What a cool idea. Now every time you turn on the light you have a party in your room.

Avaliable from OOOMS, a design due from The Netherlands who focus on products for in and around the home.

Other products designed include roadkill carpet:

and the Rebellious Cabinet with drawers that can never be completely closed.

Interesting and slightly weird, or should I say unique?

Sorry about the lack of posts, i have been busy with a business idea.

I would never think to deliberately do this to a floor, more than likely if I were faced with a situation like this, say after removing a wall, I would make the floor match on both sides. Either by painting the whole lot white, or sanding back and re staining the white to match the darker colour. But now I know that a room with two floors can look wonderful. Try this. Hold up your hand over the photo and block the dark wood floor from your vision. The room looks kind of stark and bland right. Now do the same thing but cover the white floor…………… again, it’s ok, but there is no wow factor.  Lean back and admire the picture in full……………I’m right huh. It is just perfect with the different coloured floor.

I just love the way this room looks in general. The balance achieved by putting the white sheepskin on the dark floor. The use of different bedside tables. The mimicking of round pieces in the bedside table, light and accessories. The neutral tones and natural woods giving the room an earthy and peaceful feel. The way she has used natural soft materials to add warmth, and a pendant light to reduce the ceiling height. Ahhhhh, i think it is perfect.

So there you go, if you are ever faced with a dilemma of non matching floors take inspiration from this room.

Here are my favourites:

The Mindy Quilt.

Calypso Cushion Pack

Ceramic Flower Pot

Kids Cape Cod Chairs

Cape Cod Chairs

Probably should have ironed them before i took the photos, but i was so excited to have them finished!

We were in LA for about a week waiting for our flight home, just in time for Christmas and we were exhausted. You know how you feel after a long trip, you have had a great time but look forward to going home, well after being away from home, and on the move every few days to a new and exciting destination, we were absolutely tapped of energy. So we did a few of the typical LA tourist things then we mostly hung out in out Inglewood hotel watching cable TV. Yes you read right i did say Inglewood, we were out of money and it was the only place we could afford for a week. It was entertaining that’s for sure. The one saving grace was the Bed, Bath and Beyond store just down the road. Just about every day, when we had had enough of the TV we would wander down to the street and spend a few hours exploring the massive store. We saw every inch of it and wanted to buy just about everything. I’m not sure if it is because we were so home sick, for Australia and all things that make you feel at home (i.e clean linen, towels etc), or because the store is actually as good as we remember it to be but i would love have a little browse again now that i have space and money. *Sigh* I miss Bed Bath and Beyond.

Anyway, sorry about the long rant, the actual point of this post was to show you the Bed, Bath & Table catalogue. The name of the Australian shop is very similar and i always accidentally refer to it as bed bath and beyond.  They sell homewares as well but not to the same scale of bed bath and beyond. I was shocked to discover that they don’t have a website. Don’t you find that weird in this technological age? Anyway the Christmas catalogue is out and i thought i would share the eye candy. Enjoy!

Are birds still in?

I love that they have used different side tables in the photo below. Well one is a chair but you know what i mean.

I just love the glass fronted hutch. I am desperate for one of these in my house.

Not a huge fan of the messy styling in this shot but the hutch is nice.

Red stripes are high on my like list at the moment, so the towel and deck chair below is perfect.

Apparently it took 8 days to paint!

And then she had to paint over it when they moved out. How sad.

How much would you love your mum if she had painted your room like this?

Actually i think i would still love a room like this. These are going into my inspiration file quick smart. Do you think a seven month old would appreciate stripes like that?

Things i am happy about:

This news from Young House Love! Yippie.

That my vegie garden is thriving:

That the baby is trying to crawl (but only going backwards).

Things i am coveting:

This cute porcelain camera

Misterrob tape on Etsy

Happy Tape

Anyway have a look at some photos of the lucky ones office space.

Mr Grit The Owl used to guard the front door of their old office

The Engineering Team are pimping the site for the holiday season!

A T-Shirt Press in the office for when an idea strikes.

Business Cards - I wonder which seller got their business?

Pin Cushions - Made during the staffs weekly arts and craft lessons.

The meeting rooms are named after food and bands

They didn't buy curtains when they moved in.

Every employee gets a white labcoat to decorate how they please.

Quilt made by the Quiltsy team.......of course they have a quiltsy!