Our Living Room - Reveal.

Amazing what a set of curtains and a spot of paint can do to completely change a room. So finally it's done and well worth the wait. They have transformed the room.

Here's what the space looked like before. The wide window you see in the picture below has stayed the same and that's what the new curtains now frame. Everything else is pretty much gone.

I have had the cabinet sitting there all year, and only just decided last Saturday to paint the back of it. I was going to repaint the room an aqua or beige, but decided a quicker and easier way of transforming the space and introducing colour was just to do the cabinet. It took half an hour and looks a million bucks!

The paint colour is Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue.

The giant fish oil painting is by Vanessa Brown which we bought while living in Bowral a few years ago. The lamp is from VT Interiors. The curtains I had custom made from a fabric I found locally. The window is 4m long so there's 20m of fabric in them.

 

All images by Melinda Hartwright for Georgica Pond

BTW, I still have absolutely now idea how to use my new DSLR camera. I am just swapping lenses and hoping for the best, but it keeps whizzing and whirring and flipping out on me and I am anxious to do a course to work how what the heck I'm doing with it. So hopefully my photos will improve dramatically when I can do more than just turn it on!

Thanks also to Kirsten from Kirsten Krason Interiors and her fabulous blog 6th Street Design School for featuring our house in her Friday Feature post here. 

GIVEAWAY WINNER - Vicki Brindley you are the lucky winner of the cushion giveaway. Please contact me by email with your address details by midday Tuesday. (As per rules of entry a second winner is drawn after 5 days if no contact is made).