Catching Up

Apologies I have been M.I.A of late. 

I've been in Sydney for work this week.

It's always a really tight schedule when I go but I got to at least spend 

one day with a couple of girlfriends, which was so great to catch up with them.

After having yum cha for Sunday lunch we headed down to Bondi to see the 

Sculpture By The Sea which was kind of cool and something a bit different. 

Maurizio Perron - Paper Boats

Subodh Kerkar - The Chilly  (in the distance)

Paul Trefry - Knot Standing

Cave Urban - Mengenang (Memory)

Rachel Couper & Ivana Kuzmanovska - Mirador

 

Tae-Guen Yang - I Am So Sorry

Then it was straight into work and work dinners from Monday through to Wednesday,

 which fortunately was also very lovely. Oh and just a little bit of shopping sshh ...

So I shared this via my instagram

Over the bridge we go ...

Beautiful dinner at a private home, so lovely and great food

Heading up to  the Gowings Bar and Grill at the QT hotel

 

 

My new shoes, too cute and I ♥ them

I have realised though that the 3 hour time difference between Perth and Sydney 

is quite challenging for me to jump into 3 days of work, I must be getting old!

 images via myfirstlittleplace

Photo Heart

I can't believe I said I would do something and I actually did it!

This is my photo heart...

I chose the photo's with a lot of thought and there's still a couple I'm going to swap out, but it is either people who are really special to me or it has really captured a moment in time I loved and always want to remember.

It makes me feel youthful again too, you know when you were younger and you'd stick photo's all over your wall.

What do you think?

Now to finish dressing the rest of the room.

images myfirstlittleplace

Photo Walls

I love this idea! What a fantastic way to share your photo's of all your loved ones or memories of your travels and experiences that has a more relaxed feel than frames.









This is my new project... if I ever finish it! (Have you noticed that about me yet??)

I want to do this in my spare room in a heart design.

My only question is you know when a room gets really hot especially in an upstairs bedroom, heat can cause the corners of photo's to curl or come away from the wall? Any ideas on how I can make them stick without actually having to glue them to the wall??

images via interiors porn, domino, interiors porn, things she loves

Photo Art

I've become a little obssessed with blown up photo's as an art piece in a room. I know it's not a new concept but I've never overally loved it before. I think what is grabbing my attention the most if the colourul versions, I like how they pop in a room.

This shot in photographer Ben Watts home is one of my very favourites


As is this coloured shot in the home of fabric extraordinaire Lulu DK - love it


It's not a coloured shot but I still like it and how it works with the rest of the room




A great way to incorporate some art into kids room that's not too frou frou, it looks kind of cool

images welcomehome, lonny, interiorsporn, madebygirl, lonny

Bedroom Art

images lonny, lonny, douglas friedman, aubrey road

The basement hatch

This blog chronicles my entire kitchen renovation from start to finish. Greentea Design has provided me with their solid wood kitchen cabinets, and I'm taking care of the rest.

If you'd like to be brought up to date, check out the archive in the sidebar for previous posts. I posted recently about the backsplash, dining table and yet more decorating. Now I thought I'd dedicate a post to the hatch door created for access to the basement - a GENIUS idea.

I cannot express the magnitude of how genius of an idea it was to take out part of the wall that sectioned off the basement stairs, and have a hatch door created. I have talked about this in previous posts, but OMG it turned out so swimmingly that I had to dedicate a post to it. This is such a great idea for folks out there who have really limited space, as I do. This house is 12' 2" wide - so that is the width of the kitchen, and the section where the wall to the basement was made that about 9.5' wide. Let me show you some before photos. Now, this decision was made partway through the demolition phase so I did not specifically take before photos of the area. Below are some I happened to have already (and one I snuck during demo when I was deciding what to do).


Leaving that wall meant the pantry unit would have had to have been placed closer to the door to my office and with the fridge there, that would have made the doorway very tight. Then with the dining table down the middle of the space, you would have had to shimmy sideways to get by the table, or I would have had to use a small 4 person table instead. Here are a couple photos I took during the reno.


Below, my completed hatch. Genius I tell you - GENIUS!! Worth every penny. And I love that my house, that was previously lacking any architectural feature WHATSOEVER, now has something slightly quirky, and isn't just a straight boring wall.


I am so excited about this new entry to my basement that I even made a little video to demonstrate how it works, and it even features moi (and Felix). I love it THAT MUCH.

The photo below was included in my last post, but I thought I'd show it again because this is what makes the hatch so effortless. We used shocks for the tonneau cover of a pickup truck. They were $50 a piece, but they are exactly what I wanted. It allows the door to almost spring open and closed (I keep a grasp on it so it doesn't do it too quickly) and this also means I don't need a latch like we initially thought. It just needs a little tug to open and slight pressure to close tightly. FABULOUS!!


And on a side note, I finally found time to find a frame and get the new artwork I decided on for the kitchen printed. A couple weeks ago a Flickr contact of mine, Maura Paoletti, posted a totally adorable photo of her cat, Dom Fuas, curled up in a cachepot. I fell in love with it and she agreed that I could print it and hang it in my kitchen. It's perfect - it's the right colours, it's got a bowl-like vessel so it looks kitchen-y, and a cat. I am so pleased with how it turned out (FYI: try Staples for printing in the exact size you need while you wait). Thank you Maura!!! (For Maura on Flickr see here and for her online portfolio see here, and to see a closer shot of the photo, click here).