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Some amazing looking houses I've found on the Douglas Freidman site- WOW!

 

Up-cycled Chair

‘Nomades Collection’ Tire-E chair in cherry wood and reclaimed car tires from young Canadian design duo Haniyeh Khosravi Fard and Farhad Shabani of F.H Design- $1300.00 Available here

I'm in the library...

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Freunde von freunden

Desire to inspire

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The Selby

My Granny's TV

Everytime I see this TV it cracks me up...

My bedroom... (I WISH!)

If this was mine, I would never ever leave!!!

The view...the windows... the fireplace and wall... although the ugly curtains would have to go....

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Rug with industrial print

I found this rug on the NY Times site
Its the outline of an electrical transformer that hold up power lines.  I guess it would match the Think Contemporary upcycled cabinet with the powerlines vinyl print...

The rug was designed (no joke) by a man called Randy Twaddle (like Russell Brand said to FiFi Box what would your porn star name be? lol).

Twaddle was "drawn to the unintended elegance of the transformers and the lyrical quality of the power lines.”And I agree with him, the industrial nature of this rug, and the vinyl print from the Think Contemporary cabinet are beautiful in their industrialism, the lines are almost abstract when viewed in this graphic print on the rug...

The idea reminds me of that scene in Ameican Beauty where the freaky kid films the plastic bag against the brick wall... In some ways it is sad that that something like thiscan be considered beautiful, but then this is outweighed by the gritty urban scene where the bag floating in the wind becomes mesmerising....

"Think Contemporary" Upcycled Furnishings

I stumbled upon this post on Design*Sponge (one of my favourite blogs/websites) and I really love the idea.

 Joanne and Anthony run "Think Contemporary" which is an interior design and architecture company based in Dublin, where they have recently branched out into 'upcycling' old furniture into beautiful creations such as this...
 
The dresser was redone with paint and vinyl which has turned a old *blah* piece of furniture into practical art.

I think its really interesting the way that quite a depressing streetscape such as this one, powerlines at the forefront, grey, dreary housing etc can be so visually arresting... the stylised sun is such a focal point because of the unexpected pop of colour it gives to the drawers.

I really really love this piece of furniture and potentially may have a go at something similar myself at home :)

Debra Cronin Designs- Vogue Living July/August 2010

Vogue Living ran a spread on Debra Cronin in its July/August 2010 issue.  She has restored an old terrace in Wollahra so that it is 'Alice In Wonderland meets The Addam's Family'.... Its pretty unsual I think in that all the walls in a number of rooms have been stripped back, rather than leaving one as a feature and painting the others.  It should be noted however, while it looks like it is the lower rooms that have been done like this, the upstairs bedrooms are white and have a more contemporary feel. I especially love how the chandelier does NOT sparkle in pictures of this room, although it might be a different story at night.  I loooooove the mirrored medicine cabinets in the bathroom, I've never seen anything like it before, however the room itself does look a bit gloomy.... I guess I like the look of these rooms, but it might be a bit much living in them all the time!!

The wine rack is AMAZING. I love the colour...  Debra uses her house as an underground dining experience as well, called 'Bite Club', which, along with pocket bars that are popping up all over the city, seems to be the trendy dining/wining thing to do in Sydney over the last couple of years....But Bite club actually has the chef to back it up, as he also works at Pier at Rose Bay...

Perfect bookshelves

Awesome or what!!

More picture frames

How cool is this idea... its so simple, and you can change the pictures pretty frequently... love it!!

Here are some other bunched together picture frames that hvave caught my eye... In the picture above, they actually made the day-bed from wooden tile pallets, it seems pretty straightforward as well -from the Design*Sponge blog

This is a bit like my old room at my parents place- it was a huge loft, but I still managed to fill it up and have piles of books and pictures everywhere.. I think i prefer things to be cosy....

Picture Frames

 I went antiquing/op-shopping with my lovely friend Ebz on saturday, and we ended up in the back streets of Islington (amazingly she knew where to go haha- kidding ebz) in these awesome second hand furniture shops.

Anyway, my lover and I are pimping out "our" apartment and I decided to get a whole heap of frames, because I think when bunched together, mismatched but in the same colour they would look awesome.... Ebz and I found so many beautiful frames, that happened to be framing some rather unfortunate pictures/craft that will be binned as soon as I get around to it!  Ebz got to buy the most beautiful golden frame because she's a proper artist, unlike me who clicks my camera and hopes for the best!!!
(Check out her website http://www.birdwoodillustrations.com.au/
My favourite painting isn't on her site, but it is beautiful in its utter moroseness, and reminded me of Mordor...and then I found out it was based on the actual NZ mountain they filmed it at, so how good am I!? )

Anyway we had the yummiest breakfast at this place, Coliseum Antiques, http://www.coliseumantiques.com.au/Home.aspx   and generally had a really really fun morning.... the shop we had breakfast in (best poached eggs mmm) had this antique carved table for $12,900.00 sooooooo beautiful but so freaking expensive!!!

 

Photos borrowed indefinately (ok its larceny I admit it) from various house-lovely blogs, which are listed on the side.  I mean, if you're going to put something on the net, expect it to get borrwed right? The last one is from Design * Sponge 

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/08/sneak-peek-jo-of-these-are-things.html