Front Of House

So by now you would know my most adorable, lovely and very talented husband doesn't have an imagination bone in his body. Oh yes he is totally stuck in the here and now and cant picture anything at all even if I go on and on about how something is going to look.

While for him its taken a great amount of courage ... see more brownie points, my courageous husband ... he he he.... anyways, a great amount of courage to trust me with the house design I do breath a sigh of relief when I can actually show him something before it all happens.

For months now I have been trying to explain how I want the front yard to look and how I want to use layers and garden boxes to make a horrendous sloped site usable but he just shakes his head and says he will see it when its built.... god knows how that's possible since he is building it but still!

Now this is the brilliant bit - a minor issue with the builder potentially having to move the meter box means all my front yard plans have come to life. If you can ignore the little wall on the side (No longer needed) this is how I want my front yard to look?

The garden is going to be fairly formal in design, lots of casual hedging type things and two lovely ornamental trees taking pride of place.

Down the side of the house towards the front door there will be a screen of bamboo helping give us some more privacy from our neighbours.

So What do you think?? Will it work, does it look good??? Its all starting to come together and I'm more nervous now than I ever was before! This is where I start taking design risks and although I'm confident that I can do it ... I'm sure there will be plenty of mistakes along the way!

Going For GOLD!!!

Well its actually not an Olympic inspired post but I just couldn't help myself. So you all know that I'm back over in sunny Scotland but one thing you may not know is that I have spent the last 3 trip collecting. Oh yes, I am collecting gilt frames.

I have this plan in my head and this one I am slightly unsure of how it will turn out. I am collecting these lovely old wood gilt frames (I currently have six or seven different sizes and shapes) and I am going to remove the old print and replace them with black and white photo's of different destinations we have visited. Its a risk to take something very old and try and add something very new but I'm hoping it will work. I'm then going to put them all together into one big wall of photo's.

I'm still not 100% sure if this would work but I'm determined to try ... I have been googling for images of people who have already done this but am coming up empty .... do you think it will work? Do I need to add some dark wood frames to try to balance out the copious amounts of gilt?

Am I crazy? ..... All valid questions I just don't have an answer for.....

Its all Coming Together

So now that we are getting so close im allowed to start thinking about furniture.

Have a look at this amazing bed I found from Freedom. It feels like it was made for our room so im looking forward to getting back home and ordering a nice king sized version. Hubby's only stipulation was that it had to be king size so he could roll over and over and over and still be in bed!

My stipulation ... I wanted a headboard and a foot board. Old fashioned ??? Perhaps but dont you think it will look amazing with my bedding???

Kids Bathroom

Ok so I don't have kids but in my head this is the kids bathroom .... so shall it be named!

Anyways everything is coming together nicely now, it should be a few weeks before I get the keys and although I am in Aberdeen again.... oh yes I thought I would give you updates as I could on how the progress was before I left.

The shower screens and all plumbing is in, the stone looks amazing (under the very glamorous blue plastic) and the bench space is huge ... it almost seems to big for a bathroom but hey .... the more room the better.

I am really looking forward to seeing it all clean and pretty. The plan is to put white plantation shutters on the window and some really bright coloured towels.

I am just trying to decide if it needs s print over the bath next to the river or if plain white tile is ok?

A Sneak Peak .... My flooring

I'm sorry, I vow that I will make more of an effort to blog but at the moment life is just crazy. We should be getting the keys in three weeks, I fly out on Monday and life is getting just that little bit hectic.

One of the things I have achieved is to finalise my flooring choices .... what do you think now they are all together?

Laundry Fixed

I dont know if you remember but I wasnt happy with the style of top they put on my laundry cabinet. Its actually now been fixed and looks amazingly good. Apparently its a personal choice which I totally get but I love my new top!

What do you think?

Decisions Made

It seems that I have been floating around for the last few months ... obviously I cant complain because floating around in Scotland isn't half bad but still, decisions have been deferred, friends neglected and the house has drifted along without me checking it was all ok.

A few weeks ago I made a decision that this had to end and sat down with my boss and told him I would be going home and wouldn't be returning. Me helping out in Scotland was only supposed to be short term however things don't always go as planned and three months later I was putting my foot down. Replacements were hired, training completed and last Friday I was off home. After suffering through jetlag, a wedding and a serious day at Adventure world I receive a panicked phone call from work .... both replacements had quit and they were desperate to get me back.

So there is good news and bad news. The good news is by the end of April I will be home, the keys will be  ready to be picked up and the hard work will no doubt start.

The bad news is that I do have to go back to Scotland ... one last time. Ugghh, I have decided that I am going to take it slightly easier this trip and try very hard to not let myself be totally and completely obsessed with work.

Onto the house .... we are so very excited because stuff is happening and happening fast. We are currently being painted, tiles are done and the finish line is in site. More photo's coming this week but for now a little one to whet your appetite.