Dream House #18

EN: Now that I finally have a job and I already spent some money buying essentials that I needed the next step is to start gathering money so that I can rent my own bedroom.

Now in case you don't know, London is a massive city and there are good areas and bad areas. Where I currently live has a bit of a bad reputation and the only reason that I'm here and feel "kinda safe" is because I'm living with some family members of mine other than that I don't think I would be living here unless I had no choice. Which brings me to the next part, since there are good and bad areas, of course the good areas are going to be more expensive, so I want to try and find a good size bedroom, in a decent area not to far away from the city center, at a affordable price, is that to much to ask? It actually kinda of is haha.

Because unless you earn a lot of money and you want to live let's say till zone 3 (London is divided by zones) plus the requirements that I stated before it can be very hard. So I either ended up living in a good area, inside zone 3, pay less for public transports and have a shitty room OR I live far away from the city center, have a good room but then pay a lot for the public transports -_-  aaahhhh dilemmas dilemmas!

So the search begins!

Dream House #17

EN: Here in London I'm living with some family members of mine and since I arrived back in September they had some problems with the lights in the big bathroom. Basically the upstairs neighbor had some water pipes problems and it ended damaging the ceiling, the walls and the lights of my family's house :/. So for a month and a half I've been taking a shower with candle lights but my family have been dealing with this since August.

This week the man FINALLY came to fix the lights and guys I kid you not, I was so used to taking a shower with candles that when I finally turned on the lights it was mind blowing haha.

I think the best solution would be to have windows in your bathroom but then again it would only be useful during the day hehe.

Dream House #16

EN: Hello Bananas.

Well to make this post was a bit of a hassle. For some reason when I add the links of the pictures on Blogger the picture didn't upload. So I literally I had to upload one picture, close the page and then upload again, again and again etc... *sigh*.

Anyways here are some pictures of some awesome kitchens. 

Oh and thank you so much for your feedback on my previous post about my D.I.Y. project :).

See you tomorrow.

Dream House #15

EN: Since Pinterest has a new layout design at the moment I'm not able to share pictures from there. None of the links work on my Blog. I had this problem before but them I went back to the old format but since is inevitable to avoid change, now I'm stuck. So I'll be collecting my picture from Tumblr 'till figure out how to work with Pinterest. And the thing that annoys me the most is that some pictures from some of my older posts like Dream House, Things that make me go hummm or monthly inspiration don't show up -_- rsrsrs.

If you know how to embed pictures from Pinterest (from the new layout design) to Blogger PLEASE let me know.

Anyways today's pictures are of living rooms and place where I've been spending a lot of times these days watching TV series after series.

Dream House #14

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EN: Hello Bananas! When I normally do these kind of posts I collect my pictures from Pinterest and Tumblr but I was checking some older posts of mine and I noticed that the pictures are not appearing, meaning I have to re-edit the posts and "refresh" the embed codes of the pictures. God Pinterest I thought you were suppose to be perfect!

Anyway enjoy some beautiful house pictures (if they still are showing, if not please let me know) that I like.

Source: nattstad.se via Karen on Pinterest

Dream House #13

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EN: Today I was doing some bedroom cleaning and I had to step outside twice, one two throw out some garbage and another to pick something I that I dropped out of my window and all this story to tell you that it was kinda of hot over here and immediately made me wish I had a swimming pool right outside.

Is it too soon to say that Summer has arrived to Portugal?

PT: Hoje estive a fazer algumas limpezas e arrumações no meu quarto e tive de sair de casa duas vezes, uma para ir deitar o lixo e outra para ir apanhar uma vassourinha que eu tinha deixado cair da minha janela e posso dizer que estava calor e imediatamente fez-me desejar por uma piscina aqui mesmo ao lado do meu prédio. Eu sei que existe pelo menos um prédio aqui na minha terriola que tem uma piscina para os moradores... aaahhh sortudos! Ainda cheguei a ir lá, quando uma amiga da minha mãe vivia por lá.

Será cedo de mais para dizer que o Verão já chegou a Portugal? 

Source: contemporist.com via Karen on Pinterest

Dream House #12

EN: Hello Bananas! Look at that first picture. Isn't that a beaute of an office? With a big wide windows, aaahhhh I love that. I've done in a past another post about Office/Study rooms and I also expresses the fact that I'm kinda unhappy or more like annoyed that I still have my desk in my bedroom, I wish I could keep those two things separate but for the time being I can't.

PT: Olá Bananas! Olhem-me para essa primeira foto. Não é uma beleza esse escritório? Com uma mega janela, aaahhhh eu adoro! No passado já fiz um outro post sobre escritórios/salas de estudo e também mencionei que de momentos estou insatisfeita com a minha situação de ainda ter a minha secretária no meu quarto e como gostaria de ter estas duas coisas separadas mas infelizmente não posso fazer nada sobre o assunto.

Source: dearinspirationblog.blogspot.com via Karen on Pinterest

Dream House #11

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EN: Hello Bananas! Today's Dream House post is about bedrooms again. I did a post about this more than a year ago [here], where I talked about the type of bedroom that would like to have for my bedroom at my parents house. Although I'm an adult now and hopefully I would be able to move out of parents house forever I would still like to decorate my bedroom the way that shared with you on that last post (sort off Japanese inspired and black and white with maybe a bit of red or purple).

Anyways the photos on this post today are not Japanese inspired, but most of them have something in common, big windows, neutral/soft colours and a bit minimalistic.

Where I live with my parents, my bedroom has to be a bit of a bedroom+office space, which can be a bit of a mess. So in a perfect world, I wish to maintain my bedroom as simple as possible and for one purpose only sleeping (aaaaand other stuff -_- but we don't need to talk about that lol) and when I say as simple as possible it means not even a wardrobe inside or a vanity table, those things would be in a different room, a walking closet if you wish, but like I said before, his would be in a perfect world.

Dream House #10

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EN: Hello Bananas! Today's Dream House post is about living rooms. My perfect living room would be big and spacious, would have big windows because I love natural lighting and comfy sofas.

PT: Olá Bananas! O post de hoje da minha Casa dos Sonhos é sobre salas. Para mim a sala perfeita seria grande e espaçosa, com janelas grandes porque eu adoro aproveitar o máximo da luz natural e teria sofás bem confortáveis, daqueles que nem apetece sair de lá.  

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Dream House #9

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EN: Hello Bananas. Today's post will be about bathrooms. For me the perfect bathroom needs to be big, his and hers bathroom sinks, I like windows in a bathroom and in a way I'm more of a shower girl then a bath girl, but of course if money was no object and I was building my dream house I would have both things.

PT: Alô Bananas. O post de hoje é sobre casa de banhos. Para mim a casa de banho perfeita teria de ser grande, com pias/lavatórios para ele e para ela, eu gosto de janelas na casa de banho e apesar de eu ser uma pessoa mais virada para os duches do que necessariamente banhos, se o dinheiro não fosse um obstáculo e se eu estivesse a construir a minha casa dos sonhos eu teria as duas coisas.

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Dream House #5

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"Office spaces are very wonderful for the office spaces", silly joke that only very few people will know where it's from :P.

Sooo yeah today Dream House post is about Office Rooms. I can not tell you how ttiiired I am of my computer desk. Is 11 years old, it's in cherry wood and it doesn't go with the rest of the whiteness of my bedroom!

When I moved in to this apartment with my parents, in my bedroom I had two things in white (bed and wardrobe) and two things in cherry wood (a bookcase and my desk). Years have passed and now my bedroom has more white furniture and the only thing "ruining" my bedroom is my desk!

Now what I really wish is that we had an extra room in our house just for an office. I really wish one day if I manage to have my own house that I can have a room just for the office, I no longer fancy the idea of having a desk in a bedroom. I want to have a bedroom just to sleep (and what not) and a office so that I could do my work at, get it? The two together just screams messy because I have so much stuff! BAH!

Dream House #3

I have done one of these - Dream House segments - in a while.

Last week I woke up one day with the idea "That's it! I want my bedroom Black and White! MUAHAHAHAHA". Me bedroom has always been a mix - and not the good kind - of white furniture and "cherry" wood as they call it. It started when we moved in to this flat, we had already had a wardrobe, big and white, then my parents bought me a new bed also in white, and then we had let's call it a home made "bookcase" that was painted in white. A few years later my mom bought my first computer, so we bought a desk, we couldn't find a white one that had all the things that I need it, so we end up buying one in the colour cherry wood, then the "bookcase" became too small, so we bought a new one also in cherry wood. Then came the curtains.... a few years back I was having this Holland phase, I was into Kane - a Dutch rock band - and the Dutch football team , so those are the colours of my curtains, one orange in the middle and two dark blue ones on each side aaaaannd now I'M tired of them -_-.

In the mean time I had other changes in my bedroom and now most of the furniture is white, but I still have the cherry wood desk. So I shared the black and white idea with my mom, and first she was like "OI?", we talked, and then she suggested like a Japanese inspired room - still with the black and white - and I was like "RIGHT ON MOM!".

Below you will see some pictures that I collected from Google. The first set is Japanese inspired. Now the thing with Japanese bedroom - and attention I'm no expert - they seem to be very minimalistic and basic, like the main purpose of a bedroom is to? Sleep. And what do I need in order to sleep? A bed. And that´s it... well not necessarily, but you get the idea. I can't not transform completely my bedroom, but two things that will be changed hopefully in the future, will be my bed, change the couples bed, that takes so much space, in to one of those body and a half beds, with a drawer underneath with another bed in case someone comes over, aaaand my desk. And since I have STUFF (lol) I can not have my bedroom just with my bed in it. 

Dream House #2

On this post of "Dream House", I noticed that all of the pictures that I picked, have alot of white rooms going on XD. On the first edition of "D.H." It was all about the big windows!

Dream House #1

Lately (maybe due to the fact that I'm home alone at the moment), I've been dreaming about my dream house, if I ever will be able to have my own place, and how would I decorate it? I like a dozen of styles at the same time, and not all of them go together. I like simple modern style, wooden houses, Victorian, Japanese, Indian, Latin American, African inspired uuuffff ... which one to pick?

From now on, every now and then I will post (if you don't mind :p) a few random pics of houses and room devisions that I like.

Hope you enjoy it.

Modern Furniture

Check this ooouuutttt!
I WANT IT ALL! This is so cool, and modern, and beautiful, and aaaawwww <3 .
Day dreaming about my dream house..... and that I probably will never have these type of thing lol :P