Fancy Pants and Perfect Saturdays

I think I am currently in the midst of the perfect Saturday...it's cold and rainy and I've had what can only be described as a mega-nap.  Oh, did I mention I have a chicken curry doing it's thang in the slow cooker at this point? Martha who?

So, down to the important stuff.  We have an architect!  We met with Nick over a week ago and it became apparent very quickly that he was our man.  So, we are working on a Feasibility Study and Schematic Drawings to turn our house into a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with the all important 2 living rooms.  Honestly, having my own lounge room and a separate bathroom to the boys is totes Fancy Pants to me. We have had all the measuring done and have another meeting with Nick next week to take a peak at the first designs.  It's crazy exciting.

Of course my head is filled with details of furnishings and flooring options, windows, lighting, the perfect rug etc etc.  Our 4th bedroom will be dressed as a study.  This may come as news to my husband but I'm thinking that this room will be mine...ALL MINE!!! I'd love to kit it out with some of my fave pieces, I have an antique wardrobe and shipping trunk that would be perfect for the space.  I'm thinking of teaming it with a bright modern rug and a great desk and some shelves to house all my design books and STUFF.  Again with the whole getting ahead of myself thing.

Maybe some fun wallpaper??

Inevitably it will end up with a vintage vibe being that it will be inhabited by a bowerbird...me!

I like the white and gold.

Totally impractical but I had to share this fun pic.

All pics courtesy of Pinterest.

And I NEED these pendants for the Master Bedroom.

I think I may use these as my 'jumping off point'.

I stole that line from Sarah Richardson (Canadian designer...google her, she's good).

In other non 'building the extension of my dreams' news I have 2 very dear friends both due to have babies in the coming weeks.  I've been very studious on the internet finding fun quirky gifts to welcome the new folks to the world...Exhibit A.

Pants a la funky!

Have a great week and keep yourselves nice...and gluten free.

Joydee

Another bright idea

Pendant lights! I have the urgent need for 2 of them in my kitchen. Stat!! I switched on, get it, 'switched on' to the idea a few weeks ago and decided that I must have them.

I found some on the Cape Cod Designs website (pic below) and I was about 97% sure they were the ones until I saw them (or something crazy similar) featured in the awesome kitchen of Kara Rosenlund then I was sold. Well, not literally, not just yet anyway. Perhaps after the roof on the deck and the sheeting in the laundry but before the french doors. I digress...

Image via Cape Cod Designs

See! Fab!

Image via Kara Rosenlund

I love every square inch of this kitchen.

Since the new tiles and appliances went into my kitchen I think a coat of white paint on the cabinetry and some fancy new lights will finish it just nicely. Until my next bright idea of course.

On a side note I don't yet know how to 'imbed hyper thingos' into my posts i.e. click on stuff I write and it sends you cool places. So, check out Cape Cod Designs and Kara Rosenlund via Google. I know, I should have googled how to do it before I posted this but The Voice was on. Or as I like to call it Keith O'Clock....*sigh*.