@concepteur_vendeur I’m obsessing over velvet sofas again. Thinking I might feature one in the study/office downstairs. All the living spaces are downstairs in this build. I’m a big one for bedroom retreats upstairs and all living downstairs. No upstairs TV room or rumpus for me! The study/office is marked as Bed 5 on the
I cannot believe how hard it has been for me to get this blog started up again. This space has become like a stranger to me. I have been avoiding it. I needed a long, long break from the blog world, and everything associated with it. Work, family, building a business, trolls, took me away
You know what they say about first impressions! You only get one chance to make one! The first impression you create for your home sets the scene and gives your buyer a taste of what’s to come as they enter your home. Symmetry is inviting and pleasing to the eye. If you have a grand entryway,
When selling your home and creating photographs for your real estate listing, never underestimate the power of the ‘vignette’. A vignette is essentially a grouping together of objects that tell a story, that create a scene … …. a scene that says a little bit about the life lived in the home … or the lifestyle on
Most of the time I tend to stick to a formula (that I have just made up now for the purpose of this post!) when I style up a coffee table, in a home that I am taking to market. T + F + B + 2P = CTM Tray + Foliage + Books + a minimum of
After we’ve styled up a storm, the beautiful photos have been taken, and your home has shone like a jewel for it’s magical evening photoshoot, reality will kick in and the first thing that will often come to mind is … ‘how on earth do I keep my home looking this nice while it is on the
Pensive greetings from ‘The Shed’! I have had my Pandora ‘Bosa Nova’ music on, and have been pottering about sorting and packing and scheming all day. Lots of time to think and sort out my week too. I have been thinking a lot about the concept of ‘Skin In The Game’. Definition: ’Skin In The Game’
My latest real estate listing is a brand new, breezy Hamptons-style town home in a beautiful elevated position in Hawthorne, Brisbane. Suitably dressed in a coastal, blue and white colour scheme …. … with refreshing cross breezes on all levels …. … and views forever over to Hamilton and out to the Gateway Bridge and The Bay …
One of the most challenging issues I have when staging and styling my client’s homes, is choosing furniture and accessories that work well with the pieces that I have available in my inventory at the time and also pieces that my sellers leave in their property during the sale. It is no secret that I
A ‘REAL’ review of Haus Hörnligrat in Zermatt If you follow me on Instagram, you might have noticed my prolific Instagram #zermattspam, when we were in Zermatt over the New Year period. I am not ashamed to say that it was our third trip to Zermatt in 37 months (calculated by my youngest to the
My heart literally stops at the beauty of the Christmas Advent Windows in Switzerland. Advent (the 4th Sunday before Christmas Eve) marks the start of the Christmas celebrations, here in Switzerland. I have been told that in the more traditional villages, they celebrate ‘real advent calendars’, when each night leading up to Christmas, the village
Hello! We have been very busy packing as much as we can into our days here in Switzerland. Time has flown but in some ways it feels like we have been away from home for ages! The sign of a good trip! Time, surrounded by intense natural beauty in fresh cold air, has rejuvenated us
Time to put my travel blogger hat on again. It’s been a while! We’re off today! Heading far away, to gaze at snowcapped mountains. It’s been such a full and exciting year, with my work and my boys’ busy lives. Now that big son has finished his schooling, and youngest has put in a
A-M’s Winter Holiday Capsule Wardrobe 2015 Now that the work year is finally coming to a close, and school is out for all, I am allowing my thoughts to turn to our impending ski holiday in Switzerland. We have just over a week before we head off, so it’s time to start packing my winter
