Renovation Update & Another Search for Light Fittings!

Well I think I am ready for a change.   There is something about that first crisp morning or slightly chilly evening that makes us (Tasmanians) get that cocooning feeling.  Once again we turn our attention to the interiors of our homes, partly because that is where we are about to start spending more time.  

Change for me can now now occur at the shop, as my aim was to change the accent colours and/or a couple of walls each season!!!  Don't think that I am quite up to changing wall colours in the shop just yet, when I really should be painting upstairs this weekend......and next weekend......

as you can see there is plenty of undercoating to do.......

then a couple of top coats...

then the doors and the trim....

then we can give the tiler a hand to finish the bathrooms!!!

Oh and then we could start painting outside!!!  Looking a little too much like Santorini at the moment...

I think it's the blue plastic that's giving it the Greek island feel, but I am feeling the need for colour here somewhere.

See what I mean, oh and gotta love the backyard toilet!!!

Which brings me to the lovely view across the rooftops and backyards towards the hills.  So, if any one reading knows of someone looking for a newly renovated town house to rent in this lovely area of Launceston, send them around with a paintbrush this weekend and they might get cheap rent for a while!!!

Another last minute hunt for light fittings!
Usually the last thing to source when working on a renovation or building project, I think most people have just about had enough of decision making and searching for fittings etc. by the time they get to light fittings. Unless of course you have a speckie, blow the budget, light fitting that influenced the design at the beginning of the project......  like the neo'baroque chandelier......

glamming up this bathroom of Abigail Ahern's

or this porcelain beauty.....

or this mud chandelier from South Africa, which happens to look spectacular in real life...

rest assured we will not be having any budget blowing light fittings.  Will keep you posted on that search...

and since I seem to be doing a bit of a feature on Abigail Ahern, author of A Girl's Guide to Decorating, aren't the colours and textures of her soft furnishings devine.  I am leaning towards a bit of eye popping colour for our next ecoco colour palette.