Amara

In keeping with this week's theme, "my cloakroom/laundry room"...

Today on shops i love I bring you Amara. Amara is the brainchild of respected Interior Designer Sam Hood and is an online boutique full of gorgeous, branded interior goods. The website is easy to navigate and is split into helpful options like brands, shop by room and has a great gift finder.

Amara sells lots of the brands I have featured here on Torie Jayne, like Day Birger Et Mikkelsen, Designers Guild and one of my favourites, Pip Studio. So when the lovely peeps at Amara offered to send me something lovely to review, I chose the "Birds of Paradise" white bath towel from Pip Studio.

As you may remember from Monday's post I already have the hand towel in khaki hanging on the wall above the sink in my cloakroom/laundry room. I thought it would look nice to hang the bath towel over my towel radiator in the diagonally opposite corner. I love it! and it adds just the right amount of colour to what would have been a dull corner.

Laundry room art, available here to download for free

I love how it brings out the colour in my print from Kirsten Jones

Amara now also sells all its goods in US dollars and euros and you can have your items shipped all over the world. So now you can all have a touch of Pip Studio!

Have a sweet day!

My Laundry room shelves

Yesterday I told you how we redesigned our old downstairs bathroom into a cloakroom/laundry room and showed you a little corner of the cloakroom side of things. So today I wanted to show you the laundry room shelves which are on the laundry side of the room...

Before

My laundry wire baskets

First Aid tin

Tocca Laundry wash

Have a sweet day!

My laundry wire baskets

I have been loving the wire basket look for a while now and treasure my vintage duck egg blue basket I have had for years. So, when on a recent work trip to HK with my day job I spied the white wire baskets in Jusco (HK's version of a pound/dollar store) and I immediately bought four. Now I am wishing I had bought more as they were so cheap!

As my dusters, sponges and cloths are in an array of pretty colours and prints it seemed a shame to hide them in a cupboard so I have filled my wire baskets with them and will be placing the wire baskets on open shelves above my washing machine.

Have a sweet day!

Laundry wire baskets

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you some wire baskets. I am loving this look and seem to keep seeing it, both for the laundry room and office. I recently bought four small wire baskets in white for my laundry room - more on this coming later.

• Follow Studio
• Vintage farmers market basket,
• Vintage wire egg basket
• Bailey's home and garden

Have a sweet day!

Pretty cloakroom apothecary jars

I have had my two larger bird apothecary jars since last November when I ordered them on holiday in Florida from Modern Chic Home. At Christmas they were filled with coconut mushroom candy and chocolate sticks for my Winter Woodland themed dessert table. At Easter they were filled with pretty pink and blue M&M's and hand made chocolate butterflies for my Easter table. The rest of the time they have been carefully stored away. Not anymore! I finally will have a permanent home for them when they are placed on a shelf in my new laundry room and cloakroom.

After much deliberation as to what would look good and be useful in the bird apothecary jars, I filled the tallest one with hand wrapped soaps to match my colour and print theme that I showed you a couple of weeks back. For the shorter one I bought spotty emery boards from Cath Kidston and floral emery boards form Poundland. I like to display items in odd numbers, so I bought a third bird apothecary jar from Primrose & Plum. Choosing what to fill this one with was tricky but eventually I went for my small pink dotty hairbrush and hairbands to match my colour theme. Now I wait patiently for the room to be decorated so I can add my decorative touches!

Have a sweet day!

Laundry Art

I am busily getting everything ready to decorate our new laundry- and cloak-room. Last week I showed you the candy coloured bead hangers and the pretty wrapped soaps. Today I am showing you some of my laundry art I want to put up on the walls.

I originally bought two pink baroque picture frames from Urban Outfitters; buy one get one half price! I then had to decide what to put in them. As there is going to be quite a lot of different prints in the room from, pale blue floral towels to a bird print curtain and rose printed dusters I wanted something quite graphical.

I liked the idea of them having something to do with the laundry room so went for care label meanings. I went back to Urban Outfitters and bought two more frames, one in pink and one in duck egg blue as I'd decided I wanted three of them (maybe the extra one can go in my kitchen?). I coloured the artwork in a pale blue to match the blue in my towels, soaps and prints.

Feel free to right click the below pics and print them out for yourselves.

Hand beaded hangers

I was looking for some cute hangers for my laundry room to add a pop of colour, so thought I would have a go at beading some wire dry cleaning hangers I had lying around. I bought a selection of beads in pink, blue, green and white to match my bird trail curtain fabric. The beaded hangers were quick and easy to make and I love how they turned out. I think they look like candy, and if you're a regular reader of my blog you know how much I love candy!




Hand beaded hangers
What you will need

• White wire hangers
• Pink beads
• Blue beads
• Green beads
• White beads
• Hot glue gun

Instructions

1. Carefully untwist hanger
2. Thread beads onto hanger until full of beads
3. Twist hanger back together
4. Thread beads onto neck of hanger
5. Hot glue gun last bead in place

Pretty Hangers

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you some pretty hangers from my Laundry Room Ideas Pinterest board. Tomorrow I will be sharing with you some hangers I have been decorating for my laundry room.

• Set of two vintage style hangers
• Painted coat hangers
• Padded hangers
• Hand painted wooden hangers

Have a sweet day!

Cute Laundry

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you a selection of some cute laundry-inspired finds from Etsy. From the chic 'keep calm' poster to the pretty bright patterned ironing board cover, they are sure to make laundry day more fun!

• Keep calm and laundry on
• Scandi clothespin peg bag
• Ironing board - peacock feathers
• Laundry room art

Have a sweet day!

Inspirational Pins - Laundry Room Storage

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you some new pics of cute laundry rooms! We have decided on the layout for our new laundry room/cloakroom and I have started making my bird trail fabric blind for the window. I have my pretty Housekeeper's box , laundry tin and ironing board cover sorted so now I am looking for fresh pretty storage ideas to match. I have a few white wire hangers begging for a make-over and some bird trail oilcloth left over from my washing machine cover that needs to be turned into something!?! For more Laundry Room Inspiration check out my Laundry Room Ideas Pinterest board!

• Cath Kidston
• Smile and Wave
• Country-style utility room
• Clarke and Clarke
• Modern laundry room shelving
• Open strapping basket

Have a sweet day!

Laundry room finds

1. Provence Rose laundry bag
2. Set of six bird pegs
3. Washing symbol washing powder box - clay
4. Laundry hooks, Wooden laundry sign
5. Pink peg enamel bucket
6. GreenGate Home Accessories
   

This week in my series of posts, "Friday Finds", I bring you a selection of pretty laundry room finds inspired by Monday's Laundry room inspirational pin board.

Have a sweet day!

Pretty Laundry Supplies

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you a selection of pretty laundry supplies.

1. Eco-friendly dryer sachets
2. Retro vintage-inspired embroidered laundry bag - Be A Lamb and Wash
3. Ironing board cover - Larkspur birdie
4. Fabric covered clothespins springtime flowers, set of 4

Have a sweet day!

Insiprational Pins - Gorgeous Laundry Rooms

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you gorgeous laundry rooms with pops of colour inspired by my Laundry Room Ideas inspirational board.

• Utility room by House to Home
• A lovely laundry room by Country Living
• Shaker pegs by Country Living
• Utility room storage by House to Home

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Laundry Day

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you wonderful Laundry room pics with these gorgeous photos.

We have started planning our new laundry room, so stay tuned for more laundry room inspired posts this week!

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (From left to right):

• The gorgeous teacup full of clothes pegs by Lynda Naranjo
  
• The beautiful close up of pegs in 4/30: I am grateful for clean, fluffy, fresh, warm towels by ǝıqqǝp
  
• The wonderful mini iron by tigerluxe
• The delightfully organized drying area by Saucy Dragonfly

Have a sweet day!

Stylish Laundry Room

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you just one totally adorable laundry room pic from Decorology. I love the glass jars and the stylish ironing board hanging from the wall, and will be using this for inspiration for my laundry room that we have just started work on. Check back soon for some more of the most inspirational photographers on Flickr.

A beautiful shot from my Flickr favourites:

• The gorgeous Laundry Room by Decorology

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My little aqua book: laundry room

• Steady Sticks
• Restoration Hardware
• Garden Trading
• John Lewis
• The Contemporary Home
• Cath Kidston
• Dotcomgiftshop
  
• Kin interiors
  

I am in the process of organizing my "shops I love" page, and replacing it with "my little aqua book" pages. My style is a little bit vintage, a dash of modern, and heavily colour palette driven. I like nothing better than the hunt for the perfectly coloured whisk, the cutest vintage cake stand or a whimsical tea towel!

First up, I share with you "my little aqua book" pages of shops that sell the prettiest laundry room goodies!

Have a sweet day!

Steady Sticks

Peg bucket


Linen apron


Glass cleaner


Soaking bucket


Dust pan and brush


Wicker basket


Kitchen scrap bucket


Mini flour sifter

Whilst writing my post on my laundry room ideas I came across the adorable Steady Sticks. They do the prettiest kitchen, laundry and baking items in pale pink, pale blue, white, taupe and red. They have so many gorgeous items that I felt I should dedicate a whole post to them.