Rustic Elegance

 

This occupants of this 300 year old home in the Cantabria region in the north of Spain, are a couple with a real wanderlust, but after years of moving from place to place, finally decided to settle and put down roots. They couldn't have made a better choice of home. Rough stone and wooden beams combine so well with their refined and elegant furnishings to create a warm, comfortable, light filled and very inviting home.  

 

The spacious living room with it's beautiful wooden floors and expansive doors leading to the outside is a perfect space for this young family.

Pretty details are found throughout the home.

 

Antiques sit comfortably beside more casual furniture.

 

Rough beams and stone walls make the kitchen warm and homely.

The light-filled dining room has beautiful views into the garden.

Beautiful tableware

What a gorgeous room for a little girl.

The casually elegant main bedroom.....

...has its own fireplace.

"Live simply"   but beautifully!

 

 

Have a happy week. For my fellow South African woman.... wishing you a fabulous Women's Day on  Friday. You deserve it!

 



Till next time

 

Sharon x

 

Image source:  Pufik Homes

Gone to the Beach

 

We are in the grip of a cold wet winter here in Cape Town so I decided a virtual beach holiday was just the ticket.  Here are some lovely beachy pictures to get me in the mood. You might be lucky enough to be having a real beach holiday - if not, feel free to join me on my imaginary one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So as the sun sets on my little dream beach holiday - I bid you adieu and wish you a wonderful week.

 

Till next time

 

Sharon x

 

 

Image source: 1. Pinterest, 2. Green Like Bathwater, 3. Tumble 4. Charming Spaces Tumble, 5. Zsa Zsa Bellagio, 6. Simply Pix, 7, 8. Tumblr, 9., 10. Casa Decorada, 11. Plum Pretty Sugar, 12, 13. Zsa Zsa Bellagio, 14, 15 Charming Spcaes Tumblr 16. Cakestands and Buttondowns, 17. Crush Cul de Sac, 18. Dyig of Cute, 19 Google, 20. Molly Golly, 21 Nicety Live Journal, 22. Casa Decorada, 23. La La Bonne Vie

 

 

Grey Goodness

 

 

Grey must be one of the most useful and versatile colours in decorating.

 

 

It is an intermediate colour between black and white, a neutral or achromatic colour, meaning literally a colour "without colour".

 

There probably isn't a colour that can't be combined with grey.

Despite its popularity in decorating today, it had very humble origins. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, grey was the colour of undyed wool, and was the colour most commonly worn by peasants and the poor. The clothing of women working in the factories and workshops of Paris in the 19th century was usually grey. This gave them the name of "grisettes. "Gris" or grey also meant drunk, and the name "grisette" was also given to the lower class or Parisian prostitutes!.

 

So grey has come a long way and I think it is here to stay. And there probably are at least fifty shades of it!

Hope your week is anything but grey!

 

Till next time

 

Sharon x

Image source:  1,2. Pinterest, 3,4 Tumblr, 5. L'Ambience 6. Decorare, 7. Tumblr, 8,9, Charming Spaces 10, 11, 12, 13, Tumblr, 14 A touch of Lux, 15, 16. Décor de Provence 17 Pinterest, 18 Simply Pix 19 Design Files, 20 The Vintage Home 21. This Ivy House, 22 Toves Sammesurium, 23, 24, Zsa Zsa Bellagio, 25 Tumblr