African Sketchbook Fabrics

In a recent post on the blog, Cote De Texas, the author featured a hotel in Cape Town that was filled with fine art fabrics by African Sketchbook. They are GORGEOUS, awe-inspiring, worthy of a million oohs and ahhs. After exploring their website and learning how much time and effort goes into these masterpieces, I'm even more in awe.

I'm convinced that with a bit of inspiration, I can make a DIY version. Possibly for some curtains...hmmmmm. If only I had a house!

Check out that couch! It's a striped fabric with a vintage letter silk screened on top.

Build a room - the Sophia Bed

So I have this game I play when I flip through home magazines. I'll turn the page and pretend at I can have anything I want, but I can only have one thing from the spread..what would it be? Sometimes it's a piece of art, sometimes it's a chest of drawers. This time, it was a bed. 

Once I choose my free merchandise, I'll decide that it's way too fabulous to go with my current boring menagerie of home goods, so I decide that I'll redo the entire room based on that piece of perfection. 

So here is my room based on the "Sophia Bed" from Layla Grayce .

Bedside pic - frames from Pottery Barn, wire lamp from Wisteria, luxe alarm clock from zgallerie, leather journal from Barnes and Noble, decoupage tray from John Derian, chest from Wisteria, large clam shell from zgallerie


Other furniture - chair and sofa from Wisteria, silver etagere from Layla Grace, fabrics from Quilthome.com