Decorating Styles

Mediterrean home decor style
This is the title of the geographical categories. This is a theme, has been with us for a long time to go their own habits that no longer seems to foreign.Authentic Mediterranean furniture and accessories, has become more and more strengthened and fuel interest in this fascinating style.

Italian Design & Furniture

The Samford Royal Estate

"NTABENI" Queensland
General Features
PRICE RANGE: Over $2.5 Million

• Property Type: House
• Bedrooms: 6
• Bathrooms: 4

Outdoor Features

• Garage: 5

Interesting name!
This estate is about half an hour from Brisbane city, northward.
I imagine it to be like a paradise!

Stunning architecture and gardens,
inside the home is a bit tired...

Beautiful stone surrounding the OFP, although the OFP looks a bit odd
(maybe colour? size?)

Bright kids area!

Snazzy bathroom...

beautiful views...

and the Master Plans...

AND here's what the Agent said about it!

NTABENI - Ultimate resort style living & luxury
Magnificent is truly an understatement. The epitome of contemporary style and supreme luxury, this superb abode caters for your family’s every need. With over 800 square metres of opulent living and entertaining, this sprawling eco-friendly home is positioned on 10,300sqm of fully fenced blue-chip land.

Delivering functional space within this resort like environment and characterised by the floor-to-ceiling Himalayan sandstone feature walls and pillars, expansive Italian tiled areas, classic neutral colour tones and exquisite furnishings, this mansion delivers luxurious living on a grand scale.

Positioned in a premium no through-traffic street within the exclusive Samford Royal Estate, this spectacular residence boasts an impressive street presence and will have you enjoying a protected position gazing toward the majestic House Mountain Range.

A short, pleasant stroll to the heart of Samford Village and its vibrant culinary options only adds to the appeal of this rare and privileged position as well as being only 25km to our ever vibrant CBD, 30km to Brisbane Airport and within easy access to bus and rail.

To fully understand the layout of this stunning property, please make use of our interactive floor plan.

Features include:
• 800+ sqm of luxury living & entertaining space

• Gourmet kitchen boasting induction cooktops, steam oven, integrated coffee machine, microwave
grill, Caesar stone bench tops and 2 x dishwashers - all complimented with a working/butlers pantry

• 3 Bathrooms, each with sandstone feature walls and his and her vanity units

• Home Theatre with enourmous 100 inch screen

• 5 x car garage + 2 x utility / storage rooms

• Boat/Float/Trailer space

• 5 x Queen + Size Bedrooms

• Private Master wing inc Retreat, WIR and Ensuite

• Commercial size laundry

• Home management office

• 4 x work station main office

• Pool house including a Tepanyaki Grill, Wood Fire Oven and Swim-Up Bar servicing the sparkling in-
ground pool

• Alfresco area inc wine storage & BBQ kitchen

• Separate guest wing comprising lounge, bath, patio, king bedroom / WIR and kitchenette

• Security system, ducted vacuum, Intercom

• Total - 6 Bed, 4 Bath, 4 Living Zones, 2 Outdoor Dining Areas and 5 Car Garaging

The residence offers an exceptionally rare opportunity, delivering living options of resort proportions that would leave even the most discerning buyer more than satisfied. Must be viewed to be truly appreciated!

WOW

Richa's home

When Richa Kapoor shared her home's pictures with me, I felt as if Mr. Blog has jumped off the blogger platform to live in a real home in California! Richa's home is like my blog's design dream come true. I absolutely love the eclectic combination of materials, forms, textures and colors from different parts of the world in her home. This home exudes a distinctive personality, and such warmth that I am in a good mind to join the crafty Mr. Blog for a personal visit to Richa's home :)

And this what Richa has to say about her design style and home:

I am an educator by profession but an artist in my fantasy life! My decor style (if i can claim any) is unrestrained ethnic! I say so 'cause I can rarely pass up an opportunity to acquire naive and folk art pieces - a roughly-hewn wooden bowl from West Africa or a fantastic-looking Oaxacan dragon find pride of place in my home. Though I  make these objets d' art work hard and rarely have pieces that are purely decorative. Lately I have become fond of postmodern pieces like kitschy, over-the-top platters and Andy Warhol pop art posters. Mostly, in putting together the home I share with my husband and our two daughters, I can say that I have tried to have fun!

Richa, thank you for sharing your gorgeous home with us!

Books. And a giveaway

Tara Books

Tara Books was started by Gita Wolf, initially as a publisher of children’s books. Now their catalogue has expanded to include art and design books for adults, beautiful stationery and posters, as well as a select list of fiction. The thing that immediately draws you to the books published by Tara is the rich visual appeal. Designed by Indian artisans and young designers, each book published by Tara is a collector's copy. And the best news...you can buy their products online! Shop here, and connect with Tara on Facebook to get updates on their latest releases.  

The Art of Book by Seagull Publishing

Seagull Publishing is an independent publishing house based in Calcutta with books in the area of contemporary fiction, philosophy, literature, drama, cinema, music and a selective list of literature in translation.
Seagull is celebrating 28 years in publishing this year, starting with an exhibition 'The Art of the Book' that celebrates Seagull's passion for good design through a recent series of digital collages and book covers created by their designer Sunandini Banerjee. 

You can buy prints from this exhibition here. And browse through the many books (India and UK site) and art prints available for sale online.

And, The Loaded Trunk Giveaway

Do you remember my post on Roni and her fabulously Loaded Trunk? Well, she is back with a fresh stock of treasures from all over the world, and is hosting giveaways on her site to celebrate her first year mark. Drop her a line and you just might be the lucky winner!

HOW TO CHOOSE COLLEGE DORM BEDDING

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The summer has flown by with days at the beach a memory, how to choose college dorm bedding is what's on most teen girls' minds these days. With the exodus for college in full swing, for the next few weeks I’ll be up to my eye teeth in dorm room decorating projects.


Actually, after thinking about it just a minute I realize that I've been taking little else in the way of calls requesting decorating consultation since mid-summer and longer. You might be amazed to learn that some girls start bouncing around ideas for decorating dorm rooms right after they returned from spring break vacation. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at their enthusiasm since this is a teen girl’s first bedroom in her life as an adult and having the perfect set of girls college dorm bedding is very, very important.

As excited as the girls are about getting their rooms decorated, after spending several weeks shopping online and browsing in stores for looking for twin bedding, extra long (xl) twin sheet sets, pillows, and room accessories, I have a tip to share with you that will save you some time AND money thus the title of this post, How to choose college dorm bedding...get it?

Before you rush out to buy your dorm bedding and stuff you should consult with your roommate to see what color and style her comforter set is. It would be a raging disaster if you bought bedding that clashes like crazy with hers. Find out what color your roommate's things are and do your very best to be accommodating if she has already jumped the gun and made her purchase. MAYBE, just maybe you will get lucky and learn that she was waiting to find out what color your bedding set might be and you will get to pick first!

Modern Bookcases

We've been struggling with the decision whether to buy an iPad or not. We are late adopter, or maybe even no adopter, type when it comes to technology. There is something about holding a book and flipping the pages that is really satisfying to us.

That is, until you want to carry ten books with you when you travel. And most of them are hardbacks. Times like that make us wonder if printed books are going the way of CDs, you know. Like, who buys CD anymore?

But as we were driving down the Melrose Design district the other day, this gorgeous bookcase from the Poliform showroom almost caused us to crash the car. It is STUNNING! It's huge and it's perfect if you have a loft with very tall ceiling.

We don't have the pricing information for this item, sorry. Poliform is very high-end and upscale, so it is probably really expensive. But, if you have a really good carpenter, it's probably really easy to build! And, wouldn't it be great as a room divider too? Just make sure your carpenter anchor it properly.

You see, there is always a place for books! Ipad or no Ipad.

To see more bookcases from Poliform, click here.

Black and White Animal Print Bedding

A teen girl asked me this interesting question awhile ago, "How many kinds of black and white animal print bedding are there"? The subject came up when she said she would like an exotic black and white bedroom but did not want zebra print bedding.

It wasn't that she doesn't care for or has something against zebra stripes, she just said that too many of her friends had already bought zebra comforter sets and had decorated their rooms accordingly. She said that she wanted to do something more original and that's when I suggested one of the other animal prints.

It never really occurred to me to sit down and make a list of all the animal print fabrics that are available in black and white. But since she asked and I probably need to write them down for future reference, here we go!

There is giraffe print, cheetah print, leopard print and the aforementioned zebra print. OH and I suppose cow print would fall into this category, too. There may be more but if there are I have never had the pleasure of working with them.

If I can't come up with a set of black and white animal print bedding that will tickle this teen's fancy, I wonder how black and white peacock feather fabrics would do in a set of a teen girls bedding? It just doesn't get much more exotic than a peacock feather even if they are in a monochromatic image.

Do you like..

...Marie Claire Maison?

Tell me, do you?

Of course, you do!

So do I.

Well then

Now that we have the matter of liking sorted out

Would you like to see all that inspiration from Marie Claire on one site?

Tell me, would you?

Of course, you would!

So would I.

Go ahead

CLICK HERE

And dream - browse away

[Link found via Volpe Images. Image above via Marie Claire Maison]

GOT ANY IDEAS?

Anybody out there got any ideas or maybe a picture of a room or a favorite set of bedding that you'd like to share?

GOT ANY IDEAS? GO HERE!
and upload your pictures or ask any decorating questions that you may have.

If you've got any ideas about what kind of colors, themes or patterns that teen girls would like to see more of when they go shopping for bedroom sets, this might just be the best way for your voice to be heard.

What do you say? Have you had enough peace sign bedding or zebra bedding or do you just want to see more?

Or would you like to play show and tell and show off your cute bedroom? There's no way to do that on this teen girl bedding and bedroom decor blog but you can use the link above and I promise that we'll all run over there to see what you've done with your room!

BEACH BEDDING SETS for Girls

SEE MORE BEACH BEDROOM DECOR HERE!



I have a special place in my heart for beach bedding sets for girls and the accompanying decor. So, after finishing up on my client's kitchen decorating project (which went off without a hitch) I offered to give her teen girl's bedroom a mini-makeover when I noticed that she had a really cute set of beach themed bedding smack dab in the middle of a room with absolutely no personality or pizzazz.


The teenage girl's mom was thrilled at my offer and started to produce some matching pillows and bedroom decor that were bought to go with the beach bedding set and were not being used...in fact they were stuffed inside the closet.

My ideas are to buy more pillows, as one beach ball pillow does not make a pretty arrangement even on a twin size bed, and to find a cheap table lamp and replace the existing lamp shade with the one that matches the beach theme quilt.

After she gets over the sticker shock of the more expensive kitchen decorating project, I'm going to suggest that she buy new carpet for her teen's beach themed bedroom (that mud brown color rug is just not doing it) AND a new headboard for the bed and by that time she might want to check into some of the new beach bedding sets for girls that are out by that time and just start from scratch.