Let there be Light

The kitchen pendant is up now and looking great hanging on its red fabric cable. Thanks again Muz for my house warming pressie - bought over a year ago and installed at last.

Happy Royal Wedding Day!

Its nice to know that sometimes fairy tales really do come true...

Here are a few photos I took around the city today after watching the wedding when the crowds had thinned out a bit:

Bunting for a neighbourhood street party
Left over confetti on the lawns of Hyde Park
A shop display window on Oxford Street
Flags on Regent's street

Artemide Light Fitting Installed

The Artemide Light fitting is now installed and is super bright. After months of cooking by only the undercabinet LED lights it was almost blinding to suddenly have the room illuminated by this up-down light.

Refurbishing the last set of shutters

All I can say is thank goodness there are only 3 sets of shutters in this flat and that the rear windows dont have them! Im on the last 4 panels now. I have completed their initial wood filler and sanding treatment, (both sides) their base coat (both sides), and their touch up wood filler and sanding (one side). Sounds a bit like getting a facial with all those steps. Just 2 more coats to go and they can be installed.

Happy Easter Monday

Hope you had a happy sunny Easter Weekend...

Some good advice

I saw this poster today and it seemed like a good motto to live by...

A moment of silence

To remember happy times.

Im going to take a short break from this blog, but will be back soon...

Toilet Room Colour Option 3 - Orange Ceiling

The internet is amazing - if you have an idea you can be sure someone somewhere has tried it before and posted photos of their results online. I thought about having white walls and paiting the ceiling orange as something a little unexpected, and sure enough a quick google search revealed what it could look like.

Im leaning towards this or the dark grey at the moment.

Toilet Room Colour Option 2 - Dark Grey

We painted our rented toilet room at Hazelbourne road a medium grey like our living room now and really liked it as it made the fittings really pop. Also, it was a bit like being inside a submarine. So this option looks at going a shade darker again on the paint chip.

Toilet Room Colour Option 1 - Hague Blue

The way I see it is that our tiny toilet room is an opportunity to do something a bit darker or more 'controversial' with the wall colours. There is no point in paiting the room white or a light colours as there will be no fooling that it is a small space.

So, for the next few days Im going to post some of the colour schemes that we have been considering. Here is one idea for a very dark rich blue.

Robin Day Fabric

I was looking through a magazine the other day and saw that someone had made a fabric wall canvas out of the same Lucienne Day Dandelion fabric I had chosen for the sofa cushions.