We Love Perth

It was an exciting day on Friday when my first Guest Blogger post for We Love Perth was published!

We Love Perth is a fabulous resource that details all the amazing things Perth has to offer.  Whether that be things to do, places to go or tasty treats to eat.  

For the month of June I will be doing a guest blogger post every Friday.  Make sure you check their website every Friday to read each post in full.  It was fun coming up with new ideas for the posts and also re-working some of my most popular ones so hopefully they are all well received!

You can read my first post by clicking here! 

M xx

Home Office

Lately I have noticed I am spending more and more time doing blog work or personal admin after work or on weekends.  My current home office set up consists of me sitting on the couch with my laptop or propped up on the dining table when we are not using it.  Neither option is ideal and after hours of typing on the couch my neck would agree!  So it is time to think about setting up a home office... any thing similar to these would do be nicely.

What do you look for in a home office?

M xx

Images:  here, here, here, here

USA Shopping List - Part 1

We are heading to the States next month and I have been busy planning our trip around furniture stores, vintage markets and galleries.  I am sure I will be tempted by the clothing sales whilst we are there but personally, I would really like to come back with some special bits and pieces for our house rather than clothes.  

I recently saw these beauties and they have gone straight to the top of my list.  Designed by UK designer Lee Broom these hand crafted crystal bulbs won the ELLE Decoration British Designer Award in 2012.

I would love one of these hanging on either side of our bed as our bedside lamps.

M xx

All images from here. 

House Envy

A few weekends ago I flicked on the television during the day and saw that a repeat of Blue Lagoon was on.  I don't think Brooke Shields could possibly be any more beautiful than she was in that movie.  Stunning!  Perhaps I am a prude after so long living in Dubai but I was fairly shocked by all the nudity.. I didn't remember that from when I was a kid! I suppose it was shocking to me as both main characters  seemed so young...  My interest piqued, I googled Brooke to see how old she was when she filmed Blue Lagoon (she was 14 in case you are interested!*) and I stumbled came across this article in Architectural Digest on her Manhattan Townhouse.  OH.MY.GOODNESS. A collaboration between architects MADE and designer David Flint Hicks the house is absolutely stunning.  The clincher for me from the article was this line...  

"One of the team’s first excursions was to the hangar-size warehouse in New Jersey where Shields had stowed the treasure—and detritus—from her own many moves and from her mother’s decades as an obsessive comber of flea markets."

Wouldn't I have loved to have been part of that team that explored that warehouse!!

Read the full article here 

M xx

* apparently Brooke later testified before a US Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were used in some of the nude scenes. 

Latest Find

With being away and busy weekends we haven't had a chance to get back to the Tip Shop recently.  So it was great to finally get there recently and find it bursting full of new pieces.

You will know I love bentwood chairs and stools from one of my earlier posts so I was pretty excited to see these as soon as we walked in!

No doubt a replica but I love them just the same.  So they were promptly put in the back of the car and taken home.  Now to paint them or not to paint them...

M xx

Too ambitious?

So I haven't yet mastered my DIY beaded chandelier and now I have just seen this!

How amazing is this white shell chandelier from Manyara Home?  At $6000 it is not cheap... do you think a DIY white shell chandelier attempt is a bit ambitious??

M xx

Image: here

DIY Inspiration

My love of bed heads is no secret and predictably ones that I could make myself are my favourites.   I love how they can instantly change the mood of the room and it is something you could easily replace, change or alter when you feel like updating your room.   

Who would have thought that dated vertical blinds could be used to make a great new bedhead!  

Read all about it here

M xx