was playing around at home last week taking pictures in one of my favourite rooms. i love the openness of it, with the full-width window(s) leading to the balcony on the left. its our 'toy' room, where we display quite a few of our prized finds! i suppose its a kind of trophy room, except instead of traditional valuables, we have mostly pound-shop treasures (hey, they're valuable to us!).
and isn't our wooden floor just lovely? and my zebra rug? ive had that since my teens, it used to be in my bedroom at my parent's house!
some more of my best things are:
on the ikea bookcase: my geisha plates and the teeny lace parasol, the pink buddha, the swan collection in the top right corner, my boyfriend's customized qees (second down, second left - the red one was an xmas present to me!), the collector's evian bottles, his vintage toy cars, my precious 'face' and 'elle' magazines (i prefer elle to practically all other fashion magazines), and some of our books selection - his design, my fashion
on the table/window ledge: the table itself &its chairs -oops, one missing cushion!- (our friends joke that this corner looks like a greek taverna setup!), assorted candles & small plants, the wooden red 'love' typepiece (i had been looking EVERYWHERE for one!), the outside greenery (a huge pink-flowered bougainvillia, so beautiful, we have many of them in cyprus, i adore them), the vintage blue spiral glass bottles in the corner (my mum's - very old), my framed old fashion editorial -i put it there cos the theme was green- and the bamboo stalks in a vase, present from the boyfriend's mum
on the ikea cabinet: an old tv set that my sister picked up for 10euros at a car boot sale (and i promptly stole, well she can't take it with her to australia can she!?) - it actually picks up one channel in fuzzy black&white, my two favourite picture frames: one pink filigree swirls and one etched mirrored, my pink perspex cross (i think it was a cds storage solution? but i use it to display small bits and pieces), the parrot mirror from the local pound shop, the 3 little japanese people (in front of the tv, 2 girls and a boy, one of the first joint purchases me&the boyfriend made), the geisha nesting dolls, the green-ball light (which i don't use cos things look weird in green!), my boyfriend's limited edition iridescent-print poster celebrating 50 years of the cd (graphic designer stuff again tss), its pretty cool though - it changes colours as you move past it like a cd (doh). and the ikea pink&gold vase on the floor. the silver bauble on the door handle is an xmas decoration but i like it there, it looks arabian
and finally, on the floor next to the door, my vintage-looking rose drawings. i friggin love these, as do most girls who visit out flat, hehe. they are another treasure found in the oddest place: the diy-store! aren't random finds just the best!??
ha, i just realised i did a selby, lol!!
