Author / Ness Lockyer

Change of Heart…

I was going to post about the Hampton’s today, but I have found some lovely blogs who are new readers at M&L. This first pic is from Camilla at Home. I am wondering if it is her Home because the pics she has of her house look like bits of this stunning home.
This pic is from katrinachambers.blogspot.com, who is a fellow Aussie with boys. We share the near exact tastes which is a bit uncanny. By the way Katrina, that mantel over the bed you can get in good salvage yards. I see them here in Tassie all the time.
This was my original post pics of a house in Long Island that is currently for sale for US$99,000,000
They should have turned on some lights to better show the features, but you can tell it is beautiful even in the shadows
What a gorgeous room, I can see a somethings gotta give makeover here!

Olive Grove Retreat

This is the country retreat of Melbourne Hair Stylist,Wesley Douvos in Heathcote Vic. It is actually for rent as a weekender! I would live here permanently. This is my idea of loft living, although it is in a Chapel-like building. It is stunningly beautiful, and his attention to detail, superb…
like the French Chandeliers, and white and linen covered furniture…
even outdoors it is stunning. Hows this for a weekend unwind?
This Bathroom is beautiful and shares the space with the sleeping area on the Mezzanine level. I adore the high ceilings and the tonal colours…my sort of palette in a bathroom. This is the same as our tub and after seeing these taps I have put this into the bathroom reno file. It is gorgeous.
Ness xx

Have a nice weekend

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. It is freezing here so we will be indoors catching up on jobs I think and playing with the boys. See you on Monday.
Ness xx

Kitchen Envy

photo – Ideal Home
Sitting in our Kitchen this morning while having my cup of coffee, I had so many ‘we should do…’ ideas running through my head I had to go do something else so I wouldn’t start something I might regret. I love this Kitchen (because it is white) and the fact it is about as big as our Kitchen. You have to understand though our Kitchen has 70’s wood doors and feral beige speckled laminated bench tops….oh I know! You can see why I am dying to paint the cupboards white. I love the sink.

photo -Aust Country Style

I think these 2 photos show what I am after. We too have a big fireplace opening like this pic that we would love to put in a black oven with tiled back. At the moment it contains a cast iron fire you can cook on, but you need a tree a night to run it! Against the white cupboards it looks so clean and fresh. We also have a centre island like this (that is currently 70’s wood) and I could imagine these chairs from Ikea snuggled underneath. This would keep morning toast etc spills contained to one area.
Oh to dream…Ness x

The Man Can Display

I received my copy of Australian Country Style today and couldn’t wait to show you this home of Justine Bishop, an Interior Designer, in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. The house is an old cottage that he admired for years…then nabbed it and went to work.
The man can display. Utilitarian becomes beautiful…
and the strange, stunning. This telescope stand and army advertisement show his love for military campaigns, which is picked up through the rest of the house. I so want those urns!
Ness xx

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