Where the Wild Things Are.

ha!

It's just our living area.  Just our living area?  Holy Heck!  I want to live here.

When I downloaded these photos I took the other day ( like, only after 6months since
we moved back! ), I kept running down from my office to say to the husband:
"OMG, you should see these pics, I want to live in this house!!!" ..
I felt like Cindy Crawford when she said "I Wish I Looked Like Cindy Crawford."

Because, sure this is my house, and yes, I sure do live here and yes, I love love love it ..
but hell, I cleaned all afternoon on the day I finished work for the year ( the day before
Christmas peeps .. I haz been busy ) and the kids had to either be in their room or OUTside.

Normally, the benches have plates and dirty cups on them and the coffee table is covered in Lego.
The dining table has mounds of newspapers and paperwork.  Yeah, it's quite the picture.

So finally, here I am again.  Amazed when I realised the last time I felt so free and happy
was this time last year .. FREE TIME!  Pictures for ME!  Excellent, excellent, excellent..




^ Coming down the hall into the combined living/cooking/dining area





^ You might remember I won a prize courtesy of Carpet Court which basically furnished
this whole room.  Divine, and so very very thankful x 




Shaggy rug from Carpet Court, lighting from Beacon.
Couch from Domayne, Cushions from Kaz, original print, stools and coffee table from
Boyd Blue, and original art canvas on the far wall is a Christmas Present to myself from
my artist friend Clair.







The green egg chair is from Replica Furniture in Qld.




It is divine, and I just love that I have finally photographed it.
Life got pretty busy since we moved in and basically, these holidays are our first chance
to enjoy it all.



Behind the kitchen is the open entryway to the pantry/laundry. 
I love the shallow open shelves and how it opens up to my kitchen garden :)


I am so happy with how it all turned out :)

Xx
Lea

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Love the Look ( Pt.2 )

So I was a bit late to this competition, but I made up for it this week .. three entries .. yes, i'm greedy, but when I want something, there's only one word for me: competitive.





I don't enter a lot of comps, mainly because these days they require me to get people to vote for me.
 
I've witnessed a couple of pretty nasty incidents in recent years that just made me sad for the persons in the running.  I also think annoying your friends and family persistently is a good way to get yourself hated, and hey, I need all the friends I can get, because i'm probably pretty annoying in the first place :/

So I was happy when I found out about the Carpet Court competition. 


Sure, they'd like you to promote the comp, thus promoting them, but you *don't have to* ..
winners are actually selected by Interior Decorators, it's interactive, they provide briefs, and clues to what they are looking for in submissions .. so it's like a scavenger hunt ( and who doesn't love those ? ) .. ooh, something cosy and warm .. something fresh and summery .. go!

The other bonus of course, is that i'm in blog-revival mode, and also house-revival mode. 
We've done so much work I haven't showcased, and it's nice that i've been made to get off my butt and take some pics.  I've always been incredibly home-motivated, and hopefully one day i'll find all my 35mm film and scan in other housey-endeavours from days past.

For those new to this blog, I started it about 7yrs ago when only geeks had them. 
I had a new baby, a new house, a new life, and family overseas.  I wasn't chained to the corporate wheel.

This is our third home as a family, and as mortgage-holders.

We started in Collingwood in our first reno .. 1 bedroom, an outside loo, I used to peel slabs of peeling paint off in the shower and wonder absentmindedly about asbestos and steam.  We made it beautiful and the DINK-dream of our friends, then had a baby and arranged for a sale while I was recovering in hospital.  The real-estate team came though while I was breastfeeding in bed.  I'd been a mother for only a few days.






Sold it to a gay guy, moved to the 'burbs.

Realised kids needed a backyard ( it was a sub-divide with a wife-beater living in what should have been our backyard .. err .. )  Gorgeous cottage though.  Shame.

And now we're here, the forever home, with the backyard.
We're doing the FULL RENO next year.  The one that's been TALKED ABOUT for 7yrs.  It's exciting, and terrifying.  We're making an upstairs and working in with work we've already done. It's to house two teenage boys that might be living with us until they are 30 (?).  Currently they share a room ... and a bed.  Not so cool in a few years time, I suspect, so we're jumping now.

So yeah, if you're thinking I might find a Carpet Court room makeover handy ( and a bit of flooring to boot ), you'd be right.  Totally right.

And I get to upload some of the work i've already done, so i'm happy for the boot in the bott-bott.


Love the look?
Why not submit some pics of your own?
There's still time, but this is the last week, so get to it!

xx
Lea

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