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Bits and Pieces
It's extremely hot here. After our chilly big 40th party a few weeks ago, the weather has (naturally) warmed up to the oven-like temperatures that we usually experience in an Adelaide Summer. This...
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About paint colours
Farrow and Ball "Hague Blue"via My favourite thing to do with a spare five or ten minutes is to busy myself on Pinterest. For those of you who are not on Pinterest, it is much like Facebook or any...
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Making a Grand Entrance
via I touched on this topic a few weeks ago when discussing that people often now enter their house exclusively via their lock up garage, or their back door and that in many homes a front door has...
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Where to Save when building or renovating
I've written a few posts on budgeting for a renovation, however after recently writing out a long email to a friend after she asked for advice on what was worth spending or saving money on in her...
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Where to Spend when building or renovating
This is the part 2 of the Where to Spend/ Where to Save, and these are the things that I feel are worth spending money on when you're building or renovating. Part 1, Where to Save is hereviaLighting...
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The Dining Room
I've been wanting to write a post about the Dining Room for quite a while. In Australia, it's become virtually redundant in modern design to have a formal Dining Room. Our casual lifestyle means that...
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Before and After - from Kitchen to Bedroom
The original kitchen from the real estate listing I haven't done a Before and After of the house for a while, but I think this one is a pretty good transformation. Originally this room was the kitchen...
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Autumn
back corner of the garden - hard to believe this is only 6 months old. Up until the past few days, it's been an unusually cool start to Autumn in Adelaide. This has meant that for once the weather is...
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Arts and Crafts revival
via Vogue Sometimes fashion is the leading edge in capturing the zeitgeist, and sometimes it's a follower. In this instance, when Marc Jacobs sent his models out at the recent Autumn/ Winter 2015...
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Book Chat - Gardening, Architecture and Interiors
Hello, apologies for my silence - May is a busy month in our house, and if I look back over the past 2 years of blog posts they've always been a bit light on. But I've had a bit of a binge on design...
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The Art of Patience
I think anyone that has renovated, built or decorated a house will understand that the entire act of doing so involves much patience. Things take time and the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" is...
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Falling down the rabbit hole of internet reviews
via Online reviews can be both good and bad. I know that when ordering clothes online, the reviews can be very beneficial - other customers telling you that the sizing is out, or that the fabric feels...
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Top 6
I was thinking about the best things I did in our new extension over the weekend and thought it might make a good blog post… I tried to keep to 5, but a sixth snuck in. Really there are probably...
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Table setting
Long term blog readers will have seen it all before - I'm afraid there are no cupboards full of different china patterns in my house. As I've previously explained I was given (excellent) advice by my...
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Flipping out
I'm often asked if I'm an avid watcher of TV home renovation/ design programs. The short answer is not really. The longer answer takes a lot longer to explain. Here in Australia we've just finished...
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Things I've found - clothes, bags, china, instagram, gardening tricks and...
Hello! I haven't abandoned the blog completely, but we've had three weeks of school holidays, and then I spent two weeks trying to catch up with work/ family/ generally recover so things have been a...
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Cheers
my sitting room drinks table Well, it's the weekend and I've got a celebratory drink on my mind for surviving another week of craziness. the casual living area drinks tray This has lead me to think...
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A trip to Hobart - Baking, Art and Food
The Islington Hotel's dining Conservatory I've just got back from a trip to Hobart, Tasmania to meet up with my friends Romy, Faux Fuchsia and blog commenter Pammie. For those of my readers unsure...
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Changing Careers mid life to Interior Design or Decoration
I often write blog posts about things I get a lot of emails about, and one thing I've received a few emails about, and that I've spoken to people quite a bit about in real life as well, is where I...
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The Garden - plans and progress
As it's Spring, my thoughts have increasingly been on the garden, and gardening in general. Early this year I contacted my landscape designer as a redesign of the front garden was required (this had...
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