The woman cave, she-den (and other dodgy names)

Living in a small apartment in Hong Kong, I must admit to occasionally letting my mind wander to what it would be like to live in a McMansion.  You know those huge houses in America with a dedicated room for …

Laurel & Wolf

I’ve recently come across the US online interior design company Laurel and Wolf and I was challenged to write a post about my dream living room as part of their Total Transformation project. Funnily enough, I had recently been thinking about …

Boho Chinoiserie Chic in HK

Sometimes, just for fun, I design rooms for imaginary clients.  I LOVE imaginary clients – they are just the best to work with!  They have whatever budget I want them to have, inevitably agree with what I think is best …

Re-cover-y

I was recently able to snag a couple of ottomans for free.  Score!  They were solid, pretty well made and (bonus) in a neutral colour.  I had hoped to use one of them as a makeshift side table in the …

Likea IKEA

I like IKEA.  Here in Hong Kong, I reeeeeaaaally like IKEA.  Hong Kong has some ridiculously overpriced homewares.  IKEA though, is consistent with its quality, design and realistic prices. It is pretty much universally known. My clients are nearly always on …

Hot off the Press!

So after waiting what felt like years, the magazine article is out!  The July/August issue of Playtimes magazine (a HK parenting magazine) has just come out and one of the Home Tours for this month is of our apartment.  It …

Hold the phone!

I made a ring holder/ ring dish. Get it?! Hold the ring…hold the phone? Yeah, a bit of a stretch but the best I could come up with. Sorry! It’s hard coming up with titles for all the posts, especially …

Look at Me!

A while ago, someone in my apartment complex was selling two small, unfinished, pine wood IKEA Malma mirrors for HK$10 each (about AUD2).  I wasn’t sure what I would do with them, but when I come across something that is a blank slate, …

No guts, no glory

So today something happened that I honestly never imagined would: a magazine came to take photos of our apartment. No, not Elle Decor or Home Beautiful, but a local magazine here in Hong Kong called Playtimes. As the name suggests, …

Design Boards: Girls Room

I recently did a couple of design boards for a girls room.  I was aiming for pretty and modern; a room that could work from pre-school to teenager – if you swapped the teddy bears for boy band posters 🙂  …