Ellis House

A sweet dream, an escape, a wish and a wonder. Welcome to Ellis House, the country retreat of Aussie bedding queen Tracie Ellis. The Creative Director of AURA has fashioned a beautiful weekend escape at Kyneton in regional Victoria. Oh my! Oh my! You can rent it out! I would be in residence every other weekend if I lived close by. Moody, overflowing with country charm (and AURA homewares) and just fabulous! But of course. You wouldn't expect anything else from Tracie.

P.S. The amazing photography is by Sharyn Cairns.

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New bits and bobs around my house

I thought I'd do a little something different today since I spent just about all day yesterday organizing parts of my house, taking photos, sorting through the photos and tweaking the photos. (Amazing how time consuming this ends up being). I acquired a few things recently so I thought I'd share them with you. Keep in mind I still have plans to tear this house down in the (hopefully) near future but in the meantime I still need to keep myself amused with decorating it.

I did a little something in my dressing room which you can check out over on closetrivalry.com. On the same wavelength as that little project, there are a couple of new additions to my living room. First, I decided that I was tired of not really having anything over the sofa (it's been 5 or 6 years) and since I have next to no space to display anything in this house, I decided to stick a shelf there. My husband took me out to a lumber yard and we found some gorgeous raw edge planks of wood. We bought 3 and used 2 in the dressing room and one over the sofa. My vintage cameras have been in storage for a while so I pulled those out and for some reason I like displaying lightbulbs (but I need a better bowl) so there we have it - a little display of stuff and things. 

I stopped in at the new Modern Shop downtown location last weekend (I blogged it here) and could not resist picking up a couple things. (More on that and other goodies after the jump!)

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Reading in bed again

A library in the bedroom or is that sleeping in the library? A perfectly sexy setting if books are your fetish. Interior design by Andrew Waller of Mr Waller.

Trevor Tondro bonus

Trevor honey, I'm not done with you yet. After we make some little photographer/designer genius babies, we must dissect some of your photos. These spaces get me all hot and bothered (or simply intrigued) for several reasons.....

What a HOT bedroom! Love the wallpaper/graffiti walls with that super sexy photo over the bed. 

I'd do laundry in here every freaking day!

I'm not sure what the purpose of this room is, but it looks like the set on a stage at a strip club. I like it. ;)

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Steven Sclaroff - part 2

I could not get enough of Steven Sclaroff's work, so here's another that knocked my socks off. Well, the photo above alone did that. The suzani bedcover with the matching graphic photograph above the bed and similar patterned dark curtains = perfection. This one's for the inspiration folder. Anyway, this happens to be the former apartment of Steven in a nineteenth century townhouse in New York's West Village. And I love it's quirkiness, like the carved bear coat rack. :-)

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