Category: Inspiration
Inspiration: Reading Nook with Ikea Spice Rack Shelving & Fabric Clouds
Last week we featured some book shelves made with Ikea spice racks and here is another inspiring use of them where they’ve been decorated with Japanese washi tape (try Papermash and Present&Correct – be careful, they’re dangerous shops of temptation) on the borders. What we’re also loving is the hanging fabric clouds which look like [...]
Inspiration: Duplo Walls
This is very cool – a room lined floor to ceiling in Duplo baseplates turning the space into their own miniature Lego land. For those beyond Duplo, you can do the same thing with Lego baseplates. I don’t think I could do an entire room but a feature wall would work very well. Baseplates are [...]
Inspiration: Repurpose Ikea Spice Racks Into Book Shelving
We’ve been on roll this week with Ikea hacks (see our posts on a bunting shade and a car garage made from their magnetic knife rack) and the latest find is book shelving made from their spice racks. All over this simple hack like a rash and you can always liven them up with a [...]
Inspiration: Repurpose Ikea’s Magnetic Knife Rack into Toy Car Storage
If like quite a few people I know, you’ve been buying old metal Matchbox cars from charity shops and on eBay etc for your vroom vroom loving little one, you’ll love this rather cool repurposing of Ikea’s magnetic knife rack (£7.14) into a parking garage that also doubles up as winning decor. Source The Style [...]
Inspiration: Transforming a Lantern Shade With Bunting
Absolutely loving how this run of the mill and rather infamous white Ikea lantern has had a serious makeover with some mini bunting made from fabric scraps and binding. Check out the tutorial over at You Had Me At Bonjour. via Pinterest via Pinterest
Party Inspiration: Nia’s Gruffalo Themed Birthday Party
Last week my baby Nia turned two and we celebrated with a Gruffalo party because she is, along with Saria, obsessed with the book and the short film. While I’m not keen on much character led stuff, the Gruffalo is a story loved by so many and I gave myself a brief of coming [...]
Alfie’s dinosaur-themed party
So, Tuesday was Alfie’s birthday and on Sunday we had (as requested by the young man himself, pictured above with my dad) a dinosaur party. Luckily there was a wealth of ideas and products out there, so here’s what we did. Naturally, my first thought was the invites. I like personalisation, but bespoke stationery [...]
10 ideas for London-themed Rooms
The iconography of London is a great theme for a child’s room. Inspired by Alice Tait’s funky London map, £15, I’ve rounded up a selection of decorative goodies based on the capital’s most famous icons. Firstly, the walls. A London room wouldn’t be complete without some hand screen-printed Lizzie Allen wallpaper. The iconic ‘Red Buses [...]
Inspiration: Turquoise Tween Room
I was browsing Flickr for inspiration when I came across this gorgeous turquoise room which I knew you would love. It is the work of US based interior designer Lynn-Anne Bruns who runs lakbdesign. Together with her daughter, Caroline, they designed a room which suited the tween-age tomboy. While this room may belong to someone [...]
Our Family Life: Chloe Brookman from Olli Ella
Our Family: Chloe (mum, 29) Charlie (dad, 34) Tennyson (17 months) Where do you live: London Quick description of your home: A warm Georgian house that is outfitted with too many toys, not enough high heels, and plenty of love. Our style has completely changed since having a baby – we have happily ditched our [...]
Our Family Life: Amy from Little Alouette
In another edition from ‘Our Family Life’ our ongoing feature that takes a peak into the lives of BG readers, we cross the Atlantic to meet Amy and Joe Sharp from Little Alouette. Our Family: Amy and Joe and (finnian 6 Blaise 3 and Scout newborn) Where do you live: Columbus, Ohio (they’re originally from [...]
Inspiration: Kitchen Art Corner
Jen, who blogs at The Madhouse, is always full of ideas for art and craft on a thrifty budget. When I saw she had posted pictures of her recently revamped kitchen art corner I knew you would love it too. As we have come to expect from Jen, she manages to pack heaps in on [...]
Inspiration: Red, White and Blue
Finding inspiration for boys’ rooms seems to be harder than girls’ somehow. So when I saw this gorgeously styled room on stylist Marie Nichols’ blog Whole Lotta Lovely I was instantly inspired by the simplicity of the colour scheme. By limiting the palette to three colours this room has a real unity in its appearance. [...]
Cool Link: Homemade Toys & Games Craft Inspiration from Martha Stewart
I admit to being a tad partial to homemaker mogul Martha Stewart and I’m loving her (or should I say her teams) nineteen crafting ideas for homemade toys and games in her Martha’s Crafts for Kids special. They have varying degrees of difficulty with most fairly easy to put together and although it’s got some [...]
Our Family Life: Gigi from Mumsrock.com
In the second of our new family feature we catch up with Gigi, founder of cool site for mums MumsRock… Our Family: John (41), Gigi (43 – although looks a youngish 42) Kit (3 and a half-ish) We Live: West London Town, not too far from the Mothership that is Westfield. Quick description of your [...]
