A Traditional Style Bathroom with a Modern Touch

This is a bathroom that goes above and beyond a small space for passing through. The designer has put her creative and architectural knowledge into "his and hers", individual spaces making the room, not only functional but beautiful too.

Home Staging a Rental Property

The perfect living room - Image via 

Last week I posted tips to attract the right tenants to your rental property, focusing on it's exterior and curb appeal. However, before you can lead them up the garden path, so to speak, how do you get them physically out to your property in the first place, especially if you are advertising on line.

Spaces to Love - Beautiful Bathrooms

1. Image via Pinterest/Coastal Style

This week I want to share some beautiful bathroom spaces, bathrooms are no longer clinical spaces void of design, these days they are often an extension of a master suite and should not only be practical but also elegant.

Adding Creative Touches to a Traditional Styled Bathroom

Above, the gentle curves of this free-standing bath help create a serene atmosphere in this French style bathroom. The owner has shown their love of French style by creatively adding furniture and injecting their personality into this space. When designing or re-decorating a bathroom, think out of the box, by introducing some creative touches, you can easily add personality, as well as function to this important area of your home.

It Is Easy To Imagine Your New Bathroom Using Utopia's 'Visualise' Tool

Bathrooms are an important part of our everyday life. The bathroom is the first room we use on rising and the last room we use before prior to sleeping. It is important therefore, design is not only functional but aesthetically pleasing. If you are building a new home or renovating and planning a bathroom, it is crucial to get it right first time. You are building with fixed products, it is not simply a matter of moving a piece of furniture around as you could in a living area. Some people find it hard to picture the end results, but what if you could use a tool whereby you could visualise your end design.

Contemporary Interior Behind A Victorian Facade

Lying behind the exterior of a typically English Victorian house, lies a contemporary surprise. An eclectic mix of modern and Mid Century furnishing with the odd homage to its Victorian era and a neutral grey palette which works wonderfully. The open plan kitchen/dining/family area is large at 16 metres long with glass doors that lead to a lovely garden. The surprising interior retains its period features such as the fireplaces and ceiling cornice, yet other areas of the house have been completely modernised. A house truly  full of surprises and I love them all.

This interior is available for film/magazine shoots, more images can be seen at JJ Locations.

I hope you've enjoyed this weeks interior as much as I've enjoyed sharing it. We seem to be in the middle of an "Indian summer" in New Zealand with our temperatures still high and no sign of rain on the horizon, so as you can imagine its hard to spend time sitting at the computer. 

Have a great weekend.

  

A Reflection of 2012 - & Most Popular Posts

Looking back at 2012 it's been one of the toughest of my life. Watching my mother lose her battle with cancer, my life has virtually been on hold. However, this blog "Lee Caroline - A World of Inspiration", has kept me going, it has been an inspiration not just for my readers but for myself too. LC has been an outlet for my semi starved, creative side, a place to share the wonderful interiors, recipes, art, crafts and DIY I discover in my daily trips around the Internet. More importantly, I've  discovered a world of wonderful and caring people, total strangers that drop by from afar taking time to comment on a postm and people giving encouragement, sharing a little of their lives with you. I just want to say, you have no idea how much this has meant to me. I have not met you personally, but I've felt encouraged and uplifted and at times consoled through the comments and sometimes personal emails I get from those who have been touched in some way by something they have read or seen on my blog.

2013 will be a new year for me, a new beginning and I have vowed to spend equal time on my blog and my painting. I'm finally purchasing that elusive DSLR in February. My new camera will enable me to share high quality images of homes and beautiful things that I see in New Zealand. I am quite excited about this and have lots of great posts planned.  Looking back over 2013 I've made a short list of some of my most viewed posts to share again. I want to thank everyone for their support throughout 2012 and I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

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Bathrooms - Beautiful Ideas To Inspire You.

I've been for a long walk today with Poppy, its Spring here but a dull, cloudy day which seems to have made me feel a little grey and missing my mum.  I think tonight I might run a deep bath, throw in a lot of lavender oil, light lots of candles, and just relax, have an hour doing nothing, just for me :), "drown my sorrows" as they say, well not "drown" them but half submerge them maybe.

My own bathroom is inherited from its previous owners and is quite pleasant but if I had the money I would definitely remove the traditional "bath against the wall" and put in one of those fabulous freestanding baths. I've gathered some inspiration to share with you today, bathrooms that appeal to me and I hope will appeal to you. I think my favourite is Image three, I love the style of this room, romantic and restful and I love the botanical art print. Art can make or break a room and in this case it most certainly "makes" it and makes it feel more like a room and not clinical and cold.

Which design appeals to you, I would love you to leave a comment, it helps me to know my readers styles...

Image sources  1|2|3|4|5|6

If you love freestanding baths but today's inspiration lacks a little colour,  visit my earlier post "Bathroom Bliss - Absolutely Divine Bathrooms"  for some "wow" bathrooms.

Hope all my lovely readers have a great weekend... of me working away, sanding and painting my mums kitchen. I have almost finished the inside of her house, just two more rooms to go then its the mammoth 1/4 acre garden and exterior of the house to complete. I know she'd be thrilled to see how its coming along, I am just sad she is not here to see it, as I know she'd love the new wall colour, it's made the house seem so much more sunnier.

Bathroom Bliss, Absolutely Divine Bathrooms.

Bathrooms to inspire, vibrant, classic, dramatic or serene. Minimalist bathrooms with a touch of drama.  Maybe its the mirror, the colour, the design, each one is unique in it's own special way.  I'd love to know which is your style.

Original images (without comment overlays) sourced from House to Home.co.uk 

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Transformation Thursday at Shabby Creek Cottage
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I hope you found some inspiration, I'm finding it hard to decide which

I prefer. I know for sure that if I get a new bathroom it just has to have a 

free standing bath!

Lee oxo

&

Poppy