Often the best way to get out and see the town or just get some good ol’ fashion cardio is our favorite steed, the bicycle. Often we discuss how nice it would be to have a convenient and appropriate place to store our bikes in our storage challenged apartment. Fortunately, our building offers storage below in the “dungeon” and yes, there is a killing room (fully insulated and mostly sound proof). Ok, ok, actually its a run down bathroom with those ceiling tiles made of cardboard with the holes in them, like these. But we digress, and in hopes of avoiding going down to the dungeon we have been looking into some alternative bike storage solutions or bike display options.

Obviously there are many hideous options out there, of which we have no desire to endorse or even look at, so we collected a group of photos that silently celebrate the victory over space challenged homes. Some of the best racks/our fav’s are made from wood and we think would fit quite nicely in our place, of course we’ll be sure to update you if we can finally commit to one.

via designsponge, ok yes this is a cool place but check out the well placed bikes in the living room corner, Victory! Those bikes are suspended by the inexpensive Delta Leonardo hooks (12 bucks).

Giant close up of the Leonardo Delta Single Bike Rack.

This sweet little baby is not just a bike rack but a clever shelf, comes in several different stains making hard to resist. Custom built by Knife and Saw.

Andrew Lang is a-mazing and his contribution to cool bike racks is color, cause these come in all sorts of colors and should meet everyone’s bike rack needs, check out this cool interview.

This one is really hard to resist and it’s not just cause it’s from a cool Etsy store (Cantilever & Press) either, it’s cause is looks gorgeous!

Who said that metal is cold? Apparently Public not only makes kick a$$ bikes but cool bikes stands that are great for alternative to making holes in your walls. FYI if you haven’t heard about Public bikes and gear yet be sure and check out their goods, they’re from San Francisco and naturally that makes’em super cool.

Can’t say that we can really endorse this solution for much more than laughing, but go ahead and try it. Be sure and video your attempt so we can laugh at that too.

We stumbled across the most awesome mid-century inspired illustrations by Christopher Sample from Studio LXV this week and wanted to share. His series,  ”The Hood” has a very modern take on mid-century architecture and a Palm Springs vibe…or Arizona (he’s from Arizona). :) Anyhow, his work is kick ass and of course, we are partial to anything mid-century.

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So this past week we finally moved into our new place in Seattle. We found the most kick ass place in the Eastlake neighborhood and are just a block from the water and so close to downtown and all those glorious furniture stores. A huge plus for Copper. And there’s even a dog park around the corner where Copper can run like the wild banshee he is, a huge plus in the city. We are going to do a full post on our new place and are taking before and after decorating photos to share. You all wouldn’t believe how excited we are to finally utilize our personal stashes of vintage and mid-century finds.

Now getting to the purpose of this post. So we move here last week and start walking around the neighborhood and to our utter amazement, what do we find around the corner on the next block? VOXX coffee, a mid-century designed and inspired coffee shop. You wouldn’t even believe it, we totally s*** ourselves. How perfect right? Well, with this great find comes a tad bit of sad news. When VOXX originally opened, it was completely decked out in Bertoia side chairs, but apparently too many unappreciative and unknowing customers complained about the comfort and waffle butt-marks that they replaced them sometime this past year with non-Bertoia chairs. We were crushed. What we’d like to know now is what the heck they did with ALL of those chairs? Hopefully they aren’t sitting in some storage area…

Anyhow, despite this tragedy, VOXX serves up some delish dishes in addition to the decor. Stumptown coffee which is the bomb diggity and Top Pot doughnuts. Plus they’re open late and serve alcohol for the non-caffeiners. Their sandwiches are pretty awesome too. At this point we haven’t figured out if our daily visit to VOXX is based on the mid-century addiction or the necessary nourishment they provide.

If any of you are ever around these parts, please give us a holler. We’d love to treat you to a tasty beverage at this mid-century paradise.

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