daydream believer...

Lately my husband and I have been discussing (read fantasizing) about buying a house in Tasmania...the apple isle, the southern most tip of Australia. A million miles from anywhere and everywhere. 

Of course the minute we started talking about it I had already mentally decorated this hypothetical space in my head. I instantly started thinking I wanted to use green. Its my favorite colour, and we don't get a lot of it in Hong Kong, so I would love to be able to surround myself with it.

 

"Frond" from Murobond Paints

It was only after lunch at Aberdeen Street Social on Friday that I realised how great that colour looks with smoked oak wide plank flooring.

 

As it would be a holiday house, I'm after something unpretentious, comfortable and relaxed. These are a few pics that are taking my breath away at the moment...

Two images above are a private residence by Faye Toogood

Three images above are Ett Hem in Stockholm, Sweden by Ilse Crawford

Two images above, Drift House, in Port Fairy, Australia

Who knows, but the time we actually get around to buying and decorating I'll have completely changed my mind. Several times.

Long weekend...

Happy mid Autumn festival to my Hong Kong readers! I'm quite looking forward to 3 days of chilling out at home and doing a bit of baking.

I thought I'd leave you with these images as I'm finding them very inspiring at the moment, and they feel a bit autumnal. Sorry for the bad scan quality, they were torn out from a magazine ages ago...

Loft living

So I've moved into a loft. We've been there about a year now, but I've kept it all a bit under the radar because its not finished...I didn't want to make any announcements until I was ready to show you the finished pics.  I've had such a busy year that I've been my own worst client. I've been delaying having friends over and throwing a house-warming because its not done how I want...and I'm tired of getting those looks that say..."still?"...so I have set myself a goal to get it completed...and when I do I will be happy to share the before and after pics with you (if they don't get published first). 

In the meantime, I am still looking for inspiration for certain areas, and while googling I came across the NYC loft of Harriet Maxwell and Andrew Corrie, the owners of Ochre.  I remember seeing this when it was first published in Elle Decor back in November 2010 and thinking that I loved the colour palette, and just how soft and serene it felt for such a big loft space.  Fast forward a few years, and funnily enough I have painted our walls a similar shade (although more taupe - think the background colour of the blog and you'll be close)...and had started thinking along these lines without even looking at these pics.

I have to say I'm pretty in love with this right now, and am already mentally replacing my sofa, dining chairs etc....

a few angles of the lovely living/dining room...this space is the best in the whole apartment if you ask me...

 

although that kitchen aint half bad either...although ours is rather large, so I shouldn't be complaining...

  

 very pretty bathroom and wardrobe spaces...love, love, love!



winter warmers

Maybe its winter and the thought of staying at home with my cats on days like these, or maybe its a shift in my tastes. Either way I seem to be drawn more often than not these days to rooms with warm plummy colours. I was never a fan of purples really, but I certainly seem to be now. It pairs perfectly with chocolates, blueberries and mushrooms. I don't know if I'd paint the whole house this colour, but definitely my bedroom or a small reading room. What do you think?

Larsen Fabrics

Dining room of designer Marcelo Lucini

by S. Russell Groves

Romeo Sozzi's apartment in Rome


a living room by Martin Brudnizki

a living room by Laura Kirar

one of my all times favorites, by Jacques Grange

from an article on 1st Dibs about on Fort Street Studio

Donghia

bedroom by Candy& Candy

unknown source

by D'Apostrophe Design

Where I want to live this week...

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= heavenly!

If I could mix Olivier Gagniere's Parisian apartment.....with the Ritz Carlton residences in Toronto...I'd move in tomorrow. The colours are divine, and the mix of furniture (albeit polar opposites) are to die for.

Olivier Gagniere's apartment photographed by Simon Upton for Elle Decor, Ritz Carlton residences by Munge Leung.

Inspirations

It's been a busier week at work than I anticipated, hence the lack of posts... But before I sign off and wish you all a great weekend, I'll leave you with some of the images that we are using as inspiration for the renovation of the studio apartment. I'll post update photos next week!

Stern McCafferty

Thomas O'Brien

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Rees Roberts

Page Goolrick

?? Morris Moreno photography

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Fawn Galli

Elle Decoration (UK)

Deborah Berke

Shelton Mindel

Selldorf Architects