A weekender

From school house to country living this home purchased in a neglected state for US $30,000 was renovated with a playful spirit and turned into a weekend retreat by owners Jason Nixon and John Loecke. I love the fun colours and the quirkiness, the plates on the wall even the chandelier of this gorgeous looking home.

New season fashion

Its steamy hot but winter is arriving in store and personally I can't wait for the cooler weather. This is a snippet of a few pieces that have just arrived from the label Twin-set from Italy, I just love the top cardi the best, it just had to come home with me x

Vintage Paris Couture

Vintage Paris Couture is a newly published book arriving in store soon and I cant wait to get my copy. This gorgeous book is the French Woman's guide to shopping in Paris and I'm talking Vintage shopping, the best markets, the hidden stores we just never seem to find, I'll post more when I get my copy.

Missing blog list

I'm not quiet sure what happened but my blog list has disappeared from my blog!!! A Mystery

so please don't think I have deleted them off, now the big job of adding them all back x

Bookshelf Idea's

My biggest obsession is collecting books, from old vintage books to new, cook-books, home and Interior books so in other words I need a huge bookcase to hold them all, so any of the above would be great :) don't you just love bookcases that go over doorways I think they look amazing!

The Fashion revamp at lily-g

The inspiration behind our fashion section is blacks, creams and beiges using beautiful fabrics and wall paper from the Ralph Lauren collection. Next week the girls at lily-g will be spending a few days in Sydney buying, we plan on having lots of girl fun too. Have a great week-end x

Going Minty

Fabric from Designers Guild that I'm using for cushions and part of the recovering of the sofa
My Antique chaise arrived today ready to be recovered,  The back of the sofa will have the DG fabric( featured above) in mint green and white flowers with the rest of the sofa covered in a beige velvet, with scatter cushions in fabrics from The DG collection.

The wall-paper from Ralph lauren is absolutely stunning in real life, the back ground is in bronze/gold tones and the actual birds and branches are pearlized white with mint green on the edges of the branches (you can not see it on this photo) It's a very expensive paper but the effect in the end will be well worth it.
I mentioned that I was re-doing my fashion area at lily-g, the section is divided into two areas and is separate from lily-g home. The back area is our change room and is a relatively small space, I have existing white silk curtains that I cant afford to remove so with a natural stone floors and pale pink walls the change is not difficult. We plan on repainting the walls a beige colour and featuring a few of the walls in this stunning Ralph Lauren paper, the room has an antique marble coffee table and gorgeous gold rattan chairs with a chandelier to work back perfectly, I have used a mint green DG rug but it wont be overdone as I'm only using touches of the green. The area off this room is where we have our clothing labels and this winter our fashion is blacks, creams and caramels as the main attraction, so I'm using the same RL paper but in Black and beige but creating an elegant but less formal lounge room setting. The refurb should be completed in 4-6 weeks time ready for our autumn launch of our winter collection.