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.

Cabinets and Painting

Was in Riddell today so did a drive by. There was a car at the house so I decided I'd pop in and say "Hi" and take a look at the cabinets up close. There were two painters there and they'd just started painting the trim (I don't think they were too keen on me going in, but I just said I wanted some pics of the cabinets).

Ensuite

Kitchen Island Bench

Kitchen - left side of stove

Upper cabinets - left side of stove

Bathroom

Laundry

As the boys were at a friends' house today and I had the day to myself I went to IKEA to buy some baskets for the mudroom and the handles and knobs for our new kitchen.

We Have a Kitchen... sort of

With Melbourne experiencing a week of 40+ degrees each day, we didn't expect to see anything happening at the house. When we received an email today with the fixing invoice attached we realised the builders all were busy working this week. Way to go guys! So we had to go and check it out.

Hubby could hear me squealing from the other side of the house when I saw the kitchen cupboards through the dirty windows. The photos below don't do it any justice at all. I could have stayed looking through the windows for hours. It is so beautiful. It's just as I imagined - better really because it's now a reality!

Can just see the ensuite cupboard doors

Laundry - it's gorgeous!

Elvis' successor (Fire helicopter) flying back to Melbourne after fighting fires in Lancefield today.

The closest we can get to seeing our bathroom and ensuite cupboards...

Laundry

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

Second guessing...

I'm so indecisive about some things.

After realising that most of the laundries I've pinned on my laundry pinterest board are white I changed our laundry cabinet to polar white (prob more to do with the fact that there would be no extra cost to have the shaker styled doors I coveted).

Then I got to thinking again (probably not a good idea) about how the kitchens I pin on my kitchen pinterest board are mainly white shaker kitchens. ARGHHHHH! Time to go back to the drawing board. Do I want parchment our original choice (which is a creamy white) or a polar white (white white) kitchen? GAHHH!!!!  I just can't decide. I tell myself to go with what we first chose, but I keep going back to it...

So there's only one thing to do - go back to Hopetoun tomorrow and talk to someone there about my kitchen colour choices.