Showing posts with label decoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decoration. Show all posts

Friday, September 02, 2011

Preserving summer




Spent the morning on my little balcony garden and planted a few more flowers, trying to preserve a bit of summer before it slips through our hands. Mada has been chewing on all my plants constantly, so I assumed it was time to get her her very own cat grass. Looks like she's rather fond of the idea!

I was in a bit of a spring cleaning/renovating mood and painted one of my bedroom walls blue. I had bought this paint ages ago, and when my friend spotted it (back then), she asked: "Oh? Baby blue? In a baby mood?", so I refrained from using it. She was quite right. I initially wanted it to be more matte and slightly smokey or slate, a bit colonial-style (if that makes any sense). I even bought some extra paint to tone it down a bit. 

But it's still blue. Baby blue. Very much so.


Saturday, July 30, 2011

Evoked desires and memories

the adorable house we stayed at in Sweden last year

I have rearranged my apartment and exchanged the rather big bedroom with the increasingly decreasing studio. Space, I need space. A lot of it. So far it feels good, even though the place is still a terrible mess.

While browsing for ideas for very simple yet smart curtains, I came along this Swedish blog and can't stop scrolling through all those posts. I am not sure what it's really about, but I can't get my head around why the Swedish have So Much Taste! I could curl up and get comfortable in every single picture here. Even the ones where houses are just in the midst of renovation (I adore renovation - turn old into new!).

A rather cluttered place like this still looks so clean and tastefully arranged.
And cleaning the house is probably a blessing if you have a cupboard like this holding all your cleaning supplies.

I am in awe. And secretly wish for a cozy wooden house up there, where I could stay during the winter, enjoying a cup of hot chocolate, red cheeked, after a good stroll through mounts of snow. I am also keeping up the illusion that every single household in Sweden must evidently look just this tasteful.

*picture by Marek Bruns
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