Colour overload

I have just started a design course and my homework this week involved painting about a hundred little colour chips in shades of red, pink, orange and yellow. Maybe this is why I am drawn to these monochrome schemes today . . . Also the headboard is the sort of scale I am looking at for my own bedroom, maybe even the stripes as long as I got removable covers and could have a change from time to time.

Images: Homes and Gardens, Inside Out

Terrace garden by Peter Fudge

I've seen this garden featured in the press a couple of times always thinking that it was part of a large garden and a large home. In fact this is a courtyard garden designed by Peter Fudge and the home is a Victorian terrace in Sydney. I love the big green pots and the way multiple seating areas and vantage points have been incorporated into the design.

Images: Peter Fudge Gardens

Lisa's wallpaper

These are powerful wallpapers by Swedish designer Lisa Bengtsson for Your Wallpaper www.yourwallpaper.se . The colours are amazing and at a scale to knock your socks off !!

Images: www.yourwallpaper.se from top - Ros-Marie 2, La vie en red rose, La vie en rose

Laundry birds

Now I know that decorating the laundry is not high on many peoples list of priorities but, you know, the smaller projects and touches can be very satisfying - especially if the bigger projects are on hold for a while as many are in these leaner times !!

This is Laundry Birds by Caitlin Klooger and it is available online in pink, blue and white from her site Pippijoe and in the taupe/black colourway from Kelani. Pippijoe also sells pinboards covered in this fabric for AU$45.

Pendel by Pinch

Love the Pendel range by Pinch www.pinchdesign.com. The sofa and armchair are designed to be compact specifically for small spaces and nooks and crannys around the house. The sofa is only 700 mm deep - most are at least 900 and often more. It looks a bit plain in the grey fabric, the print is more cheery.

Happy Valentines day

Image: Keep Calm Gallery

Vieques bath by Patricia Urquiola

Although there is nothing australian about this bath - it is designed by a spaniard and was first conceived for a hotel in Puerto Rico - to me it is very australian. You see there is a massive amount of corrugated steel used here - to great effect - on roofs, as cladding, covering walkways and verandahs. Its pretty much everywhere and is an iconic aussie building material.

This bath, reminiscent of a water tank, would fit right in especially in some of the modern australian beach house and tree house designs.

Images: www.agape.it

This my second post in recent times about a Patricia Urquiola design - and there is a third coming -just like buses, none for ages and then they all arrive at once.