Friday, 2 November 2012

Feature Friday: Migonis Home



Today I am featuring the home of Jen from the blog Migonis Home. Here is how she describes her style:

"When Kirsten asked me to define my design style I have to tell you that I had no idea how to articulate it...I love beachy meets rustic meets chic meets inexpensive. What is the term for that? :) Our house isn't complete, which you'll find out in a second from looking at the photos, but take a minute and check out my blog's House Tour so you can see the "before" photos. We've made some large improvements to our little Cape."

Enjoy! 








 








  

Check out the desk transformation here
  


  


  
 
  
 


See the details on this transformation here

Thanks again to Jen for letting me feature her home! Make sure you check out her blog here

Check out past Feature Fridays here

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Laundry overheads and first built-in robe

We are about to order the next lot of cabinetry for the laundry and bedroom 2. But as always, before we lock in the deal, I thought I'd run my ideas past you :)

So for the laundry overheads, I was thinking of going handleless. This will mean more fingerprints, but it will look more streamlined. We will have a floor to ceiling cabinet on the opposite side, where I envisage most of the cleaning products etc will be stored. It will have handles. So the overheads will probably hardly ever be used. What do you think? Handleless or use the same handles as we did in the kitchen. (The handles we are putting on the doors under the sink and on the floor to ceiling cabinet will be the same as the kitchen handles). What do you think?

Due to a bulkhead and high splashback, the overheads will be 61cm tall.

Ikea like drawers with gaps in between

Now for our first built-in robe fit-out drawers. I am not a fan of the standard wooden, curved handles. But at the same time I don't want anything too expensive since they will be behind closed (sliding) doors. I was thinking something like the photo below, but the edges seem a bit too sharp. Am I over thinking this? Probably, hey *shy*. What drawer system would you recommend for a wardrobe fit-out behind closed doors? Something reasonable looking and not too expensive?



Or Ikea like, with gaps in between each drawer?


And here is our 4 sliding door built-in configuration once again:



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the art of display.....plates & hats

Plates and hats and hats and plates, and plates with cups, and hats with hats, and ...
This all feels rather Dr Seuss but I love these displays.  I would love a stylist to come to my home and show me how to arrange my stuff, because I have lots of stuff and it never looks like this.









































A gorgeous dark wall display via Greige.  The straw hat on the far right looks like a hat I had from Lesotho, makes me wonder where all the other were collected.
I love this hat collection from Marainne Brandi's home in St Barts.  Pretty and practical for a beach home.
And who doesn't wish their crockery looked like this every day.  I don't have enough collections to get this look!  Love how the crockery pops off the wall with this dark grey backing from This is Glamorous, and who doesn't love white on white.

Left to right: More white on white via Etxekodeco, and a sliver of Martha Stewart's Bedford kitchen coffee station.  I wonder how many dinner and tea sets Martha has!