The Finer Details

This past week we have been patiently waiting for contact from our CLO regarding some minor final plan changes. We originally asked our sales consultant to quote on LIN 1 doors to the media room but he never included this in the DV and we totally missed it given the mass of other Lin 1 doors around the house. We are hoping we can add doors to the media room without being stung for a structural change to the preliminary plans (apparently the doorways need to be narrowed). Fingers crossed she will get back to us soon as we are very keen to get everything signed off and on to council.

In the mean time we have been musing upon the smaller details of our new home, particularly artwork. We have collected a small number of pieces and prints in our travels that are carefully stored in their bubble wrap, waiting for walls to live on. 

There are a few prints we picked up in Hawaii by an artist from Oahu named Heather Brown. We hope to one day purchase one of her originals, but she has become very popular and they are hard to come by, not to mention expensive! We have visited Hawaii these past few years and it has become a very special place to us. We are hoping to capture a small part of it in the design and the art of our new home. 

Here are some of the Heather Brown prints we have collected which will most likely live in our kitchen and open plan living area.

We also have a large canvas by Australian artist Deborah Broughton, who sometimes frequents The Rocks markets in Sydney. 

We definitely have a Hawaiian/coastal theme going on! There will be many picture recesses to fill in the house so there are some other pieces we picked up in a gallery in Melbourne. They are by Japanese graphic designer Heisuke Kitazawa and American Artist David Burke. 

The first might go into the entryway and is our favourite, it's called 'The Sound of Light'.

The others will most likely live in our media room where the color scheme will be a darker brown

The anime inspired artworks are a bit unusual with the Hawaiian pieces but they will be in separate rooms. There is also a significant Japanese influence in Hawaii which ties them together in a funny way. Having been an exchange student in Japan, I have a love of anime and the general quirkiness of all things Japanese. We have had some very mixed opinions in our art choices but honesty, we love them and couldn't care less about what anyone else thinks! 

And thus concludes today's exhibition ;)