World Home Designs: country style

I have finally found some time to finish few things.
My brilliant dad wallpapered our daughter’s room. I absolutely love the Circus wallpaper from Cath Kidston and the light from Laura Ashley.

This weekend we will be paining the walls and choosing carpet. I cannot wait to have it all finished!
I am also very happy with the 1930’s display unit which I painted in Annie Sloan’s Duck Egg Blue and used Cath Kidston (AGAIN!) paper to cover the back. The unit has been in my husband’s studio for months now and I finally finished it.

I distressed the top a little bit and waxed the whole unit.

I love dressers. I already have one at home but one from the garage after makeover looks so much better so I might find a bottom for it and swap it :)
I painted it in Old White and by Annie Sloan and used lovely fabric by Laura Ashley. It would look brilliant in our cranberry dining room.

I love the country, English look

I still have lots of furniture that we want to use in the house but I need to paint them first so there will be more blog posts about it very soon.

My daffodils present themselves beautifuly in front of our house.

The Spring has finally arrived so did Country Living Spring Fair. By the entrance there was this lovely beautifuly scented garden. It reminded me of the Chelsea Flower Show. The garden was just perfect and very colourful. I was expecting the show to be very busy as it was Saturday and lots of people visit at the weekend; in places it was so busy that getting through was almost impossible. The main reason I booked the saturday was the seminars; Colour in the home Presented by Joe Studholme, Farrow and Ball paints and Laura Ashley Decorating Workshop, Seminar. I love both and would regret not being part of it. Joe was absolutely fantastic and talked about the colour schemes. For some all the shades of white (neutral colour) look very similar almost the same. We got a mood chart which shows 4 groups of tones; warm grey tones, warm reds, yellow tones, cool greys. All can be found on their website but having someone talking about the colour, styles of decorating, use of colour and wallpapers was great and very inspiring. I met lovely Gabriella aka Moobaacluck She creates gorgeous personalised wooden decorations; prints, canvases and stationery for special occasions, children's rooms, the home. Gabriella is also a very talented painter and has done book illustrations. I love all her paintings especially paintings of flowers; like this beautiful poppies

I treated myself to this lovely print of red tulips which can still be purchased from Gift Wrapped and Gorgeous

The next place I stopped by was Country Styled Homes and met lovely Larch.

Country Styled Homes is an online shop which sell a range of handmade simple, Shaker and New England-style gifts and decorative items for both home and garden.

Many of the products are handmade including hand-painted wooden items, hand-made homespun scented gifts, personalised embroidered hearts and other items as well as wreaths, garlands and hearts made from dried flowers and fruits. For crafters they stock a range of dried fruit, lavender, herbs and spices, wooden and tin shapes and shells and a range of homespun fat quarters.

On the stand I spotted egg cosie and notebook by Jane Lindsey aka Snapdragon, another great designer which I have been following for some time now.