Home envy.

Ikea family live.

Interior inspiration on tap.

If you have never heard of Ikea family live, it is basically a website jam packed with a stunning array of   eclectic real life interior design ideas, from all over the globe.

The easy to find photographs are perfect for an interior porn addict like myself. I can spend hours at a time drooling over the endless supply of real life rooms.

(Doesn't it make it so much better when you know a normal, everyday person has designed them?. The scandi/retro dream is still in reach!).

I just had to share my current home envy. I look at these pictures everyday. They are providing my mantra,

'I will have my dream home'.

Let me introduce to you Anki, Casper, wolf and mus,
 (With names like that of course they are going to have a outrageously amazing house)
And their bright, bold and beautiful home.

Dreamy.

The mind boggling colours, the deer, the kitsch ornaments adorning every room, the painted floorboards, the tee pee, the wallpaper, the kitchen, the garden den, the bunting!!.

LOVE LOVE LOVE.

And now I am totally having geometric print flooring in the kitchen. Thank you to Retro on the net and the vintage scientist for telling me what it was. Now you know why I was asking :)

If you would like to know more about Anki and her home, or want to get your own interior inspiration fix then go to the Ikea family live website here

All pictures are subject to copyright so please ask Ikea family live before using them.

Thank you to Ikea family live and Anki for letting me use these wonderful photographs.

Lauren x

a peek around a local vintage home.

welcome to my first ever vintage home post.

 i hope to bring you little peeks into the lives and homes of vintage loves everywhere. capturing the little corners and treasures they have hidden away. a little inspiration. and a little nosiness.

may i introduce to you dawn aka the vintage scientist and vintage curator/seller. you can follow dawn on twitter here and follow her blog here

here is a little blurb written by the vintage scientist herself;

I've always loved antiques and old things which probably come from my family. My dad hoards, my mum has always been into shabby chic (not sure if it was always called that) and my grandad was an antiques dealer. It was when I started planning my wedding in 2007 that I really got into it lifestyle wise. 

Got the inspiration for mismatched china and vintage bottles and started collecting at boot fairs, charity shops and antique shops. At the time you could pick pretty stuff up for pence. We had a traditional church wedding in  my parent's village in Norfolk and hired the village hall & marquee for the reception to keep costs as low as possible. 

At this time we were living in a 1 bed flat in Southchurch so after the wedding everything was boxed up and stored in Norfolk. After saving up for years and thanks to some inheritance we started looking for a "project" house. Found perfect 1920's semi-detached in Leigh that needed some work doing, meaning we could put our own stamp on it. 

Some furniture was inherited from grandparents, some was bought from antiques shops and some from Sue Ryder in Westcliff and other charity shops. 

Most nik-naks are inherited. 

We have loads of clocks which were inherited or came from Salvo fair last year. 

The Bakelite radio came from a shop in Norwich which restores them.

My favourite era is generally the whole period from Victorian to mid 1950s, with more preference to the 1930s/1940s.   

Erm, can't think of anything else you need to know... Well, I'll be selling the china, bottles, vintage/antique science stuff and vintage/antiques stuff in general from the 1st of March at what the butler saw vintage emporium, Leigh road, Leigh on sea, Essex under the name Den of Vintiquity boutique.

have a look at her 1930's inspired homewares and corners of her pretty home. full of glasswares, old photos, stunning chesterfields and an old bake light radio.

drawing on the best of the 30's and adding her own touch dawn has a quite stunning home. if you don't believe me take a look for yourself.

beautiful!

lauren x