Making It Yours Part One - Home Office
One of my 'daily read' blogs is Making It Lovely - I always enjoy spending time in Nicole's honeysuckle, beeswax and coral rose coloured world. One of my favourite features on this blog is 'Making it Yours', where Nicole follows one piece of furniture through several stages of an imagined life, and presents a mood board for each.
In 2009, one of the presents I gave Andre for Christmas was the perennial calendar Perpetual Paris from Little Brown Pen.
We assembled it, and hung it in our home office (and even painted the walls dark blue to enhance its beauty). In summer 2010, we turned our home office into a nursery for our beautiful daughter, Eva Bella (not that we knew our baby was going to be a girl at this stage) - and we kept Perpetual Paris on the wall cos with the numbers and high contrast colours it felt very baby-friendly.
So I felt inspired by Nicole to create my very own real-life Making it Yours featuring Perpetual Paris. Here's the first installment - Perpetual Paris gracing our home office.
Let's take a look at the mood board first...
And now let's check out some real-life photos of how this space turned out. Please forgive the quality - we haven't had any sunlight in Manchester for weeks!
In the next installment, we'll see how Perpetual Paris fits into our baby daughter's nursery. That is, if a certain gorgeous baby girl allows Mummy twenty minutes to write a quick blog post :-)
Peep into the Nest | tagged Home Office, Making It Yours
Reader Comments (7)
Ooh, where is that office chair from? It's lovely.
Twenty minutes?! Wow, it would have taken me much longer to pen such a well written blog post, links 'n all, with a (very bouncy) baby girl in tow!
The office looks fantabulous, the special calendar being a perennial part of the office/Baby Eva Bella's space.
Here's hoping for sunlight in Manchester soon. (Please, God?).
The space looks great! The mood board is amazingly reflective of the reality.
The office chair is a dream and I love to know where you got it from even though I live in Aus and have no hope of finding it.
Sandy K
Megan, Lizzie, Sandy - thanks for commenting! The chair is from dwell.co.uk and although it was purchased entirely for its looks :-) is actually extremely comfortable.
Yes, blogging with a wriggly Eva on my knee is somewhat of a challenge - I have to give her a spare keyboard of her own to play with to stop her from grabbing the Apple one!
Thanks so much for letting us know. It's gorgeous.
Sandy K
Looking forward to part two! I have a new post on the blog, where I have to nominate people for a stylish blogger award and direct people to their sites or blogs. You are one of the people on the list, and it is indeed a stylish blog :-) I've put the link here so you can have a look if you want to: http://jbskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/05/awardpor-moi.html
Dear Alice,
I know you haven't blogged for a while (hope you and family are well!) but I wanted to let you know that, as a fan, I have mentioned you in my blog post 'Three blogs that have inspired me'. Yours was the first one I stumbled upon and I credit you with putting me on this path with your beautiful story. So thankyou :) Your blog is lovely.
Catherine