It's not all black & white

sneak peak at my daughter build-in's going in

She specifically requested blue (be her colour)
my three girls are all keen to differentiate their territory!

not a great pic of the Kartell Fly

it does look better in the flesh! 

waiting for the two drawers at the bottom

the door fronts will be white

....and the inspiration behind this room...

fell in love instantly with this pic found over at cococozy.com an age ago. Think I'll be pretty damn close to stealing the style when the room is finished (result!)

Funky Bunk

 

Decided to go for this funky bunk bed for Eve's bedroom.  She is now one very excited little girl and is already planning what she is going to decorate those shelves with!! 

Bedroom Colour Schemes
(That's not the right colour blue Mum!)

I'm attempting to nail down the general colour schemes for the girls rooms amongst other things at the moment.  I know this may seem premature as my windows don't arrive until 18th January (oh how happy I will be once they are eventually fitted!) and plastering out can't  be completed til windows are in situ.  However Mark my contractor has tiling scheduled to start at the end of the month...yes that's right this month....as in January 2010! 

That therefore brings me right back round to why nailing down the colour scheme is important, as I need to make sure tiles I choose for the girls en-suites fit in with the colour schemes of their bedrooms.....and with 3 very opinionated young ladies to deal with here, this is going to be one of the toughest parts of the build.  


It's only natural I guess that the girls are both excited and exacting about "THEIR ROOMS."  We will have been living in our rented accommodation for over 3 years by June 2010, when we are scheduled be moving in to our new house.  So there has been very little in the way of 'creative freedom' in designing their own space during this time and they have now practically 'out-grown' their old bedroom furniture to boot! 

"Bless This Mess"

It does make me smile when I think that we are building this great big family house, where they will each get their "big own space" that they claim to so crave.  Then I laugh when I remember that they have just spent the whole of their Christmas holidays and every other school holiday during the past year, sleeping together in a rather 'dormitory' style fashion (through their own choice I may add) in my youngest daughters room!  


My 8 year old daughter is the most decisive about what she wants for a colour scheme "Blue - Pink - Red - White = BRIGHT"

image via nurseryworks.net

image via madebygirl

This is what her room looks like right now...with her in it!

Can't wait to go to town on this room with some bright paint and prints

I'm especially loving PIP Studio at the moment,

see decor8 here and here for low down on this Dutch designer.

Loving this FL/Y pendant light by Kartell too.  The ceiling is very high so the light fitting needs to be larger than life!