Tween Girl's Room Concept Board

After sharing my fabric purchases with you earlier in the week, I thought I'd share with you my plans for our big girl's room.

She's turning eight shortly, so needs something that is definitely not little girlish, but not like a teenager's room either.  She wants a desk to do her homework, space to practice her violin and a lounging area as well.

This is what I've come up with for her...

She will have a white quilt cover, so that if we tire of the accent colours, we can easily change out the accessories.  This room also has a niche space that we need to decorate.  I think that will be a task for once the walls are up and we can decide what to display in the niche.

Oh, also, please note that the desk and cubes will be white, not beech!  No white picture available on the Ikea website!!!

What do you think?

A gorgeous little girl's room

Yesterday, I came across this gorgeous wallpaper.

Laura Ashley - Summer Palace Duck Egg

Our little girl (3) fell in love with it, and it is now the 'jumping off point' for her new bedroom.  Here are a couple of photos with the wallpaper up against our wallpaper and a couple of accessories that she already has.

I'm feeling a bit excited, and scared, but I think it will look amazing!

In house news, the builder has erected the lovely green silt-catching material around the block.  Hopefully we can have a dry weekend and the plumbing and drainage can commence on Monday.  Positive, positive, positive!

Have a great weekend!

Stencil Love

A little while ago, we were talking about wallpaper in the laundry.  Of course, me being ever so impractical, didn't consider the condensation issues that would arise - luckily my lovely commenters did!

However, Anna suggested a stencil - an idea with which I immediately fell in love!  Me being me, I didn't really give it any more thought until I came across this post on Kate's blog.

I am now stalking working my way through all the images on this site, and devising a plan for my laundry, bedroom, study, family room...  Okay, settle down, let's just start with the laundry!

Here are some of my favourite stencils:

All images can be found here.  Yes - they ship to Australia!

Husband's My to do list is just growing by the day.  I'd better slow down, and warn you that once we're in the house, none of this will be happening over night.

I hope you're having a bright, sunshiney day!

Hot or not? - Wallpaper in the Laundry

Welcome to 'Hot or not?', your weekly/fortnightly/maybe monthly (?!) opportunity to tell me what you think of a particular design idea or trend.

This time, we're talking wallpaper in the Laundry.

You may be asking why?  Well, our Laundry is not massive, worse luck, and I want it to look kind of fancy.  Our tiling, a simple gloss white, will run up the wall to splashback height.  On top of that, we may or may not add some wall cabinets at a later date, but in the meantime, I'm thinking a pretty floral or geometric wallpaper would add some interest.

Here are some images to get you thinking...

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Here are some wallpapers that I love...

   

  

All wallpapers available here.

So, peeps, hot or not?????