Love... Home offices
The baby's now three months old. I (rashly? naively?) promised myself (and some editors) that I'd be back writing sometime in June. If things stay the way they are at the moment, writing more than a few lines a day seems like a distant dream.
To cheer myself up, I've begun dusting the dust off the home office. Last year, we cleaned and painted a portion of the house for a study/office and I used it until December or so after which the laptop moved closer to the bed and has stayed there after the baby has arrived.
The 'office' in the meantime became a place to store unusued stuff that was cluttering the bedroom - my suitcase, bags of clothes, baby gift boxes, a big picture frame that I had mirrored and other odds and ends.
I turned my table around yesterday to face the river - that's the way I like it. That's also the position that catches the wireless a little better :) The windows were opened and the room dusted and aired a bit. I hate putting holes into newly painted walls, so am dreaming of art work, storage space and a 'done' office space like these.
Long lines of shelving like this would give both of us space to work together without encroaching on each others work, but we don't have a wall long enough. The only long wall has a bank of windows on it...
Like this one...
and this one, I love (via HG)
and this one (love the view) 
Sigh. Back to the dusting.
To cheer myself up, I've begun dusting the dust off the home office. Last year, we cleaned and painted a portion of the house for a study/office and I used it until December or so after which the laptop moved closer to the bed and has stayed there after the baby has arrived.
The 'office' in the meantime became a place to store unusued stuff that was cluttering the bedroom - my suitcase, bags of clothes, baby gift boxes, a big picture frame that I had mirrored and other odds and ends.
I turned my table around yesterday to face the river - that's the way I like it. That's also the position that catches the wireless a little better :) The windows were opened and the room dusted and aired a bit. I hate putting holes into newly painted walls, so am dreaming of art work, storage space and a 'done' office space like these.
Long lines of shelving like this would give both of us space to work together without encroaching on each others work, but we don't have a wall long enough. The only long wall has a bank of windows on it...I like the simplicity and serene-ness of this image (below). I'd need a little more work-space though...
Like this one...
and this one, I love (via HG)
and this one (love the view) 
Sigh. Back to the dusting.
Discovering decor blogs on Tumblr
I've been living under a rock. That explains why it took me so long to stumble upon this fantastic source of blogs that are less talk and all images. I've been glued to my laptop for the last few hours and come back to it every time the baby takes a nap. Here are some images from Sweethomestyle - a very lovely tumblelog that I'm currently browsing.
Photos of some gorgeous bookshelves to come. Watch this space!
Photos of some gorgeous bookshelves to come. Watch this space!
BBC Good Homes rescued
The Guardian reports that BBC Good Homes magazine was saved in the nick of time after being sold to Kelsey Publishing. Phew.
Full report here.
Full report here.
{spaces} Rockheart, Goa
Rockheart is a two-storeyed house set in one & a half acres of private walled garden in Candolim, Goa, with beach access. This home used to belong to Gita Simoes, wife of ad-man Frank Simoes and is now available to let via Lazydays.
The decor in the house is traditionally Goan. Lots of rich, dark wood furniture, old shell windows, big beds in airy bedrooms and wicker for that beachy feel.
The dining room
The guest bedroom
The master bedroom
A glimpse of the living room
The decor in the house is traditionally Goan. Lots of rich, dark wood furniture, old shell windows, big beds in airy bedrooms and wicker for that beachy feel.
The verandah
The dining room
The guest bedroom
The master bedroom
A glimpse of the living room
Bookshelves going in!
Remember that search for a carpenter to make our bookshelves? Well, we've found him. He was recommended by an architect friend of ours, so hopefully he'll be good.
The bookshelves are going to be 8 feet tall, 6 feet wide and will have 12" adjustable shelves. It's a pricey project, but once it is done and all the books unpacked, we can finally get around to furnishing the rest of the apartment (seeing as how the 600+ books are in removals boxes in the apartment and there's no place for anything else).
Work on the case begins Monday and will take about 8 days for the cutting of the wood, carpentry and polishing. Fingers crossed that in 10 days time, I'm still feeling good about this :)
{Nothing like these, but one can dream...}
The bookshelves are going to be 8 feet tall, 6 feet wide and will have 12" adjustable shelves. It's a pricey project, but once it is done and all the books unpacked, we can finally get around to furnishing the rest of the apartment (seeing as how the 600+ books are in removals boxes in the apartment and there's no place for anything else).
Work on the case begins Monday and will take about 8 days for the cutting of the wood, carpentry and polishing. Fingers crossed that in 10 days time, I'm still feeling good about this :)
{Nothing like these, but one can dream...}
BBC Good Homes does a Domino
The latest Gorkana newsletter informs me that BBC Good Homes magazine is to cease publication from July 2009. This is really so sad. I picked up the May issue of the Indian edition and I wasn't too impressed with it. It looked so...advertorial. There was none of the freshness and creativity that I've come to expect from my favorite shelter magazines.
Will this affect all editions of the magazine?
image via here
An exercise in awareness
I was inspired by Laurel from Happy at Home to do an 'Exercise in Awareness'. Today's exercise was :
List your 10 most important things (not including animals or people).
Here goes:
- Being able to write
- My notebooks, diaries and blogs
- My other books
- A clutter free house
- Green spaces
- Silence. Quiet in my day.
- Playing with new technology & the internet
- My external hard-drive with its thousands of photographs
- Leading a life based on simple principles. Like Wabi-Sabi
- My laptop (or any computer)
That's what I can think of at the moment. And if you asked me to choose something I'd have difficulty living without, it might be 1 & 6...
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