My Home Wishlist #1 | Dressing up your Dining Table!

Table Cloth, Floral Coaster, Spoon Placemat, Stag Set, Feather Placemat, Bird Coaster

If you read through my first edition to the home-y blog posts featuring my kitchen you’ll know that I spent that weekend painting, sanding, waxing and polishing our kitchen table to get it looking more to our taste – country kitchen meets shabby chic. The next stage will be buying accessories to dress the table up a little for when we have dinner parties – or just feel like being a bit jazzy on a weekday evening.

These table accessories from John Lewis are absolutely gorgeous and this shop is definitely my point of call when it comes to the kitchen. Having got our toaster and kettle from there (snaps here) I can sense a bit of a theme occurring. I particularly love the butterfly table cloth and all the pieces I’ve picked out are surprisingly affordable, if not a little bit of a treat. When you move in to your first home budget is key and each month I save myself a little bit of spending money, I think I might just have to save a few months worth of pennies and treat myself to the whole shebang (unless you guys are feeling generous ;))

Have you invested some time and money in any home improvements? I’d love to get some inspiration from you guys!

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Our Home #1 | The Kitchen

Tea, Coffee & Sugar Pots: Dunelm Mill. Table & Chairs: eBay. Bar Stool: c/o Lakeland Furniture. Clock: Homesense. Kitchen Roll Holder: Not on the High Street.

I was thinking since I talk so bloomin’ much about my new home that it might be quite appropriate to share a few snaps of the rooms with your wonderful selves. Starting off with where I spend the majority of my time...the Kitchen. I have to admit that this is probably my favourite place in the house. When I envisaged my first kitchen I never imagined having something as lovely as this; to me it feels like a proper country kitchen and it’s so light and airy I could just sit at the island supping peppermint tea for hours on end. Obviously, that rarely happens you’ll usually find me mop in hand! Oh...wouldn’t I make the perfect Cinderalla ;)

Mum and Dad bought us the toaster and kettle and they’re my favourite things. They have them in white too, which look pretty awesome but knowing me I’d just get them absolutely filthy. Daniel is always saying how I get more food on the floor than in the actual pots and pans.

These barstools are the comfiest things our tooshies have ever sat on and they slot in perfectly under the island so there’s no trip hazard (hello klutz) haha. When you sit down the seat sinks a little to adjust to your weight which gives such sturdy support and the leather finish makes them really easy to wipe down and clean (food fingers).

Mum and I spent the afternoon painting, sanding and waxing the table and chairs. They were in a bit of a sorry state before but I'm really happy with how they turned out! Not bad for a set that only cost us £20, eh?

The clock is also a firm favourite – a bargainous £25 from Homesense. Have you been to this shop? If not, find your local store and GO it’s so well priced and has amazing pieces.

So, that’s our kitchen! Do let me know if this sort of post floats your boat and if you’d like to see more? Some rooms are still a work in progress, i.e. the lounge, but the bedroom is pretty much done now :)

Hope you've all had a fabulous weekend!

kitchen utensils

I love cooking, especially when I have guests. Last week I had a guest, a customer of Mr Beau, a 60 year old single man, very healthy, sporty and a good cook. He wanted to have a tour of the house and looking at the kitchen he told me: I like your house, mine is quite the same, but with a lot less STUFF!

I find it cosy to see kitchen utensils, but yes when it´s organized ofcourse... I do understand men, they want things more clean and not in sight...It got me thinking, I love the above picture, but it´s too femenine

Love this DIT idea, very girly too

So practical...

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What do you think?

multi funcional kitchen

Hello, hello...yesterday I officially had the most busy day of the year and I felt like a multitasking pro! I couldn´t make it to sit down and write a relaxed post, so no you have my full attention again.

This dining area is very multifunctional, the tables has drawers for kitchen utensils and it makes the kitchen a whole lot bigger. Recognize the lamps frommoooi design? I have the same one above my dining table and i love it every day.

I love the marble top on the dining table, makes me want to own one.

I look forward to live in a house one day with doors that go to the garden from the kitchen, very handy when having dinner in the garden.

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White

Who said plain white is boring? Look at these it might make you think twice.

in love with these ones

perfect cake

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DIY add some ribbon to your lampshade

This is a lamp that I found on the roadside a long time ago (I have had many funny looks using the tramway carriying this lamp with me but I knew it had potential and I held on to it) So it has been patiently waiting for all that time. I bought a simple white lampshade, but it was missing something, it was looking all too white with the white painted walls.

A close up - I like the detailing of the foot of the lamp.

I needed adhedsive spray, sissors and ofcourse the ribbon (grosgrain)

Glue, add and cut - so simple

This is my mobile kitchenette, very practical and even has a fridge and hot water boiler. It has nothing to do with this diy, but you can imagine my office kitchen with the sofa.

Voila done in a heartbeat

Now you can see that I have to make another painting, a colourfull one to add some happiness to this kitchenarea and to cover the missplaced electricity outlet above the sofa, and now that we are thinking of what else is missing, maybe a nice rug.

I want my office to feel like home, as I spend most of my day time here, bit by bit it´s coming together.

A perfect match - apartment

When I saw these pictures, I almost pressed my nose to the screen, so pretty I found them. A lot of white with pops of colours. Aren´t those Kartell Mademoiselle chairs lovely? I am a huge fan of lucite and pretty fabrics, these chairs are the perfect match!

If this were my house it would be a bit more full with clutter, but I do intent to get the minimalism look, wich will never happen..

I like the round zebra rug, wich is a bit diferent than the other zebra rugs out there. Zebra rugs are still a big favourite of mine and still give chic-ness to any room.



                                                I love marble countertops in kitchens!







                                      all images from Achados de decoracao

Beau lifestyle apartment

This is it, the painting is finally dry, and mounted on the wall.These are the images of our little apartment that I wanted to share with you. If you read my blog you might recognize the things in the apartment that I posted about. There are still things I want to undertake in our apartment, but for the moment it's done.

Please let me know what you think and I am happy to tell you where I found/ bought the things in our apartment. I would like to thank you, for being part of this wonderfull world called blogging. It has been a huge inspiration for me.

13-02-2012 update: Baby Matteo´s nursery