Interior Decorating

Photo from Absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com

As you get older, the desire to create your own home or sanctuary, filled with your own pieces and decorated in your own personal taste becomes stronger and stronger.

I really enjoy the idea of being a home-maker. It's not to say that I would choose to be a stay-at-home Mum, but there is certainly a satisfaction in coming home to somewhere that feels safe, comfortable and completely 'you'.

So with my interest in interior decoration developing and my crazy passion for cookery books and Vogue Living style magazines, I guess you could say it's quite lucky I'm going to be moving out of home soon. My friend and I are aiming to move in together in January. We hope to live close to the Harbour Bridge - somewhere near Kirribilli or MacMahons Point. Sure we've both lived away from home before. In fact, we've both lived together before; we were Boarding Residents at the same school - so we know we'll have no problems getting along. But what we haven't done before is to create our own home to our own tastes with our own furniture.

And at this point I would like to introduce some of the blogs that I have recently discovered which are feeding my hunger for incredible interior decorating of our prospective home.

The first blog is called The Interiors Addict. It is amass with interviews by interior designers and decorators with incredible style and design flair. The photos are beautiful and while the furniture is probably well beyond my current first-home budget, I definitely take away lots of ideas from the blog.

The second blog is called Absolutely Beautiful Things and it's blogger, Anna Spiro, selects the most gorgeous, pretty and vibrant photos. It is totally inspiring.

A Stuart Membery sofa, decorated by Anna Spiro,
photo from her blog absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com

The only concern I have about home-decorating is my fear of colour. If you commit to one colour scheme for a room, how long until you tire of it and need a change? Is it not better to add a splash of colour through pillows and throws, paintings and vases, and to stick to a neutral palate base? Clearly these kinds of worries are first world problems. I should be satisfied by the fact that I have a roof over my head and the ability to choose the colours of my walls. I totally get that and I am definitely wary that  this obsession with home decorating is superficial, but it sure is fun.

What colour could you never live with in your house?