Decoration Inspiration

When it comes to home decor I only feel a room is truly finished when it has been 'styled'. With the bathroom that meant putting razors, cotton buds and cosmetic pads into my thrift store green glass tumblers on the shelves that almost never happened. And while decorating the rest of the house is being put off in favour of getting the rest of the boxes unpacked I do want to style the rooms as I go so it feels more like home. I've just spend a few minutes looking for some inspirational pictures and thought I'd gather them together here for you to look at and as a reference point for myself:

If you couldn't guess from all the black lacquer this is a photo of Anna Sui's kitchen. Oh my god, I want this kitchen. I especially love how she's mixed the cream and white. I didn;t want to go all cream in ours as it is a tiny room and I thought it might be overpowering but also didn't want to go all white as it could look clinical, especially against a dark surface. Perhaps this would be the perfect compromise. I especially love the shaping on the top of the cabinets.

I have a doll's house that my Dad made when I was little - a four roomed town house with a staircase and working light in the bedroom. When our bedroom is decorated I plan on refurbishing it to match (though I'm going to keep the original ditsy floral wallpapers) and then probably spend a small fortune buying furniture despite the fact I'll never play with it.

I love old fashioned glass candy jars and all ready have a few that I have been lucky enough to get for small change from charity shops. My largest is currently houseing all my beads and charms though I think I might put my nail polish collection in their instead and organise my craft stuff into smaller ones.

I have a great thifted dining chair that I'm planning on re-painting. It'll probably end up in the 2nd bedroom/dressing room piled with my lifestyle guides and fashion books.