An Update

Lots of exciting news at Lily-g! We have a fabulous new owner and to my relief shares in the Lily-g vision, she has fabulous taste and style and I find her enthusiasm and plans for lily-g very exciting to say the least. She has already worked on several Interior jobs and has wowed me!! of course our very talented Lauren will be contining her work at lily-g.

We have already started our buying and I must admit girls how I'm going to miss the shopping, thankfully Melinda is letting me tag along for the fun, she's letting me go gently!

Well my news is that I am retiring from decorating and retail but working on a very new and exciting venture. To our Lily-g customers my presence will still be there as Melinda and I work together to bring lots of fabulous products, inspiring interiors and in store events to lily-g.

All future posts will be from Melinda, Jo and Lauren with guest posts too!

The picture I posted above is from the Interiors of Bella Casa, we love the classic style!

In store now

We were very excited to get our new range of hand block printed tablecloths, cushions, napkins and accessories in store this week, the burst of summer colour is stunning and proving to be very popular not just because its so affordable but its unique and very gorgeous!

Caribbean Style

Tom Scheerer is on my list of favourite designers and I just love this caribbean inspired home he created in Florida, visit more photos of his home on the house beautiful magazine website.

Hot Summers Day

I love verandah's. The bigger the better. Living in Queensland I think it is an essential part of our laid back culture.

We are getting in the most stunning cane pieces in at Lily-g and transforming the 'Garden Room' into a light filled gorgeous ode to India Hicks, Ralph Lauren and our tropical life style. Think lots of light, textures and natural finishes with splashes of vibrant coral colours. I am very excited!!

Happy New Year

After a long needed break I'm back and full of energy ready to tackle 2010 and what an exciting year ahead! I though I would start with some inspiration from Jill Brinson home in Atlanta, who says you cant have a country home in the city!

Inspiration

I found this image in my file showing open plan living hamptons style! Don't you just love the kitchen too!

Have a great week

I have a lovely day off with my daughter today, we putting up our Xmas tree and doing a little bit of baking, hope you all have great week x

p.s I just love this image, the open plan design, the VJ pillars and the bookcase surrounding the fireplace, gorgeous!

Bali Life

This months House and Garden features Stuart Membery's home in Bali. This would have to be my all time favourite style (very India Hicks!) lots of books, relaxed sofa's, interesting cane pieces, gorgeous just love it, girls go and buy this months H&G you will be drooling!

What's Inspiring me

When my business is sold maybe just maybe I will find the time to organize my shoes like this, dust free, covered by a gorgeous drape but still giving you a peek at the jimmy choo's! minus the chair! I'm just drooling over the mirror mantle piece!

Taking your curtains close to the ceiling is my favourite look, sisal rugs on dark floors lots of white! love the windows wow!

If you have a large room I'm loving placing furniture with more than one sitting area. Still inspiring me is simple elegant interiors that don't scream over done, but still remain interesting and clever! love, love, love this room! my inspiration for my next home .

Again dark floors and stark white walls and touches of gold (minus the mirror yuk)

black and white sketches in elegant frames, simple curtains and touches of gold!

All white bathrooms with furniture pieces

Xmas Fever

Sorry for being so slack with my posts lately, the rush is on to finish our interior jobs, keeping the boxes unpacked and the shelves full of lots of xmas goodies! Over the next few weeks my blog will be filled with gift ideas for Xmas and table inspiration and all things Xmas and fun!

I'm putting up my tree this year and my theme is green,silvers and antique golds. The grown up xmas table will be in greens but the kids table is going to be hot pink and red combination which will be stunning but more on that soon!

New in store

As fast as new stock arrives it then leaves just as quick, so I had to post our gorgeous cane lounge which has been sold. The good news is we have more arriving soon with matching arm chairs. Available in dark chocolate cane, grey pepper or lime wash and with custom designed upholstery, suitable for indoors and outdoors, we can help select the right piece for your home.

Swing Away

This is the swing I would love to hang from my huge fig tree in the country

Suzanne Kasler

Its already Thursday tomorrow and I cant believe how fast the week has flown. I don't think we have ever been as busy with our decorating and our store is full of excitement with all our new stock arriving every day.

Today we received Suzanne Kaslers new book, I'm a huge fan of her classic stylish decorating, in years to come her work will really stand the test of time, and in my opinion that makes a great decorator. The images above are sourced from both her book and website

Xmas at lily-g

This week is the beginning of our festive season at lily-g, the decorations have arrived and the store is filling fast with gorgeous decorations for your Christmas tree, if you haven't guessed already I went a little bird crazy! I just love this time of year don't you?

Part 2

A few snap shots of our new Verandah room. Thank you to all our wonderful customers who have called in to our store over the last few days you have made our opening a huge success.

Jasper Conran

I'm lusting after this stunning range designed by Jasper Conran for Wedgwood and I think this will have to be the start of a new collecting obsession!

French Essence

Tomorrow we receive our order of Vicki Archers new book French Essence. Vicki is always the hot topic in our store and I'm just busting with excitement to receive my copy. We have pre-sold over 30 copies and for our store it's our best seller ever! what better way to support such an inspirational special person who we all so admire. Her blog is always so beautifully written, so heartfelt and I try to never miss my daily read, she deserves such great success.

If you would like a copy sent to you please email me at judy@lilyg.com.au or phone our store to reserve your copy. We have emailed all our customers who have reserved a copy so please collect at your convenience.

Style Guide

If you love entertaining then you will love this website styleguide.com.au admittedly it is a wedding magazine website, but its full of table setting inspiration that you could use for lots of other occasions too. I'm planning to use the laduree inspired name tags and table setting for lunch with my girlfriends, now all I need is the macaroon's x

An update

Sorry for the lack of posts last week I went on a pre wedding shopping spree with my daughter Jess to Hong Kong. We had so much fun we laughed non stop, shopped four days straight, zero dollars in the bank, aching feet and way to many star bucks coffee's, I'm definitely over shopping (well for this week anyway!!!) so I'm back ready for action!

We are only one week away from opening our new section "Verandah" and I must say its looking amazing! We are setting up Christmas in store this week-end and this years our white xmas is very special. Our Verandah room celebrates xmas with antique golds, lots of green and antique silvers, beautiful coloured mercury decorations for the brighter tree, blacks and silvers and gorgeous duck egg blue's. Our coffee bar is only a few weeks away, log on to our website and join our mail out to keep you up to date with what happening at lily-g.