Bedrooms and Trees

Its me again and my random thoughts (photos) for everybody to see. I still have this tree fascination for my babies room and the picture above will be the tree I am buying. Very different colour schemes in all my pictures but I love the aqua colour in the pictures above. There is something so refreshing about blue, aqua and red. I also love the hint of lemon thrown in as well. Oh well, so many choices but at least I know I will be having a tree in my babies room.

On a different note...My oldest son actually is now very excited about his room and wants it decorated very similar to the one I had previously shown before ( it had a basketball hoop in it) Once he saw his room painted at the house, he could visualise what it would be like living in the house and all his stuff finally in his room. Will keep you posted...

Mrs B

My fascination with trees...

Urban Child

Urban Baby

Enfant terrible...Inke design

Yep, I have a fascination for Trees at the moment. I dont even know if I like wall decals or not but for some reason I want to put a tree behind my babies bed, with pretty leaves falling around him, little birds and butterflies flying around the tree. Just another idea...maybe its just a fad but I have always liked the tree idea.

Mrs B

My fixation on designing cool boys bedrooms

As the title suggests...Cool boys bedrooms? What I think is 'cool' and what my boys think is 'cool' couldn't be further apart. I am on a mission to decorate my 3 boys rooms to perfection, each room individual,colourful; reflecting on their owners personality and most importantly , a room where they wont be embarassed to bring their friends to hang out and play in. This will be Mission Impossible!!!!! Here I have found pictures that represent the most funkiest, coolest rooms you can find but I can guarantee that my kids would loathe these stunning pictures. My 14 year old just wants a bed, white walls and his TV on the wall. Plain doona cover and his cricket trophies on a white cabinet...that's it, nothing else, no girly cushions, rocking horse or curtains. This is my biggest decorating challenge yet! Stay tune as I let loose a barrage of colour with co-ordinating lamps, ottomans' cushions, window furnishings and bedding!
The pictures I have selected are from Better Homes and Gardens as well as PB Teens. In no way will I replicate the rooms but rather take bits and pieces from each room. I Love the checkered rug in one of the pictures and already I have seen it in Ikea. My colour theme will be green, blue and white...other accent colours yet to come. Hope you enjoy the pictures....

In this picture, I love the way they have mixed so many colours on the bed. In particular I like the use of yellow...very pretty but not sure if my boys would like it.

This bedlinen from PB teens is more like it...very sophisticated and subtle, I think the colours would work well in my oldest boys room.

The dark walls work well in this room. I think I will use dark blue as a contrasting colour in oldest boys room.

Couldn't resist! beautiful for a little girl, about 10 years old. I just love the colour combination...now where was I? that's right, back to boys...

Red white and blue, never can can wrong with this colour combination.

I love the rug, this room has given me ideas for my babies room. So serene and beautiful...

This room is so funky, dark blue works well with the red. I actually just asked my 14 year old if he liked this room...he loved it and wants everything in it...I think I am getting close to a victory!

I love the green walls, what a beautiful room! Sorry, I cant remember what site I found this picture on but it is just so lovely

Mrs B

Painting begins...

Hooray! Painting began on Christmas eve and now the painters are back straight after Christmas, thank you guys! The colour is Antique White USA and it is such a beautiful creamy white, exactly what I wanted. I can just imagine my house now....beautiful polished blackbutt flooring, crisp clean white walls, colourful art work splattered around the house, my new green couch with contrasting cushions and ottoman and my fireplaces in! After 15 months of this house build and still going I think I will allow myself the luxury of dreaming how my house is going to look...sigh

The photos are of the walls with just one coat of paint sprayed on. Not bad coverage I must admit. The painters will come back and paint the second coat.

Mrs B

Gift Giving....some thoughts

Just a few pictures of presents I have already received from my friends. The picture above is some beautiful hand cream...it will look so nice in my new bathroom
Picture below is one of two plates from the Villeroy and Boch... acapulco range. My friend thought she would start me off ...it is going to take me a while to collect all 6 plates and pasta bowls! I love the shape of these plates but haven't eaten off one yet....maybe Christmas day, everyone else at the table can have a boring white plate but I will have my special 'plate'...only joking!

I love Christmas! Its not always easy though...dealing with prickly relatives...but I love the whole ceremony of putting up the tree, writing Santa Claus lists (14 year old son still refers to Santa LOL) listening to Christmas carols, school holidays and of course presents!

On the subject of gift giving...I have found that many people find it very stressful and an unnecessary expense to do the whole Christmas thing....and that's OK! Sometimes I feel for them its only an obligation not a pleasure in both giving and receiving gifts. I love doing both and spend weeks thinking and planning the perfect present for my friends and family.

My beautiful Nanny was such a lovely person to buy for. The joy her face when each gift was opened was really her gift to me. It made me feel so special when she opened my gift because I knew she would love it no matter what is was. My Grandfather was a different story however...one year, he threw back the gift my poor brother had to give him on behalf of the family. Pop yelled at him "More socks! look at how many I have already got" then proceeded to grab my brother and took him into his bedroom to show him all the socks he had in his draw( nothing we gave him was ever good enough for him no matter how much it cost) I have come to terms over my Grandfathers attitude towards us but really, there was no excuse other than he was just a rude man and made Christmas for us uncomfortable.

So.......even though I sometimes struggled on Christmas day, I am always 'determined'(I say this because someone will go out of their way to be difficult) to be happy and create a wonderful experience for my own children. This year, my 2 older boys have gone out and bought presents for the family by themselves with their own money. We never expected them to do this but one day we saw 4 presents all wrapped up under the tree from my 14 year old son. To me that was the most beautiful gift I have ever received. There is something very special when your own child gives you a gift.

Mrs B