Maybe it comes from being a child of the eighties, too many Bond movies, or the fact that Omnibot was one of my best friends growing up, but when I close my eyes and imagine home—my mental image has more in common with the Star Ship Enterprise than with Walden Pond†, or your typical suburban home. Having studied design in college, and pre-architecture at university, my shelves are filled with interior and design books, from classics like A Pattern Language, to monographs on brilliant ...
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Stil Novo Design Feature
Our concern for the environment doesn't affect, nor compromise, the quality and sense of aesthetic conveyed in our creations; we proudly strive to exceed our customers' expectations. Click above picture to take you to the Youtube video, which shows many of Stil Novo Design's Products! Here are a few of my favourite pieces, all made from reclaimed white oak from wine barrels: What I love about these products is that they are unique works of art, not just cookie-cutter products. It is clear ...
House Tour With Kylie – Kitchen {Guest Post}
Post 5: Kitchen Finally! We have a room in our home that didn’t need any work done to it when we moved in! The kitchen had only been updated a couple of years earlier, complete with a new oven and stove top, fresh paint, a new bench top and new cupboards, so there was little to do besides accessorising. I continued the red accessories theme throughout the kitchen (as with the other rooms), so we have an assortment of red canisters, tea towels and casserole dishes on display. I also have my ...
Home Tour with Kylie – Bathroom {Guest Post}
Post 6: Bathroom The bathroom of our home was the only room that needed structural problems fixed. Unfortunately, in addition to more beige paint (which was literally peeling off the walls and taking chunks of plasterboard with it), the bath–shower was rusted through and leaking into the garage below. Our only solution was to have the bath completely replaced and re-tiled. We wanted the room to remain as true to the original 1970s design as possible, so we sourced a new steel tub, and used ...
Home Tour with Kylie – Office {Guest Post}
Post 4: Office The second bedroom of our home, just like the rest of the apartment, had beige walls and blinds, and blue–grey carpet. It was everywhere! Thankfully, this room is also of a pretty good size for an apartment, and could easily fit a double bed if needed. We painted over the beige walls with the same colour we’d used throughout the rest of the apartment. The beige blinds have stayed for now, as they’re largely hidden behind the tall desk (which has been travelling with me ...
Home Tour with Kylie – Bedroom {Guest Post}
Look out for Kylie's posts for the next 3 days - her tour of her Brisbane, Australia home continues tomorrow with her office! Post 3: Bedroom Just like our living areas, when we bought our home in Brisbane, Australia, three years ago, it, too, had been ‘blessed’ with ugly beige walls and vertical blinds, and blue–grey carpet. On the plus side, the room was HUGE — so huge to we spent many months trying to work out how to effectively use the space (other than for sleeping!). Like the ...
Home Tour with Kylie: Living Room {Featured Guest Post}
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 ...
Creative Home Tour with Kylie – Introduction {Guest Post}
Hi, Being Tazim readers! My name’s Kylie Challenor (well, it was Kylie Timmins up until I got married recently!), and I’ll be your guest blogger for the Home Décor Event today. I currently write my own blog, Flying Ducks, to give me a bit of a mental break from my day job in arts publishing in Brisbane, Australia. I also do a little bit of freelance writing on the side (most recently for online publications such as Design*Sponge and BNE: Hot or Not). To start off, I’d like to give you a little ...
Creating a Place to Live – Home Tour Part 2 {Guest Post}
(Creating a) Home Tour with Terese This is part 2 - click here to look at part 1. Wall Art... Wallpaper Art, Fabric Art and Canvas Art...each have a DIY project post on my blog. The Wallpaper and Fabric art are in the family room. I went away from the beach theme here, we wanted more of a library area. The Canvas art is just 2 medium sized canvases painted with a background colour then patches of 3 other colours simply 'scraped' on thickly. It's hard to see the thickness and ridges of ...
Creating a Place to Live Part 1 Home Tour {Featured Guest Post}
(Creating a) Home Tour with Terese Hello Being Tazim readers. Welcome to my guest post for the Home Decor & Interior Design Event 2010 about how I create for my home. Or maybe I should say, 'Gidday!' Being Tazim readers. I live in Sydney Australia and my name is Terese, or T. The 'T' in designed to a T. I've been a blogger since January 2010 and luckily for me, I found Being Tazim through a young lady I know, Kylie, from 'My Flying Ducks', another guest blogger. Of recent times I ...