A Very Quick Post

Oh god - another week full of 12 hours days stuck in meetings ... so much fun this work thing?

Anyways on the weekend I found a dining room chair I just adored and now I'm stuck, I liker two different styles and just cant choose which will suit the space more?

So a quick post asking for your opinion. Which chair do you like best and do you think will suit my dining room?

Catching the Bug

So at the moment we are doing a little bit of "Fixing Up" of a rental property ... well last night we went to Bunnings to find a kitchen sink... and I had a bit of a flashback of practically living  there during our last renovation....

I think its a bit like an bug you catch and just cant get rid of. Don't get me wrong, we hated the hard work, the broken nails and constantly being dirty, dusty, broke and sore but at the same time, after the little taste we are having at the moment, it's fulfilling to fix something and make it better.

So - on one hand I am dreading having paint in my hair and waking up so tired it hurts to even get out of bed, on the other I'm kind of looking forward to doing something tangible and getting that lovely sense of achievement ...

I will say that within 2 weeks of move in I can almost guarantee you I will be cursing the hard work I'm now claiming to miss!

Lighting Up

Ha - I must still be on my little high from the cold and flu's because the title just made me laugh....

Yes well anyways, moving right along, obviously as times goes by my design style is evolving and crystallising and I think I have decided on my lighting for the main kitchen / Dining / Living Room. I love the idea of using a mix of exposed bulbs and stainless steel track lights to give it a really simple modern feel to it.

Here is what I'm thinking? Exposed bulbs over the island bench in the kitchen and a cluster of them in the lounge room and then a lovely stainless track light over the dining table.

My Kitchen is dark with Arctic white tops and then three single bulbs ....

The Dining room has a huge 3m dining table that will seat 10 - 12 in dark french oak with some lovely upholstered linen chairs and my simple track light

The lounge room is still in debate but if I get my way I want some lovely comfortable brown leather chairs, big bulky furniture and the lovely cluster of bulbs in the centre



Drama and Colour

There never seems to be a drama free weekend in my life. After a weekend full of gardening I return to work on Monday and during a rather important commercial meeting I start swelling up.

Yes you heard right, my face starts to swell, I broke out into a very red itchy rash and my throat started closing up. When my boss could stop laughing long enough to speak he quickly sent me off to the doctor who just as quickly sent me home with a rather strong Anti-histamine and instructions for a cold bath, tablets and bed.

Oh joy - so for two days I have been so drugged up on these tablets I didn't even realise hubby had gone to golf and come back (yes he did leave me but to be honest ... is it really that bad when I didn't even realise he was gone) and of course ... I was so drugged out I didn't even post for all my lovely bloggy friends.

So this is a very big, rash filled sorry for disappearing yesterday.

However in honour of my rather colourful drama filled life I thought today as a treat I would show you something I am hoping to do in my next house ... I love the idea of a totally neutral color scheme except for one item of colour .... I believe the technical term is a "POP" of colour...  What do you think ... Its a nice idea right, and when you get sick of red it would be quite easy to just change it to blue or something? I do think the colours have to be quite dramatic, you couldn't go for a pastel shade, they have to be bold for this to work.

Simple Things

Sometimes its simple things that make me happy - look at these amazing glass jars / bottles I found in my all time favorite store "Empire" .... the colour and the imperfections make me want to fall on the floor and swoon!

PS. Swooning is one of those totally old fashioned romantic terms that I just adore .... that and love letters. If someone wrote me a love letter I think I would have to swoon... sorry my love ....

More Changes

Why is it that when I finally have something sorted my lovely hubby decides to throw a spanner in the works... a good spanner but still, I'm finding it very hard to finalise this holiday when we keep bloody changing it.

So we are now going to Munich ... for Oktoberfest. Yes correct, me the gal who drank beer with a straw last time we attend an Australian version much to my husbands disgust! (See pic above if you don't believe me!)

Now I haven't been before, I don't know much about it so any details anyone can give me on what to expect would be much appreciated.

Storage and Display

Over the years we have travelled and collected different artifacts from where ever we have visited. Until now they have been packed away in boxes waiting ever so patiently to be unpacked and displayed properly. The thing is - to really do it properly you are probably going to have to have built in display units and that is where it gets quite overwhelming.

I think the display cabinet will be put into the lounge / dining room and I will try and make it match the two built ins I am having done in the recesses.

The recess closest to the kitchen will have a half height wine rack with a lovely stone top. The rest of the space will just be one lovely big mirror.

The second recess will have again a half height cabinet with doors as sort of a makeshift bar again with a plain stone top however above that this one will have built in cabinets / shelves for all my lovely glasses. I found this image which is exactly what I am trying to achieve there.

Finally the display unit for my little nick knacks .... I am thinking something along these lines but the thing is - where do I put it. I have this lovely wall backing onto the alfresco which might be an option but my other thought is to have it sitting in the middle of the room creating a floor to ceiling divider between the lounge / dining room? Which one do you prefer?