Australian-American Houses

Secrets From a Stylist

You guys are all remembering to set your DVR’s and pop that popcorn for the premiere of Emily Henderson’s Secrets From a Stylist tomorrow? Right? RIGHT?

Feb 26th, 9pm on the HGTV.

Because Emily is incredible and I sold her some fine furniture that will hopefully pop up on the show here and there and because the afters are stylish and designy and vintagy and unlike anything you’ve seen on the HGTV. My new SFAS drinking game is called “Spot Morgan’s Furniture”. You won’t get very drunk and you’d probably have to watch a bunch of different episodes – so if you love to pound booze and get wasted it may not be a very good game. Now the “Spot Awe

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Fare thee well, Shelf

A moment of overly dramatic silence please.

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Thank you.

BAM! We took the shelf down.

Well, not just down, but booted it out of the house for good. Which means this bad boy is gone FOREVER. It’s off to a better place, a place full of wonder and magic that will appreciate and love it for all its shelfy glory.

Iggy, lurker Gary and The Boy took it apart in about twenty minutes after I struggled to undo it by myself for about a day. Having ma

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There’s a New Girl in Town…Meet Millicent plus a Winner!

G’day

I thought you all might like to meet a new girl to the BC Crew…her name is Millicent and she now lives in the States via the Beach Cottage KitchenAid Giveaway a few weeks ago and was delivered to her new owner Anne recently who has since been baking up a storm!

I got this lovely email from Anne when Milli first hit her new home…

Then a couple of days later Anne emailed me lots of pics to show what a wonderful time they are having together.. Read more…

Modern Gothic Houses & Eastlake Interiors

The chestnut bed with ornamental strapwork was made by Kimble & Cabus, one of the foremost producers of Modern Gothic, or Eastlake-style, furniture.

Before the word was misapplied to all manner of ornament, Eastlake was the most popular variant of the Aesthetic Movement in America: bold and muscular, woody, neo-Gothic. “Eastlake” is often a label applied to dark furniture of the late-Victorian period. But Read more…

Just Some Flowers & Vintage Things

I am not sure how many flowers in vintage bottles I can present you with, but really there is no limit to what you can do with them, hence this little display on my deck yesterday evening. 

If you have been with me for a while, you’ll remember that in July I had a vintage bottle haul where I couldn’t quite believe my luck, and right there amongst the grubby old things was this purple one….(here it is when I found it).

And I have to say that I wasn’t quite sure how it was gonna fit in here, I mean, holding my hands up, purple really ain’t my thang, but still, somehow I loved it. 

The funny thing is, that in the general post-Christmas cleansing of this place whereupon most things, including very nearly a child or two, have made their way in some shape or form to Vinnies, this was on the maybe pile.  I

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