Gettomhg tje Ba;; Rp;;omgh

....or "Getting the Ball Rolling" if you have your hands in the correct position on the keyboard.
The planning of my new living room has begun, albeit slowly, and my main area of attention at the moment is fabrics. My first port of call was to my favourite online fabric store Fabric Traders. Boy do these local gals know their stuff! Their style and taste has been a source of inspiration to me for some time now and I have been known to make the odd sneaky purchase from them as well. Remember this fabric?.......

This is one pattern I want to incorporate into the redec and I have made a mood board of sorts with a couple of other samples from their site which I'm hoping will all go nicely together in a mis-matched kind of way.  Professional decoraters please feel free to step in now!!

Here...

Always love a bit of red ticking.....

I am yet to consult "Pattern Play 101" so the exact ratios I will use the fabrics in are still to be determined.  This morning I hastily purchased a couple of metres of ticking at the Spotlight fabric sale....and I say hastily because I had both Mr D and Miss H home sick in bed with various ill-person symptoms. But at the suggestion of Miss M (as I drove her at school saying "I don't want to be at home with those 2 sickies") I went shopping!  Her other suggestion was to go have coffee with friends....smart girl!!

Please feel free to comment on the above fabrics as there really is no book called "Pattern Play 101" and I haven't got a clue!!

xxMs.K

Decor Dilemma

I've decided a bit of szhuszh-ing is in order for the Kitchen Kitsch living room but my dilemma is not only the correct spelling of szhuszh-ing but also....where to start said szhuszh-ing?? At the moment it's an "eclectic" (hate that term) hotch potch (love that term) of 2 old green lounges, my fabulous 1950's sideboard which houses alot of essential stuff but hasn't come within an inch of being szhuszh-ed, an old travellers trunk used as a coffee table, a big old brown piano, a couple of miss-matched side tables and 3 lamps that I have either "won" on eBay, found in an op shop or picked up out of someone's huge pile of curbside collection rubbish. Not to mention the Great Wall of China I have made out of clothes that need folding, putting away or ironing.....urrrrghh!
So as I wait for Big Sis to pick me up and whisk me off to Ikea...jealous?.....I thought I would share with you a couple of ideas I've been tossing around in my very vacant noggin......thank god world peace is taken care of....!! I'm sorry I couldn't tell you where I found these images so thanks to whoever needs thanking.

Un

Love the wall paper, the sofa, the cushions, the lamp, the colours, the door, the floor......

Deux

Where do I begin? Love the red wall, the fabulous red chair, the white metal chair, the fabric, the door, the floor.....

Trois

Oh the view! The white chairs, the white walls, the red chairs, the windows, the door, the floor....

Quatre

The chairs!!! The armoir, the chandelier, the coffee and side tables, the neutralness, the white, the ceiling, the floor lamp.......

Cinq

The fabulous colours, the chair, the wall paper, the framed print, the pot plant....what's not to love?

Now do you get it??? Oooh my ride has arrived.....I'll leave you with one last pic.....

Six

.........I have no words.....

xxMs.K