New upholstered chair

I love this fabric - Designers Guild ezperanza fabric. I was very happy with the result.

Kid's room decorations

After having made my rececled Xmas tree I got a bit carried away and made up these things to hang off a chandelier in daughter's bedroom.

Recycled magazine Christmas Tree

I made these Christmas trees from old magazines. Here are the instructions for the easiest craft project ever - http://www.ohdeedoh.com/

Renovations - pressed metal panels

We finished painting the new window and our plan is to instal pressed metal tin panels below the picture rail in the lounge and the chair rail in dining room. Here are some photos of the panels we haev selected photos from Inside Out magazine.

Agapanthus

One thing I love about Christmas is the agapanthus - we have these flowering in white and blue all along our front picket fence and we string up blue and silver tinsel and it looks great.

Interior renovation - moving along slowly!

Here are some photos of our house with the floorboards done and some great chairs a Louis Ghost and white Panton chair also we finally got our new leadlight window to replace tehe previous ghastly design in blue and orange!

One cosy cat!

Patchwork pouffe

I want a Purple lounge - just like this!

Via style-files

Terrace House Factory, Everything for Restoring Your Home

Terrace House Factory, - I want this leadlight!

Recent upholstery project

Storage Cases

Am in love with cute cases for storing all sorts of things. The first ones are froma French store meubles-cie. The balloon and spots cases are from babysgotstyle.com.au

Vulli Family Treehouse

Vulli Family treehouse - How much did I love this toy when I was young. My cousins owned one and I coveted it so much. It was originally made by Kenner and is now updated with sounds and is availble from jacsstore . I have ordered one for myself (oops) I mean the kids for Xmas.

Most Awesome retro wallpaper - via flickr

Children's rooms inspiration from flickr

French wall decals

Love these decals from harmonie-interieure

DIY dollshouse

Love this easy DIY dollshouse. See instructions at cookiemag

Collages - Princess Pearl

How fantastic are these children's collages by Princess Pearl available from kinder gallery.

Leadlight

Here is a sneak peek at the leadlight which is being made to replace the atrocity which is currently installed in our loungeroom window (see earlier post) - can't wait.

Weatherboard houses - inspiration

Our house is a 1927 weatherboard with a green corrugated iron roof and is painted in at least 3 varying shades of yukky beigey yellow. We are planning a major renovation in the next 1-2 years and I hope it will include a new roof - I think something neutral like a pale grey so I can have a completely new colour scheme along with some super cute picket fence. It is hard to do much with Brunswick Green coloured roof. I am collecting photos of desirable schemes on weatherboard houses.

Love this baroque colourful chest of drawers - how stunning! See it at http://www.misstinguett-collections.com/Shop/index.php

Maria Westerberg

How fantastic is this chair! Check it out at http://www.mariawesterberg.se/ The rug is made from recylced plastic bags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bathroom inspiration

We are hoping to renovate our house in the next year or so and part of the plan is to extend our tiny bathroom. I want a freestanding shower and bath instead of the combination which we have now - I hate climbing into a shower and our bath is way too small - good for two small children but not quite big enough for me. So I am downloading some inspiration - I have always loved claw footed baths but am not really certain (my partner hates them) but maybe I might go with something more modern. I like the idea of some wallpaper in the bathroom like the photo above. Minimalism is good with some quirkiness. Pictures above are via apartmenttherapy homebug

Leadlight restoration project

One of the things on myto do list is to replace the leadlight in this window in our loungeroom. The frame is in almost new condition but the pattern and vile colours has to go. I am looking at some nice geometric art deco patterns with not too much colour - a bit of blue, yellow and pink.

Knitted and funky

Love these knitwear furnishings. Cuckooclock from http://andreawilliamson.com.uk and handknitted pouffe from http://burford.com.uk

Flavor Paper

Why do I keep finding more wallpaper that is TDF? I think I would like to decorate the walls of my house with a roll of each of my all time favourite wallpapers.

Pretty rooms

Love these pretty rooms - photos courtesy of http://www.idealhomemagazine.co.uk/