art

Jumping ahead a bit from the photos I posted yesterday, our bedroom is almost* completed. We've gutted the room, had it rewired and yesterday had new windows put in.

Instead of focusing on what needs to be done to finish the bedrooms I am unhelpfully shifting my attention to how we should decorate the room.

After years of suspecting that all Aboriginal art involves orange 'U' shapes sitting around 'O' shapes to represent sitting people and campfires and the like, I have been proved very wrong.

On our honeymoon at Bannisters recently Rahul and I fell in love with a painting in our apartment. The light's not great, but from this picture you can see that there are no organge 'U' shapes in sight.

When we got home we wandered up to the Kate Owen Gallery to have a look at her collection and fell in love with many many paintings. She has a huge range in her gallery that is reproduced on their website. If you're having problems choosing a work they will bring a selection of your favourites to your home and see how they look on the wall.

Our current frontrunner is this Evelyn Pultara work 'Bush Yams'. I'm trying to show restraint by waiting until we have at least finished the gyprocking before we try it out in the room but it's hard...

* Bedroom To do list:

1. Have doors installed
2. Electrician to finish wiring
3. Gyprocker to do put up walls, cornices and ceiling
4. Choose wooden floorboards
5. Have existing floors removed
6. Have new floorboards layed and polished
7. Choose lights
8. Have lights attached to wires
9. Design wardrob
10. Order wardrobe
11. Install wardrobe
12. Choose skirting boards and architraves
13. Attach skirting boards and architraves
14. Paint walls, ceilings, skirting boards, architraves and windows