Home and interior design inspiration comes from many sources. An oft-repeated piece of advice is to keep some sort of a file with inspiring images–pages ripped from magazines or photos you took of a house in a nearby neighborhood that speaks to you. Inspiration comes from many places though. And if you are a movie buff, why not mine those depths for your perfect home look?

Design*Sponge has an amazing recurring feature called “Living In” where they do just that. They take a film and based on scenes and the overall “feel” they come up with home objects (and the occasional clothing) that evoke the movie. Whether it’s the sunny Greek isle of Mamma Mia!, the New York of Annie Hall or even the fantastical Labyrinth, you’ll be amazed at how you can style your home to evoke your favorite movie.

Check it out and make sure to think about how your favorite films can influence your home design and inspiration. Don’t forget the popcorn!

Image courtesy of Vlastula on Flickr.

MSN Real Estate, via House Beautiful, has three very amusing slide shows on state-of-the-art kitchens from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. The really funny thing, however, is that most of these kitchens look pretty palatable to the modern eye. Function-wise, they may need to be updated, but they still look beautiful.

See if you can guess what decade each kitchen is from:

The decades are, from the top: 2000s, 1970s, 1960s, 1990s, 1950s and 1980s. Take a look at the rest of the kitchens in the slideshows. The more things change, the more they stay the same…maybe you will find yourself taking a cue from the past for your next kitchen project!

Images courtesy of MSN Real Estate.

We spend a lot of time around beautifully designed products, and we spent a fair amount of time browsing the Web for inspiration for this blog, too. So we come across a lot of eye candy: photos of gorgeous work worth sharing with all of you. Today’s post is a quick round-up of some nice visuals we’ve seen recently.

Feel free to share some eye candy of your own in the comments section — your own projects, some photos you found online, anything.

A bright, airy design, tons of windows with gorgeous views, high ceilings, and a stellar location make this luxury villa (is there such a thing as a non-luxury villa?) a true work of art.

Speaking of luxury villas, when you have a stunning view, why not put it good use, right? Windows for walls is a good start.

Perhaps you’d expect some funky, modernist home design to be found in West Hollywood, but that doesn’t make these photos any less stunning. Bright green on the interior and bold shapes on the exterior make this home stand out in any neighborhood.

Don’t have stunning views or funky architecture to show off? Why not just draw some? It’s probably way less expensive than the gorgeous property, and it’d make for a better conversation piece, too!

Photos courtesy of Julia Palmer Design, Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, AI Architects and Charlotte Mann.

Some simple steps can help you keep your walls in good shape while positioning your artwork for its best showing. A post over at Learn to Draw and Paint offers some useful tips to consider the next time you’re hanging a picture.

A sampling of the advice:

• If you place rubber or cork tips in the lower corners of the back of a frame, they will keep the picture from tilting and will also prevent the wall from becoming streaked.
• By placing a small piece of cellulose tape on the wall before you drive in the supporting nail or hook, you can prevent the plaster from chipping.
• Put button backs on water-color frames to eliminate nails. The big advantage is that the pictures can be changed easily.
• Place picture rings as near the top of a frame as possible to keep the picture flat against the wall. When it is necessary to have the picture tilt forward or to eliminate reflections, place the rings lower.

Photo courtesy of Michale on Flickr

Grab a beverage of your choice and set aside some time to ogle the seemingly endless photos from This Old House’s “Best Old House Neighborhoods.” Whatever your taste, there’s sure to be something you’ll love. And whether you’re shopping for a home, remodeling a home, or just considering some exterior paint, these photos are almost certain to contain some inspiration.

The houses are sorted and presented in a number of ways. You can view Bargains, Fixer-Uppers, Cottages & Bungalows or Victorians. Or you can see houses in areas that are great for first-time buyers, families with kids, food lovers, single women buyers, small business owners or more. Or you can dig through houses sorted by geographic region.

This Old House says:

Unique, tight-knit neighborhoods are precisely what we looked for in selecting the winners of our second annual Best Places to Buy an Old House contest—places that might not be on your radar but deserve to be. Like last year, we relied on our good friends at PreservationDirectory.com to help us contact thousands of neighborhood groups, real estate agents, and preservation societies to get their takes on the best places to track down, fix up, and fall head of heels for older homes.

Photo courtesy of This Old House and its Best Old House Neighborhoods feature