In a few short weeks, my husband and I will be moving from the south bay near San Jose, and into the city of San Francisco. We couldn’t be more excited but recently realized that our current bed doesn’t fit the dimensions of our gorgeous new studio. Yikes!

Our current bed (which we love)

So now we’re on the lookout for something sleek and modern to fit our minimalist style and black / white / walnut wood color pallet. After spending just 15 minutes online, I had to close my browser for fear of salivating on my keyboard and ruining it, or dropping over $2,000 on a bed and later regretting it…maybe.

Sadly our price point is quite a bit lower than what these beds sell for when you factor in shipping costs. But a girl can dream right? Here are a few of my favorites:

Haiku Modrest Platform Bed

White leather? Yes please! This is a little too contemporary for my style, but we both love the idea of our bed looking more like a couch since we’ll be in a studio. Plus, you can rearrange the headboards — how amazing is that?

Tate Bed by Crate and Barrel

While our color pallet is strictly black, white, and walnut wood with a few bright accent colors, I also have a soft spot for grey.

Vienna Platform Bed

Are you drooling yet? Sadly, this bed is also too wide for the dimensions we’re working with.

My Personal Favorite: Co-Op Eco Platform Bed

Isn’t this just beautiful? The description calls is an “urban solace”, and to top it off, the wood is eco-engineered and treated with natural linseed oil. Sold!

When last week’s Font Shop email popped into my inbox, I immediately knew that Antonio Banderas would be debuting in this week’s Strike My Fancy design.

I have no idea why, but there’s some weird nostalgia for me in Antonio Banderas’ name. I never knew he had a soccer career (I thought it was a music career until duly corrected below) and have zero Hispanic background.

To top it off, while working on the design, I couldn’t help but think that his name might fit well in a spinoff of the Barbara Streisand song. If you haven’t heard the Barbara Streisand song, you must.

Image credits go to: Athleta, Font Shop, Free People, and Lily’s Table

Strike My Fancy is a weekly sneak peak into my inbox that features a collage of the most interesting emails from the previous week.

Design 16 celebrates one my favorite design thinkers, Frank Chimero. He’s in the middle of writing a book, but you can catch his most recent work or find him on Twitter.

The Commute Design Project is my personal challenge to create designs on my train commute from work to home. The Twitter series is part of my goal to document spamm-y, interesting, and funny tweets through hand drawn type.

When we first moved to California, I knew in my head that we would be at the heart of the famed Silicon Valley. But at at the time, I don’t know that I realized just how many well-known companies are sprinkled throughout offices parks and residential areas. They’re literally everywhere. While I’ve gotten used driving past places like the colorful eBay campus, it still boggles my mind every once in a while.

Case in point. This weekend, my husband and I walked from the place our car was being detailed to the movie theater, which was a short two miles away. During our jaunt, we walked past Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, McAfee, and several other well-known tech companies.

Oh, and by the way, if you know of anyone looking for a car with great gas mileage, ours is freshly detailed and up for sale.

It’s Monday again, but not just any Monday. I experienced my first earthquake! It was a 3.8 in South San Francisco if you’re curious.

This week I was inspired by an email from my former city of residency that came in just in the nick of time. Congrats Nate!

Images credit: Counter-Print, Free People, One Lucky Guitar, Nike, Uniqlo, Net-a-Porter

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Strike My Fancy is a weekly sneak peak into my inbox that showcases a collage of the most beautiful email I received over the past week.

I’m a woman with an obsession with her bookmark bar. I like? I add. Here’s what is currently on the top of my inspiration list.

Yowza! Has a Monday ever felt so crazy? Thankfully, I was feeling productive this morning, and Free People was very kind to my inbox this week.

Image credits go to: Free People, Behance, Font Shop, MyFonts.com

Strike My Fancy is a weekly sneak peak into my inbox that showcases a collage of the most beautiful email I received over the past week.

Today’s design for my new Twitter series comes from the fabulously talented type nut, Jessica Hische. I wanted this design to feel tropical (because of the mango) while conveying spunk.

The Commute Design Project is my personal challenge to create designs on my train commute from work to home. The Twitter series is part of my goal to document spamm-y, interesting, and funny tweets through hand drawn type

Continuing with the Twitter series I started earlier this week, I found some good fortune (sorry, couldn’t resist). It could be the warm weather, but I’ve been oogling over anything bright colored lately and this was the perfect tweet to pull in some stupendously gaudy, bright colors.

It’s so hideously colorful and I love it. Also, don’t you just love how spamm-y this tweet sounds?

A big thanks to Booooooom for the tweet.

I always get all sorts of crazy looks when I mention it, but I grew up without a TV.

Pop culture from the 80′s? I only know what I heard on the radio. Cartoons? Don’t even bother. My husband claims I grew up under a rock.

Here is what’s interesting. I once vowed to read every book in my public library, and got a decent way through. I get to experience pop culture from the 80s and early 90s through someone else. People love telling me about their favorite shows from when they were young. I love the wide-eyed looks I get when I tell people I’ve never seen Yogi Bear or Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner.

The best part? I’m married to a guy who had TV growing up, yet we still don’t have it. We have the internet.