My House Tour... The TV area

[image by Zahara Dessert]

This is part of my lounge room.

I like colour. I also like art.

The prints are from Studio Oat, and PrintSpace, two Australian designers I like very much. There is also a Chagall print.

The 3 ceramics from the Left are from New Zealand, we bought the Tikki while we were there on our honeymoon.
The red jar on the right is from Hong Kong.
The radio is a replica Bush radio. We bought it from Dick Smith and its really inexpensive.

The coffee table has a Missoni hand towel on it that I use as a runner


The replica chair [image by Zahara Dessert]



Our puppy Ziggy-Stardust wanted to also be part of this post.

Please ignore the sofa cover - it's from Ikea and it is designed to ward off the dog hair. It is removed when people visit!



[image by Zahara Dessert]

#33. Buy a real Eames/Hand Wegner piece of furniture

I love interior design blogs.

It all started when I was researching ideas for a day bed we wanted to build for some wasted space in our lounge room. I stumbled across Apartment Therapy and I have been a daily AT reader ever since.

My replica Hans Wegner plank armchair that I scored for $150 [image by Zahara Dessert]



Via Apartment Therapy or via other blogs, I have found many sites that I religiously read.


Here are some blogs I have been inspired to follow for a number of different reasons... great house ideas or just sheer voyeurism:

Door Sixteen
The Known Universe
Decor8blog
Made by girl
Making it Lovely
Ikea Family Live
sfgirlbybay
Bright Bazaar
House Tweaking

The houses and interior design of sfgirlbybay and Door Sixteen I most aspire to. Their houses are just stunning. Filled with old fashioned charm and modern style. I love them so.

At the moment I am in awe of the timeless Danish designs of Hans Wegner and Charles Eames . However in Australia these original pieces are very rare and EXTREMELY expensive.

I understand all the issues with buying replicas and I don't like myself that I have quite a few replicas in our home, but when there is a store that sells this furniture so close to home I can't resist.

Matt Blatt was having a second sales recently and I managed to buy a replica Hans Wegner plank armchair (with two separate chair covers), a replica fiberglass Eames rocking chair and some replica Philippe Starck ghost bar stools all for $265 (there was only some slight damage).

But as this blog is titled 'Buy a real Eames/Hand Wegner piece of furniture', I am on a mission to purchase an authentic piece of Danish furniture.

Watch this space and hopefully I will have something amazing to show you very soon.