carrie sneak peek.

so,.poor old carrie has been a little neglected of late.

too much else going on.

so, she sat.  sad and lonely. wet and mouldy.

poor girl.

until the weekend.

i was lucky enough to have inherited some amazing hardwood floorboards from a friend.  (thank you lovely kristie!)

perfect for the floor of a caravan!

some white paint, mixed with some french pink paint, a little stain for the floor,.and look at her now.

just a sneak peek, cause there is still so much to do.

but i'm loving it,..and she seems happier.

jane xx

coffee table makeover

some months ago, mr.plain built me a coffee table.

my brief at the time was;

industrial.  solid.  steel. with big wheels.

he complied with this.

which, at the time, i loved.

it was exactly to spec. 

but didn't really suit our space.  (not that i told him that of course!)

a giant road case in my living room.

i decided that the problem was the material.  too much silver for such a 'wood' oriented room.

i usually like to ground spaces with nature when i am styling a room.  play it up with colour/metallics and then ground it with nature.

it needed a wooden top.

i was lucky enough to have inherited metres and metres of hardwood floorboards from a gorgeous girlfriend, and a couple of those boards could be spared to give the table a new personality.

we mixed 2 colours of stain to get a bespoke, vintage industrial colour, and also got a hammer out and beat the wood up a little.

i adore it.

the wood has 'aged' perfectly with the stain.  it looks a similar vintage to the wooden vessel sitting on top of it.

bye-bye roadcase,  hello coffee table!

jane xx

shibori + leather = perfection

ok, ok.

i *know* that i have not posted for about eight weeks, and am now going to post about the same thing twice in four days.

sorry.

you can read about my current obsession here.

and you can link into their website here.

well.

thursday night i went to the opening of their exhibition.

and saw these.

(this one is my favourite.  the indigo dye almost looks photographic and so incredibly 3dimensional).

leather and shibori could possibly be the best fabric/technique combination ever.

ever.

i am seeing cowhide floor rugs...  

and, 

can you imagine a soft, buttery, handmade, leather/shibori clutch bag!?!?! 

to die for.

(just putting it out there universe!)

jane xx