Guest Post: Beau Lifestyle!!!

Beau Lifestyle

Life is beau, style is beau but decorating is formidable!

First off, I have to appologise to Chantal...because of my technology handicap, this was the best I could do getting her banner over here. Whoops!

But I am ready to start this series off with a BANG! and Chantal from Beau Lifestyle is just the gal to do it. As soon as I laid eyes on images of her beautiful pad, I knew I would like her (c: She is super duper sweet and crazy talented at making her home absolutely fabulous...

Hi there, I am Beau lifestyle and Aubrey from All Things Bright and Beautiful asked me to write my first guest post, I feel very honored to be her guest and happy to have made a new friend.

I have always loved decorating, painting, DIY (even before i knew it was called diy) and waking up early to go to antique markets.
I thought I was an odd duck untill I discovered the world of blogging, which changed my life.
I feel among friends, who understand me that I can get all excited about an old table I found at the road side, we share the same potential to see the beauty in things.

 I try to go to antique markets, shops whenever I am travelling, especially going to English carboothsales, is a wonderfull experience. It´s a well organized event of people selling antiques, vintage stuff and junk from their booth of their car.


I got most of these antique decanters from England, the antler bottle opener I bought on ebay and the ice cooler and coasters was a gift from my beau boyfriend. I call him beau boyfriend because he is very handsome looking, he was my biggest DIY project as his mother bought him ugly clothes before, I helped him find his style.  (Aubrey: I am *DYING* laughing right now...hilarity at it's finest!)

These two foodogs make me happy when I see them, almost a year ago I stared blogging and this was the first inspired buy that I got from blogging. Now they hold some books and they add a pop of colour to our livingroom.

Our bedroom is a little bit more neutral with warm tones as beige, offwhite, gold and silver tones. I need it to be comfortable and cozy. The sunburst mirror I bought in a vintage store during travelling, the small cushion is a Nate Berkus cushion bought on ebay, the fabric of our headboard is from Calicocorners.

Love having fresh herbs in the kitchen, it adds such more flavour to a home made dish.

The herbgarden was a gift from my mother.

 My mother was the biggest influence for me liking design and decoration.

Another love is having fresh flowers in the house, especially hyacints for their smell. I like using other objects as vases. Here I used a vintage glass ice bucket.

The tray I got from Zara home, wich is a great shop, you never leave empty handed.

The two faux bamboo chairs were one of my latest projects that I got upholstered.

The faux coral vase was one of my first things I have bought for our apartment many years ago, now I see it quite often in decorating magazines.

The odd but pretty chandelier is from Moooi design and the plate from Fornasetti was my chrismas present from beau boyfriend. The fornasetti plate winks everytime I see her, such a positive start of the day.

We did invested in a good renovation, a new kitched, wooden floors and designer lamps, but the almost the rest of our home is second hand, bought on sale, thrifted, ebay bought, vintage or DIY.

I am happy that beau boyfriend told me that i could style our apartment the way I wanted. Now we have a home that we both feel comfortable and happy in.

Thank you Aubrey, for this oportunity to share a bit more of our home.

I'm still kind of giggling from the comments about her Beau boyfriend and his ugly-mom-chosen wardrobe!

If you haven't already checked out her fantastic blog, you will definitely not regret it...I will warn you now, you're going to love it! (c:

And up tomorrow:

Liz from Wallpaper!!!

And on a completely unrelated note:

How cute are my earrings from IHOD? They are so stinkin' cute, love them! Thanks Anna!