Our first room is finally done, only the rest of the entire house to go! I am a little bit in love with it, in the day with the window open and birds singing, at night with the low glow of the ceramic lamps. It's been a labour of love, what with the dresser that I (rather foolishly) decided to paint and hand decorate.
We wanted a monochrome palette to work with the Cole & Sons Woods wallpaper we've put up on the landing and which you pass by as you enter the room (of which more later), so the dresser was painted with a chalk paint in charcoal. From there I hunted high and low for a very simple, oval basin to sit on the marble top and echo the shape of the glass fronted decorative design - Fired Earth Nagoya was the only one to fit the bill and it's cool, composite surface sucks up the light, just like the chalk paint.
I'm afraid I have yet to take a good picture of the shower, but it is a doozy - big, strong and fabulous. The tiles are Fired Earth Carnival Ramon, charcoal grey grout. Black handles and hinges on the frameless glass shower enclosure tie it all together. The walls are French Grey Pale and the woodwork French Grey by Little Greene Paint Library.
Final touches, though there are more to come, include a triptych mirror from Refound Objects, a vintage First Aid box and a lovely battered barn star from Beyond France. Dressed with pebbles collected at Lantivet Bay in Fowey on a very special day with the best of friends.
