SURPRISE!!!!!!!!

It's finally up - my new look blog page. In celebration of my new look I have posted some of my favourite pink and white images. Enjoy!!

xo

Anna

Images courtesy of Stylecourt, DominoMag, CountryLivingMag

BTW - Sorry about the mix up this morning. The new blog was being uploaded today and I did my Surprise post very late last night and instead of saving it as a draft I accidently posted it and I didn't realise. My mother rang me at 6.30am this morning to tell me so I immediately withdrew the Surprise post until the new blog was uploaded at lunch time. Sorry everyone for the confusion. It certainly wasn't meant to happen this way!!

More Images of Balmoral House

Here's some new pictures of the Balmoral house I completed a month or so ago (refer to posts on Emily's Bedroom & Featured in Bmag again). My client actually emailed me these pictures today. She went out this morning and bought herself two beautiful potted orchids and then when she got them home she decided to move all the furniture around the other way for a change. She's so thrilled that everything is so easily interchangable.

Things I Love Today...

A beautiful room above from House Beautiful via Made By Girl is one of many pink & blue images which Jennifer has posted today on her blog.

I love this image from Krista Ewart's website above via Oh Happy Day blog.

Casa Pinka's Entry is wallpapered - It looks fantastic!!

I love this image which Courtney over at Style Court posted today of the dressing room in Trina Turk's Kelly Wearstler designed Palm Beach boutique.

Beautiful Blue & White (my current obsession) via Katie over at Katie Did Blog.

Some gorgeous party inspiration from Cruststation.

I love this Sanderson fabric via An Eye for An Interior Blog.

I thought I would post a few things which inspired me around the blogosphere today from some of my favourite blogs. Enjoy!!

Blue & Pink Inspirations

Mary McDonald does Pink & Blue above via Style Court

At Black & Spiro lately we have been concentrating on our new look which will be centred around the colours blue and pink so I thought I would show you a few blue and pink images which have been inspiring me.

Images above via Flickr, Stylecourt, Purl Soho, Domino.

Happy Weekend!!!

I am really loving blue and white at the moment and I just adore this image. We are about to do a blue, white and pink colour scheme in the shop which I am very excited about. I hope you all have a great weekend. It's a long weekend here so I am going to take a couple of days off and I will be posting again on Monday night.

Take care everyone!!

xo

Anna

Image courtesy of Sarah Kaye

An Old Pair Of Chairs - SOLD

This week a beautiful pair of old chairs I had restored and recovered in a black and white stripe fabric arrived in the shop and I just knew they would sell fast, I had this feeling. They arrived in the shop mid morning and by the afternoon they were sold. We had some gorgeous black and white polka dot frilled cushions promptly made for the client to sit on each chair. They looked gorgeous, I must say. I was a little sad that I didn't get to put them in the front window but I suppose that's what it's all about. They now sit happily in their new home with their new owners and I get to do it all over again.

Black + Spiro Today...

A new natural and white houndstooth sofa was delivered in the shop today as above and some other new bits and pieces in the photo at the top.

Featured in BMag Again!!!

Just thought I would show you the feature BMag did on Black & Spiro this week in which they have featured a house I did in Balmoral in Brisbane. These are my clients who's daughter's room I posted a few weeks ago - Emily's Bedroom.

A Red Front Door

There's something about a red front door that I love. I was just searching on Flickr for some red door pictures for Pink Mohair as she has decided to paint the front door to her gorgeous children's play house red and just needed some help with the hue of red to use. I found so many red front doors which I loved and I also found the blue front door below surrounded by red render and those gorgeous blue and white tiles laid in a zig zag design. It's amazing what you can find on Flickr!!

Small Space Style

A blog I have been really enjoying lately is Small Space Style. Lisa posts some fantastic images and her recent post on outdoor showers was fantastic. If you want some Small Space Style tips then go and have a look at Lisa's blog.

Images above via Small Space Style.

I Love Quadrille!!

I have to say that I am completely and utterly in love with Quadrille's beautiful fabrics. I first discovered Quadrille when I was in LA last year and ever since then I haven't been able to stop obsessing over my pint sized cuttings of the fabrics I selected in their LA showroom. When I was looking through Quadrille's website a few weeks ago I noticed they had some photos of Aerin Lauder's lounge room (in which some of their fabrics have been used) and also who can forget the gorgeous sofa in The Devil Wears Prada - covered in, you guessed it, a Quadrille fabric. So I will continue to be obsessed with these beautiful fabrics and I will be working a little harder to import some for Black & Spiro!!

We're In Inside Out This Month...

I'm very excited to announce that our Mother of Pearl inlaid chests were featured in this month's issue of Inside Out Magazine. Inside Out Magazine is one of my top 3 favourite magazines so to have our inlaid furniture featured this month is very exciting for me.

New Favourite Domino Images

I have some new favourite images from Domino's website which I thought I would share with you. I adore the top image in particular - the colours and mixture of "things" is very me.

Ebay Chair

I just thought I would show you the fabulous faux bamboo chair I just purchased on Ebay. I'm so excited with it considering we don't usually see chairs like this on our Australian Ebay. I am going to use it as my desk chair in my office at home and I don't even think I will have to change the upholstery which is fantastic!!

No Chintz

I have long been an admirer of the No Chintz stores in Sydney. Owner Chrissie Jeffries also owns and runs Stitches Pty Ltd which is a trade only workroom for both designers and architects. No Chintz stores specialise in affordable yet very stylish fabrics and their online store is fantastic with a fabric swatch order service available - great for people who want to view the fabric in their home before they order.