Postcard • Paris

What about a rustic look ? {decor - how to}

I find these wood wall very interesting. Great for the country home.
Here is a creation by Bleu Nature located near Lille, in Northern France. They have a very nice collection of furnitures and lightings. With material like driftwood, pebbles, lacquered wood,  and petrified wood, Blue Nature creates unique design.

If a wood wall fits your decor, there is several tutorial on the web to create them and here is interesting links;

Martha Stewart 
Birch poles sliced into disks and glued to plywood panels to create a graphic wall mosaic.
Easy and simple, could be a nice weekend project.

City line - Recycled tree art project

Unique furniture

I visited this shop last summer and I was so impressed by the style of the furniture they sell. The creators of the Artemano boutique, Shimon Finkelstein and Eyal Shoam propose a vision of interior design to soothe and nurture the spirit with genuine harmony.
Furniture made of recycled teak wood or lovely rosewood can fit any design, from contemporary to exotic. 

I bought 2 chairs last summer and as I am planning the redecorate this year, I will visit the shop again soon. Well I need to budget first, otherwise I could very well spend the entire decorating budget there.

Postcard • Beach - Turks and Caicos

Who else miss summer today ?

Memories from Turks and Caicos
Mona

Project Quilt {french general} - part 1

Ok, I have a day job, and quite a full life.
But when spare time comes around, or when I organize my schedule for spare time, I love to try new stuff. I always have several projects started.
At present I have decided to learn how to quilt. So I tried small projects to get the idea of it, and I attended two very basic courses. Now I feel ready for a big project so I am trying to create a bed cover for a very large bed in our country home. My first quilt will be a traditional Log cabin pattern and hope it will work.

I have bought the fabric from the Rouennerie collection at French General.

My block pattern come from a very helpful site the Quilter caches - Log Cabin.

And I started to put together blocks a month ago.

Very slowly.

After experimenting with various combinations here are the first pictures.

Now I have 16 blocks done and 20 to go.

I will keep you inform as move along.

Mona

Unique furniture {vintage}

I found about Mosaicwares in a design magazine. The collection offers furniture, accessories and even jewel box made of pieces of vintage china and tiles. The mix of textures and colours is wonderful and dramatic. Mosaicwares was founded by two sister with real style.  I can easily see one of their creation in my home.

Visit Mosaicwares

In need of color ? Shopping - Couch (vintage)

I love this idea ! Restored furniture with a difference.

Colourful and innovating, every piece of furniture here can be the star of a room.

Couch specialises in producing exquisite furniture with a difference. Period furniture sourced from around the world, lovingly restored and finally upholstered to the highest standard so as to produce a finish that is electrifying, sumptuous, and totally unique.

The Couch business philosophy is to combine innovation with the highest levels of quality to produce uniquely vibrant period furniture for the discerning homeowner.