My pink chair

It seems like ages since I’ve given you any update on what we’re doing with the house, mostly because nothing at all has been happening.

But I’ve started to get traction again in the last few weeks, so I’ve a got lots to tell you about.

This is where we’d got to last week.  Note fabulous new Emma Gardner rug has arrived. Note that very heavy glass coffee table is not on top of fabulous rug, because we are terrified of making deep grooves in said rug. Note that horrendous nursing chair and egg-yolk yellow walls are still in place.

If you remember I wanted to replace the nursing chair with a curvy chaise longue.  I also wanted the chaise longue to be in raspberry sorbet pink but could only find it in various shades of beige.

So imagine how excited I was to find this little beauty in very hip Seattle store Inform (which appears to have a very groovy looking sister store in Vancouver, BC) in exactly the shade of pink I was looking for.

The chair is a ‘Little Rock’ by Canadian company Bensen and is wildly comfortable. We clearly have a thing for pink rocking chairs. 

The chair is accessorised with a glorious cushion from Swedish designers Adam & Viktoria made from raw linen with very dark chocolate cutouts.

I’d never heard of them before but they’re actually featured this month in Elle Decor.  I love their stuff and am going to look into getting some of their cushions  in for ‘mirrormirror’.

 

 

I was pleased, but also a bit worried to see in Elle Decor that chartreuse – the colour of the rug, together with the Ikea curtains and Crate & Barrel runner in the background – is the new colour for spring.  I’m worried because it will clearly be tremendously passe’ next year – and we certainly can’t afford to replace the rug, like, EVER.

 

 

Stay tuned to find out what our new coffee table looks like, when I’m going to organise those shelves a bit better, why we haven’t finished the fireplace *blushes*, and what colour we’re going to paint the walls.

Tune in next week also for an update on the colour scheme for the Minx’s room – somewhat embarrassingly featured today on Ohdeedoh.com (which appears to be the new name for Apartment Therapy Nursery).  I wish they’d waited until we’d painted the walls a colour I actually like!