The First Impression

I found it difficult to find internet inspiration for fence design. It is actually easier to take the dog for a walk and look for inspiration on the street. Perhaps that indicates that the best design for your area usually lyes in your own backyard, not on the net. I love the use of recycled timber and corrugated iron in fencing. My man wants to incorporate some vertical gardens onto the exterior of our fence to give it a living feature.

Sources: apwarts, houzz, woodsolutions, innovativelandscapetechnologies, modesthomeplan, worldofarchitecture

Terrarium Inspiration

The coffee table is awaiting a perspex top. As soon as it is complete I plan to create a terrarium centrepiece using some lab bottles I have purchased. These were some of the ideas that have inspired me. There is something truly magic about growing plants under glass, and even though it's what I do all day at work, I still want to play with them in my spare time!



Sources: Doodle Bird, Celiabedilia, inhabitant, peerflix, splendid design, saltlakemagazine

Bathroom Adventures

Bathrooms have never really been a place of joy for me. My parents place ( a ridiculously old cottage) had an itty bitty bathroom with space for a shower and a sink and nothing else. It also had carpet, in a bathroom, YUCK.

The first share house I moved into was co-habited by a beauty therapist who hogged the bathroom and coated it a nice shade of orange thanks to her tan-in-a-can. Tim, my fellow housemate, and I had to get up pre dawn to even get a look in at the bathroom. Most days I ended up walking across the road to finish my morning get-ready routine at my Uni Campus rather than wait for the bathroom.

I had a few nice bathrooms in my post uni travels, none of which were ever really 'mine', no more than a place to dump my suitcase for a short time. One that I had in India was washed down on a daily basis by the house-staff. So if you left anything in it, it would get a impromptu wash. I ended up with many soggy rolls of toilet paper this way.

My 'pre-Queensland' share house had towels that were so mouldy I swear they would move by themselves. We also had a toothbrush holder (half filled with mouldy water) with over 15 toothbrushes in it, and only three people living in the house. I kept my towels, toothbrush and toiletries in my room.

The rentals we lived in before we bought were no better. One bathroom was so small you had to undress outside of it. The other was a living breathing organism. When we moved one of the walls in the bathroom had come away from the other as the stumps of the house had sunk. This left a large gap in the corner of the bathroom through which you could see the outside world. The owner proper up the house and re-stumped that section so the gap eventually disappeared. However the bathroom fun never ended. In the four years we lived there I found the following living things in our bath/shower; a brush turkey, rat, worms (on several different occasions and often crawling out of the plug hole while I was bathing), maggots, moths, mould, and beetles.

So it seems that this house had the facets and most functional bathroom I have ever owned.

I can't wait to renovate it and make it perfect. But in the mean time I look forward to enjoying it just how it is, MINE!

Kitchen Inspiration

Been hoarding away pictures of beautiful interiors for a while now and I decided to organise them into folders today. These are some ideas for our kitchen design. The kitchen is fully functional as is, but a little dated (see pictures below). My man and I both have the same 'minimal industrial' preference towards interiors, however I am a little more vintage inspired than he is.  I am planning all white walls the whole house including the kitchen to create a bright-light living space. We are going to construct a recycled timber table and I am hoping for a few vintage chair finds that I can either paint highlight colours, or keep as neutral shades depending on our final furnishing and decorating pallet. 

We will eventually knock out part of the dividing wall to the kitchen to create a breakfast bench, over which I plan to hang industrial style pendant lights.

The flooring will be timer (which is a controversial choice for a kitchen) which extends out to the living, dining and hallway area.  

Sorry I don't have any photo credits for the above images. If you know where they are from please send me a link. 

A furry reminder

Sebastian reminds me of this every single day. I know I am a bit bias but he really is the cutest dog in the world.