Life in Westminster Court
We’ve been pretty busy lately going to lots of open homes. Turns out we can pay less rent to the bank and get a much better place than the one we’re living in. The building we’re in is incredibly beautiful, but our apartment is pretty gross. This is the main entrance of the building:
My BF always complains there is too much art on the walls. On the left is a picture my great grandfather, Allen Bryce, painted of fuchsias. They are my favourite flowers, and in the foreground you can I have a fuchsia plant. On the right is a corner of our living room. Didn’t bother cleaning it up for the photo. Yes I have a lot of OC DVDs, and the boardgame. Get over it.
This is my favourite chair, and my favourite record. You forgot it in People by Broken Social Scene. In fact if you’re looking on here for Chrtistmas present ideas I’d really like these record frames from UO. And a couple more canvases which we don’t have room to hang.
Probably the thing I hate most about this apartment is the wallpaper, which I describe as a water-damaged pattern. The stuff in the bathroom is even more outrageous. It’s shiny silver with green bird/ flowers patterns.
My favourite part of the apartment, which I couldn’t get a decent photo of, is the teacup cupboard in the kitchen. There are hooks which fit about 20 of my teacups and even a little window in the cupboard so you can look through and see all your china!
All in all I’m looking forward to living somewhere with clean white walls.
The inside my future dream home
Who knows if I’ll ever be rich enough to justify Kelly Wearstler as my interior designer. However I hope one day I have a nice house with a nice coffee table so I can buy all her books! She’s found that perfect balance between modernism and antiquity which I love. I also admire that she’s bounced back from the horrific 90s Playboy photos to become what ever the classy word for “milf” is.
5 things I would like to see in wave
1.This should be on gmail as well, the option to have a message delivered to the recipient at a set time in the future. This would be useful for sending reminders to other people, digital time capsules and at least a million other things. Such a technology existed in the late 90s when e-cards were popular, the options were “send now” or “send at future date”.
Why is this not standard these days?
2. As seen in this video, it would make cooking so much easier and creative. Pamela Fox suggested it be a gadget not a bot (as I originally concepted). Currently rethinking it and more on that to come…
As far as I know there are tons of interior design applications and all of them are rubbish.
My idea is you upload photos of areas of your house to a Wave gadget and change the colours of the walls/ carpets etc straight onto the photos. You would be able to add furniture into the picture straight from an Ikea (for example) catalouge and if you gave dimensions of the walls, this could be used to position things as well as feng shui. Being on wave means you could work with family and housemates to find colours and furniture everyone likes.
4. Whenever you leave a job you get a big card signed by everyone in the office, which you lose at work drinks before getting a chance to read it. Wouldn’t it be better to have that card online so you could access it later?
My proposal is a wave gadget with ecard templates which coworkers can decide on and then decorate using photos or drawings of the person leaving. When everyone signs the card with their personal message there is an option to leave a link to your facebook or linkedin account so you can stay in touch. When everyone has signed it a designated person would publish the card and add the leaving person to the wavelet.
5. Imagine if Protools or a similar company made a Wave Gadget which allowed multiple musicians to upload and mix together their tracks in one place.
No more emailing different parts to each other just one place to mix the music, discuss the lyrics and potentially even publish straight to Myspace/ Purevolume/ Lastfm when finished. Instead of paying for expensive mixing software each song could just have a 5 second soundbite at the end promoting the brand who made the gadget. Would be perfect for start up bands and school music projects.
New home in surry hills
Our new apartment is awesome and filled with bookshelves. The only part which wasn’t looking pretty was the electronics shelf. However on the weekend I found the perfect solution! Four beautiful old (hat?) boxes – does anyone know what they actually are? – and now all the electronics and cables are in their own pretty boxes.
Outdoor lighting/ seating
I wish I had a big balcony or poolside to put these on. They would certainly keep your bum warm!
Tea party meets your prettiest jewellery
I would actually like one made out of much bigger plates so I could serve scones and cakes on it, and maybe rumballs in the cup on the top.
Murals for the home
This website came into my life with perfect timing. Tomorrow I move into a new apartment which is very white and I’ve been thinking about how I will decorate it. Surface View turn a bunch of images from the National Gallery (london) and other places into wallpaper basically. Being a big fan of the early renaissance work in the NG and also of early romance comics I would quite like to plaster my home with these. Unfortunately I don’t think the landloard would be as enthusiastic and the new rent price has diminished by life budget.
Here are two I like, on the site’s template to see what they look like in different rooms:
