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The perfect indoor/outdoor entertaining space for an ANZAC day BBQ - complete with servery window to kitchen, heat strips for cooler weather and auto vergola that allows daylight in when needed but closes up when the weather is bad. What are your must haves for the perfect outdoor entertaining space? 📸 by @vikramhingmire

Thank you to everyone who started following my new page @clareleroy overnight. I’m very humbled by the support and I hope I can help and inspire you guys to create a business and life that you love, just like I have! If you missed what I’m talking about check out my previous post from yesterday on @thelittledesigncorner ☺️

5 years ago I started @thelittledesigncorner with no training or experience as an interior designer. I started writing a blog in my evenings when I got home from my corporate job as a change management consultant. It was a passion project to start, but soon friends and family started asking for design help. I initially worked for free and then for extremely low fees so I could get some experience and build my portfolio. Then, about 4 months after I started my blog I got my first email from someone I had never met before - my first official client! They wanted help restyling their home and could I help? I couldn’t believe it! Before I knew it I was getting more and more emails like that with better paid projects. For the first year or so I did this work in the evenings after my kids were in bed or on weekends when I wasn’t working in my corporate job. I was essentially working two jobs but I was happier than I had ever been because I was being paid to do something I LOVED!! There was no better feeling. After about a year I had enough jobs on the go that I could quit my 6-figure paying corporate job and run my biz full time. I did some interior design training to upskill myself and I just went for it!! (Totally scared to bits!!). For the last 4 years I’ve been living my dream and working on bigger and better projects. I’m regularly invited by media to provide my “expert” opinion on issues related to design and have been lucky enough to have some of my projects featured in design publications I hugely admire like @est_living and @fetemagazine. Why am I telling you all this? Well because through my experience in building my business from scratch with just a love of design and some serious hard work I’ve learned quite a few things along the way. I would love to share these tips and strategies with others as I meet so many Mums who are uninspired with their lives or who tell me they would love to start a business of their own. If I can inspire one other Mum to go for it then I will be thrilled!! So if you are keen to learn more about my ideas on starting and building a biz, mindset, productivity and juggling motherhood then I would love you to join me @clareleroy 💛

Tiling detail of a simple textured subway tile laid in a bit more of an unusual pattern. I use textured subways in so many of my projects as they are a classic that won’t date and will help a bathroom design last for many years. But I do like to mix up the pattern that we lay them in and I love how this vertical 50/50 lay out turned out. I kept the grout white in this bathroom (I do sometimes use a light grey) so as to create a texture on the wall rather than a busy pattern (that the light grey would have created). If you want a bathroom design to stand the test of time try not to use too many “on trend” choices - simple and classic is often the best!

My youngest son’s bedroom with a few new updates for autumn 🍂 I’ll share a few of the suppliers and products in case there are some new products for you to check out. He’s had this bed from @plyroom for about 4 years now, since he moved out of his cot. And the classic design means I can change his room around easily every year or so to adapt to his age and tastes without the bed going out of fashion. The side table was from @freedom_australia a few years ago now but I love it as he can store all his crap (I mean “collections” 🤣) in there where I can’t see them! The wall hanging is new from @_inthedaylight and he loves it. Scroll for a closer view. Check them out for beautiful illustrations, art and stationery. Stripe bed linen is from @cultiver_goods with a throw from @freedom_australia. I’m having a bit of a brown moment so got this new cushion for him from @rachelcastleandthings. And the lamp on his side table is awesome - it’s called the Follow Me lamp, which I got from @designstuff. It’s is rechargeable via USB and it dims to a low level so he can use it as a night light but also take it with him in the night for “scary” toilet visits. And the zebra artwork is just because it reminds me of him and me. He is my youngest after all and I’m very protective of him 💙💙💙

Happy Easter from our family to yours 🐣

We moved our living room around a bit yesterday to make more room for Hugo’s wheelchair. My husband was thrilled as he has a hernia that needs to be operated on at the moment so moving furniture wasn’t high on his list of priorities at the moment 😬🙊 I’ve moved the two cane chairs down to the new media room, which is nearly done! 🤗 And brought up my Dad’s original Parker chair, which works well here and has made much more space for Hugo to be wheeled around. I inherited the light strip when we bought the house but I didn’t take it out when we renovated as it makes a nice mood light in the evenings - not in love with how it looks but it would have been a bit of a pain to take it out. Have a great Good Friday everyone!

Ceiling fans! You either love them or hate them! I personally hate them 🙃 but I was overruled by my clients on this project (it’s their money after all 😉🤣). This one isn’t that bad looking actually and the style of them are definitely improving - plus I do see the functional value of them. What do you think about ceiling fans - do you love them or hate them???

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