House Decorations & Stuff

I have had quite a few request for more home decoration posts, but it’s a tad hard because our apartment is so small so we don’t really decorate it. All of our furniture is very basic, but we are buying things and storing them for our future house.

Speaking of future house, our search is proving to be harder than we thought. It is hard to agree on something and we haven’t seen anything that we both Love so it will be a long and painful hunt. At least we don’t actually need to move, but when I eventually fall pregnant I am sure that we will be buying something quick smart.

As I said, we buy a lot of things and then they go into storage. All of our wedding gifts are also in storage, which kills me, but I know that when we move and unpack everything, it will be nice to have all new and special stuff.

Here are some recent purchases that are just hanging around at home...

I got the first 6 items whilst in Daylesford at a shop called Wombat Gifts (or something along those lines) and it was all dirt cheap.

I love this heart and I think it would look great hanging on a front door. 

$10

Random candle set for about $8

Okay, I love these vases. Now I need some flowers.

$12

Set of keys - no idea where these will live...

$10

Another random key! 

$8

Gold glittery candles

$1 each (I know!!)

This candle is from French Pony and smells amazing! I love the jar. 

On the weekend I was in Domayne and decided to embrace fake flowers for when I have no real flowers. They were pricier than I expected but oh well, they look cute enough. 

Glass jar $3.95

Bunch of Ulani Peony Roses $8.95

These are currently living in the bathroom. 

Blue Hyacinth Pot $65

I know - so expensive. I didn't realise it was this expensive until I got up the counter and by then it was too late...

Mini Roses Tray

$49.95

I love this tray! Very cute. 

Sometimes a spot of colour is all a room needs to freshen it up, just hope that people don't get too close and realise your flowers are fake! 

Storage is a massive issue in our apartment, as in majority of apartments I would imagine. 

I have the wardrobe in our room and The Husband has the wardrobe in the spare room but as he has so many shirts, most of his stuff ends up hanging on our Steamer rack which is this little foldable thing that collapses if you walk any where near it, very annoying. 

I picked up this 2 level clothes rack at Big W on Sunday for $28 and it was really easy to assemble, probably took 10 minutes. I do all the building and assembling in our marriage. 

What I didn’t anticipate was that only a quarter of his shirts would fit on the rack. We need more, that is for sure.

At the moment his 1,465,598 suits hang in the wardrobe and his casual clothes are folded (or thrown wherever). At this rate, the shirts will go straight from the wash on to the rack and then when he has ironed his 5 for the week they will go into the wardrobe as they will get creased back on the rack.

I had lots of comments on instagram and twitter about who ironed his shirts. I am not allowed any where near our iron, forget his shirts. He is a total perfectionist and irons them with skill. 

This is how I store my flower headbands, on a lamp. 

Here is some more new in box house stuff that is stacked up in our apartment. It is killing me to look at it so will be moving it to Geelongfor storage soon.

I’m also thinking of getting rid of the double bed, the bed side table and the desk from the spare room and replacing with a single day bed for when people need to stay over, which is not often. That will leave my turtle tank, a book shelf and clothes racks in there and there will be so much more room. It’s terrible at the moment. Might as well just call it the Junk Room. 


On Australia Day we went to Rebel Sport and saw a Punching Bag that came on it's own big metal stand and hook thing and The Husband said we should have one in the spare room. Surely that is why he goes to a MMA gym? So we don't need a punching bag in the spare room. Oh well, if he wants one, I'm happy for one.

This is a shelf in the bedroom that I love.

So, who else lives in an apartment with no storage options? We don’t even have a linen closet so that stuff lives in fabric storage boxes in my wardrobe, where the space could be far better utilized I tell you!!

I need storage solutions. I also need to stop googling "Walk in Wardrobe".