Stylish Colourful Storage Furniture...

'Trip Trumeau' chest console designs in 2 & 3 darwer styles from Seletti's

How about some colour into your furniture - it's one thing to paint a solid hue but what about mixing it up in a very stylish fashion....colour and pattern certainly breathe new life into these traditional shaped pieces. I adore these colourful, modern & tres stylish drawer 2 & 3 drawer chest/ console units. I think they are perfect for a contemporary space or perfectly playful for a children's room... With its rainbow of stripes, the 'Trip Trumeau' chest becomes the center of attention in any room. Made of MDF, the three-drawer unit measures 100 x 48H, 84cm (approx. US$1,360) and two-drawer measures 100 x 39h, 76cm - from Neo-Utility.com and Seletti.

Do you have any pieces like this at home or at the thrift/ op shop that you may have spied - that you can apply your own paint & pattern (the simpler the better the effect), to make into a modern colourful piece?

Images from Metropolitan Home & Seletti

Fab Lighting Concept...

Forget floating tea lights for an effect across your night time glass-like pool, yesterday I came across this amazing contemporary [wireless] lighting concept in 'Metropolitan Home' magazine of Hector Serrano’s rotation-molded polyethylene Waterproof Floating Lantern charges upside-down and out of water during the day, the design was for Serrano's client: Metalarte, and has since won the Nachlux Award. Once they are charged, you can set them afloat in the pool, where they will right themselves and begin to glow. Now I just need the pool and these fab lights en-masse...

For more details visit YLighting.com. Photo Credit: Courtesy of YLighting / Metropolitan Home

Backyard Oasis...small or grand create your view

My Top 5 Garden Oasis'... nothing says it like an element of water in your garden design, & boy do these outdoor redefine the standard expectations. With the professional skills of a designer & a landscape architect an amazing vision can be realised.... Poolside Grove In this lush and relaxing setting, landscape architect Andrea Cochran placed the pool terrace between a charming olive grove and a lush, grassy Sonoma Valley meadow. Beautiful and serene, the raised lap pool reflects the white clouds of the sky.Photographer: Emily Rylander

Shimmering Stretch Set in idyllic and magnificent Marin County, California, this 75-foot-long lap pool, designed by landscape architect Bernard Trainor is stunning against the native grassland. A concrete and stone walkway leads down to the gleaming expanse, accented with coyote bush, needle grass, and rosemary, to enhance the land’s natural beauty. Photographer: Jason Liske
Bring on the Bubbly Landscape designer Anthony Exter designed this spectacular pool space in Pasadena, California, with a light installation and waterfall to mimic a bubbling bottle of champagne. That motif, plus the accompanying allee with enough space to seat 100 plus people, makes this contemporary backyard a posh party space. Photographer: Steve Gunther

Art Escape A cube-shaped grotto rises majestically out of a gleaming pool in Napa Valley. The ceiling of the grotto is equipped with programmable LED light strips to further the artlike effect. Designed by Tom Leader Studio, this pool features “wet edges,” making it look like a surreal, edgeless expanse. Photographer: Florian Holzherr

Bay Beauty Pristinely set up on a seven-acre site on Lynnhaven Bay, a part of a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, this lovely landscape designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz appears as if the patio is a floating island. A fresh water pond surrounds the raised paths to the lap pool and adjacent family pool. The effect is that of a true getaway. Architect: William McDonough + Partners

Images & details from Point Click Home

Dining Chair Affair...

I have been lusting after some new dining chairs for our 'beloved' mid century oblong hand-me down dining table. The chairs that I have been looking at, that would most suit our twist on contemporary classic dining area, would be a style from the mid-century era such as Eames which would give a more modern touch - such as these Eamses DSR Plastic Side Chair with Eiffel Base Steel, [the top image] also with the timber frame -as a stool. I'll keep hunting around... I have a few others I have my eye on and will share with you shortly!

Fact: The DSR Plastic Side Chair with Eiffel Base Steel Designed in 1950 by Charles and Ray Eames, the DSR chair incorporates the use of a bent and welded wire base and injection moulded polypropylene seat.

Images from Metropolitan Home, McGrath Real Estate & Luminere