Archive | April, 2010

Style at Home has landed and we’re in it

So being featured in our first ever glossy, I figured I’d dedicate a blog post to it to savour this moment.


Our mention is in the June 2010 Style at Home magazine and we couldn’t be more happy about it. Style at Home editors, if any of you are reading this, we would like to say thank you, thank you, thank you. The front cover is spectacular, right up my alley anyways. The lush and saturated yellows and greens, the geometric carpet and oh those chairs, the light shone from the pages when it landed on our desk.


I soaked in every word, article and page from cover to cover with a smile brimming from ear to ear. Thank you for believing in our products as much as we do.

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Furnishings from my childhood

Funny how they say what goes around comes around. In my case, I’m referring to my parents and their furnishings that adorned our home when I was young.


I remember having quite strong opinions on the choices they made, I often either disagreed or was embarrassed by most things they would buy. Well, I’ve been noticing a different type of trend as of late, one that is making me revisit those opinions and flip them on their heads. It started with a simple pendant lamp I would see reappearing in magazines and blog posts, I recognized it every time. We had one in our main entrance in our family home and what I remember the most about it was that it often became an obstacle for tall people who would arrived for a visit. Now, I covet very similar items to it and am happy to see it’s re-emergence in the interior world.


We also had sunny floral wallpaper in the kitchen. It was bright yellow and even without much sunlight, it would light up the room. Yellow is a colour I am now as an adult gravitating towards, whether it be as an accent colour or on the walls as we had then.


My mum had hung an art wall in our living room over our sofa which is something I will want to do myself once we tackle the living room. There is so much inspiration and I can now understand how much planning it took to get it just right.


What I also remember was having an over-sized antique green glass bottle my Father used to use as a change catcher. He also cherished a beat up old vintage trunk which in fact we used for one of our shoots. I can honestly say that I can truly appreciate the taste and aesthetic my parents displayed in our small home. I just hope some day our children will feel the same way too.

What furnishings do you remember from your childhood that are back in your home in a more modern way?

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Turn of events

So if you were around to read about our exciting redecorating project of our dining/living room here, you would know that things were well on their way and that we had learned a few things about what we would like to see in this room and also a lot about ourselves as well. A floor plan had been decided on, clippings had been dog-eared and budgets were being planned. We were happy and content with our decisions and were just about to start the process of actually heading out and scoping the local furniture shops.

For all of you home dwellers, you know where this is going. No sooner had we picked out the look and feel of this project did we have another more pressing issue creep up on us in another area of the house which needed our immediate attention. No, the roof wasn’t leaking, the basement wasn’t flooded and nothing had caught fire. The previous owners of our 1955 split-level home it seems had hid a few, let’s call them “issues” in our master bathroom, and no, these “issues” were not known of or mentioned when we bought this house in 2004. I won’t go into detail, all I am looking at now is a turn of events. I am no longer coveting Room & Board sofas or Eames inspired dining room chairs, I am now willingly collecting inspiration of a different type, and here they are.

So to bathroom coveting it is. It’s pretty easy to find yourself longing after a new one, especially if 80′s floral wallpaper and flowered tiles to match are not your thing. I know that once it’s completed I certainly won’t be complaining.

What are some of your house stories?

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