I Gotta Peaceful..Beachy Feeling...

As I scoured the globe (ok, some local merchants) yesterday I fell upon the perfect chair.  Perfect for my beachy living room, perfect for my home staging business, perfect for a multitude of interiors and oh so perfect for our family.

I call it the Cuddle Chair.  You can fit a person and a half which means I better hurry because the baby of the family (11 years old) is still a cuddler but he's growing fast!!  Ok it would be a tight squeeze even now but that's what cuddles are for, no?

It was love at first sight and first sit.  I could have fallen asleep in that chair, right there and then.  In the store.  I insisted my husband try it out too albeit making it clear that this would be MY chair.  Bad move.  He loved it.  Which means now we have to buy two.  But that's OK.  In this case, two is definitely better than one (I'm not going to have to fight the kids over it am I?)

So my beautiful, beautiful cuddle chair I will see you in April where we shall meet again, permanently.

Creative Juices Are Flowing...

In A BIG way. 

I would often worry that if we were working too much (can you work too much when you are doing what you love?) that I would run out of ideas.  And to be honest, there are some moments where I just cannot put 2 and 2 together but thankfully, those are merely moments and do not translate to long term lapses.

Right now, creativity abounds!  I am longing to start the next home.  Our wonderful homeowner is raring to go but has a few dedicated tasks to carry out first.  Once those have been completed, we will step in.

I am up-to-date on all my tasks so I have a few rare moments to dedicate to my own home.  Rare indeed.  But it's calling me.  And it's loud.  Like an incessant ringing in my ears.  Which means I am incessantly ringing in my husband's ears.  While I call it ringing, he might call it harassing or worse, nagging.

He runs our renovation division so I don't like to ask him to take on home projects because well...he's tired on the weekends and let's face it, I have expensive taste.  So that essentially means that the money we bring in would then be going straight out again.  I hate it when that happens ;o}

But I digress and all nagging harassing aside, it has to be done.

My living room is small and the layout is challenging to say the least.  My current sofa/loveseat is showing signs of having lived with a family of six and a very large dog. And they are much too deep for the space.

So my search begins...the kids are older now (11, 16, 17 and almost 20) and the dog knows better so I'm hoping my dream room can start to take shape.  Soon.  I want a light and airy space.  A collection of modern and beachy.  But not kitsy beachy. Modern beachy.  It won't be easy but my projects rarely are. I like decorating OUTSIDE that darned box people are so intent on living in.

My faves so far:

See where I'm going with this? And we can't forget the paint now can we?!  Benjamin Moore & Martha Stewart to the rescue.  I have wrestled with the colours for weeks from numerous other companies as well but I think I've settled on;

Raindance by Benjamin Moore

Chalk by Martha Stewart

While the colours may appear dark as opposed to the light and airy I mentioned early, they are quite bright and I have A LOT of light in this room.  I'm not worried ;o)

Stay tuned friends, more to come.  In the meantime, please do colour your world!