Posts tagged: see scout sleep

A couple of months ago I featured these adorable beds by see scout sleep as one of Ziggy’s picks.  Our furry little dude is pretty picky about beds so we were ecstatic to find how much he loved this one (not to mention how unoffensive looking it is in our apartment, we actually like it)!

So I was even more excited to receive an e-mail last night from Katie Logan of See Scout Sleep about her new venture – custom pet portraits!  Before you stop reading, these aren’t the cheesy sad-eyed puppy dog paintings you find at the mall.  Katie uses pen, ink, and gouache to create a scene in which she ‘tries to capture what is hilarious and sometimes tragic about our furry buddies‘.   I love how she uses text to add a bit of wit and humor to these somewhat serious black and white vignettes.

I would love to hang one of these in my home and since we have no framed pictures of Ziggy anywhere, I think he would appreciate it too.  Did I mention that they are so reasonably priced!?  Find more details about this project here or visit her etsy shop here.  Thank you for sharing Katie!

So with the big move to South Beach just around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot about the decor of our new home.  We have an amazing exposed brick wall (something I’ve always lusted after), wood floors, and wood beams above the dining area.  The apartment doesn’t need much to look pulled together since it isn’t exactly an empty white box a la every New York apartment I’ve ever had.

I’ve always envied people who live sans clutter and so in our new space, I’m trying to downsize on the tchotchkes and create a calming space with simply designed white furniture and little pops of color here and there.

With that said, Ziggy has more bright, ugly, poorly designed crap than all of us combined.  Why don’t they make more design friendly doggie stuff for the style conscious among us?  Well I started looking into it and it turns out there are some great options out there.

I picked up this chic little doggie bed from See Scout Sleep, a brand that has been getting quite a bit of blog love recently for their clean designs that come in all different sizes depending on your pooch.  One side has chevrons (obviously!) and the other has delicately drawn crab, perfect for our new beachside digs!

It’d be a lot easier to tolerate toys all over the place if more of them looked like this!  Plus Z would love to chew on this little guy (made by nylabone).

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Lastly, I’d like to cover feeders.  So many of them are designed for people who’ve named their dogs things like ‘princess’ or ‘shnuggles’.  Ziggy don’t play like that.  He likes modern design too.  So while I have simple black bowls from Bauer, this chalkboard feeder would fit right in at our apartment too.

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For the record, Ziggy totally picked these items out himself.