Here at Live Simply, we’re trying to avoid summer-blogger-burnout, which is why you’re getting a designer spotlight on Thursday and a little bit of peaceful silence come Friday.

Isn’t it so silly when companies write in the plural when you know full well it’s just them?

So anyways, we’re really busy around here and it’s summer and we’re trying this out as an alternative to taking an official summer break. The time apart wouldn’t be good for any of us.

I can’t conceive of a space more apt for the eyeballs right about now than this one, by Leo Parrella. It’s undeniably Californian in vibe; beachy but very suavely so. Mostly, it tempers the masculine with the non-masculine in a completely refreshing way, and feels overall like a scoop of fresh summer over easy with watermelon and corn on the cob.

That’s summer in a bite in my book, by the way.

Are you picking up on how stupidly skilled Leo is at blending the organic with the luxurious? Cause if you aren’t…

Oh heyyy.

Evidently Sir Parrella has a line of custom pillows which, judging by the photo below, we should all, like, buy.

What I lack in chess playing knowledge I more than make up for with my chess pieces as decorative elements appreciation. Milk! 

That room of utter and almost inexcusable glory above gives way to this:

And who know where this is located precisely; it’s arguably good anywhere.

That’s it from me we us!

Go prance yourselves in some field of buttercups would you? Byeee.