Last week (when we actually managed to persuade our electrician to turn) it emerged that we would be unable to use down lights in one part of the new living area due to the placement of an air conditioning panel. Which means that right above our dining table we can install a pendant light instead. I have loved this George Nelson Criss Cross pendant forever, but as we are sticking to a more traditional look in the front rooms of the house I didn't think I'd have anywhere to put one. And now we do! We just need to get the electrician to come back again some time this decade...
The pendant lights in the front of the house are equally as beautiful, designed and made by Lisa at
Shady Designs. She does a fabulous job and I can't recommend her highly enough. They are giant
drum shades with black linen on the outside. One shade has Catherine Martin for Porter's Paints
wallpaper in "Sparrow" (we went with the cream and red colourway) on the inside. The other has a solid gold wallpaper with flecks of red through it. At the moment they're sitting in the living room, and they already look beautiful, I can't wait to see them actually hanging.
While things are happy on the lighting front, the gyprockers are making me want to cry with their unexpected absences. We were assured they would be completely finished by the end of the week, which meant that the floors could go down on Monday, but now I am a bit sceptical.
A Giimmo dinosaur night light.
A Mod Tots Monkey. Their site has the coolest art for kids I've seen. I am partial to their monkeys and monsters but they also have a range of robots and other beautiful animals.
Just saw this cartoon on Making It Lovely - so glad that my new George Nelson light is an investment piece that will see me right through to old age!
Last week (when we actually managed to persuade our electrician to turn) it emerged that we would be unable to use down lights in one part of the new living area due to the placement of an air conditioning panel. Which means that right above our dining table we can install a pendant light instead. I have loved this George Nelson Criss Cross pendant forever, but as we are sticking to a more traditional look in the front rooms of the house I didn't think I'd have anywhere to put one. And now we do! We just need to get the electrician to come back again some time this decade...
All the doors and windows are finally in, and the gyprockers have almost finished their work.
Since I took these photos the old stairs have been pulled out, to be replaced with a new "copy" set, without all the dents, holes and missing chunks of wood.
Although at the moment the view of our garden is nothing to write home about.
Coming this week: cornices, exterior scaffolding and rendering, and hopefully some floors.
My birthday is still two months away, but given that it's a "special" birthday Mum and Dad decided that they should gift me something I will keep. We visited Wilson Street Gallery a few weeks ago and it turned out that one of the curators was a parent at my school when I was a little kid, and she remembered Mum and Dad. So we not only got a tour of the gallery, but we were able to see the works she had in her own apartment.
From the front our place is currently an eyesore. Thankfully it's less alarming from the back. 
The extension is really taking shape now. The roof is on and the electrician has started work inside, and once the doors and windows arrive and we are at lock up stage we will be able to properly connect the old part of the house and the new part.
