Chevron Fever

These days I have some time on my hands, for how long who knows... So, I need to move upstairs into the large bedroom. I feel this room is rather plain, as I had rented it out and didn't really decorate it, but now it's my room and it needs some colour! Most of my home is white with hints of turquoise or some form of blue.

Argh!!! The main word being COLOUR! Here are the choices below; oh, did I mention that I'm doing stripes? Chevron stripes to be more exact. It took me two hours to measure up and do one stripe, hopefully it will be done by the weekend!

Sorry for the poor photo in which I took at midnight. I want to keep the white and use one of the colours below, which would you choose?

So here are the colour choices: Pratt & Lambert "Beau Geste"

Next choice is: Pratt & Lambert "Gig's Grey"

And lastly: Sherwin Williams "Buoyant Blue"

Another thing to consider is the bed. I have an Ikea bed, pictured below - I wish it was white. However, the bedding is. What are your opinions? I'm partial to Sherwin Williams "Buoyant Blue".

Hhhhmmmm Upholstery Inspirations

Calgary Craigslist find: Tulip Chairs and table
Originally uploaded by Shazzbazz draws the Line!

Loving the work of ljindustries. I've been meaning to work on my first Craigslist purchase above. But once I move in and figure the colors then I will consider what fabric to use I love the designs at Ikea as well what Julia of ljindustries used below.

Gunvor at Ikea

Amy Butler has some great work

Valori Wells

Cicada Studio

Any favourites?

My dresser is out there :)

Interesting, I was reading Rozzie Jewelry tonight and saw her posting about Googling her name.  I haven't done this in a while and now that I finally have Google Analytics up and running for this blog I thought I'd give it a go.  And this is what I found when looking for "shazzbazz".  I am so happy that someone noticed my dresser, I did try to get it out there, but several months later I'm super elated to see it was on one of my favourite websites, Apartment Therapy ~ yay!  

And searching for "Cheeky Nado" my Etsy shop is right on top!!!  However my Artfire shop seems non-existent.  Oh, I'm also working on some prints in my Etsy shop, so do keep checking. And for all of my family in the UK and friends in Asia, yes, I do ship internationally :)

Good night :)

Wallpaper Creativity

So you know that I love interior design and how could I not with the beautiful wallpapers that are coming out these days?!?!   The samples below are just a few of the many creative designs that are out there.  Have fun :D

Topo Azul: Allan, The Gallant

Folia: Osborne and Little

Walk in the Park: Osborne and Little

Grand Jubilee ~ Cream: Mod Green Pod

Custom Wallpaper by Carl Abad with Rollout

Hula: Barbara Hulanicki

Frames by Chris Taylor and Craig wood

Revamping my dresser :)

Revamping my dresser :), originally uploaded by Shazzbazz draws the Line!.

Why throw away your old furniture? I know it's not easy to paint, and can be somewhat a pain to sand and get the paint nice and flat without any drips or brushstrokes, but hey the end result is so worth it.

I've seen this particular dresser on a couple reality TV shows, where they threw the set out and bought new stuff. Not that I really like this dresser, but it was the first furniture I ever bought with my first job here in Canada. It's also moved with me to every apartment while I was in college. However I took off to Asia for the last ten years, and it wasn't used much in my absence until now. So the well traveled dresser is now holding my collection of clothes as well as decorated with numerous items I've either bought on my travels or things I've made.

I'm so happy with how it's turned out, and surprised to see just how many blue items I had, as I'm normally a red or curry colored kind of gal! LOL

Decorating and Recycling

I have this on my desktop, I never liked blue in a home until now.

I love interior design and people's wonderful imagination in how to use their spaces.  Many of you may know that I've been posting a variety of links to websites/blogs that I frequent that feature interior design.  Well I'm still addicted maybe more than ever!  

I love how you can reinvent and give life to something old to be new again.

I'm still job hunting however I can't stay at home in Stavely and work in Calgary as it's just too far and I have much respect for those that do, but I am not looking forward to winter.  I can't and don't want to imagine myself driving each morning in the snow, and apparently the road into Stavely from my house is notorious in the winter months which is probably why everyone drives such monstrous pick-up beasts!  So the plan is according to me landing a job in Calgary or even Fort McMurray that I will purchase a place with the help of my family.

Which is why I'm feeding my addiction for interior design.  However I envy the flea markets that numerous bloggers blog about, Calgary is somewhat limiting, I know some Calgarians have good taste but my goodness some just don't.  I've been researching realty and eeeek many homes are so bland or just filled with flowery wreaths that decorate every nook and cranny.  I've been looking at Craigslist and Kijiji and wow, the things people sell are sometimes a cool bargain and others need to do some research before posting.  I saw a sofa and loveseat for sale for CDN$300, "What's the prob?" you may ask, well it was hideous, brown and flowery in a not so nice way. (Check out the Ugliest Couch Contest some have interesting shapes.)  I remember when I first came to Canada in '91 that stores where trying hard to flog em.  Gosh and to think I sold a nice white sofa for $20 and a grey one that I bought brand new and used for two years for $75!

I took this photo to show how ugly and uncomfortable these beasts are but yet they're popular in Korea, as well as the arrangement.  This house was huge, the space was empty.

Anyway we should recycle furniture more than we already do I've heard of some cities having a recycle furniture day or I remember in Hong Kong that every Chinese New Year many families would refurnish their homes in the hopes of cleaning out the bad luck well my friends and I would go on scavenger hunts to all the garbage dumps and come home with new furniture most expats arrived in HK with just a suitcase and now had fully furnished homes thanks to the garbage.  I knew of a few people who created businesses from this.

When I see Linda Crispell's home I just melt and get inspired.  Hope you do too.