"The rooms in a home should be forever changing and evolving to suit your mood, lifestyle and current obsessions, so my advice is not to decorate a whole house or a room in one day. It takes time and often a bit of effort to find the right pieces.
Write a list of things you need or desire and record the measurements of your floor plan and other nooks and crannies of your house in a notebook to carry with you when you're out and about. This takes the pressure out of manically looking for objects on specific days and leaves you open to suggestion when you stumble across new shops, markets or sales. Years of shopping wisdom have taught me that your perfect piece does eventually turn up in the most unexpected places."
I love this. She also suggests taking with you a tape measure and a camera ( but ask the owner before you photograph something)...so I decided to start with Ikea...it was actually quite a lot of fun and I could come home and see if the colours matched first
Make sure that you take photo's of the tags so you can see dimensions and names so you know where to find it again...oh..and the price too of course.
The other wonderful thing about shopping with a camera is that I could pick a theme (in my case Moroccan) and go take photo's of anything that suggested Casablanca
Lanterns
Rugs
It was the first weekend of the new Ikea Family promotion...free coffee if you join up...so it was absolutely packed. Look at these over-caffeinated people at the checkouts...they look slightly grouchy at this point.
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