Home improvement -- part two

A while ago (a long while :') ) I've blogged about home improvement and how I wanted to change some things in my house. Ideally I would like 2 huge pretty bookcases, but hey, since they don't come for free, I've tried to move furniture around to create more space in our living room.

Before our table was in our living room, we've now moved it to the kitchen, the good thing is, not only do the girls have a play corner now, I also have a desk! Yay! No more putting away my sewing machine every time, no more sitting on the coach studying. I love it! The new lay-out feels better, though it needs tweaking and it needs some more posters or something on the wall.

Don't mind the Christmas-tree in these pictures, the pictures were taken last month, our tree is long gone by now ;)







As you can see our living room is not that big, but it's comfortable and homey and I like the beams. It has a nice feel to it.

Window sill upgrade!

So as I posted yesterday, the window sill could do with a little jazzing up. We went to Ikea to buy some basic stuffs, shelves to go on the wall later on and plastic flowers to go in the window sill.





We re-used some old pots that were sitting around empty.



Since I'm able to kill of even plastic plants I'm not allowed anywhere near them... the boyfriend started clipping and putting the lot together. I quite like the result. Simple, a little touch of colour and above all, cheap and allergen-free!



The pots are all different, I'm not made for symmetry.



Ideally I would have wanted five or six of these plants, and maybe two orchids as well, I love orchids! But yeah, sticking to the budget and all. So I went shopping in my own house, searching for decorative items that would go nicely with the flowers.
I came across some souvenirs that I brought home from a trip with my mum to Marrakech, Morocco a few years ago. A beautiful lamp and traditional tea-glasses.





I love this lamp, I really like how it's a bit crooked and I adore this shade of blue, so pretty when daylight shines thru it!

And my tiny tea-glasses, my little girl thinks they are so pretty, and well, I do too. If it weren't for her tiny greedy little hands they would be on my coffee table.



And the final result. I quite like it. It's not really that much of a change but it looks neat and decorated from the outside and it gives me a homy feel from the inside. And most of all, it's easy maintenance and just looks pretty.

Home improvement

Ah yes... Home Improvement. I love it! Specially thinking about how I would ideally want things and then knowing exactly what shades of jade-green would go perfect with what type of shutters etcetera, only to find out that ofcourse you're budget is Ikea. Or maybe not even that. Shoot!

Since I'll be starting classes in one week from now again I decided that the house needed a proper clean. You know a really really thorough one. This way I know for sure that I can be a lousy housekeeper for a few months without anybody noticing. The convenience! So I washed the curtains, cleaned the windows, did the entire kitchen, did the bathroom and tomorrow I'll work upstairs. Yay me for cleaning!

But anyways, we have a lot of these things sitting around here, that've been waiting to be fixed or tidied or who knows what, for ages; and all of a sudden it annoyed me like it had never done before. So I decided we need two or three extra bookshelves to go on the wall so that I can clean out the bookcases in the livingroom. Too much has been stacked in there over the years. And also, I need new shelving space for my new books!


See? Aaaah the chaos! The risk of everything falling out...


2 or 3 extra shelves here would make a nice fake bookcase.

And I also feel that we need some fake plants to go in our windowsill. Why fake and not real? Because I'm allergic to loads of plants, and besides I have a very special quality enabling me to kill off even cacti within a week. So real plants would really be plant-molesting, or something.

But what do you reckon, it needs some jazzing up, right?


Next up then would be the front garden, which makes me feel ashamed pretty much everytime I walk past it, but somehow it's always the very last thing on my priority list.


To be continued...