Blue Living Room

I have always thought of Blue as a bedroom colour

My Bedroom is currently 

Blue Ground 

by Farrow and Ball

Detail of my bedroom wall

But, recently I am seeing this colour pop up

more and more

in Living Rooms

like 

 This interior by Steven Gambrel 

first seen on 

Habitually chic

also by Steven Gambrel

He even used it for the cover of his new Book

Isn't it smart teamed with Glossy black 

 This is a lighter blue
but very calming and fresh looking

image from HERE

I think this is my favourite, it is of Raymon Boozer, 

the owner of Apt 48's NY apartment 

......the table, dining chair, blue lamp,

the gallery wall....... love it all.

Image by 

Timothy Kolk

from ELLE decor

Olatz Schnabel

from 

T magazine
stopped me in my tracks when I first saw it
If you haven't yet seen her NY House then I would most certainly click on the link
and go take a look

 ok, so this is actually her bedroom 

but you could imagine it being a living room 

and the red curtains have inspired me 

I currently have navy linen in mine

and am on the lookout for a rug

I was thinking cream 

but these images have me veering towards red

or orange

This one from IKEA 

Is high on my list

As I am currently working on updating our Living Room

though

which included painting this sideboard black today 

(sorry bad iphone picture light was going will try update with a better one soon) 

 slightly better pic
also here you can see the current wall color which is a green

I used a new multi purpose spray paint from 

Rustoleum

 

and it was a great product very easy to use and dried really quickly

Now the question is do I go blue?

Spring Flowers

Spring is bursting

Last week in Ireland temperatures were 20 centigrade

record breaking highs

 One of my favourite things to do is pick flowers from my garden

This is something I really missed while living in NYC

It is amazing how something so simple can give so much joy

Currently the House is filled with blooms 

Living Rooms

the red flowering brances are Quince and are from a friends garden

Bathrooms

This is "cooks blue" from Farrow and Ball that some of you gave me advice on 

over on Facebook

really lovely colour

Study

The purple wallflowers and red tulips are from my mothers garden

In other exciting news I think my Wisteria is going to flower this year for the first time

As it takes 4 years on average for Wisteria climbers to flower

I AM BEYOND EXCITED !

I am pretty sure these are flower buds 

William Orpen a wish..

If I had a spare £361,250 I would have purchased this painting by Irish artist William Orpen that recently sold in Christies, London. I have loved his paintings since I was a schoolgirl. The sale was actually a few days before my birthday so I thought maybe my darling other half was going to surprise me........alas, it was not so. The subject is Irish Tenor Count John McCormack. I love the relaxed posture, the creases in his suit, his hand tucked in to his belt loop. It feels like a snapshot but it must have taken many sittings and hours upon hours of labour to achieve. The sheet of music in his hand is obviously a nod to his profession but it is so subtle I didn't even notice it at first. The palette is so subdued and calming, I would like to take it and design a room around it, maybe a bathroom. Walls the colour of his linen suit with glossy white paintwork. Tiles of a blue grey lustre with a deep black trim....... it would be a bathroom in a Georgian home of course
.....maybe this one and we could hang the painting on the entrance wall.