via lonny

the weekend: inspired

via Ikea: Live

So we're all moved in! Big thanks to JD's folks and sister, it all went pretty smoothly. I'm feeling inspired and can't wait to get my decorating mitts on, but will have to hold out until we get back from our holidays. On Sunday, I successfully bidded on a teak dining setting on ebay. Any sane person would be sick of moving any more furniture, but no, not I. Only 1 day in; I clearly have no will power. BTW there's another stunning blue art deco velvet sofa in Adelaide, some one please do me a favour and buy it!!

Why is it I have only recently discovered this awesome website? Ikea: Live is full inspiring images of real homes from around the world. Oh soo little time.

office space

via tine k

magazines magazines

via emmas design blog

sasa antic via door sixteen

via australian vogue living

I am a massive magazine hoarder. It actually pains me to tear out pages. I only resort to it when the they become really dated, like 6 years old. Sad, I know.

How do you store yours? Hidden away? In magazine holders? Or stacked in piles like this?

Hmm, I'm beginning to think that the stacked up look only looks effective when you have white painted floors...

office space envy

I want my home office to look like this.

No ugly printer. No ugly cable cords. No paperwork everywhere.

Yeah, dream on.

via Patric Johansson

home again

via la la lovely

Arrh, I had a lovely time in Queenscliff.

It rained, rained, and rained on Saturday but we ran the short distance to the festival to catch Little Birdy and then the Wailers.

On Sunday the sun came out and we saw Bertie Blackman, Bonjah, Whitley (again!) and Tim Finn.

We always start the Music Festival hopeful but always struggle to get through even half of the musicians we intend to see. Oh well there's always next year!

inspiration wall

via loafing odyessys

oui oui

via trine thornsen

i want..

I want this metal glass cabinet, such a lovely home it would make for my books and mags..

Oh snap! New Inside Out just arrived on my doorstep. I'm out.

office space: black + white + timber

I like the use of this old printing block drawer in this office.

My new mission is to buy a bulk lot of timber grey lead pencils and display it in a simple white ceramic cup on my desk. Just because..

image via The Notebook Magazine

trine thorsen photography

images via Trine Thorsen found via Purple Area

work spaces

Domino via Automatism

Mark Tuckey - via Shannon Fricke

via Emma Cassi

via Bespoke Press

image via The Brick House found via Visual Notes

can o' worms!

Yup opened another can of worms!

I diverted my short attention span off the kitchen and started working on our spare room/office. Given there's only certain things we can do to the kitchen during the week after work hours - eg. we can't drill into brick walls or re-wire so we've been stripping back and re-painting the spare room for the last week.

So before there was one long dark stained floating desk from one wall to another along the window. Whilst it was really nice to have a big work space, with my sewing machine down one end and JD's computer down the other, it limited the furniture layout. It became a storage nightmare and eventually became a junk dumping room.

Sanding on the balcony!

Stripping back paint off the windows & skirting

JD attaching the timber boxes onto runners for handy drawers

My trash n treasure stool

I love timber boxes

I know, it looks 'very Ikea' but the dark table top was looking too heavy against the new floors, repainting it white has opened the space up and makes the room look much bigger.

More pics to come - I'll be adding my collectables and set everything else soonish.. Well, maybe after the kitchen is done!

crate style

Image from Houzz found via Hyggelig

Once I was an ammunition box...

Now I am a recycle paper trunk.

Finally got round to making it more practical and it now lives in the study (and occasional junk room..)

I bought some  cleat hooks, castor wheels and twine and... ta dah! 

Now, it will be much easier to carry the bundles of paper outside.

I am pretty crap when it comes to DIY. 

Always doing things the hard and long way. I always jump right in and never make assessments prior to commencing.

For example in this situation I just started screwing the screws to attach the castors. I got to the last one & realised the screws were too long and protruded through into the box. So unscrewed and re-screwed.. Hmm, sound familiar? Much like my painting debarkle.

I bought the ammo box from a homewares store I used to work at doing visual merchandising when I was at Uni. It was a pretty cool store, it sold lots of random industrial fixtures, furniture bits and bobs amongst, design, travel and cook books, basic kitchen and homeware staples. But then also sold KitchenAid mixers and blenders, Fornasetti & Wedgewood china, and Jasper Conran glassware. There was something for every budget. The Christmas windows were alot of fun to do.

Floating timber shelves

I love the look of floating timber shelves. I might try and attempt it somewhere in our the kitchen or entrance way..

Scanned from Ideas for Living by Ali Hanan

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Scanned from Inside Out Magazine

Scanned from Vogue Living Magazine

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