Adding colour and fun

We as many do, have kept all our walls white in our new rooms to give us a blank canvas. But without decoration it can be a little sterile so slowly starting to add things around the house.

The photo above is the kids playroom, so a room that definitely needs colour and fun. With the kids favourite colours being red and blue (along with being mine too) it was easy to work out the colour scheme.

I have been so looking forward to hanging up bunting and found this in a gorgeous little French homewares store near our house along with the letters.

Of course a kids room also needs a place to hang their artwork.

And I ended up loving these red and white paper balls from Domayne so much that have hung some in the family room.

Hope you are all having a great weekend. It is certainly a hot one here in Melbourne, so good to be spending time inside in the air-conditioning.

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Kids bedroom elements

With our extension we added to our two bedroom house with two more bedrooms, thinking how excited the kids would be to get their own bedrooms. Well my five year old daughter and three year old son have decided they want to both stay in their old bedroom and keep sharing, so the new rooms have become a playroom / guest room and a study (where I am now writing this blog post).

So I thought I would share with you some elements of the playroom, a bit of a sneak peak as I haven't implemented all my ideas to make this room a little magical for the kids, a plan for the next two months.

As you will see I am going for a red, blue and white colour theme. Love these ball cushions from Target......

This red checkered lamp from a kids bedroom store and of course some of my daughters art work from when she was three....


Can't go past IKEA for children's bedroom furniture, both the bed and chest of drawers are from there......

And these red carpet spots, the kids love moving them around........

Some red feet and hand artwork, done for Father's Day last year....

And the kids enjoying the room, love the soft grey carpet. The carpet is a new environmentally friendly one made from corn.....

The room also has built-ins which I will show at a later date once I have decorated a little more.

Hope you all had a great weekend, it was a little miserable here in Melbourne but good for staying inside and doing house things.

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat collection (all from Freedom) that my daughter got for her 5th birthday and then Christmas looks great in her bedroom and she loves it. A nice change from all the plastic toys my kids got.

My daughter has already put money in this gorgeous money box and turned the lamp on and off many times. This year I plan to teach her how to read the alarm clock.