Kitchen Details.....

Kitchen in The Mushroom House CO via Pinterest 

Kitchen details via Tessa Payne Flickr

Kitchen shelves

Kitchen details via Pinterest

Kitchen details via collier west

Kitchen detail, via Design Sponge

When the dream of buying a home became a realty, I was so excited about the prospect of building my dream kitchen. I was inspired by the years of pretty pictures I had collected for Moon to Moon. I wanted to replace the cupboards with beautiful rustic wooden shelves that would house my jars of spices, brown rice and mismatched blue and terracotta crokery, and I would spend time looking for that perfect vintage style fridge, paint it turquoise and have it overlook a herb garden :)

In reality I do not have a big budget, and annoying things like replacing the front door and getting the heating properly installed is sadly now more of a priority. But that kitchen still needs sorting.

The kitchen is such an important room to me, I want to be inspired to cook homemade soups, spout beans and seeds, bake bread and enjoy being in there when I do so. So I am focusing on the details. Details that dont have to cost a fortune, like a buying a terracotta pot (bottom photo) and planting herbs that I frequently use, displaying some of my pretty jars and containers on the work surface (this will also disguise my awful pink flowery granny tiles until I can replace them),  hanging up my nicest mugs and pans and of course growing my avocado tree. Slowly but surely this kitchen will be great , but on a budget, ebay, etsy and charity shops are my new best friends

xx Gabi xx

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SugarHigh + LoveStoned

Not usually one for posting look books on Moon to Moon but how could I resist with this stunning shoot from (last months Moon to Moon sponsors) SugarHigh and LoveStoned?

 Jimi Hendrix inspired Velvet bells and tassel back T-shirts.. yum.... not to mention that fabulous interior complete with Berber cushions, peacock chairs and vintage Houkah

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Kitchens with big windows

Greenhouse Kitchen : What I would do for this!!!

Kitchen: Big windows, eclectic tiles and pots and pans

Earthship kitchen: Okay I posted this a couple of days ago but it is so beautiful

Greenhouse kitchen/ utility room

When I was 14 I had a friend called Charlotte who had a kitchen with a greenhouse type glass roof. Ever since I first saw that kitchen I have been obsessed with the idea of building and designing my own. Plenty of sunlight, mismatched kitchen surfaces and over looking a beautiful garden..... well I can dream...

Hope you are all having a great week, dont forget to enter the Wild Unknown Tarot Card give away, over 300 entires so far.....The winner will be drawn tomorrow... good luck

xx Gabi xx

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The home of... Textile designer Isabel Wilson

The Williamsburg home of Textile designer Isabel Wilson

"By exploring the world and dissecting it into measured fragments, compiling collections becomes an act of seeing. To artist and textile designer  Isabel Wilson, collecting what she sees and what she likes is not just a passion, but a necessity. Her apartment and studio are both filled with a rich archive of assembled butterflies, sea shells, foam creatures and other carefully catalogued elements, of which traces echo into her colorful paintings and fabric designs."

For the full article and photos visit the wonderful Freunde von Freunde

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Readers Homes: Sarah from La Maison Boheme

Sarah from La Maison Boheme shares with Moon to Moon her beautiful bohemian home

Master Bedroom with Mexican throw on the bed

                        Embroidered place mats from Mexico framed below a ceramic Mary.

Eclectic Living Room

Bohemian Office space- love that painting!!

Mantle details

Lavender in a blue Bucket

This readers home is the Lovely Sarah from La Maison Boheme. Here Sarah tells us a litle more about her beautiful home....

1) Tell us a little bit about you and where you live?
My name is Sarah Greenman and I'm a writer, artist, actor, blogger and Mama to two boys. I live in Dallas, Texas with my husband in a ranch style home.  We moved to Dallas from Seattle and are still getting to know our new home town.

2) What attracted you to your home?
It had great energy and flow.  

3) Do you have a favourite/sentimental item?
This is a tough question because my home is filled with things that I love. I really adore my grandmother's decoupaged screen. She was a costumer and used the screen to pin up her renderings.  Then she started decoupaging them to the screen. Every time she'd do a new show, she'd put up the new sketches over the old ones.  If I were ever to excavate the screen's layers, I'm sure I'd find 10 or 15 separate costume designs beneath each panel. 

4) Where do you buy your furnishings? Any recommendations?
All over really. I'm an avid Craigslist searcher. I also love consignment and thrift stores.  IKEA is also an easy go-to place for organizational furnishings like shelves, etc. Lula B's in Dallas is a favorite place to find home goods.

5) What/who inspires your personal/ home style?
I'm inspired by traveling.  I feel like every time I come home from somewhere (Mexico, Scotland, France, Italy) I want to completely remake my home in that style.  I also really love designers Isabella Lopez Quesada and Steven Gambrel.  Their spaces really speak to me. 

6) What/ where would be your dream home?
Someplace where I could grow my own food without having to fight the elements and someplace near the sea. The home itself would be older with lots of charming details.  I'd also have my own studio space - a room completely my own.  

7) What was the last item you brought?
A set (12) of cocktail glasses - 6 short and 6 tall buckets.  They're from the 70's - black glass with gold coins stamped into the sides.  I found them at a consignment shop - 10 dollars for the entire set.

8) Do you have a wish list item for your home?
Yes.  It's a long list.  But I would really love to replace the floors in our home with a unified hard wood.  The existing parque floors are done.  They've had their day and the home really needs something new.  Or new windows, or a master bath remodel, or a revamped master closet, or a new kitchen sink (ours leaks), or a new fridge (ours floods every other day due to a faulty ice maker). 

Thank you Sarah, be sure to check out her beautiful blog La Maison Boheme 

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Minor Swing... Eclectic Bedrooms to bring out the Gypsy in you...

Barbara Hulanicki's (BIBA) bedroom, 1975 Via Pinterest

Stunning cupboard Bed

Gypsy Wagon Bedroom

Eclectic gypsy Style Bedroom, complete with Sitar 

Vintage Vanity Unit, Peacock feathers, Lace and Velvet, so many Boxes Ticked Via pinterest

Lashings and lashings of Red Velvet... wow!

Over the top, rich in texture but divine!!!

These eclectic, opulent bedrooms are so far away from my crisp white walled bedroom, just what I needed to inject a bit of the gypsy style into my life....

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A Bohemian London Townhouse....

This beautiful bohemian townhouse called Chocolate Towers is in the centre of London and is currently available
 via Shootfactory as a film location

Bohemian decor inspiration: Shell Chandeliers and houseplants

Bohemian Home: Chocolate Towers: Macramé Pompom door hanging

Bohemian inspiration: Moroccan tables and huge jungle houseplants

Bohemian Decor: half room half houseplant

Bohemian Eclectic: Rich fabrics and textures from around the world

Boho style: Another stunning Peacock Chair

Bohemian Home: Africa meets Loondon

How stunning is this bohemian style London townhouse? It is owned by LondonInterior designer Sera Loftus and is available to rent from Shootfactory for films and T.V programmes. I just wish I was making a film... This is pretty much my dream home.

I love that the first room is so crisp and white and full of overgrown imposing houseplants, and then the contrast of  other room is warm and full of rich reds and luscious velvet .

Peacock chairs, vintage fabrics, houseplants and shell Chandeliers, not to mention that wonderful wooden tiling... whats not to love....

****Only 2 days until the Blue Moon, look out for a special Full Moon give away *****

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iCanvasART Winner

My iCanvasART choice, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition No.56

One thing I really love about blogging is that every now and again I get companies offer me products to review, more often than not they are items I wouldn't choose, so I decline but when iCanvasART offered me the choice to review one of their prints and have one as a give away for you guys I couldn't resist.

It took 3 days of umming and ahhing but we finally choose Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition No.56, which is one of my favourite paintings. I can honestly say I am so pleased with it, it is really good quality and looks so good on my wall. Coming from the USA to the UK i was a little worried it would get damaged but it arrived in perfect condition.

Having rented for years and just moved into our own home it is such a luxury to put up a painting.


So to the winner.....

Thank you all for your entries, as I have said before it is so interesting to see the choices people make and the reasons why..

So congratulations to Jesi Langdale-Anderson from Something Other blog who choose Dr Gachet by Van Gogh....

For those of you who didnt win iCanvasART has a 20% sale this week

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