Modern Day Bohemian // Vaucluse

Having shown given you the home tour of one side of Sass & Bide (here), it's only fair that I show you the other. Just as beautiful and inspiring as Heidi's, Sarah Jane Clarke's home in Vaucluse has only recently been finished. A conversion of two apartments into one home finished just the beginning of this year. It also appears that her other half, Daniel Baffsky, is one of Australia's best known and respected landscape architects; principle at 360 Degrees in Surry Hills. What a dream team!

This home was not what I expected to be honest. Much more refined.

Enjoy.

For more photos and interview with SJC, see original source here.

Don't you just love looking into someone's pantry! A real leveller isn't it.

On a final note, I just love love love big brands who stop, take stock and see beyond themselves and their bottom line. Sass & Bide take part in a ethical fashion initiative in Africa. There is a great clip posted on their site that give us a little insight to what they are doing and some of the special women behind it. See it here. L-O-V-E   I-T. Made with love indeed. 

Modern Day Bohemian // Avalon

As promised, here is Heidi Middleton's Avalon cottage.  I am not so nosey as simply looking at houses in the area to get ideas for my very own cottage!  Promise. This little house is tucked away, but the work being done was so outstanding, so simple and refined. It was hard not to notice it on one of my walks. The inside, as seen below, is restrained, quite monochrome with touches of lovely textures. Might be a retreat away from the kids perhaps! Has to be surely!

Here are images as posted to Heidi's own Instagram feed. Love Instagram. Couldn't believe the little cottage I had been watching get a makeover was hers. Love those black metal door frames too.

So good!

Gorgeous right!?

Modern Day Bohemian // Palm Beach

I have been been a fan of Sarah Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton of the Sass & Bide fame since their Paddington Market days when I was in high school. Uber cool and effortless style. Always surprising, always drool worthy. Their homes are no different. Beautifully filled with vintage and worldly finds.

Heidi lives up the road in Palm Beach - yes I have bumped into her at WW. No, I did not say hi! She actually has two homes in the area. One up on the hill in Palmy and a smaller cottage in Avalon. Both beautiful. According to her Instagram feed, she renovated the cottage with her mum. I had been watching it's makeover before I knew who owned it. Her insta feed gave a little tour - brilliant!

So the below are a few images of her Palmy abode as first seen here. Check out that Bathroom!

Some more from Heidi's own Insta feed.

I am first to admit that this house tour is not a new kid on the block. It was first featured a little while ago and I have had it bookmarked that long. I guess, as I grow and my taste changes with my lifestyle, different things appeal to me at different times. At this time, this house in all it's odd bod, pieced together tapestry of life, appeals. I hope you haven't seen it before and if you have, then I hope you enjoyed seeing it again. I find the more I look at pictures, the more I see.  It is like watching your favourite movie a thousand times... you keep watching it not because you want to watch the main story every time, but because you start seeing the story and characters behind the main story. All those little things that were missed first, maybe 10th time round. The details.  Afterall, it's all about the details right!?

So I hope Heidi's incredible talent inspires something for you today.

I will post the cottage another day.