Coffee Filter Wall

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My pal Jennifer Jafarzadeh is the former lifestyle editor for Redbook magazine I met many months ago when I was going office-to-office launching my Simmons Natural Care by Danny Seo mattress line.  She included the mattress in a great story in Redbook called “Made in America” that featured 50 products made right here in the United States (the mattress is made in Wisconsin). 

Jennifer is now off blogging and doing a very fun, very visual and very thorough blog that only a former magazine editor could do.  If you want to bookmark a place to get great decorating, entertaining and lifestyle advice, her blog is a place to click on over to.

One idea that I love is this photo of coffee filters simply tacked to the wall as decoration.  It feels very ethereal, floaty and artistic…and it only costs a few dollars to re-create.   The key thing here is to space the filters out right; just randomly tacking coffee filters to  wall here and there is going to look like, well, you tacked coffee filters to a wall.    To avoid a Starbucks barista training gone wrong look, be sure to group them in a “sweeping” pattern as pictured here.   

 

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11 Comments

  1. Linda says:
    March 18, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Since I´m here close to every day I thought I might just say hi and thanks for an inspiring blog!

    Greetings from Sweden

  2. Jen Jafarzadeh says:
    March 18, 2009 at 5:11 am

    Danny! I’m so blushing. Thanks for the sweet words — it’s so fun to hear from a blogger I look up to! Also, I thought of you when I read this post last night, with all your time in airports. It made me smile: http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/2009/03/monday_16.html

  3. Ali says:
    March 18, 2009 at 6:08 am

    Danny,

    What tacks are used?

  4. erinRae says:
    March 18, 2009 at 7:06 am

    wish i had a close up of this..and walls that weren’t solid plaster…

  5. Liz says:
    March 18, 2009 at 10:24 am

    This wall display is creative, attractive, and inexpensive, but is it Green? Not really. These are new, unused coffee filters.

  6. shelley says:
    March 19, 2009 at 8:13 am

    What tacks are used? love it-going to do it here in my art room

  7. wide open spaces says:
    March 19, 2009 at 10:02 am

    this installation really causes you to rethink our ideas of trash. how could something so “dirty” be so lovely. fantastic ingenuity.

  8. Elcoj says:
    March 20, 2009 at 4:09 am

    Hi,
    Super post, Need to mark it on Digg

    Thank you
    Elcoj

  9. AlexAxe says:
    March 23, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    Hi,
    http://www.dailydanny.com to GoogleReader!

    Thanks
    AlexAxe

  10. wmw says:
    March 25, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Have not visited for a while…glad I suddenly remembered to. Loved this and love your blog. I love crafts (it’s in third place after travel and food being first!!! hahaha..). When will you ever visit Malaysia? Would love to have you spread your earth friendly messages to us in person. Maybe I should organize one!

    Thanks for making the world a better place (literally!) :o )

  11. Tania says:
    April 12, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Hi there,
    I have already seen it somethere…

    Thanks
    Tania