A night out and I still find something house related

As I mentioned, we had my 'little' brother Richard to stay for the weekend. It seemed cruel to put him to work on the house for the entire time, so one evening we headed into Cambridge for dinner and some drinks. Mat and I don't know the restaurants in Cambridge as well as we should. My excuse is "I'm not from around here" even if I have been living in the area for 4 years now, I'm not sure what Mat's excuse is. However, anyone who lives near Cambridge will I'm sure agree that getting in and out is a nightmare! The roads are just stupid. Roll on the new house being finished and us getting to make use of the guided bus route.

So we went to this place we have found, Bills (bills-website.co.uk) its a really nice, chilled, friendly place, our kind of place. I'd never noticed until we went in that night, although it is probably one of the reasons I like it so much, that the décor is very similar to what I had in mind for our little Victorian place. Basically, its an old building, but with a very industrial feel. Lots of old angle poise lamps and metal shelves that my Dad used to have in his workshop, that kind of thing. I think a mix of classic old and industrial can look absolutely brilliant. We're going to have to be very strict with ours - possibly more strict with myself - the types of design we love are endless, so there's a chance for things to become very eclectic and interesting, but also, especially in the new, smaller house, a risk of becoming very cluttered. So classic Victorian and stripped back Industrial is the plan.

I thought it was a good opportunity to get some snaps of things I particularly liked that would be helpful for later ideas.

Sorry about the focus, but I still thought this chair was great. After spending 5 minutes trying to get my camera on my phone to focus, I noticed the girl sitting next to the chair giving me some very unimpressed looks. I stopped taking photos then.

I love these stairs, I know its extreme but I think this look would be amazing in our house.

Obviously a somewhat smaller version.....these ones would fill most of the downstairs in our house!.