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Can we all stop pretending a Hermes Avalon blanket makes cheap furniture look...
It's time for a reminder of the children's story The Emperor's New Clothes. This is because I suspect that many of the adults out there on the internet have forgotten, or have never read, this...
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Barbie Style
I have never owned a Barbie doll. Not one. This was because my Mother was of the mind set that Barbie was a bad role model, portraying unrealistic ideals of feminine perfection (it was the late 70's...
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House and Garden update
Last week I was fortunate to have a few wins at one of the local Antique estate auction clearance houses. One of the items I was very, very keen to buy was this Georgian style (likely Edwardian)...
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Mixing High and Low in Interior Design
via There was quite a fuss in the comments of my recent blog post on the subject that I will now refer to as The Blanket I Dare Not Speak The Name Of, as a couple of anonymous commenters misinterpreted...
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"It takes a couple of generations to understand Wicker"
exterior by Marco Meneguzzi This quote is much bandied about, and attributed to many. However wicker is not something, I believe, that requires much generational understanding - it's long been admired...
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Renovation - Casual Living room progress update
I have shared very few overall images of the casual living area on the blog… mainly because while I've been very happy with the Architectural element of it, the actual decorating has been the last...
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Renovation - The completed powder room/ WC
This room was essentially completed almost two years ago, aside from one thing - the mirror. Now that I've finally found and hung it, I thought it was time that I showed the completed powder room /...
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Food, Garden, Books
We have had a very hot start to Summer, with temperatures above 40C (104F) for the past few days. For this reason I never decorate with snowy themed Christmas decorations - it just feels all too...
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A trip to Vietnam & Singapore
British Colonial style in Singapore at Raffle's We've just returned from a family holiday to Vietnam and Singapore, as those of you who follow along on Instagram will be aware. Vietnam seemed like the...
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Shopping
It comes as a surprise to many that know me to find out that I don't really enjoy Shopping. Yes, I love fashion, but the link from that to finding shopping an enjoyable pastime is vast in my mind. I...
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Design and Crime - Stuart Rattle
entry via "Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm" I'm not usually one to pick a book from the True Crime genre, however when it revolves around the murder of Stuart Rattle, one of Australia's most lauded Interior...
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Hardy Amies Letter to his Antipodean Goddaugher "abroad with a pedigree"
About a year ago, I searched out a copy of an article from Vogue Australia circa 1987. I was curious as I could remember reading it intently as a 13 year old, and viewing Hardy Amies (the English...
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Design and Crime - the Mysterious disappearance of Jim Thompson
hem of my Mother's Thai silk wedding dress I've long held an interest in Thai silk, and this probably stems from my Mother's own love affair with it. Back in the 1960's when my Mum was at University,...
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Feathering the nest
Officially it's Autumn (although we are having the usual very hot March). Shop windows are full of scarfs and pea coats you don't want to even try on in the air-conditioned shop, the days are...
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Family Friendly - designing a child proof house
via Pinterest I was thinking about this topic after my three children had, over the course of 5 days which included Easter, scuffed walls, chipped off a large chunk of plaster off the column in the...
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Picture Perfect
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" Joseph Brodsky colour coordinated books by the metre I was contemplating this quote today in the context of the prevalence...
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Tablescapes at the Best of the Best exhibition at the NGV
You may have already seen the image of "Another Curious Tea Party" by Kate Bergin (above) floating around Social Media or in newspapers promoting the NGV "Best of the Best 2016" exhibition, which runs...
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A ball contrasted with random scenes of domesticity
It's been a while. We've had school holidays (which always, despite my best intention has me disappearing off the grid for a while), then with the inevitable catch up of work/ laundry etc post school...
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Re-upholstering - when is it worth doing, how much does it cost?
I posted an image of the completed sofa in the kid's playroom on Instagram this past week, and there ensued a flurry of comments about the cost of reupholstery, and at what point was it worth doing....
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Highland Fling
While I was browsing the latest offerings in shoes the other day, I was struck by all the lacing detail that seems to be all the go. I've seen various Australian High Street interpretation of this...
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