our home – before + after / bedroom
Today’s before + after is our bedroom. This is the room we’ve put the most effort and money into so far and we’re pretty happy with the result. As with the rest of the house, we’d still like to...
View Articlecolonie
Colonie is an awesome looking new restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, New York that makes great use of recycled and reclaimed materials. Love the warm rustic feel and the ‘green’ wall – beautiful...
View Articleour home – before + after / dining room
It’s been a while between before + after posts but I’ve finally got one to share today. The reason it has taken so long is because a few months ago we decided to put our house on the market. So instead...
View Articleour home – before + after / guest bedroom
A while ago I showed you a glimpse of the guest bedroom near to completion. It was our little beacon of light in amongst all the chaos of renovation mess. I think it is the room I am most proud of just...
View Articlea few more snaps
Last week I shared a Before + After of our guest bedroom. I thought I’d follow up today with a few instagram pics of the space that I snapped yesterday afternoon while the sun was shining. I am loving...
View Articleour bedroom
Earlier in the year I did a Before + After of our bedroom. Since then we haven’t done too much to change the look of it but we have worked pretty hard to raise the quality of the room. We’ve replaced...
View Articlewe bought a house!
Disclaimer: This is NOT our house (I wish!). It is Brick House by Clare Cousins Architects via Desire to Inspire. So yes we bought a house. Exciting huh?! I can’t wait to unpack all our stuff from...
View Articlemood board / master bedroom
We’ve been in our new home a few weeks now and it still looks like a bit of a bomb site. Whenever we get the chance we pop open another cardboard box full of stuff and rediscover our belongings. That...
View Articlemood board / living room
I have another mood board to share with you today – the living room. At the moment the living room is actually our most inhabitable space – it’s fully painted, the tv’s plugged in, we have things (sort...
View Articlemood board / dining area
We made a start on prettying up our dining area a few weekends ago so this is slightly after the fact… However, there are definitely still elements in these images we’d like to incorporate into our...
View Articlekitchen finishes etc.
In between all the moving, unpacking and sorting that has come with closing our bricks & mortar, we have also been trying to finish up a few things around the house. The plan is to get most of what...
View Articlewarehouses + wallpaper
Photography: Karl Anderson, Styling: Annika Kampmann via Lovenordic Ever whiled away the hours mentally furnishing your dream warehouse conversion? Those big open plan living spaces, worn timber...
View Articlemood board / nursery
With less than 2 months to go we are seriously scrambling to get some sort of vague representation of a nursery happening. The second bedroom in our house has been used as storage for all sorts of...
View Articlekitchen is finished !
Ok, so I’m sneaking in one more blog post before I go all silent on you for a week or so. This one has been aaaaages in the making and is long overdue so I thought I’d better get onto it before I never...
View Articlefeature / finish | charcoal walls
I’ve been thinking about charcoal walls a lot lately. We painted the walls of the master bedroom in our last house a beautiful deep warm charcoal, and decided, as a departure from that, that we’d make...
View Articlesokeri pink around the web
The Sokeri print from Kauniste is a favourite around these parts. The moment I laid eyes on the pink version, designed by Hanna Konola, years ago I was in love and immediately went about getting...
View Articlefeature / finish | picture ledge
Recently we installed a picture ledge in Sage’s bedroom to display some of her books. With the covers facing out I thought it would be a nice way for her to pick out bedtime stories when she is a...
View Articlefeature / finish | white kitchen subway tiles
Despite still having bits and pieces I’d like to finish up around the house for now, we are somehow already discussing the prospect of doing a full blown renovation. Honestly, I think we are gluttons...
View Articlefeature / finish | wall arm lamps
I’ve finally overcome some technical blog issues (thanks to my lovely husband) and can resume posting again after a few weeks of frustration. As a result this post has been waiting in the wings a...
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