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Home Tour with Kylie: Living Room {Featured Guest Post}

by Tazim Damji

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Look out for Kylie’s posts for the next 4 days – her tour of her Brisbane, Australia home continues tomorrow with her bedroom!

Living areas

When we bought our home in Brisbane, Australia, three years ago, we were particularly impressed by it size. While it’s a two-bedroom apartment, its rooms are unusually large. The living area is no exception — it includes a very spacious living room, a separate dining alcove, and a small hallway.

However, when we moved in, there was one noticeable problem: the colour scheme. The apartment had been in the rental system since it was built back in the mid 1970s, so they’d used cheap beige paint, cheap vinyl vertical blinds (also beige), and even cheaper blue–grey carpet. What’s more, someone had the atrocious idea to paint the dining alcove purple.

Before Living RoomBefore Living Room Photo #2

Being on a tight budget, we were not in a position to replace the flooring any time soon (even though I KNOW there is beautiful concrete underneath just begging to be polished), so we had to do the best we could with paint and furnishings. Thankfully, we managed to find a paint that complemented the carpet, and now our home is far less offensive to the senses. We were also fortunate enough to receive plantation shutters from my parents as a wedding gift, so we managed to get rid of the ugly blinds as well!

Living Room SofaLiving Room Sofa 2

Sofa Close Living Room

Clock in Living RoomFar view living room

Long view Living RoomDining Area

Bookcase LR

Grey Cabinet

Aside from the overall picture, I’ve also tried to focus on small elements that can help to make our house more of a home. John and I are both fans of contemporary art, so we have a few bits and pieces adorning our walls (and many waiting to be professionally framed and hung when we can afford it!). I also like to hunt around both vintage and ‘new’ stores (both in the real world and online) for new pieces to place around the home. My favourite is, of course, the black flying ducks that adorn the wall of the dining alcove (and where my blog takes its name from). One evening I was sitting on the sofa staring at the blank wall, and suddenly I had a vision of black flying ducks. I couldn’t find any suitable vintage ones, but I found some great new resin ducks from the UK. Perfect!

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Wall pictures

bookcase

detail living room

candles living room

birds on wall decorphone home decor living room

If you enjoyed this home tour, and you’re interested to see how our home keeps evolving into the future, keep an eye on Flying Ducks!

 

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About Tazim Damji

Tazim Damji is a permaculture gardener and certified holistic nutritionist from Vancouver, Canada. She is passionate about photography, vegan food, and gardening. Read more posts by Tazim. Visit her food and adventure blog Celebrate Life's Adventures Connect with Tazim via Twitter or on Facebook .

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  1. Crazy Cat Lady says

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    I think you did an excellent job with the color scheme! I love all the birrsd, and the red accents really bring everything to life!

    Crazy Cat Lady
    ccllibrary@aol.com http://crzycatladyslibrary.blogspot.com/

  2. Crazy Cat Lady says

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    Um, that should be birds…not sure what my fingers were thinking! LOL!

  3. dam says

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    Wow how cute! and I love the gray and red

  4. Claire says

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    Thanks for the giveaway. What a totally cute necklace. 🙂
    eclairre(at)ymail(dot)com

  5. Mal says

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    Love it. I like that you don't have much stuff and when you do it is really interesting.

  6. ShootingStarsMag says

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    oh this is fun!!

  7. Janine says

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    Your living space looks great! 🙂 I am inspired to buy paint. Amazing how much paint can perk up a place… CUTE necklace!

  8. Jéssica says

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    Cute necklace!

  9. liz says

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    Enter me dear 🙂

    Contact me dear 🙂
    liz_crowny(at)yahoo(dot)com
    pintaliztiirene.blogspot.com

    Anw, you can join my first giveaway which is F21 peach statement ring at
    my blog. The merrier is more fun 🙂

    Thankies dear
    <3 Liz
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  10. Allison says

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    This necklace is so cute!

  11. Tina M says

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    Thanks for the giveaway. I'd love to win

  12. Terri Dell says

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    I love how neat and appealing your bookshelves look. Mine are overflowing with books. It's time to pack some up or give them away and put some nice knick-knacks on display.
    Ziggywag at yahoo dot com

  13. Dhesh says

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    Grey and Red come together so beautifully…and I love the framed pieces as well.

    dhesh at webmail dot co dot za

  14. Yasmin says

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    That's adorable!

    alionandalamb at aol dot com

  15. Katherine Ryan says

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    So jealous, that's a lot like how I want my house to look, I love the mix of grey, black, white and red, they're such classic colours! That necklace is adorable, and I've just gotten a DS so it'd be fun to wear 🙂
    My recent post A Kawaii Giveaway at Kawaii O Onegaishimasu!

  16. Ingrid says

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    So lovely! 🙂

    Also, I’d adore to have that DS (I’m a big nintendo fan), so I’ll throw my name into the hat.

    so.kitsch at gmail dot com

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