Survival Soundtrack 6: Kiss-Off

Five years ago this is what I had to say:

"There is empty space between us in the shape of a boy who used to live and laugh with us and we don't know how to live with it so we live
around it."

Sometimes, survival is about the ones who are no longer with us, but whose memories are our best motivators. Todays survival pick is dedicated to the person whose memory constantly motivates me. This is the song we would always sing together, and it captured every nuance between betrayal and letting go.



-Kastoory

Wallpaper

To make a house a home, I remember one of those wooden wall hangings on the wall of my room as a child. It had a list of rules on how to make a house a home. They made no sense, is what I mostly remember. But somehow, that house became home.
I know it's a recurring theme, this house into home nonsense. How does someone turn four walls and a roof above them into some abstract notion of comfort and belonging? Well recently, I've been a little bit concerned (read:obsessed) with what's happening on the home front. And I've found something that can make any house home. Design-worthy wallpaper!
No seriously, hear me out. These two wallpaper designers will have you redecorating in no time... I'm about to do so myself.
First up we have Dan Funderburgh, who takes old damask type prints and completely reinvents them.





(You can buy these at Flavor Paper opening soon in Brooklyn)

And then we have Katie Deedy





(You can buy these and more fun designs at Grow House Grow)

Happy Home-making!

-Kastoory