Mudroom - Part One

We've finally made a start on our Mudroom. I'm so pleased with how it's coming together.

We bought a shoe cabinet from IKEA to house some of our shoes.

The ladder was a tip-shop find and the buckets were from Kmart - a bargain at $8 each.

I was given the window earlier this year. It was a freebie, thrown in with the purchase of another window (which we used for our chook shed), but this one had a broken pane of glass. After cleaning it up and removing the broken glass I attached some chicken wire to the back of it so we can hang stuff on it.

We put new handles (matching our kitchen handles) on the shoe cabinet and some number tags that I made (following the tutorial here - however, I used my vinyl cutter instead of stamping the tags).

We had two spare cupboards that were replaced by the builder as they were damaged. I was happy that they left the doors with us because I knew that I'd use them for something one day. So we've made a key holder with one....

... and a display for these gorgeous measuring spoons with the other. I bought these spoons from Anthropology a few years ago. The knob is a handy place to hang aprons on. This looks perfect in our kitchen.

We plan on buying an old church pew to finish off the mudroom, then we'll put up a coat rack over the pew. So now to keep an eye on eBay and Gumtree and hope the perfect pew comes up soon.

Laundry love

I love having a pretty laundry - some people say that a pretty laundry makes the task easier - well I don't know about that - but it is nice to have a room that you use and go through that looks nice.

I decided to make a light fitting using clothes pegs. I used some wire mesh left over from when we made the aviary. I bought a round wire ring from lincraft and attached the two together. Using a lampshade we cut off the top bit and welded it to the top of the fitting. Then it was simply a matter of putting the pegs on and using a batten fix pendant thingie to hang it up. I'm very pleased with how it looks.

Bedroom Style

I love our bedroom furniture. I made the headboard and updated our bedsides and chest of drawers. You can read about how I did that here. The only thing I'd like to add to our bedroom in our new house is a big mirror and the settee seen in this style board.

And our boys. Our eldest loves orange and trains. Our youngest green and skateboards.  

Links to the items in the above styleboard can be found here

Links to the items in the above styleboard can be found here

And the rumpus room.

In this house wall art

Boy cave wall art

Beanbag Chairs

Children Caution Sign

Super Hero Wall Art

Fooseball Table

Light Fitting

Lights...

Dreaming about lights. Pouring over pinterest. 

Hope we can get some lovelies like these below for our kitchen:

From Schots

These ones are my absolute fav!
From Cape Cod Designs

I'm not sure what sort of light fitting I want to put over our dining table...

More lighting love on my pinterest board

Handles, Knobs and Pulls

One thing I do know I want is the handles for laundry and kitchen... I'll be buying the kitchen and bathroom handles on ebay from the US - even with the high cost of postage, they'll be cheaper than the upgrade handles that our builder offer. The laundry ones will probably come from Hong Kong with free postage - gotta love ebay!

Knobs for Kitchen Cupboards

Pulls for Kitchen Drawers

Knobs for Laundry Cupboard Doors

Handles for Bathroom Drawers and Cupboards