STICKY BEAK // BARCELONA APARTMENT

While in Barcelona last year we rented a great apartment in the Eixample district, an area I couldn't recommend enough if you are looking to make the trip. Home of Barcelona's art nouveau (and Gaudi's La Padrera and Casa Batllo) Eixample is both a high-class residential and shopping area. The Passeig de Gracia, a beautifully wide and tree lined boulevard is where you will find all the international  designer labels, a vibrant cafe culture and the best restaurants and bars in town.

Of course, this fashionable hot spot wouldn't be complete without it's own 19th century architectural style, the reason for my sore neck and the hundreds of pictures of windows and balconies taken during my trip. And it's not just the facade's of these buildings I love, simply take a look at these pictures of this beautiful, light-filled Eixample apartment by DS Architects for some spanish interiors eye candy.

Floor to ceiling windows, crisp white walls and those patterned ceramic floor tiles. Swoon!

STICKY BEAK // EMMADIME STUDIO

Ever dreamt of ditching the 9-5 cubicle job and starting up on your own - in your own creative space? Me too, so today's sticky beak really does hit the spot for me - it's the amazingly light filled studio of Californian graphic designer Emma Robertson of EMMADIME.

395 square feet in Oakland's Jack London Square is Emma's new creative space after leaving LA and moving to the Bay Area. Emma scored big with weathered timber floors, super high ceilings, white walls and traditional warehouse louver windows and by adding an array of lush greenery and those to-die-for butterfly style lounge chairs she's practically plucked my ideal space straight out of my dreams.

Read more about Emma's new space on Rue Mag

Photos: Eva Kolenko

COOL KIDS // THE FAMILY LOVE TREE

It's funny how trends come and go. Cane furniture and macrame reminds me of holidays at my nan & pop's house back in the late eighties/early nineties so I can't really imagine wanting to incorporate it into my own interiors style... until I saw this.

Melbournian Katie Graham has taken all the wild bohemian spirit of rattan furniture, handcrafted screens and macrame hangers and eclectically blended them with the contemporary edge of modern screen printed fabrics bursting in colour to give birth to The Family Love Tree.

And it's not hard to believe Katie credits her inspiration for The Family Love Tree to her tropical second honeymoon in Bali. I mean who doesn't come home from Bali bursting with inspiration (and a suitcase full of Bintang singlets and fisherman pants).

www.thefamilylovetree.com.au/