Two highly recommended reads!!

Not exactly interior but isn't there an element of design in everything?? 

Redesign and fitout: Office Edition

Evening all,

A few weeks ago I entered a competition to redo the fitout and design for a company in Sydney city.
Pro: If I win it will be a huge step in my career and gets Runaway Designs into the big wide world.
Con: I am about to travel Europe for 2 months....mmmm

But I was 'blessed' with a warped sense of reality and a somewhat unrealistic perception of limits [a most potent cocktail for success might I add]. We were given a month to have the plans put together complete with concept boards and somehow, in-between my part time job and nannying I have come up wi a brilliant - thats the cocktail talking - office plan layout! its daring, its drastic, its fantastic! and I love it!!!
I do have to give credit though where credit is due. Rob Meyerson [a terrific architecture friend and mentor] has been nothing but helpful so thank you!

I have emailed the company and am ready to present them with my ideas this week and if it all works out I will have a job waiting for me on my return home....in 3 months :s

Wish me luck! I'll put up pictures of the plans soon

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” (......possibly my competitors?? Ha!)

- Ayn Rand

delight by design: beautiful {built in beer menu} booth

Such a classic and classy design for a bar! definitely one to archive for future reference!

delight by design: beautiful {built in beer menu} booth: A friend recently introduced me to the work of one very talented craftsman, Tyler Bradford .  Tyler is based in San Francisco and specializ...

My Blank Canvas

I came across this picture on the famously time draining Pinterest...you know that place where you pick and chose all the aspects of your life that you want but it somehow only remains on your computer...or in your trash after a failed DIY project...ya that place (check this out http://themetapicture.com/when-things-go-terribly-wrong/)

Anyway, this particular picture got me thinking that this is probably my blank canvas.

All of a sudden I had all these ideas of what I would do to this wonderful space.

I love every piece of furniture in there, and the best part? The cost of doing this place up would probably cost way less that your thinking.

(If the door position is in my favour) I would move the bed under the window, put in some long flowing dark linen curtains that slip through the crack between the bed and the window. The rug will follow the beds movement too. 

Think of all the possibilities of a blank wall!!! paintings? photography? extra shelving or storage? if so, floating shelves in a contrast deep wood? or a consistent satin white?

I dont know why, I just see so much potential with this space....what I would do to get my hands on it!

What would you guys do??

2 Weeks to go

Hi all,

Does anyone have any packing advice?! I am stressing out between trying to finish up deadlines for work and figuring out what to squeeze into my Suitcase.

Pro - I'm only going for 7 weeks....3 of which I'm backpacking, 4 of which I'll be shopping :)
Pro - If i decide that London is just too good to leave...I can always give mum and dad a call and have them send my things over right?
Pro - I can bring 2 suitcases home!!

Cant seem to think of any con's at the moment...but maybe thats a good think. Positive thinking!

Also,
If any of you have traveled to Paris, Scotland, Amsterdam (soon to be added to my travel list) or London and have come across amazing places to visit or have any travelling tips please leave a comment! I would love to hear.

So happy to be sharing with you all. Hope you stick around to see how it all goes down!