Happy Times

My beautiful dad.

The beach houses surrounding the house we stayed in. The agapanthus grows wild in front of these houses. I would love to see them flowering.

The gardens in this small sleepy beach side town are to-die-for.



Table set for Dad's Birthday lunch.






I spotted this cute beach shack when I was out picking flowers and loved it. In New Zealand I've noticed they paint many of their houses black and white which I love.



I had a bath in this huge clawfoot bath every day we were there. I love the little vintage butterfly prints on the wall.




When we eventually renovate the kitchen in our new house I definitely want to have a cabinet built just like this one which was in the kitchen at the beach house. It was so perfect for all the plates, platters, cups etc.

The beach in front of the house.

We've just returned home from a week in New Zealand where we celebrated my father's 60th Birthday. After spending a few days in Auckland we caught a plane down to Napier and drove down to a beautiful beach house my parent's have been frequenting over the past 12 months in a sleepy beach side town in Hawkes Bay. We spent 3 days here with my parents, brothers, cousins, aunty & uncle and our grandmother. It was the most wonderful holiday with lots of laughs, lots of tears and lots of reminiscing. Mum cooked an amazing lunch for Dad on his birthday. I went down the street and picked some gorgeous roadside flowers which I arranged for the table. It was the most amazing week away from work and the craziness of life. Happy 60th Birthday Dad. You are one in a million and we all love you so much.

If anyone is interested in staying at this beautiful house click HERE for details.

Ultimate Outdoor Room Post

It seems that I have been stock piling outdoor room images.  Time to share them with you all. 

 Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  Enjoy, Heidi

House Beautiful

Found on Ginger Ella

Found on Ginger Ella

Found on Toves Sammensurium

Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

House Beautiful

House and Garden

Sorry no origin for this image.

Interiors Magazine

Marie Nichols

Michael S Smith

Frank Greenwald

Coastal Living

Cottage Living

Southern Accents

Traditional Home

Beaming.

Exposed beams have a tendency to make me beam with delight.  Enjoy, Heidi

Found on a Life's Design

Arcobaleno

This one blew me away.  Check out their site, it is devine.

 House Beautiful

Sarah Richardson via HGTV

House Beautiful

Steven Harris Architects

If I lived here, I would have to pinch myself everyday.

Canadian House and Home

Perfect layout and size for my dream house, only I am thinking that a wall to close off the kitchen would be a good idea.

How does your garden grow?

It's raining now and I'm glad, my pot plants sure could use a drink. 

(Note: the images below are not my pot plants.)  Because this summer has been so humid, I noticed a swamp like environment besides our house.  Turns out it was our air conditioner condensation drain. I was scared for my life to venture near that area since we have snakes.  Our rabbit and chihuahua seemed nervous too.  Then I had a stroke of genius, recycle that water for your pot plants.  I ran to the hardware store and got one of those connectors for pipes so that I could screw a water hose onto it.  Viola!  Now I had a slow trickle of water continuously coming out of a water hose from my house that was basically giving millions of termites a drink while they devoured my house.  I now have the hose away from the house, watering one pot plant.  (Note to self: figure out a way to water all of the plants from that one hose.)  It looks like before this is all over with I will become a certified irrigation specialist.   Enjoy, Heidi

WSI Magazine

Dana Gallagher

And More...

Stuart Membery and I before the guests arrived above.

Melanie, Kelly & I before the guests arrived above.

A better shot of the tutu desk.

Me speaking to our guests and introducing Stuart Membery...I look like I'm about to fly off the hot pink stool I was standing on!!

The store front before our 170 guests arrived on Wednesday night.

Melanie with some of our guests

Are you getting bored yet of my photos??!! Sorry! Here are a few shots of our re-opening party. I have lots more but I didn't want to post photos of my clients just in case they were not happy to be seen on the blog. Anyway, I am now taking a few days off. It's been a very hectic couple of months and I feel like I need to spend a few days with my boys.

xx

Anna

More Pictures

The back room which I have named the sunroom is proving to be a favourite amongst customers.

Above and below you can see the desk tutu which I designed for my office and my inspiration board too.

Melanie and I designed the lampshade wall light which has fabric both on the inside and outside and is suspended from a white painted bracket. This is in our new stairwell which leads from the shop to our design studio.

We now have a bedroom on display in the store as above.

Here are some more photos of the new store. I have a few more to come from my photographer which will be much nicer than these snaps I have taken so I'll post those when I get them. Thank you so much for all of your positive and kind comments. It certainly is a dream come true having the store look like this.

xx

Anna

PS. A huge thank you to all of those amazing bloggers out there who have posted about our new store. You are all so kind!!xx