If you are about to hire a designer to help you with your house, it’s best if your designer also has a blog. Design bloggers really are on the cutting edge of what’s cool and current (maybe). Here’s why. Yesterday I posted about IKEA bookshelves and then Erika from Bluelabel Bungalow posted a comment saying “Check out my IKEA done right” post. So I did. And this is what I saw. A home office by Sarah Richardson:
Any good decorator is certainly not going to buy everything from IKEA but there are some things you just can’t get for a better price and when you are decorating an entire house (like I am) you need to get some bargains somewhere because there’s so much to buy! Anyway, I recognized the legs on the table in the image on the left but I have never seen the TV console on the right so I was convinced it wasn’t IKEA. I emailed Erika and she was kind enough to send me this link; here. I didn’t like it on the website at all and worried that I had to buy the upper storage unit too but I hung on to the image in red (above) and when I arrived today I happily bought it in black (I have enough white at the moment). It’s real slim and long enough to look good under a larger TV (I didn’t win that battle :).
Anyway, every room should technically have one expensive (the bling) piece of furniture because it upgrades the look of everything else in the space and in my living room, it’s definitely my sexy sofa. Sigh. I love my new yellow sofa, I’m so happy with it.
This week and next I’ve been trying to keep my schedule light so I can shop for my own place (and enjoy the summer weather). Today I walked into Consignment Canada here in North Vancouver (where I live) and scored 6 of these dining chairs (above) for $250! They won’t be as cheap in the end because I have to re-do the frames and recover them of course but I’m so excited. I have always loved this image from Stephen Shubel Design. I mostly love dining rooms where the chairs don’t match the table, I just think it looks more creative and like a designer’s been there.
Finding chairs that fit so close to the idea of this room made me want to re-think my current colour scheme of yellow, raspberry and kelly green because I love orange too (aaaak, see this is why it’s so hard to decorate my own place, it's like having to choose between your kids!) I haven’t committed to the fabrics yet although I’m close. I love dinner parties and the idea of sitting at the table, in comfort for hours with my guests. Also, having a different pattern on the back of the chair is so much fun!
If I wasn’t a blogger, I would never have discovered the entertainment console, because I’ve walked right by that section at IKEA thinking it was all too cheap looking anyway. Being a design blogger keeps you exposed to all the possibilities in furniture (although I’m not giving up my magazines—I still love them too) including the latest in colour because you are constantly looking for new images to support the post you are writing! As a blogger in the design community reading other design blogs daily as well is just like reading a new decor magazine every day! What a great education!
If you have a blog, do you think you are a better designer now than when you started?
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