Category Archives: House & Home

Beat Up Creations

Posted in on the 13 Mar 2011, by kim

A couple of weeks ago Katie posted a link on twitter to the Beat Up Creations etsy store. I think I’d seen their store previously, in fact it’s probably in an old weekly good stuff post on this blog somewhere, but this time I found myself clicking a ‘buy’ button.

Beat Up Creations up-cycle old crockery & china into fabulous new pieces of art, ranging from the creepy to the geeky. They transform the plates by applying new images using a heat transfer method, the new images are either 100% new or an addition to the designs already on the plates.

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I went for this beauty, a Mr Spock image on a blue china plate. Isn’t it amazing?  I’m ridiculously tempted to get a couple more of these plates for elsewhere in my house. Here are a few of my other favourites…

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Bathroom! zomg!

Posted in on the 28 Sep 2009, by kim

Our bathroom is very almost done, apart from a new window which will be occurring in a week or two and the painting of the ceiling. Anyway, I thought I’d unveil one of the most epic parts of our house…

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The photos aren’t ideal, the lighting was pretty shit, but anyway. TETRIS TILES LIKE WOAH! Yeah, my amazing Dad tiled our bathroom to a plan we made.. he has no clue what tetris is but it turned out amazing, right? The tiles are dark blue, rest of the room is white. I’ll get better photos of the tiny bathroom with my wide angle lens at some point :)

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Did you say soft furnishings?

Posted in Daily Life on the 4 Aug 2009, by kim

cushions Did you say soft furnishings?

I picked up this fabric from ikea quite a while back, around the time we picked out the paint colour for our new living room. Whilst our main wall is quite a mid-taragon colour (seen in the post below), I wanted to have different depths of green throughout the rest of the room.. and a few splashes of other colours elsewhere too. I picked up some edging for the cushions I’m going to make from the ikea fabric today, I usually just made basic square unedged cushions but thought I’d do something a little different this time. The curtains we have in our living room also feature a green.. I’m not sure I’m 100% in love with the curtains, they’re shop bought and not very exciting. I might end up replacing them in a few months, we’ll see.

ps. I just found this blog through twitter about some horrible plagiarism that I think everyone should be aware of, please go and read! http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/fineart/a-sad-story-must-read/

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Our kitchen is almost done…

Posted in on the 13 Jul 2009, by kim

Just a quick post with some photos I took of our kitchen last night. All of the cupboards are now in, and most of the fronts are on (they need adjusting though). It’s starting to take shape! We can actually use it as a functioning kitchen now, too. There are more photos on flickr, including some of the fancy things the tall cupboards do!

Our kitchen is almost done...

Our kitchen is almost done...

Our kitchen is almost done...

Our kitchen is almost done...

The amazing hob, it’s just… amazing.

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