Baxter and Snow – Gorgeous Home Items

Some time ago I came across a fantastic Facebook page after noticing a friend had “liked” it. That page was Baxter and Snow – recycled wooden wine boxes. Instantly I fell in love.
What the clever owner does is to use her skills to transform wine boxes into gorgeous home items such as craft boxes and magazine racks. I couldn’t resist buying one of the larger boxes which I intended to use for my desk up in the office.

It didn’t get past the kitchen.

If you look at the many examples of how people have used their boxes on Facebook you’ll see why I wanted one so badly. Of course, being a busy family home mine was put to a less photo-worthy but definitely a most organised use.

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Mine sits on top of the our built in fridge in the kitchen. This unit is traditionally known as The Dump Zone. It has envelopes for school trip money, a school diary, small change, pens and pencils, a usb, sticky tape and glue, a piece of string, a cotton reel, cards, lip salve, plasters, drawing pins, safety pins, stickers, rail tickets, notepaper and the other 101 things that we use regularly or need to have to hand. It is also a handy place to empty your pockets, file mail to look at later and dump bits and pieces without making a mess.

And it looks blinking fantastic!

Unfortunately I now need to get another for my desk and am hoping to convince them that they want to make me a charging station 🙂

I’m posting this purely because I think these items are fantastic and hope that a few of you will be as thrilled with them as I was.  Baxter and Snow don’t keep in a bulk of stock and list items on their FB page as they are available so look sharp and bag yourself a gorgeous home item.

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My Bedroom Haven

I regularly post about tarting up my lounge, adding vintage touches to my kitchen, adding colour to my dining room and tackling the ever growing mound of toys and books that the boys have. I rarely mention our bedroom. We have a large bedroom which is sixteen foot something by fifteen foot. It has two gorgeous sash windows that let in a lot of light, an original ornate fireplace and is white.

This is the only room in the house where we can get away with having white in it as I have the two boys and everyone who has two boys knows that they rarely mix well with white. Our bedroom also doubles as my office. I have a beautiful white and wood shaker-style desk and matching filing cabinet which is where I work every day. The desk is set up so that at the end of the day all files, folders, printers and of course laptops are able to simply disappear, restoring the room to a “proper bedroom”.

We have matching white wood wardrobes, drawers, bookcases and bedside tables and an black iron bedstead (it works). The carpet is plush yet easy to maintain, the curtains are neutral and the lighting is adequate yet not stark. Above all it really is a gorgeous room, so simple yet comfortable, warm and just “us”. We have a few things to add before we finish this room, such as wall art of some kind and most definitely some new sumptuous bed linen however other than that, it is just perfect.

It is lovely to have one place in the house that is just ours, that is always calm and which looks so lovely. It is our sixteen by fifteen foot haven. Do you have a corner of your house that is just “you”, that you love and wouldn’t want to change? What is it?

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