Designalogue

Whoops.  Its again been a while! ….. I’m sick of apologising for delayed absences and it makes  a very boring blog – so, lets just move on shall we?

I do promise that my next post wont be all about me! (also makes for a boring blog!)  But for now, please indulge me as I just had to sneak this picture (yes, blurry picture!) in of a project I have in the works:

I am really pleased with how its coming together and even more pleased that its now out of the confines of  my head and in the real world!

The turquoise velvet chair really had my heart a flutter as do the blinds that look so beautiful (um…if I do say so myself!) Still to come is a cabinet that I have designed, made from reclaimed timber in an ebonised finish using all natural finishes including bees wax.

My client and I are also investigating different heating options, and looking at using this groovy number which burns ethanol, a clean heating alternative which doesnt require a bulky flue and doesnt dry the air out. Very cool, but requires some further investigating…

As I am self imposing a ban on my self promotion here for a while…. I will just sneak this link in…… the lovely and clever Tess McCabe of Creative Women’s circle has included me in a profile series she is doing for the CWC blog.   here if you want to read a wee bit more about me!

And for the creative women of Melbourne out there (little red… I’m talking to you!) you might be interested in checking out the next CWC meeting, its always inspiring to here the triumphs and the woes of other creative women face in their own businesses.

Just saying!

I have been a busy girl of late with quite a few installations happening almost all at once! So in the spirit of sharing, and to appease my guilt at not attending to Designalogue Blog much of late, here are some ‘crappy snaps’ I have taken of an apartment I have been working on.  

The scatter cushions sent some serious love chills my way and I have to admit when I picked them up from my brilliant cushion maker, I had to pull myself together, be strong to and stop them from finding a home on my sofa! Such is the trouble with this line of work…

The photos don’t do the fabric justice, The fabric and colours are just stunning and I love love! 

Once I have proper photos that do the art the justice they deserve, I will tell you more about the paintings. But in short they are Google Earth images of the coast line of our home town and surround and are a mix of resin and silver leaf and even have a diamond or two!! 

That is all!

Not a very clever title is it! Eh, I’m tired! I’ts bed time!

So I’m back! Did you miss me? Um, did you even know I had gone?!!…

But yes, here I am, fresh from a mammoth house move and man, I have a lot of stuff – A LOT!

Did you know that lamp shades breed?

I kid you not! I seem to have a huge amount of lamp shades in ALL shapes and sizes!!

I will post some pics of the pad soon – complete with my fabulous Juju hat by the way! -Its SO fabulous! Even the fella cant disagree!

But rather than bore you with the dramas and saga’s that seem to go on and on, I thought I would share a quick-see sneak peak of a project that I have been working on. The wallpaper in the bedroom was installed today & I love it!

Still some finer and finishing ‘details’ to come, so as I said – its a sneak peak!

The hallway leading into the boudoir was also wallpapered using an Osbourne & Little number. Its a muddy chocolate with a hot pink pin stripe. Yum!

Sadly my photos don’t show up this so well, so you will just have to take my word for it!

Psst: This is a before shot of the bedroom!

SNAP! I spy with my little eye….

Drake Design Associates - Via Desire to Inspire

Did you catch it?  - Same chair!

Though the chair looks much better in the Drake Design room than in my lounge room! … must be something to do with the photography!!! yeah, that’ll be it!!!!?!!

(Update – have since swapped my chair for a slightly better than the old one -so some comments made MAY be out of context now!!)

To cute!

I love this pillow! Perfect for those girls who pop their special daily pill!

How could you forget with this lying on your bed! (provided you manage to make the bed that is!)

Helge

Hello to you and welcome to designalogue blog!

About a year ago I stumbled across the world of blogs and was so excited to have suddenly found that the Internet was suddenly relevant to me! Before this world had opened up to me, I thought the best I could hope for was reading the newspaper on-line or perhaps a bit of Internet banking! I cant tell you how I excited I was by this discovery! As a complete magazine addict I could basically now have a new magazine delivered to my screen daily -and pretty much without all the pages of blah they have in between the good bits! I still have the mag addiction, yet the fix isn’t as desperate as once was!

And now the time has come for me to give it ago! Whats the harm?! Why not?

From the get go, I think it is only fair to tell let you know that I can get quite lazy with my spelling and spell check can just do so much!! Also punctuation is NOT my strong suit! I have a habit of using – instead of, and. – and so do it often! I write how I speak, and that’s how it will be! Otherwise I won’t get anything down, and this blog will be very short lived! So if you decide to stick with me as a read now & then, you will just have to deal with it!

So, I suppose here I go!!

So to start, here is a picture I love of LA designer Peter Dunhams‘ own home as featured in Domino. I love the collection of interesting pieces and mismatched goodies that would all have their own story of how they came to be! A room with character! Gorgeous!