Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Blue and White

Blue and White 

While renovating our house I have spent many hours looking at designers and interiors that I would like to emulate in my home. One of the hardest parts about this is choosing a theme/colour scheme and sticking to it. I chop and change from Hamptons, New England to transitional style to plantation from greens and yellows to blue and white. 


The below pictures have been my blue and white inspiration and I have tried to incorporate some of these elements into the design of my home. 


Horchow


I love the all white walls with mouldings to create shadows softening the clinical nature if crisp white

T&G interiors

Ethan Allan

Morgan Harrison

Morgan Harrison

Morgan Harrison

Westbury Paisley Fabric 






One Kings Lane 

One Kings Lane 

One Kings Lane 

Ethan Allan

Ethan Allan




Pheobe Howard

My House

Ralph Lauren

Barclay Butera






MrsCB

Monday, June 9, 2014


Renovation Update



After a few delays and mistakes on behalf of the flooring installer we finally have new floors. The change from tiles to floorboards has been worth all the heartache, cost and time. We decided on Blackbutt wood, which is a very light blonde hardwood. I chose this wood because it is a light colour making it easy to stain. In our previous house we used blackbutt and stained in a very dark brown almost black which I thought looked amazing but this time we decided to go lighter stain and settled on a colour called Old Baltik by Feast and Watson with a polyurethane semi gloss varnish.

Instead of using the traditional floorboard width of 80mm we decided to go with a wider board at 130mm which I think looks great. 

Below are a few photos of the original tiles, the boards unstained and the final product.

There is still so much to do such as the stairs, painting, new light fittings, shutters on the windows and curtains, filling in a wall and to do something nice with the pillars not to mention choosing colours and a few new pieces of furniture.... phew I'm exhausted just thinking about it! 



The original tiles




Blackbutt unstained 



Stained Blackbutt with Old Baltik Stain








MrsCB