Budget Bedroom by Marie

Marie is an interior stylist from the UK and is currently setting up home in my old town, Sydney. Since she is only staying for a year she is very wisely keeping costs to a minimum. I should clarify that the majority of rental properties in Australia come unfurnished. You even have to provide your own fridge and washing machine! This never bothered me when I lived there but it is a problem if you are only stopping for a year or two.

Anyway Marie’s bedroom is simply gorgeous and its no wonder she has found work as a stylist already.

Here is her moodboard for the bedroom makeover -

and the budget bedroom!

Simply stunning! I love the cushions she made from silk scarves and the colours she chose for the bed and the otherwise drab Ikea wardrobe.

Trying out a look

Well I bought some Schumacher fabric a couple of weeks ago and I am still deciding what I want to do with it. Currently I am trying it out on the bedhead. No real effort went in to this other than draping the fabric over the bedhead.

I am still waiting to find the right piece of art to hang over the bed so I guess I am looking for a little makeover fix in the meantime.

Hmmm, still not sure – It kind of feels a little grown up for me.

And here is the bed before my latest massive makeover. It took me hours to drape that fabric just right you know.

Starting a New Business

I was reading an article in the Guardian recently about three people who have each started up a design related company after being let go from their job. I guess we all like reading stories about people who manage to turn a situation around as it gives us hope and life doesn’t seem so scary. Don’t get me wrong – I know this is by no means easy and not an option for everyone but I still like hearing about such successes. One of the companies mentioned in the article was Anorak, who specialise in outdoor products such as travel, camping and gardening accessories.

Quick post

Sorry for not blogging yesterday and leaving it so late today. Life sometimes gets in the way of blogging. Anyway here is a cute little cherub in a cosy bed. Awww.

Pic from House and Garden

Shopping – Zara Home

Here are some items from Zara Home to cosy up your home – the equilavent of buying your home a big woolly cardi.

Harry Lamp – 59.95 euro

Woolly Hot Water Bottle – 19.95 euro

Tartan cushion – 29.95 euro

Mohair throw – 99 euro

A New Blog and Fabric love

Today I have fallen in love with Schumacher Fabrics all over again and found a new blog. Whilst innocently browsing the web I came across this most wonderful blog, Little Green Notebook run by the very talented interior designer Jenny Komenda.  You have to check out her daugther’s bedroom makeover. She recovered the headboards in super cool Schumacher’s Chiang Mai Dragon, painted the side table, turned an old mirror into a funky hot pink framed chalkboard, created art for the walls, repainted an old lamp, revamped white bed linen, revamped a mirror, constructed pelmet boxes for the three windows and the list goes on …… Amazing and all doable!!!

and if that ain’t enough Jenny has just completed her office makeover.

After I stopped drooling over all the colours I searched the web for some Schumacher fabric and just purchased a metre and half of Hot House Flowers! Yippee.

Cosy bedrooms

Its one of those grey and cold Mondays where you just wish you had the day off and could spend it curled up in a cosy bed watching movies you missed at the cinema. I think it is time to pull out the winter woollies for the bed and change the summer quilt for the winter one. Here are some cosy bedrooms from LE for the inspiration files.

Special offers at Garrendenny Lane Interiors

The lovely Lorna over at Garrendenny Lane Interiors is currently running September Special Offers to cheer us all up now that summer is officially over!

A different product every day will be on special offer and once it is gone, it’s gone.  For some products, there may be only one or two left, others there may be ten or more.  New products will be up by 9.30ish each morning.

So, whether it is something you’ve had your eye on for some time, a treat for yourself or maybe you’re getting started on your Christmas shopping, check out the Garrendenny Lane Online shop each morning.

Today’s special offer is the Designer guild Tullgarn Noir Bedlinen

And do check out Lorna’s blog while you’re there – she mixes great interior design tips with tales of living on a working farm with her lovely husband and two children.

Sunshine

This bedroom looks so inviting. I feel all cheery and healthy? just looking at it.

I believe you could really turn your life around if you lived in a place like this. You would wake up early, go for morning jogs, wear white cotton clothes on your sunkissed skin and eat museli for breakfast.

pic from Family Living

7 Weeks 4 days 18 hours 35 minutes

Until Ikea finally open the doors to their Dublin store! I apologise now but I will probably be posting my ever expanding Ikea wish list for the next seven weeks. And hopefully I can narrow it down by the time Ikea opens.

I want to be more organised so the first two things will help me achieve that -

And I want to make a bed skirt very similar to Pia’s below -

And while I would LOVE!!!!! to use the same fabric, its a little out of my price range at the moment so here are my Ikea subs -