Inspired Home : Little Glowing Lights

 Catherine of Little Glowing Lights has a warm, colorful, flea market style Australian home. In her interview with Victoria of sfgirlbybay, she shares some of her favorite pieces, books and haunts. For me, I adore the white walls, the random garlands, the mix of florals and stripes and the use of little vintage chairs, and the picnic table. More photos of her lovely home can be found here on Design Files. In her interview there, she states that her main consideration really has been a modest budget  – ‘I have decorated my flat with a very small budget and not buying very many brand new pieces at all. Most pieces have been hand-me-downs given a lick of paint or bargain finds. In the future I would like to splurge a little bit more.’  Love it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ode to White Vintage

 must... resist... purchasing vintage tulle dresses... urge... too strong

I believe it's time to start sharing with you the rest of the photos from my recent antique mall visit! Today's theme, is white and cream shabby chic. Really, is there anything better? 

 

the dress forms, the canopy, the scalloping of the table...

oh, seashell curtains, cement round table, how I long for you...

 

my seashell heart is growing faint...

must rest on lovely sittery under loverlier awning...

dear feathers, how you tickle so sweet...

like white glowing paper suns out to tea...

with ladies in their best vintage hats...

 

jotting notes on their sweet altered art gift tags

lazing on a mustard chair by a shabby mantle, so sweet...

 soon must sit at lovely table for sweet treats to eat.

oh birdcage, oh baby crib, oh dress form so tatty...

here for so long b. vereycken, 1829, have you been naughty?

a grande 6 foot birdcage, no really it's true...

now here's my favorite paintings (by Huldah Jeffe Cherry), and so to you, I say adieu!

For the Turquoise Antique Mall finds click here.
For the Pink Antique Mall finds click here.

Chippy and Sweet

If you want to DROOL over some lovely rooms (and get a little inspired too) then look at Decor Pad. I'm thinking it's kind of like a Kaboodle of design images, I think there is a forum too.

Have any of you ever visited Casa Sugar? I just discovered it today, and it has tons of flea market redo, celebrity rooms (not that I care) and decorating ideas. Just thought I'd share. This post about redoing a vintage chandelier is most excellent. (The tip on using Krylon Fusion spray paint instead of sanding is amazing).



PS. I want to know if anyone has found that PERFECT robin's egg blue aqua paint, but not too bright, not too pastel, not too blue in color, I can't find it anywhere, I need some ideas! Feel free to link photos with name of paint in the comments :)

I found Deco Chic's blog and though it is entirely in Spanish, I believe the post was about a Shabby Chic store closing. It had all of these lovely pictures and so I just had to share:























Thanks Viv for the Kreative blogger award!! Your blog is super swell too :)