Moving on and more rodents.
House is curently eating up all of the time and all of the money. The place has been a rental before now and as uch every wall and skirting board in the whole place was white. The horrible bobbly wall paper upstair was at least unoffenively white too. The carpets are all an unoffensive hard wearing biscuit. Curtains are all calico (which I actually like). We don't have time or resources to re-do the whole things so at the moment are trying to make it look like ours and to make what is there fit with limited resources.
I have suitable plans and am finding that the three years I spent working in bespoke furnishings is currently very useful both in terms of quick fix and colour theory. For example we can't afford new carpets but I have found a shade of bedroom blue that looks nice with it and am using a fresh green in my study to do likewise. I am then going to employ a silk I have had for years as a picture (trust me) in the bedroom to pull this together. The white white lounge and downstairs is lovely and light but looks a bit cold. In comes a woven lampshade and a warm fudgey colour on the skirting boards and banisters and hey presto the whole room looks warmer.
In the long term my overall design plan is a "earth to sky" sort of thing - earthy tones downstairs with blue for the most upstairs and the Rabbit Anchorage room is green to reflect the garden outside. The external garden wall is currently manky red. This is going to become white like the downstairs interior to make the whole space seem as one. The garden is wierd - I will show you why later - but I have plans for raised beds.
In other news, we may as well admit now that we have acquired more rodents. It was the darndest thing - they just turned up on the doorstep wih their cage looking up at us sadly ill we let them in. The clever bit was how they managed to pay for themselves on my debit card. So Nutmeg and Cinnamon the Roborovskis have joined us. They are to little girls, about the size of brussell sprouts. They will never get bigger than five centimetres long. They look like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9166681@N02/2149893366/
I have suitable plans and am finding that the three years I spent working in bespoke furnishings is currently very useful both in terms of quick fix and colour theory. For example we can't afford new carpets but I have found a shade of bedroom blue that looks nice with it and am using a fresh green in my study to do likewise. I am then going to employ a silk I have had for years as a picture (trust me) in the bedroom to pull this together. The white white lounge and downstairs is lovely and light but looks a bit cold. In comes a woven lampshade and a warm fudgey colour on the skirting boards and banisters and hey presto the whole room looks warmer.
In the long term my overall design plan is a "earth to sky" sort of thing - earthy tones downstairs with blue for the most upstairs and the Rabbit Anchorage room is green to reflect the garden outside. The external garden wall is currently manky red. This is going to become white like the downstairs interior to make the whole space seem as one. The garden is wierd - I will show you why later - but I have plans for raised beds.
In other news, we may as well admit now that we have acquired more rodents. It was the darndest thing - they just turned up on the doorstep wih their cage looking up at us sadly ill we let them in. The clever bit was how they managed to pay for themselves on my debit card. So Nutmeg and Cinnamon the Roborovskis have joined us. They are to little girls, about the size of brussell sprouts. They will never get bigger than five centimetres long. They look like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9166681@N02/2149893366/