2010-07-31 @ 19:47:26

Saturday Sweets

Are you ready for your weekly dose of yummie eye-candy? Here it is, enjoy!

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2010-07-31 @ 01:32:46

Happy Weekend!

Have some fun this weekend, perhaps by making some of these DIY-projects from Dutch 101 Woonideeën!

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2010-07-26 @ 13:17:22

7 years to perfection

Remember this post about interior stylist Katarina Grundströmer, where I wrote that I was sure we were going to see more of her soon? Well, here she is again, this time in Sköna Hem, featuring her summerhouse! When she bought the 1940's house in 2002 ago it was a small red house with a loo in the garden. Now it's a fully renovated white house with an extra 30 sqm, filled with inherited or self-designed furniture pieces, and looking great!

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2010-07-24 @ 14:53:26

Saturday Sweets

Anyone fancy a little bag of hallways today? Here you go!
(Just move your cursor over the photo to see the source.)

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2010-07-22 @ 23:25:56

Cool bathrooms from RUM

I really like the "none-bathroomness" of the top bathroom here. The owners decided to skip the usual tile-covered walls, and also used some furniture and decorations that are decidedly not meant for bathrooms, like a chandelier, a Corbusier leather lounge chair, the desk lamp, a vintage chair and a cotton rug. This gave them a bathroom just as stylish as the rest of their home. I always feel it's such a drag to have to skip your usual style when decorating your bathroom, but this proves that you really don't have to! Just use whatever items you have in your other rooms, they can work equally good in a bathroom.

This bathroom below is really nice too, and I think these white tiles and woodfronted tub is quite achievable, even on a budget.

Via RUM

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2010-07-20 @ 09:17:35

Photographer Ditte Isager

Have you seen that Danish photographer Ditte Isager has a blog where she publishes a lot of her work? It's great, full of her beautiful photos! Some of the portrait shots really makes me want to see the full stories, the homes of celebrities like Cecilie Manz, Vincent van Duysen and Kasper Salto sure looks interesting...

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2010-07-17 @ 16:28:20

Back to normal

Just to show you that my brain hasn't been totally lost in rusty fleamarket finds and cute pastels, here is a post in my usual style! More graphic, black and white and with some design classics thrown into the mix. This is a summerhouse on Gotland, Sweden's largest island and a true summer paradise. Enjoy!

Via Sköna Hem, photo by Johan Carlsson

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2010-07-17 @ 16:04:41

Fleamarket happiness!

This summerhouse in southern France was supposed to be kept minimal, but the owners blame the French fleamarkets for not letting that happen...

Via Sköna Hem, photo by Hans Blomquist

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2010-07-15 @ 20:20:23

Blog tip: Trendey

While I'm being quiet, hop on over to this nice deco blog I found today! It's called Trendey, and is available in both English and Swedish. Behind it are two Swedish sisters who started blogging as a way to exchange ideas with eachother when they were both moving in to new homes.

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2010-07-13 @ 13:54:46

Studio Ina & Matt

We are in the middle of a heatwave here in Sweden with temperatures around 33° C (91°F), which is very unusual for us Northern peeps, so everyone including me are totally overwhelmed by the heat, just laying around on beaches trying to cool off with whatever we can find. So there are lots of icecream, cold foot baths, wet towels and iced drinks going around! Sitting inside a house with no airconditioning isn't too appealing really, and having a hot laptop in your knee for more than a couple if minutes is just out of the question! So therefore, a very quick post today:

This is a home and studio designed by Ina & Matt, a Dutch designer duo with everything from interiors to visual identities on their plate.

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2010-07-08 @ 13:42:36

Vacation!

Sorry for not telling you before I went, but I am on vacation. I got some concerned emails from readers thinking I had abandoned the blog completely, but noooo, you don't get rid of me that easy! I'll be back next week with some posts for you.

Meanwhile, have a look at this, this and this from the latest Elle Interiör.

Styling by Lo Bjurulf, photo by Stellan Herner for Elle Interiör

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2010-06-28 @ 11:25:59

Stylist Gitte Kjær

Danish interior stylist Gitte Kjær's work is often featured in one of my favorite interior design mags; RUM. The shots styled by Gitte always stands out in the magazine and I could easily let her decorate my whole house! Her work has that special mix of industrial, raw and modern with vintage and natural wood that I love so much.

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2010-06-18 @ 17:30:59

Home office, yes please!

Would someone please be so kind as to give me a home office like this? And take care of my children while I shut myself in there for a couple of months? For now, all I have is that wooden box standing on the table in this pic. And a laptop on the sofa table where I (try to) work, with all three kids around me. I'm sure I would answer all my emails in time and get my blog posts up much quicker if I had this room!

Photo via Sköna Hem

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2010-06-17 @ 13:38:31

Black and white in Jakobstad

I just saw the Hops-Shop newsletter in my inbox, and besides some shop news they sent pictures of this wonderful home in Jakobstad, Finland! See more on their blog.
I so want glossy white floors like that, but my boyfriend is "allergic" to anything painted white, so I'm not sure how we are going to solve that. On the other hand, who is the one with the good taste in our relationship? It's not him, that's for sure! So I think he'd better let me do the decorating decisions in our home, right?
That's it for now, I'm returning to my sunny garden for some afternoon fika with lemonade and banana bread!

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2010-06-15 @ 23:46:48

Summer schedule

Hi all! I know posting has been a bit slower than usual here lately, and that is not at all what I had planned. I guess I just never learn that with summer vacation comes the "benefit" of my computer time shrunk to about zero. For some reason my children just don't think that the ideal summer day is spent with me in front of my laptop... So posting will probably continue to be rather sporadic here in the next two months. I hope you will bare with me. Or take a hint from my kids, get some sunshine on your face!

In other news, I just saw that there is a super great Stockholm Guide up on Design*Sponge today! It's really extensive, a huge list of the best places to eat, shop and do fun stuff in the city, and the selection is made by Joanna Swanson, an American Art Director living here in Stockholm. If you haven't heard about Joanna before, you really should check out her blog. It's called Simple Blueprint, and is all about fashion, art, photography, interiors, food and lots of other nice stuff.

While browsing Joanna's blog I found a link to the blog Ill seen, Ill said, where some photos from Joanna's own home were featured. I borrowed a few...