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Just found out that they are airing Tacky House on the Style Network in Australia, featuring one of my favourite interior designers, Thom Filicia.  I have not seen this here in any of the channels I subscribe to so I will have to check it out on hulu.com to see if I can watch it online.  The show is about someone dobbing in your spouse or member of your family in to get a room makeover.  Ooh, I would not mind being dobbed in, even if it is a moment of embarrassment in order to get a room makeover from Mr Filicia himself!

Here are some of his work which happens to be in my design inspiration folders.

How I would love to have a kitchen like that!

Love his masculine tones in this room.

I like how he has subtly used a light blue into this room through the white chairs.

Love the Asian elements of this room above.

This would be my dream bedroom.  Love everything about this room from the gray walls to the bed to the sunburst mirror… perfect!

For those of you living in Melbourne, I believe Tacky House starts on Monday at 7.35pm.

We have been looking around for furniture and although there are a ton of shops in DC, nothing has really jumped out at us. We have started looking at second hand furniture and we both really like the clean Scandinavian lines such as furniture from Hans Olsen, Eames, Peter Hvidt - etc.

Just look at some of these pictures. They were taken from ebay - I am watching them at the moment and bidding for one of them.

Eames Table

Table and Chairs By Hans Olsen. These are all antique pieces but they look like they were made for today.

This Hans Olsen one is my favourite. If I knew where to buy it, I would get it in a heartbeat.

This one isn’t Scandinavian but I like it anyway. They are 1950s club chairs (from China?) and I have been looking everywhere for them.  Fortunately, I found a place - in China, that sells them and will ship to the USA for a reasonable price.

I have been following The Censational Girl’s blog since I was in Singapore and she is a real inspiration to me.  I did not have much of a chance to do any of the projects because we lived in a small flat and didn’t have a garage to do a lot of the toxic stuff, so I drooled a lot over her beautiful and clever makeovers.  Now that I am here and not finding what I want, I have turned to Craiglist and found some excellent condition Danish furniture. Some have tear and wear but I am wondering if I have the courage to get a whole dining set and work on it??? I would have to do my own upholstery and re-staining!  I will let you know because it has been a few days since I contacted the seller and he might have sold it. I am dying to do this but not sure how the furniture will fit in with our Chinese furniture.

I have a weakness for furniture and property.  If I had a lot of money, it would be something that I would amass. So just before leaving, I wanted to take away something of Singapore with me so that I could furnish my new home in the USA with. I searched high and low - I highly recommend Linda Lee of Li Bai Arts and Furnishings. She is the nicest sales lady I have come across here.  Linda is very knowledgable about the types of wood, the history, each of the pieces and she has a colourful tale to tell of each of her many beautiful pieces.  I was really attracted to this Tibetian cabinet but one either hates it or loves it. Matt unfortunately, hated it and I did not want to buy something so expensive if only one of us loved it.

This is what we settled on. Two Ming cabinets. I look forward to acquiring more from time to time.