Pinturas / Paintings

Um dos meus hobbies é pintar. Sou muito amadora e não tenho qualquer formação, simplesmente sigo a minha imaginação e coração. Gosto de misturar materiais que normalmente não é esperado que se use numa tela como fio, plantas, areia, cera e vários outros tipos. Este trabalho é um exemplo perfeito disso. Foi um dos meus primeiros quadros e usei areia e cera para criar os relevos no meio e lados da tela e também tinta acrílica. Neste momento está na minha sala com parede clara mas esta foto foi tirada na casa de Inglaterra, que tinha a terrível parede azul

One of my hobbies is painting. I am very amateur and don´t have any kind of training regarding this area so I simply follow my imagination and heart. I like to mix materials that usually are not expected to be used in a canvas such as string, plants, sand, wax and all sorts of stuff. This work is a perfect example. It was one of my first paintings and I used sand and wax to create the figures in the middle and sides of the canvas and also acrylic paint.  Currently it’s in my living room, which has a light wall but this picture was taken in my UK house that has this terrible blue wall.

Clicar para aumentar /Click to enlarge

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IKEA Hackers

Every week I’m going to present some of my favorite blogs or sites.  I’ll start with IKEA Hackers a site that shows modifications or repurposing of IKEA products. Anyone can post a project that has worked on and it’s so funny to see how people change products and transform them into something completely different. Take a look at these works I picked from the site

Todas as semanas vou mostrar alguns dos meu sites e blogs favoritos. Começo com IKEA Hackers, um site que mostra modificações e alterações a produtos do IKEA.  Qualquer pessoa pode “postar” um projecto que tenha efectuado e é muito divertido ver como algumas pessoas transformaram alguns produtos em coisas completamente diferentes do seu objectivo inicial. Dêem uma vista de olhos nestes trabalhos que eu escolhi do site.

A frame transformed into a lamp

Uma moldura transformada em candeeiro

Plastic bag or a plant?

Sacos de plástico ou uma planta?

Mirror

Espelho

Or earing hanger ?

Ou guarda brincos?

How about this bathroom sink?

E este móvel de casa de banho?

Made with a dresser

Feito com uma cómoda

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Before & After - Antes & Depois

In these posts I will show redecorating projects either made by me or that I found on the internet and that I simply find truly beautiful and inspiring.

Nestes posts vou mostrar projectos de decoração ou renovação, quer feitos por mim como encontrados online, que eu simplesmente considere bonitos e fonte de inspiração.

I start with a DIY work made by Nancy Marcus that you can see in  Marcus Design . She, like me, is an aspiring decorator and decided to create her own blog when she bought her house.  In this work she transformed a simple IKEA RAST Dresser into a fabulous and high quality lookalike.

Começo com um projecto de reconversão feito por Nancy Marcus que podemos ver em Marcus Design. Ela, tal como eu, é uma aspirante a decoradora e decidiu criar o seu blog quando comprou a sua casa. Neste trabalho ela transformou uma simples cómoda RAST do IKEA numa fabulosa e de alta qualidade semelhante.

She started with this dresser
Começou com esta cómoda

And transformed it into this one

I transformou-a nesta

This was the Dorothy Drapper inspiration
Esta foi uma das imagens de inspiração Dorothy Drapper

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Friday Inspiration - Office

Every Friday I will post a home inspiration. As I was talking about  my office why not starting with that?

1 - Chair from Homeglow 2 - Magazine or documents shelve from Casa 3 -Desk lamp from Homeglow
4 - Desk from Bo Concept 5 - Carpet from Soraya 6- Wall poster from IKEA Pin It

Let the games, or should I say design, begin

I was thinking about what kind of first post I should do.  So I decided to start from the beginning.  

I was born in Portugal and studied communication and worked in journalism, industry and retail. Then I moved to the UK where I lived for 4 years and worked in IT. There, in Manchester, I bought my first house, a beautiful 3 bedroom terraced house with a back patio and a lot of refurbishing to do. This place was my first canvas to all my crazy ideas and experiences.

Though I never worked in any of these areas I love all about crafts, DIY projects and interior decoration and I dream about making this my full time job.  Dream moves the world isn´t it? Meanwhile I decided to expose all my ideas and works.  I start with some pictures we took on a visit to Oxford.  I loved the colors and wanted to use them in our office decoration in Manchester. I never did it has we came back to Portugal and rented the house…so I had to leave walls neutral and clean. Maybe I use them here in our new house that we are about to buy…but that is another story.

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