Shower frills

image via Anthropologie

How pretty is this?  The colours are amazing.

A bit of wow for a Saturday

Images via Contemporist - see here for more

Haven't I just been the avid online world traveller this week (mmmm...atador)?

My lovely friend and lover of all things 'wowhowspeccy' (a new term coined which means 'admiration of the wow') pointed me in the direction of the Contemporist.  My first foray into this site of loveliness was this beauty in Brazil, by the architectural firm grupoSP.  A library containing 7,500 items! 

I'll say it and say it again... wow!  Thanks Ton.

España-tastic

image via here

I must have a bit of Spain on my mind this week.  Check out this beauty by Marià Castelló arquitecte on the Formentera Island, Spain.  Very simplistic but very nice or should I say very simpático! I imagine this is where matadors hang out to chill out after all that bull-fighting, rush of blood-to-the-head, manly stuff.

Bravo!

Sixx Design

images via Black Eiffel

Sixx Design, where to start?  I first came across them in Living etc magazine a couple of years ago with an amazing property in New York to fit themselves and 6 kids (although they now have 7).  It even had its own rooftop basketball court.  Since then they have launched their own show in the States called 9 by Design.  I do own their book Downtown Chic which features lots of the amazing properties they have designed and developed.  These images are from one of their personal holiday houses.  Now that's what I call a house for kids!  If that trampoline was a bit closer to the pool you could bounce right in.   

Slip sliding

via here I think

Could this be any more fun?  Do we need to build on just to install something similar?  I'm not sure that white walls are the best colour to have beside it but let's hope it's a high gloss finish.  Look out kids, I'm coming through!

Mark Tuckey

RealLiving

Mark Tuckey

For awhile now I have been a fan of Mark Tuckey's work and he has been featured a lot in magazines of late too.  Sitting down this arvo in the late sun flicking through Real Living I saw the exact shelves that I need to have in my home.  I have no doubt that someone I know can knock them up for me.  Now that he's on holidays, it's the prime time to ask. 

I think next time around I might have more of a kitchen like this one as it takes me back to my childhood home with the cedar panelling.  I hope (and no doubt some others I know) that the new occupants haven't painted it or worse still, removed it. Still maybe it's just the yellow stools I am hankering for.  See how good that 'pop' of yellow is against the timber.

Beach house

Holidays are always on my mind and this amazing beach house in Norway could be transplanted to a plot of land in South Australia by the beach with my name on the title. I love the simplicity of it at first glance. Then upon further inspection you notice the little nooks and crannys like the outdoor shower. I love how it could easily translate into an Aussie beach shack fancy-style. The contrast in colour on the house itself is fantastic and against that wintry Nowegian sky, it's divine.

Family and friends could come and stay for the weekend and we could pop down easily on a whim. Just think of the girls weekends we could have!

Shhh... I need a little quiet

I'm pooped and I need a little quiet time on my own with no phones, emails or any means of communication. I don't mind if you come and you like to quietly read a book or contemplate your navel. I'll be in this room but please don't bother knocking, I won't answer.

Source unknown (can't remember)