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How to get your white home to stay visually interesting
And there were pictures, amazing pictures! I'm showing some of them here but there are more over here.
Cool offices from RUM
I won!
Guts, a new Swedish stylist
Saturday Sweets
Happy Weekend!
I'm taking the afternoon to clean the house before the weekend, so I thought I should give you something to read. I found this nice magazine called Toc Toc Toc, and you can see some of the pages online here. I really like this feature of a sewing studio, very inspiring!
Now I'm off to vacuum the floors, and after that I'll try to pull down the masking tape from the walls in Lo's room. We just finished painting it, and now it's time for the fun part, decorating! I'll show it to you when it's done.
Have a great weekend!
Drawing the winner of a night at Scandic!
Today it's time to draw the winner of the free night at any Scandic hotel in Sweden. And the winner is... *drumroll* Emelie! She wrote that she is pregnant and has been feeling sick up until now, half way through her pregnancy. Her boyfriend has been taking care of her and everything else, and now that she's feeling better Emelie would like to thank him for that. So I decided to help her. Congratulations to you Emelie!
To all of you who didn't win, join Scandic's Facebook page to take part of their offers and competitions there, they are often giving away nights or presenting great discounts.
Completely Incomplete in Elle Interiör
Styling: Lo Bjurulf Photo: Stellan Herner
Drawing the winners of Mr Mustache!
Saturday Sweets
I have some sweet bedrooms for you today, enjoy!
Photo: Alexander Crispin Styling: Stella Nicolaisen
Scandic Staycation Giveaway
As promised, here is the giveaway of a night for two at a Scandic Hotel of your choice! This is only available in Sweden, so sorry to all my international readers, if you want to join in you will have to come to Sweden to claim your prize. All you have to do to have a chance to win is comment here and tell me why you and your friend/partner/whatever need a hotel night. I will draw the winner on Friday next week.
While you are thinking about what to write, find a little inspiration over at Scandics Staycation campaign site where you can create your own romantic film, with you and your loved one starring in the main roles!
Get your copy of Mr Mustache here! [giveaway]
I'd like to wish you all a happy weekend by giving away three copies of Studio Violets new book; Mr Mustache (in English)!
"The life of Mr Mustache is a book about the Studio Violet character Mr Mustache who worries for nothing and can't sleep. What is bothering him? When he finds out, things start to feel better. Written in rhyme."
Just comment on this post, and don't forget to write your email (it won't be published) so I can contact you if you win. I will draw the winners here on Monday (Oct 18)!
Staycation with Scandic [sponsored post]
This week my boyfriend and I spent the night between monday and tuesday at Hotel Malmen in Stockholm. You see, I was offered a free night at any Scandic Hotel in Sweden, in return for writing about them and hosting a give away, and it sounded too tempting to resist!
We chose Malmen partly for the design and partly for the location. It's the best designed Scandic hotel that I know of, and of course that means a lot to me when deciding where to stay! And the location is perfect, on Medborgarplatsen right in the center of Södermalm in Stockholm, with all my favourite shops, restaurants, cafés and bars very close by.
Our room looked exactly like the one in the top photo here, with a nice black/grey/white colour scheme going on and a cool wallpapered feature wall. It's hard to see in the first photo, but you get a glimpse of it in the second pic. The third photo is from the restaurant.
The give away I was talking about is coming in a post later this week, but if you want to be sure you get to have your own staycation, you can book a room here, in any Scandic Hotel in Sweden, from just 295 skr/person and night! This low price is only available until November 30.
The home and studio of Paula Leen
I found an email in my inbox last week from a reader named Paula Leen. She wrote that she had seen her own kitchen on my blog and sent me the picture. When I posted it I had no idea it was from a real kitchen, I thought it was a studio shot. But nope, this is Paula's kitchen, with cabinets built from the sink and flooring from her old kitchen. Great idea, isn't it?
I begged her to send me more pictures of her home, and yes, they were just as amazing as I thought they would be! Look for yourselves. The play with light and dark surfaces, the mix of natural materials and the sparsely furnished rooms adds up to make one of the most beautiful houses I have seen.
The photos below are from her studio, where she makes wool felt objects for her brand Poetryworld. On the wall are bags full of wool for future projects, and the old iron bed is covered with Paula's own designs.
Photography by Hotze Eisma
Styling by Rianne Landstra
Saturday Sweets
My shoot with Lotta Agaton
First we ran around Stockholm for two days collecting lots of props, everything from books and flowers to gardening tools and slippers. We had to be really careful with what we chose as none of it could look remotely close to anything that could be sold at IKEA. Here are a few snapshots to give you an idea of what things looked liked behind the scenes:
Then on the third day we went to the studio and met up with the photographer Patric Johansson and his assistant, three people from Ikea, Anna who is Lotta's agent from Agent Bauer, Lina who is Lotta's regular assistant and Catrin who is Lotta's old assistant. We started assembling beds, cabinets, drawers and chairs, powertools were buzzing all over the place together with some random cursings. Well, you know what it's like to assemble IKEA furniture, don't you? Once you think you are finished you realize you put that first thing upside down and have to start over from the beginning again! Let me tell you, I was really happy we were three assistants right there, as there was A LOT of screwing to be done!
Around lunchtime the first setting was finished, and Patric could start shooting. However, we had to remove lots of stuff from the picture as IKEA needed space to write. So the final picture came out quite empty. The top picture is what we saw, you can see how bare it looks with all that empty white space. But as long as the customer is happy, it's all good! The bottom pic is the finished result, cropped and with lots of text everywhere, not looking so empty anymore.
I had lots of fun doing this, met a bunch of nice people, and hopefully I can work with Lotta soon again!
Fair report: Hem 2010
The two pictures above are from the exhibition by the Swedish Fashion Council's CEO Lotta Ahlvar. She also gave a very inspiring talk, mostly about the natural trend, illustrated by funny youtube clips of sheep herding!
Trend expo by Elle Interiör's stylist Agneta Törnqvist
Kitchen Life by Synnöve Mork
Introducing The Home Company!
DSW Chairs by Eames/Vitra, currently in a "buy 6 pay for 5" campaign.
DLM XL side table by Hay
Shuffle table by & Tradition
And a picture of the physical store, looks great doesn't it?
If you like what you see in the store, but you can't quite decide or figure out how to use the things in your own home, The Home Company also offers decorating services. Here are two examples of homes they worked on:
Book your holiday ads now!
Light and airy 234 sqm for sale
I found this amazing Stockholm apartment for sale by real estate agent Eklund Stockholm New York. They specialize in selling exclusive homes in both Stockholm and New York, and you can waste quite a lot of time on their site browsing all of them.
This home has seven rooms spread over two floors and 234 sqm, located in Vasastan, the northern part of central Stockholm, very close to where I grew up. Our apartment wasn't as huge as this though...
Photographer Mikkel Adsbøl
All of the pictures below are from a campaign for Tine K Home.
Saturday Sweets
First a bit messy, and then very organised. Hopefully that is the order of things at your place too today?
Introducing Shak-Shuka
Behind the funny name (meaning to shake or mix up) is a webshop full of sustainable products for children. The name comes from the Hebrew word leshakshek, and Shak-Shuka is also the name of a mixed-up dish served in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Here it is used as a symbol of how the world is evolving in to a great big mix of different nationalities and cultures. Actually, this company is a little melting pot in itself, with a heritage from Spain, Argentina and America, but based in the Netherlands. You can read more about the little family behind the company in their blog here!
Shak-Shuka isn't only green, but stylish too! I found lots of great products while browsing their shop, both clothing, toys and decorating details. I think that shopping green is even more important than usual when the products are meant for children, as eco friendly also means human friendly with no toxic chemicals in toys and clothing. Kids and babies are so much more sensitive than us, and they also have the habit of putting everything within reach in their mouths, so to me it feels totally right to buy only eco friendly things for my kids.
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Sarah Illenberger on Freunde von Freunden
- How to get your white home to stay visually interesting
- Cool offices from RUM
- I won!
- Guts, a new Swedish stylist
- Saturday Sweets
- Happy Weekend!
- Drawing the winner of a night at Scandic!
- Completely Incomplete in Elle Interiör
- Drawing the winners of Mr Mustache!
- Saturday Sweets
- Scandic Staycation Giveaway
- Get your copy of Mr Mustache here! [giveaway]
- Staycation with Scandic [sponsored post]
- The home and studio of Paula Leen
- Saturday Sweets
- My shoot with Lotta Agaton
- Fair report: Hem 2010
- Introducing The Home Company!
- Book your holiday ads now!
- Light and airy 234 sqm for sale
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