Re-Nesting Interests

When you're pregnant and nearing the end of your term, it's said that the nesting instinct settles in. Cleaning, cooking, rearranging, organising, fussing and general OCD limited to the inside of your dwelling. Suffice to say, it struck me too, a little over 6 months ago. Since then interiors have been the very very last of my thoughts-so far away and in the dark that I forgot what colour my bedroom walls are.

But recently, with the plan to relocate to a higher altitude come April where dusting is a new chore and popping into IKEA is a fantasy, I've suddenly grown the inescapable urge to trawl through the internet for 'small kitchen solutions' and 'wall decals' and 'living with a baby' inspirations.

Needles to say, I'm behind in all the new designs and trends for interiors, just like all the other interests in my life: fashion, news, books, movies, opening hours, and apparently expiry dates on produce in my cupboards.

I'm obssessed with shiny but aged oak wood flooring, rich and inbetween colours for walls, quirky little hanging things for children's bedrooms, and utterly hellbent on redoing the kitchen when I get back to our UB flat. There's already a design we've talked about and agreed on in general but the final decisions are of course made once I get back, otherwise there'll be hell to pay. If all goes well I'll be a proud photographer and blogger of our new kitchen. Hoping my photography skills haven't left me yet. But before that I'm sure there'll be some strategic negotiations with the hubby and well managed trips to random interiors shops with imports from South Korea to pick up random and cute things that'll be artfully placed to create a nonchalant look. Pfff.

In the meantime, here are all the lovely things I've found online in the middle of the night, these past few days-inspirations, eureka moments and more ways to get depressed about the things I can't source from Mongolia-whilst Arvis is asleep next to me, not knowing that a GodzillaMum will be unleashed very soon.

(Photos: Hither and Thither, DesignMom, Sunbutter and Jelly, Scraphacker, the rest I can't remember or have been lost but let's say Google? Apologies.)