands of delicate fragments, she creates large murals inspired by geological strata and the natural landscape. Employing varying shade and tone and overlapping the tiles in such a way, her pieces convey a sense of movement and space. 

I am in love with her work and I am sure it is exponential more stunning in person. Here are a few of my favorites. 

white flower - jeanne opgenhaffen

timma valley - jeanne opgenhaffen

how the wind blows - jeanne opgenhaffen

the search for green - jeanne opgenhaffen

brass menagerie

As I mentioned in last week's sheep skins post, I love/am obsessed with brass animal figurines. I am not so into the spray painted plastic toy kind but rather the vintage heavy duty ones. Currently, I have two deer but am always looking for more and would like to one day have a whole brass menagerie. They are classic yet whimsical and make a great statement in any room. Below are a few that make me happy. 

1. antelope via Cozemia  2. elephant via Desire to Decorate  3. deer and giraffe via One Kings Lane  4. Frederick Weinberg's modernist brass animal figurines via Ripley Auctions  5. rams head via Lonny  6. Janet, the hippo via High Street Market  7. home of Chelsea and Forrest Kline via Design Sponge

realty round up: house #1

Last week's Park City post was the twentieth entry in the realty round up series. As such, I thought it would be a good time to do a comparison of homes featured thus far. Starting with the first price bracket of homes, $0 - $250,000, I made a side by side comparison chart to see how the different homes stacked up against each other. Here is the summary with the detailed results below.

- Maximum number of bedrooms: 4 - Belfast, Pentwater, and Sioux Falls
- Minimum number of bedrooms: 0 (studio) - Lake Tahoe and Park City
- Maximum number of bathrooms: 3 - East Lansing
- Minimum number of bathrooms: 0 - Pentwater (a fixer upper with no indoor plumbing)
- Smallest square footage: 292 square feet - Lake Tahoe
- Largest square footage: 3,298 square feet - Pentwater
- Highest list price: $249,900 - Columbus
- Lowest list price: $129,900 - Sioux Falls
- Highest price per square foot: $510/sq.ft. - Lake Tahoe
- Lowest price per square foot: $41 - Pentwater (not surprising seeing how much work needs to be done to it)

information and images via Zillow

To date, six of the twenty homes have sold, three removed their listing and the rest are still for sale. Stay tuned for next week in which I will feature the second price bracket of homes. 

Have a good weekend everyone!