Photo shoot @ home!

Too excited to have my wee home photographed today for The Age's Melbourne Magazine December issue, wow.

The rule is really not to invite any kind of camera crew into your house, oh the mess!

Nah not really, it was all pretty organised and smooth sailing. Strange to have a stylist style my house tho.... we negociated!

Sara, Indi, James in action.

Spick and span.........

Woolly winter cushions

Finished the cushions, so cosy, so satisfying.

Crossed cushion

Creating new cushions for the couch in a chunky wool with embroidered graphic images to keep me occupied on the winter nights.

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Kitchen plus

Bottle scrubber collection and Gaye Hawkes shell flower in potplant.

Star cookie cutters on wall with wooden fantail.

Wooden critters 

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Lounge shelves

Shell lamps, and woven wall piece by NZ flax weaver Valerie Parkes continue the Pacificana theme throughout the home. Classic Ikea shelves with Ikea frames.

Mango wood lamp, teak candlesticks, art work by Sam Farquar.

Horn bird collection.

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Lounge

This is my home. I have been collecting shell necklaces for over 20 years, there are now more than 200. I also have a thing about orange, can you tell?

Botanic images sourced from a calendar.

New Zealand inspired teatowel in frame, collection of stamps above window.

Chinese urn with goldfish swimming inside.

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Kitchen

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Bathroom

Seed necklace collection and privacy ensured by tropical plants outside window.

Depression glass collection for bathroom bits and bobs.

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Spare room

Basket collection and hula doll collection in the spare room.

Domestic Interior - Dickens St: Bedroom

Love the collection of straw images made in India.

Domestic Interior - Westbury St: Lounge

Before: plain mat and no art on walls but good neutral lounge suite and Eames lounge and ottoman.

After: new art, mat, and side table

before: art hidden behind chair and large blank wall in dining room

After: art on wall and old wooden box as side table

After: art collection above fireplace

After: new green shag rug, more art on walls, toy collection on picture rail

After: art piece in hallway

Domestic Interior - Westbury St: Dining room

Before: disorganised bookshelf, no art on walls and art hidden high up on picture rail

After: bookshelf sorted, family and friends photo wall created

Before

After: art on walls, globe collection created [there are tiny globe pencil sharpeners beside larger globe]

After: kids toy and art collection on picture rail now

Domestic Interior - Westbury St: Kitchen and bathroom

Before

After: portable shelf moved into better position, clock above fridge

Before

After: portable shelf moved, art on the walls

Before: messy display cupboards, bags behind door too bulky

After: cupboards organised

Before

Before

After: old kids art removed, space cleared

After