Today we are excited to welcome Sherri Bemis, of the bands Eisley and Perma, to the blog to share her lovely home with us!
"I grew up just a stones throw away from what would become my future home! My parents house that we moved into when I was 15 is only a couple of blocks from mine and Max's 'Pink Palace'.We jokingly call it that, as the house was built in the 1930s and has a slight 'dollhouse' vibe. When we bought it, it desperately needed to be painted and luckily, I have a very easy-going husband, who was more than happy to let me play out my childhood dream of living in a pink house (my favorite color)! So we painted it a beautiful pale pink."
"Max basically lets me have free reign on the decorating, which is almost like walking into my brain when you walk through the door. It's quirky, whimsical, childlike and a bit cluttered but also romantic! Haha. It's always evolving too. My rule is simple: Don't decorate with anything you don't absolutely love. I also wanted to create a world that was fun for kids to grow up in. So the furniture is to be jumped on, the 'things' are to be touched."
"Max and I are avid readers, and he also has a fantastic comic book collection. So we built out the second living room in the house to be a library! I'm working on finishing up free-hand paintings on the sides of all the shelves."
"One of my favorite finds is a simple wooden dresser that was super shabby. I painted it for my daughters nursery, while I was pregnant with her. It's cherry red with gold stripes and whimsical bumble bees now, and somehow I just knew it would fit her personality—it totally does! I love redoing old pieces and making them our own."
"It's been a little over two years. And since the house was a sort of fixer-upper, we spent a lot of time redoing the boring things first: plumbing, electricity ect. But once we started getting settled in, it's just become our evolving project—always changing and tweaking things to make them feel or look better."
"I live in my dream home. To some it may be just another old house, with creaks and drafts, oddly placed closets or cabinets. But to us it's perfect. It's our 'Pink Palace'."
At Home With Sherri Bemis
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I love it… it’s like something out of a Neil Gaiman book (which, if you know Sherri at all, makes perfect sense) ~ 🙂
An utterly beautiful mess. I envy her. Her collection makes me speechless and wordless.
Fascinating!!
I really love this house! And you have a library!! Only the dolls would freak me out a little bit, haha.
I simply adore them! The artist also had a Harry and a Bellatrix in the gallery of his website.
The comic books… so awesome lol
Ahhh, Just found out this is Max Bemis’ house! I totally recognized his voice in the song, and I was like, when did say anything get a girl? Anyways, I love their home! It’s so fun and i’m loving the artwork and colors.
This is amazing! I would love to live in a home with so much art to look at, beautiful painting, comic books, cute dolls….how inspiring!!
I second the request to know what those drop figurines with faces painted on them are? They are AMAZING. Thank you for featuring this home!
This is the best house by far! Love it.
Lovely home like from The Wonderland!
Oh my goodness! I love the library! That is seriously my dream. And the portraits of Dumbledore and McGonagall are to die for! I will definitely remember this house when I go to design my future home. Still in high school, but my dream home is a few blocks from where I am growing up (though we are moving soon and I’ll probably be moving out in two yrs). The house has a greenhouse and a fountain and from what I’ve glimpsed inside on Halloween there are built in book shelves in the cozy house.
The library is amazing! I need one like this! Also I love the cherry red drawer!
this house is soooooo not my taste… but I love it 🙂 there is such a feeling of freedom– like walking into someone’s brain, as she said. i love that it is so alternative and unique, not just the same mainstream combinations that most people would combine together, but a totally new approach. like a breath of fresh air! more crazy houses like this please!! it gives me the courage to try something really different myself.
Doesn’t seem very fitting for this blog and it’s general aesthetic. To each their own.
Thank you for sharing this very cool space! I love it!
OMGGGGG I LOVE that place!!!
Everything is AMAZING! Blythe collection TO-DIE-FOR!!!! Library is dreamy!! Kitchen stuff oooooh ahhhhhhhh!!! Other quirky dolls and figures are awesome! The Dumbledore & McGonagall portraits are fabulous!!!!!
And, I’m not even a pink person (but I am a Blythe person 😉 hehe)
I MUST know too! That was my question! They are great!
Oh my god I would have loved to grow up in house like that!!! Awesome place