Long Time, No Type.

It's obviously been a while, life got in the way and my work on the Lundby has been extremely slow! It's been pulled apart, the plastic parts cleaned and sprayed with semi-gloss and now I plan to paper it. I am dying to get to the 'fun part' of furnishing and decorating the house.

Papering the house has proven to be rather frustrating. It's impossible to get sheets to fit the master bedroom printed and when I think I get the templates for the house walls down, they don't print correctly. Once I do get them perfect I will share them on the blog so others don't have to go through the hellish experience I have had!

Here's hoping I can share a remodeled house on here very, very soon!

Lundby Renovation Planning: The Color Scheme

I can be a little slapdash about projects. Going in hung-ho, with a somewhat-formed plan, and then losing steam when either I burn out on an idea or my lack of a fully-formed plan bites me in on the tuchas. 

This tendency of mine had resulted in said bites to my behind many a time, but I decided that I wasn't going to let my flair for the slapdash 'get me' when it came to the Lundby renovation. No, siree, this time I was going to have a plan. A Plan with a Capital 'P'. 

First on my agenda was deciding on a color scheme. I never had any intention of refurbishing this house to its original condition. Despite the fact that this will no doubt horrify many a Lundby Purist, my Plan never involved an orange carpeted, plaid kitchen'd four storey home in my daughter's lovely coral, yellow and soft sage nursery. My Plan involves a complete overhaul and modernizing of the house with homage paid to Mid Century Modern and Hollywood Renaissance design. 

With that in mind, I sat down and started looking through Etsy for a digital paper set that piqued my fancy and would fit with the schemes I was envisioning. I knew that I wanted to paint the exterior robin's egg blue, do a mid grey stone finish on the roof, and white on the trim, windows and doors. 

After a few attempts perusing etsy, I found a set that struck my fancy. It's got florals, big blowsy blooms, a few 'atomic' mid century patterns and gold. And it incorporated yellow, shades of coral, shades of real and robins egg blue. Perfecto! My mother happens to be in town from Australia and she liked it too. 

I spent my $4.80 to get then I go to work in Photoshop, mocking up some ideas. After playing around a bit, and seeing what Mum thought of my plans, I ended up with a scheme that I think will look fabulous:

Basement: 

Family Room - Gold and white stripe feature wall, wide plank white flooring

Garage - white painted brick using the egg carton technique

First Floor: 

Living Room - Floral feature wall, wide plank white flooring 

Kitchen - Floral feature wall, pale aqua glazed subway tiling, white wide glazed tile floor (tiles to be made using craft sticks, paint and tripe weight glaze) 

Second Floor:

Kids Room - Sunny Yellow feature wall, white carpeting 

Study/Hall - Gold stripe feature wall and white wide plank flooring 

Bathroom - rose pink feature wall, petal pink subway tile, white wide glazed told flooring 

Third Floor: 

Nursery - Blue feature wall with gold dots and white carpeting 

Master - Floral feature wall with wide whiff plank wood flooring 

That's it! I am so excited about this color scheme. Cannot wait to see it slowly come together! 

Here's to having a Plan. 

A Tiny Fixer Upper

I've always loved dollhouses and miniatures. Something about the tiny worlds, the escapism, the beauty and the creativity. All of this just spoke to me.

I dabbled in little mini projects over the years but recently I got it in my head that I needed to start working on a tiny house for my daughter, Liberty. She's still tiny herself, just sixteen months, but I figured that by the time I finish a project like this, she will be old enough to enjoy it and I get to do a wonderful and fulfilling project in the meantime! 

I love Swedish design and thought about buying a Lundby and hacking it, then I happened upon a 1960s or 1979s Lundby at a local thrift store with a mix of Lundby, Barton and various out of scale furniture and realized I could make it our own and give an old, loved toy a new lease on life. 

And so, the adventure begins.