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Pockets of my Home

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In the last month or so, I have spent quite a bit of time at home with the girls. Even when Esther was on school holidays, we spent a bit of time at home playing, watching movies and trying to enjoy each other’s company.

After spending so much time at home since having kids, I’ve often been quite critical about how I style my home. I don’t like having random stuff around the house. I have a hutch that I place all breakables and antique vases in, so they are away from the kids. But the items I do keep out are pieces that have been purchased on a budget from department stores, which I don’t necessarily mind if they get broken accidentally.

Thankfully my girls have avoided touching these pieces even though they are within reach.

At the beginning of the year, I shared a post on 40 ways you can change the interior of your home and it’s a great post to go to if you haven’t got much spare cash and need to change the look of a room.

I’ve made a few subtle changes to our living, dining and main bedroom and thought I’d share them with you if you’re feeling like making a change to your living space.

Our TV cabinet is the hardest surface to style. My girls climb on top of it, so the back corners are the safest place to put a pile of books and terrarium or a tray with a mix of different things.

how to style a tv cabinet

Yes, there is dust and possibly biscuit crumbs in this picture.

 

how to style a round tray

First time putting some items together for a round tray.

I love my $6 Kmart plastic tablecloth, although if cleaned vigorously, the spots will rub off. I put our Peace Lilly in the middle of the table on top of a round table mat. I’m still surprised how well our Peace Lilly is growing.

peace lilly dining table

In our bedroom, over Christmas and the new year, I had a mix of grey and gold cushions on the bed. To change it, I added in more black cushions and a purple throw and matching cushion, still keeping a little of the gold and grey. No need for a fur rug on the bed when our dog Bentley likes to jump on and sleep at our feet during the night.

bedroom style for new years

From this

 

bedroom styling

To this

 

bed style with dog

Bentley is not impressed he made it into the picture

For my mind’s sake, if the beds are made and the TV cabinet and dining table is clear of mess, I don’t get overwhelmed by the mess in the rest of the house. Often a trail of toys and little bits and pieces can be found from my girls’ rooms into the living room and into our bedroom.

I try and remind myself that I don’t live in a display house, I live in a family home and everyday there will be mess.

All I can do is control the areas I can and remember to be grateful to have a family to provide a shelter for.

Have you made any subtle changes to your home now that Autumn is here? How do you put your mind at ease over the mess your kids create in your home?

18 Places to Buy Affordable Art

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When I shared 40 ways to change the interior of your home, I had two questions about where to source affordable art. Ironically, Jacob and I have been looking at various online stores to find the perfect wall art for our dining room. We ended up getting our bright ‘Rosato’ painting from The Block Shop and the price included framing!

After our research, I came up with 18 places to buy affordable art. All of these places were used in my initial research. I also share a technique that has helped me discover new artists. I really believe in supporting local artists (if you can afford to). You’re usually guaranteed with a unique artwork and it feels good supporting someone else’s creative pursuits.

18 places to buy affordable artwork

1. Urban Road – An Australian-based online store which has an extensive range of unique and lovingly created designs and patterns to blend with your home décor. With beautiful and elegant colour palettes, trendy designs and uplifting imagery, Urban Road’s artworks are easy-to-match with both contemporary and traditional settings, complementing your home with dashes of colour and strokes of artistic sophistication. Collaborates with celebrities like Shayna Blaze to offer a unique selection of art.

2. The Canvas Workshop – One of Australia’s largest online destinations for contemporary, on-trend artworks. Their online gallery offers an extensive range of Australian made printed collections, designed and sourced from a network of local and international artists dedicated to providing beautiful, high quality and affordable printed artworks to the modern art collector. Recently collaborated with Jamie Durie for a selecting of indoor and outdoor artworks.
$299

The canvas factory

Pause $299

3. Wall Art Prints – Is a great online store for beautiful and affordable art. If you have a budget and need to add art to your space, Wall Art Prints offer art that complements your personality and design style. They’re online gallery offers stunning prints that are affordably priced.

4. Bek Halliday Art – An Instgram find. Bek creates abstract art for the modern home. A mix of pastel and bright colours, your interior will smile with one of Bek Halliday’s art works. She also does custom prints if you are after something a little different that what is available in her store.

5. Castle and Things – Another one of my Instagram finds as I was searching for round cushions and found Castle and found an array of bright, modern prints, all created by Rachel Castle.

6. Toucan – A great online store for prints for kids rooms. If your home has an edgy, modern vibe, you will definitely find a print (or two) that can be framed.

7. The Block Shop – Any artwork that you admire being featured on the show, you will find here. There are budget friendly art works at The Block Shop. They also have good sales which means you can afford a more expensive painting.

8. Kirsten & Co – My fellow blogging buddy who creates awesome quotes and turns them into prints. Kirsten can also custom make an art work for you.

affordable wall art

Prints available in the Kirsten & Co shop starting from $15 (checkout her free prints here)

9. Ideal Art – launched in Melbourne Victoria, in 2004 by Karen & Paul Beynon. Their aim was to provide people with the chance to easily buy hand painted original modern art to suit their homes. Love that you can choose what colours you are after in your painting and the website shows paintings with those colours. Exuding Blues $165 http://www.idealart.com.au/product/exuding-blue/

10. Page Eleven – Offers a small selection of prints, but they’re colourful and most of all affordable.

11. Typo – Offers cheap prints that can be framed and added to various spaces in the home.

12. Blacklist – A design studio started by husband and wife team Nathan and Jaynie Jonshon in 2008, Blacklist offers an array of artwork to inspire living spaces and those that look at them.

affordable wall art

Escape Print from $119.95

13. Zanui – An online homewares store that offer an array of affordable artwork. Sizes can vary with the price. Offer artwork from overseas that wouldn’t normally be sent from the overseas artists.

14. ZIZO – Another popular online homewares store that offers art work to suit many tastes and budgets.

 

15. Hello Polly – Founded by Sarah Kelk in 2011, and joined by her sister Helen Adam in 2013, Hello Polly (named after the pair’s grandmother) stocks artwork, homewares, ceramics, accessories and whole host of other design-led products from over 100 independent creatives. The prints remind me of Gorman, so if you like the patterns of Gorman clothes, you will like the prints from Hello Polly.

16. Annie Everingham Design Co – I found out about this artist via Peachy Keen Mumma. Love the colours Annie uses and her prints are one of a kind and affordable.

17. Target – I was impressed with the amount of artwork available for purchase from Target  store. The only downfall is the artwork isn’t exclusive, but it’s definitely affordable. There are limited pieces available online, but in store there are plenty of art work pieces to consider.

18. Kmart – Again, limited prints available, but it’s budget friendly and you can afford to change the art each season.

If I can’t find anything I fancy from these places, I usually search through the hashtage #wallart on Instagram and this has helped me find artists I wouldn’t have known before.

Where have you gone before to buy wall art?

I’m linking with Essentially Jess for IBOT.

Disclaimer: There are affiliate links on this post. Should you choose to purchase an item, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Hello to a New Blog with an Interiors Section!

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Last week I decided Styled by Bec needed a website make-over and required to be converted to a blog, with a page offering my services as opposed to my services being front and centre instead of the blog.

What do you think?

I’m excited by it because I’ve opened up a few new categories to share about on this space which include Lifestyle, Beauty and Interiors.

My role as an editor for a fashion and lifestyle website inspired me with some blog post ideas that would work on my blog, hence why I opened up the interiors section on the blog. You can read my first interiors blog post about how to incorporate colour into your interiors here.

I’m always a sticky beak when it comes to seeing how people decorate their homes. I’m not sure if the love developed when dad and I started our domestic plumbing maintenance company and we’d walk through different homes to do our job.

There are a few blogs that focus on the interiors of one’s home, but not many that look at how one store’s their clothes, and this will become a new series called In Her Wardrobe where I share the state of someone’s wardrobe and get them to share about what they love in their wardrobe – or maybe what they don’t like.

I’m also going to offer a service exclusively for women who want their wardrobe completely sorted out and organized. We sadly live in times where buying new clothes has become a habit, but if our wardrobes are organized and have clothes that we love, we won’t cry in our wardrobe complaining we have nothing to wear.

If your wardrobe is already in working order, I would LOVE for you to contact me so I can share it on the blog. Send me a comment below or message me via my contact form. If you need your wardrobe completely culled and sorted out, you can get more details here.

So what do you think of the new blog? Have you made a change this year that you’d like to share?

I’m linking up with Essentially Jess for IBOT.

Ways to Embrace Colour in Your Home

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I love bright and bold interiors. Whenever I see colour, I’m immediately attracted to a space.

While I very much appreciate neutral colours, I will choose a bright coloured space over muted tones any day.

I find that I dress similarly to this as well. I love bright and bold prints and colours in clothes and accessories. Wearing colour and seeing colour makes me happy.

It’s with this in mind, I’ve found some ways embrace colour in your home – no matter your interior style.

I think colour is a fun way to add personality to your home and it can work well, providing you choose the right pieces and colours.

If you shy away from colour, why not choose a block coloured item and see how it changes the feel of your space? Dip your toes and be adventurous and see if that coloured piece brings a smile to your face each time you see it.

ways to embrace colour in your home

Embrace colour by adding a block coloured chair or lamp. Use cushions to tie it all together.

The easiest way to add colour to a neutral room is to add artwork, cushions and a throw. Rather than have everything match, add an accent colour (the blue cushions) to break it up.

A block coloured bedside can add colour interest to a neutral schemed bedroom.

A bright coloured door, is an easy way to add colour to your entryway.

Cushions and bright, patterned sheets can lift a monochromatic look.

Here are some colour décor pieces you might like to add to your home if you want to add some fun to the interior of your home.
colour decor pieces for your home
6. Feeling Light Art Print sizes vary with price $29 – $98
Do you like bright colours or muted tones in a home?
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