A Collar for Ned

I just came across these very cool Mascot dog collars and leads. I think I am going to have to order one in for Ned. Only problem will be trying to decide on which colour.....probably Navy.

A Beautiful Vignette

I am in-love with this beautiful vignette in the home of Melbourne based artist John Young which was featured in the July/August 2009 issue of Inside Out Magazine. I think the composition of the simple, natural tones of the objects with the divine, earthy coloured portrait is very beautiful.

Loving Ruffled Kitchen Skirts

I love the informality of ruffled kitchen skirts. I'm thinking from a budget conscious point of view this might be a fun option when we renovate our kitchen at our Stradbroke beach cottage. Are they a pain to use and keep clean?? I would love to hear from anyone who has had these before...

image 1 - mary ruffle, image 2 - skona hem

Kitchen Gallerry as A Desire to Inspire

Kitchen in one of another important room in a house. Clean, complete, and beautiful kitchen and smart kitchen arrangement is the most people like for a kitchen. A several best kitchen design always use minimalistic design as today's trend in home design. Here are several kitchen gallery, a desire to inspire and share for all of You....

Clean kitchen is the most suitable for any elegant or minimalist house, here are two kitchen design with white wall color and contrasted with black chair near the kitchen.

Pretty Yellow Wattle

Whilst I have been out on my morning walks of late I have noticed the wattle trees in flower all over the place. When I went down to the park with Harry yesterday there was one large tree in flower. I picked a few branches and brought them home and then arranged them in an old crystal vase my grandmother gave me a couple of years ago. I just adore the vibrant yellow of the flowers against the grey-green of the leaves.

Best Interior Design from Aslan Interior

I think its the best interior design that i put from Aslan Interior, but i believe that there are another best home design on his gallery. The first picture describe us how a carpet make the room looks elegant. But the most important is the sofa and the color combination between the floor tile, furniture, window's curtain and the roof.

Here is another best interior design from Aslan, a special wide carpet completed this elegant room, combined with large and high windows with the curtains.

Here are two (below and above) pictures that describe us how to use a Mediterranean windows style. White wall to maximize the lighting and similar white color for the chair and the sofa.

Black and White Dream Home In London

These are several photos of of Henry Wilson, a famous photographer with a fascination with India and interiors. Decorated and design with combination of ultra-modern minimalist room design, these interior room bring you an inspiration of dream home with black and white color.

Warm Color Interior Ideas Gallery

Warm color is one of my favorite color, as last year trend, this warm color is still suitable for minimalistic room. By combining this warm color with more dark or more bright, we can achieve special color combination. These photos describe you how to combine the warm color with blue, green or yellow... see yaa.. --martastewart--

Saturday Vintage Shopping Trip

A friend asked me to go hunting for vintage pieces with her yesterday {Saturday}. I warned her before we left that sometimes it can be hard to find things and sometimes we can come home with no great finds. Well, didn't I eat my words. We had one of the most successful vintage hunts I have had in a long time. We filled the boot of the car and then filled the back seats with things too. We even have a few pieces which need delivering next week!! Now, that's what I call a successful day...

Friday Flowers

I was very lucky to be given these pretty mottled roses from a friend today. I arranged them in a pretty yellow vase we have at Black & Spiro. I placed them next to our beautiful vintage lamp and shade {note the beautiful embroidery on the shade} on a table in the shop and then a very lucky young lady came into the shop with her mum and her sister and they took the lamp home for her bedroom. I am sad to see this beautiful one-off vintage lamp go but I know it will be loved and cherished by it's next owner...

Happy Weekend. See you next time.

xx

Anna

Lanning Residence Room Review

Located in Cary, North Carolina, Lanning Residence, is a beautiful residence, at the end of a suburban Cul-de-sac, the home is anchored by an old one hundred year oak tree. Created well and designed with updated style and budgeted for a young couple married or growing family, it offers a viable alternative to a generic speculative home.

The decision in designing of this unique and strong house was made early to utilize a strategy typical to most prefab house construction and style. Maximizing square footage while minimizing the building perimeter.

Several thing that can improve this house's value are the spacious interior values, large windows, plywood shear walls, sheetrock, and another simple material to reduce the cost of budget. --tonic--

Black & Spiro Today

It's been a while since I posted some pictures of the shop so I thought I would post some today. We have some lovely new pieces in at the moment including some beautiful vintage/antique pieces.

Summer on the Otherside

One of the things I love about this time of year {Winter in Australia} when it comes to my magazine subscriptions is the beautiful Summer homes featured in my favourite American magazines. Even though we are a little lighter on this year without the likes of Domino to give us our hit, this month's issue of Elle Decor looks like it's a cracker!! Loving this house belonging to Scott Currie {Elie Tahari public relations} in Southampton, New York.

The Origins of Taste

I've been talking a little bit about my mother's style in comparison to my own this week and I happened to stumble across this article by Anne E. Collins the Executive Editor over at Point Click Home in which she talks briefly about the origins of taste. I think it's a good read and applicable to my posts here this week. I hope to talk more about this topic in the coming weeks on ABT.

Bathroom Remodeling with New Fabric Walls and A Little Decluttering

There are a lot of ways in bathroom remodeling ideas, one of them is creating an artistic wallpaper or wall fabric. On these pictures, Meg and Ross have updated their bathroom with new fabric walls and a little decluttering. This is a smart and creative house remodeling and can be apply on other room interior. You can also see another bathroom ideas and bathroom gallery by visiting my another source.

Geraniums

My mother has always had lots of large pots of geraniums growing on her verandah. No family dinner or lunch is complete without some sort of flower arrangement on my mothers dining table and geraniums have often filled the void when other options aren't flowering in her garden. I thought I'd post a couple of her little geranium arrangements. You won't believe it when I tell you the last image is actually in her old bedroom at my grandmother's house. The black and white ticking wallpaper which you can see in the background has been on those walls for around 40 years! Mum chose the wallpaper for her room when she was a teenager. Now doesn't that spell timeless....

Staircase, a creative space on your stairs

Staircase is a creative storage that installed on stair, used for saving anything such as book, or shoes, this storage is a smart solution for a minimalistic house design. Find and create your stair like these creative space.