
Stunning Powder Room Seen in Californian Home Design Mag.
No I’m not planning the surgery already, I am just having my annual fit of decorating madness. I am very sensitive to my surroundings. The colour, light and flow of the environment; and of late I am feeling all laden down with badly placed furniture, lack of light and chaotic storage. In fact there is even solid scientific evidence backing up my discontent. I know I am in trouble when instead of seeing a way to solve the problem I just start looking in the real estate pages! I’ve been agonizing over my house for a good few months, not knowing what it was that was causing this feeling of discontent, but I just may have found a solution. Apply the experience I have learnt in other aesthetic areas of my life to this problem.
Just like a good wardrobe evaluation and clear out, I need to start looking at what I have and how I use it. I find myself constantly crashing into the corner of my kitchen table and cursing it for being so big. I dislike the fact that the first room people enter at my house is the kitchen, (that is past the entry hall) always congregating around this large table. So I have been trawling eBay in an attempt to find a smaller table, but it still doesn’t solve my problem of my kitchen being the centre of things. In a huff, I’ve been sitting around making plans for moving to an inner city penthouse where things are all open plan and I have no garden to look after. But I know that still wouldn’t make me happy. (Boy I’m sounding really fussy and spoilt now). And then last night it finally hit me, I really do need to tackle this in the same manner as a good wardrobe re-evaluation and look at how to re work and re purpose things.
There is no good reason that my kitchen table needs to be in that particular room, it was just the way things were designed when we moved in. Like figuring out which pieces of clothing I wear most often, I started figuring which rooms I use most often. It seems that the rooms I use most often though, are not my favorite rooms. Many of them are darker than I’d like, don’t have the best view, or are just plain badly laid out. Yet those rooms that I adore for their light and space are the ones that are left “hanging” in the closet for “good” use., to use the wardrobe analogy. When you look at it like this it makes no sense at all. So I’m beginning to create a plan of attack that involves re-purposing these favorites to turn them into the room I use the most and enjoy spending time in.
Here is where you all come in. While I’m revamping my studio to make it a better place in which to create scintillating posts for you all, I need you to send me your best recommendations. Blogs, decorating sites, renovations recommendations; all the places that you love to go and fantasize over. If the sites are Australian, all the better. I often find things I love on UK sites only to discover that to obtain the object of my desire I’ll have to sell my first born to afford the shipping. So leave me a comment, send me an email or Tweet me your favs. And while you’re at it say a prayer for poor Mr. SKM and his sanity.

Places to increase your dissatisfaction with your home.
Bruce Willis is my Home Boy
Desire to Inspire
Retro Renovation
Girl Meets Glamour
The Mid Century Modernist

