I met
Jimmy Schönning last spring on a trip to Portugal, and found him to be a very fun, inspiring person to hang out with. He has such a positive and sparkly personality, always pointing out the beauty of the surroundings, you just can't be down when he is around! For the last months he's had a project with Swedish department store
Åhléns, styling up themes to go with the seasons. Now he has done a wonderful Spring theme called
Växtkraft (=growing power), full of plants, green details, fresh flower prints and natural materials such as wood, metal and leather. Do you like it? Does it give you ideas for what to fill your home with now that the holiday decor is gone?







Photos by Per-Magnus Persson
Today I want to give you the link to interior stylist
Stella Nicolaisen's portfolio and a peek at the photos I like best. I love the white painted carafe in the third picture, so much cooler than a plain glass one!






Ps. Remember this post, where I saw a vintage highchair I loved, and thought I'd have to search forever for one? Well, now I have one, just like the one in the pic! Someone was giving one away, for FREE on Blocket, the Swedish equivalent to Craig's list! Can you belive the luck?! Lo is still too small to sit in it, but in a month or so I hope she will be just as happy about it as I am.
I just have to write another post on Sibella Court, because I found her own website (the other pics were from her agent's site) called
The Society Inc and it is awesome! Awesome I tell you! It is probably the most inspiring site I have seen this year, and trust me, I've seen a lot of websites... Besides the beautiful design, there is so much material on there, divided into sections of different themes (=styles), with colour charts, styling tips, suggestions for materials you can use to achieve the styles you see, downloadable pdf's etc etc. Add to that hundreds of wonderful photos, inspiring texts and you have a small clue, but you really have to check it out for yourself!

It seems Sibella isn't just an amazing interior stylist, she also does mural painting, wedding design, product development and graphic design. I'm overwhelmed. What a talented and energetic woman she must be!
Sibella also has a brand new book out called Etcetera:
Creating Beautiful Interiors with the Things You Love, available directly from her or from
Amazon. As if that wasn't enough, my Australian readers can actually visit Sibella's own
shop in Paddington! Apparently she changes the whole interior of the store 4 times a year, using the different themes you can see on her site, so I'm guessing (and hoping) there will be more themes on there eventually.


The pictures I chose here are all from the two themes
Foundations and
Paper Whites. There are seven more themes on the site, and I'm sure you will all find your very own favourite.




I found some beautiful X-mas styling by Australian interior stylist Sibella Court, and wanted to share...





Stylist and art director Emma Thomas has a big online portfolio with a long row of really stunning shots! She has worked for all the giants like Elle Decoration UK, Harrods, Living Etc, Habitat and Marie Claire and we can all see why...







And then there is this picture, in which the furniture and interiors aren't really my style at all, but I love the balloons coming in through the door like they want to join the party!

Dutch stylingduo FriedaMaria has some very inspirational pictures on their site!








Norwegian interior stylist
Susanne Swegen made this beautiful and serene series of white in white pictures, shot by photograph
Trine Thorsen. I love the paintings with their backs turned in the fourth picture!
Sorry, no eye candy this weekend. Instead I'd like to give you some pictures from stylist
Sofie Andersson's portfolio that I hadn't seen before. Enjoy!
I saw this amazing apartment, decorated by French interior design firm
Hand, on one of my favourite blogs,
The Style Files, and just had to share it with you.
I just wanted to show you these two pics from stylist
Pernilla Åsberg's portfolio.
One of the other bloggers that joined me on the trip to Lissabon was
Jimmy Schönning. Jimmy is probably one of the most famous stylists in Sweden, mostly due to the popular tv show Äntligen Hemma where he has participated in makeovers of people's homes for several years now. He also works for all the big Swedish decorating mags, like Allt i Hemmet, Sköna Hem and Elle Interiör.
It was so nice meeting Jimmy, he is such a bubbly and inspiring person! And when meeting him I got to find out that he also has two blogs, which I somehow totally missed before. You can find the Swedish blog
here and the English blog
here.
Since Jimmy is a professional decorator, his home is of course super stylish, so I got Jimmy's permission to invite you all into his apartment in Stockholm. Enjoy!
Photographer Per Magnus Persson