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Glamour Drops by Blue Fruit Melbourne
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Glamour Drops blog by Blue Fruit interior architecture and design - Melbourne Australia
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Fancy dinner in a glamorous treehouse? You may like this then...

If a taste for the exotic tantalises your tastebuds, then having dinner in a golden-lit sculptural globe, in the middle of a redwood forest, may just fit the bill. The Redwoods Treehouse has been bui...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

Elements of Glamour :: Stylish Dressing :: Bow Tie

It hardly needs to be stated on these pages, where glamour is celebrated in all its illustrious forms, that a hand-tied bow tie, worn by a handsome gent, in an impeccably cut black suit, has got to b...

3 days ago

Grey marble, white concrete, charcoal + timber : new work by Daniel Marshall Architects

Any house which has a vintage Mercedes SL parked out the front gets my attention.  Especially a red one. But lets look a little deeper, to discover what else this bold new work, by Daniel Marsha...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

Are you in London? Would you mind popping along to the V & A for me?

Ok, heres the deal.  That most glorious shrine to fashion, art & design, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, has just opened an exhibition called, "Ballgowns: British Glamour sin...

5 days ago

Only 999 more steps to go :: the 1000 step rainforest walk

Step, step, step. Stepping through the rainforest, on a track beside a merry creek, Up, up, up. 1000 steps up. 1000 steps back down. This is the Kokoda Track Memorial Walk in the Dandenong Ranges, ju...

5 days ago

Beach house with a tennis court & a French Vibe :: would you like to live here?

If playing the occasional game of lawn tennis, between swims at the beach, or cocktails on the deck, sounds pretty rejuvenating,  then ponder how much fun it would be to own this beach house at ...

6 days ago

Fabulous Front Doors :: Schiaparelli Pink

As a complete contrast to the clear timber finish recently talked about, a shock of Schiaparelli pink greets the visitor at this villa. Its the work of sjb architects, and I bet every single time the...

6 days ago

A Walk in the Autumn Garden...

As the last days of May bid us farewell, we say goodbye to the delightful autumn season in Melbourne. And with the crisper nights, with their promise of cosy dinner parties and roaring log fires, com...

25 may 12

Betting with Chocolate Frogs :: a most unusual prize...

18 years ago today, I was very, very pregnant. So much so, being 10 days over my due date, that my husband insisted on attending all my client & site meetings. Just in case he needed to rush me t...

25 may 12

Fancy a Cup of Tea? With 1 lump of personality or 2?

If you think your next tea party may be needing a bit of humour added to the menu, perhaps these too-cute personality-filled tea bags could be just the thing. Made in Germany, the little characters r...

24 may 12

Elements of Glamour :: Elegant Dressing :: the Glove

Ah...gloves. So seductive, so mysterious, so elegant.  They truly are one of the elements of glamour dressing. And I can not think of a good reason why we dont wear them more often. But with an ...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

Gobbledygook :: A Begging Plea to all Bloggers to stop using Word Verification!

As usual, Lewis Carroll says it best: the silliness of gobbledygook I mean. Which is exactly what it feels like when I have to decipher the impossible words,  as part of the word verification pr...

22 may 12

Glamorous Home which is warm and welcoming :: Catherine Kwongs own apartment

Not sure what interior design planet I have been living on lately, but the work of Catherine Kwong,  a San Francisco based designer, is new to me. This is her own home,  shot by the fabulou...

22 may 12

Fabulous Front Entrance :: patterned timber doors with a clear finish

One of the most striking types of fabulous front doors, the timber door with a raised pattern, relies on the pleasing composition of the mouldings and the beauty of the timber itself. Allowed to shin...

21 may 12

Just something glorious :: gowns from JAton Couture

Have spent the morning testing out cameras until  my head is about to explode, with so many options, gadgets & jigger-madoodles. Why cant camera shopping be as straight-forward  as the ...

19 may 12 1 person likes this

Friday Fun :: a view on men and women from 1903...

The perception of men, as seen by the new emancipated Edwardian woman. What can one say? image :: the gibson girl ...more...

18 may 12

Gates/ balustrades/ handrails... I cant think about anything else!

Have you ever noticed that when you buy a new blue dress, suddenly everybody else seems to be wearing one? Or when you need to replace your letterbox, suddenly letterboxes keep catching your attentio...

17 may 12

Cloud House :: new work by McBride Charles Ryan :: pushing the boundaries

Form, geometry, colour.  They are the signature hallmarks of all McBride Charles Ryan projects. And this new work, Cloud House, an extension to an Edwardian property in Fitzroy North, uses all 3...

15 may 12

A Night at the Opera :: colour, drama, music...

 We took the tweenager to his first opera on Saturday night, and there was as much joy in watching his beaming face  as there was in watching this splendid production. It was also the perfe...

14 may 12

Baking :: Espresso & Chocolate Cupcakes...

As a delectable duet,  it doesnt get much better than coffee + chocolate. And when we are talking espresso coffee + deep, dark velvety chocolate, it really does taste like a match made in heaven...

11 may 12

Dresses made from Flowers, Fruit & Grains? Yep, its a Floral Fashion Competition.

One of the most fun parts of  the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show  is the Floral Fashion competition, whereby students from RMIT, who more usually study how to design ...

11 may 12

Simplicity & Integrity :: the Victorian Terrace of an architectural duo

This is the terrace home of Stephen OConnor and Annick Houle, the life + work duo from OConnor + Houle Architecture, perhaps best known around this town for their work on the quietly atmospheric Heid...

10 may 12

Just something feminine :: Carl Kapp gowns

In an ode to the beauty of femininity, this collection of gowns from Carl Kapp, in flowing swirls of luminous sorbet colours, makes me want to immediately throw a Grecian Goddess cocktail party. Trul...

09 may 12

Delectable Duet :: Blue + Black

Perhaps its a reaction to the colour blocking of the last few seasons, (or possibly yesterdays very colourful chocolate-box house) but the enduring classic combination of inky or pale blue with sultr...

09 may 12

When is a House like a Box of Chocolates?

Have I gone nuts? How is a house like a box of chocolates? Well, when the exterior is richly dark, fancy & decadent.  Just like chocolate. And when every room inside is different from the ot...

08 may 12

DIY :: hatstand from branches :: now that was easy!

Always on the lookout for new ways to store my ever-increasing collection of hats, so when a storm brought down some branches  in the garden last week, I thought...hmmm...this could be useful. A...

07 may 12 1 person likes this

Its got to be here somewhere :: a secret gate...

Peeking through the timber slats is the beckoning house, and you can just see a glimpse of the extraordinary view behind. With a stunning landscape like this, it must have been tempting to have a vis...

07 may 12

By day & by night :: how a space changes with light...

Scroll between these 2 images to see the incredible difference that lighting makes to an interior space. Hard to believe the materials are even the same. By day, the timber ship-lap walls are charcoa...

04 may 12

Friday Fun :: Is that a roar on the dining table???

Wouldnt these roaring leopard napkin holders be fun on the dinner table? Inspired by the decorative soup tureens of the 17th & 18th centuries which featured exotic animals,  Amsterdam-based ...

03 may 12

A Black + White Cottage with a beautiful garden...

One of the most charming styles of homes, forever loved, is the classic weatherboard cottage. And while the decades have produced much debate as to the merits of a single, central corridor versus ope...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

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