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Urban Jungle Bloggers – Back to School, Plants in the Workplace

26.09.2014
Interior & Design, Styled Space
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urban jungle bloggers my office

I’m happy to be back to show some new additions to my plant family for the latest Urban Jungle Bloggers edition. The topic is “Back to School – plants in your workplace”. Well workplace for me isn’t quite defined. I have two places at home where I work from; a corner table in my bedroom when the household gets too rowdy, and the kitchen table. They say that many good businesses began at the kitchen table. I keep reminding myself of that as I dream very hard of having my very own studio.

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Our Kitchen

01.08.2014
Interior & Design, Voyeurist
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kitchen of mel chesneau | armoire pegs and casserole

Part of the brief for the Design*Sponge shoot, was that I was to supply a maximum of twenty photos. As you can imagine, I have quite a few unused photos hanging around, so I thought I might share some of the unseen kitchen shots with you today.

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My Home Featured on Design*Sponge

16.07.2014
Interior & Design, Voyeurist
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Mel Chesneau home on Design*Sponge

Did you see it? My little home here in Auckland was featured in Design*Sponge’s Sneak Peeks. If you didn’t see it already, I invite you to pop over for the full house tour.

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The Voice of my Vignette

16.06.2014
Interior & Design, Voyeurist
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Voice of the Vignette

Over the weekend it was my pleasure to be a guest at The Inner Interior for a monthly column called, “The Voice of the Vignette”. The concept is for a blogger or designer to create a vignette in their home, photograph it and share what meaning it holds for them. I really enjoyed this theme and hope that you pop over and have a look at my little scene and the story behind it.

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Instamoments #5 Flower Vignettes

21.05.2014
Interior & Design, Styled Space
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white-tulips

I’m working on something really exciting at the moment, well exciting for me and hopefully it will be received well by all of you too! To give you a hint, it’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a very long time but until now because it didn’t feel right. I won’t have you hanging on for long but I just want to wait until it’s set up until I reveal it to you!

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My Home Featured in Your Home & Garden Magazine

29.11.2013
Interior & Design, Voyeurist
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Mel Chesneau

Your Home & Garden Magazine | Photo by Larnie Nicolson & production LeeAnn Yare

If you follow me on Facebook and Instagram then this is probably of no surprise to you that my home has been featured in the January 2014 issue of Your Home & Garden magazine here in New Zealand. I’m feeling rather excited by it all and I figured that you’d like to join my joy and see a selection of the photos from the spread. Am I right?

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Macrame Hanger Kit

11.11.2013
Interior & Design, Styled Space
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The wannabe DIY’er in me has been eyeing off this Mima + Moo Macramé Kit for over a year until I finally bought it last month in my quest to bring more plants into our home. It was so simple to make with everything needed except the pot and plant and included clear instructions; perfect for someone like me that usually fails miserably with these kinds of things.

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Monday News, starting in the bedroom…

21.10.2013
Interior & Design, Voyeurist, Uncategorized
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Hi friends! I have lots of news that I want to share with you so I’m dedicating an entire post to it today. I thought for the post image I’d take photo of a larger view of our bedroom so that you can see what I’ve done with the mirrors on the wall. What do you think? Just for the fun, I took a close up of my muddy Supergas, a reminder that we’ve just come out of winter and many a wet playground visits!

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