I’m delighted to be the Irish Independent’s new resident interior designer, my comuln is now in their property section every Friday. Thrilled! Each week, I take a house for sale and give it a hypothetical makeover. How? Well, allow myelf to explain myself..! I use an ‘inspirational’ image, and then I find products available in and to Ireland inspired by that eh..inspirational image. This Friday will be my 10th article, so I really need to catch up on posting them on the blog!

This was the third article, and here’s the info - hope it’s useful in any way, shape or form!

x Blanaid

INSPIRATIONAL IMAGE (above) 

Image of room created by award winning designer Danielle Mac Innes of FUSE interiors, 64 Lower Mount Street,Dublin 2

T: +353-1-6611498 E: info@fuseinteriors.ie W: www.fuseinteriors.ie

PRODUCTS: 

1.  LIGHT

 Skowhegan Vintage School House Pendant Light : $99.00 Plus $28.00 delivery to Ireland. W:  ‘Lamp Goods’ store on Etsy

2. PRINT  

‘For Like Ever’ Print by Village : $100.00 Inclusive of delivery. Available from Village W: www.vllg.com

3. CUSHIONS 

Selection of cushions from €54.37 plus P&P Anthropologie W: www.anthropologie.com

4. FIREPLACE 

Selection of cast iron fireplaces priced from €480.00 to €2,750.00.

Kilkenny Architectural Salvage and Antiques Ltd, The Old Woolen Mills, Bleach Road, Kilkenny, T: (056 7764434) E: info@eurosalve.com W: http://www.eurosalve.com

5. CHAIR

Eames Plastic Chair RAR from Vitra : €353.00 plus delivery to Ireland.

T: +49(0)931-4679828 W: www.einrichten-design.de

6. COFFEE TABLE 

Metropole High Gloss coffee table Cat No: TE1511B : €259.00

Littlewoods T: 01 8112222 W: www.littlewoodsireland.ie

7. WALLPAPER

Fountain by Brewers £30.99 per roll plus P&P

Wallpaper Direct T: 0044 (0) 1323 430886 W: www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk

8. PAINT

Cypress and Blade from the DeVine range. Devine Powder/Delicate Finish - 3L : €44.95.

Available through Colortrend stores and selected independent stockists nationwide.


T: + 353 1 6288224 W: www.colortrend.ie

…ask yourself…

xBlanaid

via them thangs.

 As you may or may not know from me going on and on about it, I’m organising ‘Absolut Style at Set’, a vintage fashion, film and furniture fair for Langton’s House Hotel, Kilkenny ( 2nd, 3rd and 4th of April.) It’s to showcase their new SET theatre, which is quite lovely and beautiful, designed by interiors guru David Collins.  

My brother Eoin is a photographer, so we did a shoot in the SET theatre for our press package, and here are the results!

 Hair piece : Hand dyed Silk Chiffon and Velvet headpiece/corsage adorning a birdcage veil: €100.00 and Vintage Brooch: €15.00 both from Millinery By Rebekah Patterson , The Market Slip, Kilkenny.

Dress :  1970’s Gunne Sax strapless cream lace ballerina dress: €125.00. Vertigo Vintage, Dublin and Kilkenny.

Hair : by the quite brilliant Anne, at Kieran O’Gorman Hair and Beauty Day Spa, the Butterslip, Kilkenny. (see more below)

Shoes : Dunnes Stores €15.00, but they hurt!

More info on the ‘Absolut Style at Set’ weekend to follow, or read a bit about it >here<. Tickets go on sale tomorrow…

Thanks to Eoin for taking the photos!

xBlanaid

See more of the hair-did after the jump!

You know the way people say that things happen because God, or whoever’s in charge, thinks you’re strong enough to deal with them? I would like an appraisal meeting with the boss. Not to fill out a complaints form, but to ask ‘really, you think?’ I just want to hear ‘yes, actually, I do.’

It’s not so much the affirmation I need, more of a reminder.  

xBlanaid

Images via Ffffound.

Could this be the most beautiful bedroom in the world, could it beeee, could it beeeee! (to the tune of Prince, in case you didn’t cop the cheesiness straight away.)

*sigh*

xBlanaid

Via Pia Ulin Photography

Apologies for the cheesy headline…just a lovely selection of interior images from ‘Frank Features‘, via Emma’s designblogg. Both websites are a bit of a feast of inspiration.

I love the retro mustard/green accents in the white bathroom - thieving that for the studio…also the shelves stacked with sundries in the kitchen, and the colours of both the walls and the linen in the bedroom.

x Blanaid

I do not need any more prints - but this one from Studio Violet is just too dinky. I think I’ll put it  in the bathroom of the new studio…

It cost €27.00 including shipping >here<.

xBlanaid

Black, I love you. I’m sorry I thought about leaving you. Forgive me?

xBlanaid

via the contributing editor.

This isn’t really about you. I just don’t know if I want to move forward, because that might mean giving up on things that I haven’t even figured out if I want or not. You’re too much like real life, so let me continue fooling myself for a while. I might come to my senses.

Then again, that would suggest I had sense to begin with…so this may not be about you, but you are probably the only person who’s going to understand this. Which adds to my uncertainty. 

x Blanaid

Images via ffffound.

Via ffffound.

xBlanaid