Collections in colour

It's January. It is grey and dull. I may be failing to inject much colour into my wardrobe (grey has become a comforting staple), but I fully intend to make the most of colour in our new place.

We are once again mid-purchase, in that weird solicitor filled conveyance limbo between offer accepted and completion. So, whilst I don't dare yet post any room specific ideas, I'm allowed to have great ideas yes?

So, in the name of injecting colour:

I thought this was a clever, and unusual way of organising your books. I may however me a bit too OCD to try it! Maybe just with one shelf to begin with...

The colour grouping thing is good though. It brought Tony Cragg's sculptures to mind (get me with my modern art references - this year I vow to use my degree in any way possible!).

I hate house hunting...

I hate it. I hate it even more now that we have to start doing it again! Grr... So our sale fell through and we are back on the hunt. Cést la vie.

In the meantime I can continue to fantasise about stuff to put in the hypothetical new place.Current favourite idea inspired by Compai Creative via Design*Sponge, alternative uses for old typeset trays.

I had a hunt around and found you can pick them up fairly cheaply on ebay. Genius. I'm thinking this would be great for storing all kinds of random tiny stuff in.

Genius idea

I saw this idea in a house we went to view, in fact in the house which we are now buying! At the time I thought it was so clever I was determined to steal it and use it in wherever we actually did buy. Who needs a pin board when you can magnet paint a whole wall and then blackboard paint over it.

This pic isn't actually of our new place to be, but is a great example.  I'll upload some pic of our version when we eventually get the keys.