Stylin’

As many of you would be well aware by now I’m looking to purchase my first property to call my own. It’s a very long, tedious experience (I can rant for hours about fucked up real estate agents. Being one, I feel I can do it right) on a positive note I’m enjoying the amateur interior designs, the colours people pick, the obscurity of modern simplicity with French provincial and moving along to the next room that’s been influenced by Feng Shui and that Pulp Fiction poster hanging in the corner?

I do spend excessive amounts of time parading in front of vendor / tenant book, CD and DVD collections, pretending it’s just a glance, you can tell so much about people from their entertainment collection.

There are so many ideas I have stored in that little filing cabinet in the back of my brain from my many years of property inspections, what I just wouldn’t consider doing in my own apartment, those great innovative ways of creating space without the use of sleazy mirrors or Ikea’s swish bang shelving collection(not that there’s anything wrong with that). I’ve also house-sat at a few friends’ abodes over the last year and I now know the little things I take for granted at home, the very simple thing , having an easy to use cork remover, of being able to set ALL my clocks at the same time, investing in a clock that doesn’t make that godforsaken tick tick tick sound that just drives me up the wall.

When it comes to furnishings, as with every other aspect of my life I’m torn between too extremes, give me anything with a history, I love this French Armoire and equally adore this lounge room (yes, it’s from the house).



I can’t even fathom the amount of stores I’m going to enter to achieve the style I want. If it took me almost 2 years and 5 countries to find a small plain black handbag that I like, Oooohh it’s going to be a lengthy process. Ha! And I sometimes wonder why it’s taking me so long to find a property, I’ve narrowed my search selection not to waste anytime… Sorry, my dear friends you’ll have to listen to me whinge for a while longer.

I’ve already purchased some kitchen stuff; I’m totally in love with it. Plain white dinner set and stylish stainless sliver cutlery, a few bits and pieces all stainless sliver. It’s this simple style I wish to remain consistent; it complements my Czech porcelain serving platter and tea sets.

Most of my ‘free’ time these days is researching cost of bed linen, general manchester, I love rich luxurious whites, chocolate browns, all the neutrals. I haven’t even started at the electrical appliances! Plasma. Did I hear someone say plasma…?