Displaying posts from January, 2015

If you would like to send me photos to include in next week’s pets on furniture post, please ensure your photos follow these basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so it takes center stage rather than your pet. Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture that you want to show off…and your pet happens to be sitting on it. And second, if the photo is too dark or unfocused it may not make the cut. Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to kim[at]desiretoinspire[dot]net. Thanks!

This is some photos of our loveable rescue pup Willow. She is a rather spoilt pup but normally isn’t allowed on the couch! I couldn’t resist getting a shot of her in our recently redecorated lounge room. She is sitting under a piece of art I got from Ideal Art, a company that is local to us.
– Kylie (Ringwood, VIC, Australia)

1. Beo, our 10 years old cat is lounging on our vintage arm chair
2. Beo, sitting on a Danish design chair
3. Beo is chilling on the chair, while Sam is sleeping on the floor
4. Emi is trying her luck sitting under Beo, by the couch
– Alina (Norway)

This is our dog Claudio or Mr. C, sitting on his favorite womb chair in Mill Valley, California 
– Tamara

This is our baby, Chewy, sleeping on our Cassina Maralunga sofa
– Imelda 

sending you special picture of my French bulldog Borja,  three years old on my morroco seat 🙂
– Arnela (Slovenia)

These two cats seem to find the hottest spot in this heat and then act dead.  Better to let sleeping cats lie,????
– Deon (South Africa)

I’m breaking my own rule – you can’t see much furniture in this photo but it’s all I have since last week and I kind of love it. Featuring Mimin.

Speaking of perfection… sigh. Like swimming in a sea of blue light. From the portfolio of Dutch photographer Alexander van Berge.

I am taking a quick kitchen-painting break to share this beautiful church conversion in Byron Bay with you. It was featured on the lovely Citizens of the World and is the home of Amanda Callan, Andrew Morris, their son and their side project Church Farm General Store. I absolutely love this conversion. The original windows are gorgeous, the space does not read too much like a church, and they did not modernize it (which often happens and the results typically fail miserably). It is perfect. More details and photos (by Dominic Loneragan) are here. 

It’s become my mantra. If you have to drag your sorry arse into work on the weekend then it better be somewhere fabulous. Egon Zehnder’s Melbourne offices by IF Architecture.

Just before the holidays I settled on a paint colour for my kitchen. It was not a difficult decision – I wasn’t even going to bother trying a sample on the wall because I was so sure it would be perfect.

When I had received the fan deck from Farrow & Ball and came across Stiffkey Blue and Hague Blue I knew immediately that my kitchen needed to be blue. I went with Stiffkey because the colour just seemed perfect with black and white (and it is less dark and bold than Hague which seems to be much more on the teal/aqua side). Below is a beautiful bedroom painted in Stiffkey Blue.

Sean Santiago via Lonny

Here is a before photo of my kitchen. It is all Ikea and very small and very boring. So imagine the walls painted in Stiffkey Blue. *SIGH* I might keep the ceiling white to ensure the space maintains its brightness. The faucet and cabinet handles will be replaced with brass ones. I just noticed in this photo that the dishwasher is just a large panel of stainless steel. Now I am wondering if I should cover it in white somehow. Anyway, even the light fixtures are Ikea (I think) and beyond boring so I will replace those (there is one in the middle of the ceiling too).

I was thinking this Vega 3 chandelier from Schoolhouse Electric would look fab in the middle of the room.

Then for over the sink I love a couple of different lights by Gubi – like this Bestlite pendant BL9

or this Greta Grossman Grasshopper pendant

I hope now that I am finally starting to get over the miserable infection(s) I had over the holidays that I can manage to get the painting done this weekend. Fingers crossed! And I hope to gawd the paint is ok – idiot UPS delivery guy left it out on my porch in -20C weather.

I went poking around the internet while I was sick to get some inspiration of kitchens with brass, and I found several that have blue as a feature colour as well.

Workstead via Dwell

Emily Henderson

brittanyMakes

Blakes London

Domaine Home

Helén Pe

Michaelis Boyd

Jessica Helgerson

Stadshem

Yanic Simard

Lovely Life

Design*Sponge

Gisbert Pöppler