Home maker's plan

Ever since I started at boarding school I have been planning my dream home, having to pack my belongings and put them in storage every three months and staying with a new guardian family every half term is not much fun after 7 years...and then things improved at University, I only had to pack and move every year. So it's quite surprising that I have lived at my current flat for almost 4 years! I think it's down to bad feng shui, as it's on the 4th floor, we have to climb a healthy load of stairs to get home every day. (For my landlady of course, she's enjoying a healthy load of cash flow every month...)

As a result, I now have a big collection of interior design photos, room colour schemes, ikea clippings...etc. I thought I'd do a "mood blog" post to show you a few of my favourite ones. (The trouble was remembering which websites each of these came from...please email for credits!)

I wished it was practical to arrange my books like this!

This one's for the city balconies...

Just saw that the Ikea 2012 catalogue is out!

I like the little wooden table, 
I like the pictures of the heads, 
and  I like the huge picture on the wall.

Got to be the wicker swivel chair (and the number of drawers..)

There's just something about the colour scheme that feels very homely too.

Art (and music) would shape my decorating theme, a home can't be sweet without these. So at the moment, I am drooling over these two pieces:

Aww...he is just too cute - by Shazia

My mum took a photo of me on a bike with a "cool" face too, 
just didn't have a cool shadow behind me to go with it
- by Craig Davidson