Looking out...

A picture of my lounge room looking out to the front of our home, I have french doors right across the front of my home, our lounge goes out to our patio which has water views (the grey part is water) we live on our patio as our climate is so beautiful, I love changing my coffee table nic-naks, the silver tray is an antique from france purchased from a company called "Tade" the collection on the tray is shells that I have found over the years on local beaches, an old ship lantern, old bottles collected from a flea market and some of my favourite books. In the silver dish is my husbands grandfathers pocket watch and some beautiful silver coasters from vietnam that a friend gave to me.

A close up...

A closer look behind my sofa, I'm loving Hydrangea's at the moment and the touch of green adds colour to my neutral look!

My home at Manly

My love of the Hamptons inspired me when we built our home in Manly overlooking the bay, we wanted a relaxed coastal look that suited our lifestyle and our area we live in. All the homes in our street are Queensland style homes which date back to over a 100 years old some are just simply ready to be renovated or in need of bulldozing, our previous home was just that, not worth renovating, so we built a new home trying to keep the character of timber boards,french windows lots of white. Winter is approaching and I can't wait to use our fireplace (in all honesty we only get a few months of cold weather, um...10 degrees at night if we are lucky, but us Queenslanders love the cool change.) My sofa's have slip covers for easy washing and care, most of my look is neutral but in spring I add colour with cushions,flowers etc...I'll keep posting more shots of my home over the next few weeks

My Kitchen

I thought I would post today some images of my house, we still have lots to do! my floors are limestone with grey and taupe tones, the kitchen top is a grey stone and to the right is a walk in pantry with lots of shelves for crockery,platters etc...the handles I imported from France they are pewter and limogue porcelian, normally my kitchen is full of activity with kids making lunches so I had to get up early to get this shot..um...if only it always stayed tidy!!!

A market find....

I'm loving this inspirational board too, the pretty blue frame is actually and old window shutter,what a great idea, definately a market find!

Finding Inspiration

I just never seem to find the time to actually do my own inspirational board so instead Im posting some of my favourites in the hope that i'll eventually do it! I just think this picture it is so pretty and I'm loving the chair too!

Finding the time....

I could so see myself packing up for the week-end and off to my beach house or country house for a few day's of relaxing! (okay! I'm dreaming......) but instead I'm staying home to do house work and a bit of re-organising and bake a cake with my lily, when you work all week I so enjoy spending time with my family and staying home, boring I know but Home is my happy space and of course my blogging time! see you next week and have a great week-end x