Here is our new re-made door. Unfortunately the second hand wallpaper we had wasn’t enough to cover it, so instead I went out and bought a roll of Eldblomma by Josef Frank. (I have some other ideas on how to use that retro wallpaper, so it will hopefully come to use soon anyway.)
We’re thinking of maybe renovating one of our bathrooms (our only bathroom really, since we just turned the other one into a small laundry room). On one hand I feel it’s not really necessary to renovate, because even though the room is quite boring and ugly (plastic carpet and walls in beige), it would probably hold together for 10 or 20 more years and I don’t like being a part of the whole renovation/redecoration-hysteria that I think is going on (but of course I’m already a part of that).
On the other hand, the bathroom hasn’t been renovated for 20 years or so, and since we’re planning on living here for quite some time, it would be nice to renovate sooner rather than later. It’s not like we’re tearing out a completely new bathroom just because we didn’t like the design… And, once we started thinking about it we came up with several ideas on how to make the space more practical for us. Not to mention more beautiful (who am I kidding? practical, pft!).
I’ve always liked checkered floors, perhaps in combination with white and green on the walls.
Since the room is quite long and narrow, I would also like to have a big mirror covering one of the walls, to make it look a little bit bigger. I really like the wooden frame on the mirror below. And the light bulbs above it.
(images via Byggfabriken, Hus & hem)
Family living is my favorite Swedish interior design magazine at the moment, but Hus & hem isn’t far behind, and they have a much more updated web site. Check out this beautiful house for example! I love just about everything about it, but most of all the yellow door.
(images Mikkel Adsbøl via Hus & hem)
Today I got two new interior design books in the mail (thanks to I love Peggy for the book tip). Flea market style and Cheap chic by Emily Chalmers:
And the amazing “Vem ska trösta knyttet”, by Tove Jansson. For the beautiful pictures.
We also got I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay about the financial crisis, which should be interesting reading.
(images via adlibris)
At the moment I’m starting to get a bit tired of this winther and all snow we’ve been getting (but I do prefer snow to rain though). As I mentioned before, I sometimes like to dream of a summer house. Even though I don’t know if I actually want one, with all the work that probably is required. But we’ll see what happens when we get settled in the apartment. The good thing about a summer house is that it doesn’t have to be in perfect condition, right?
It probably takes some effort to go from your average-haven’t-been-redecorated-since-the-70ies-summer-house to this though (according to the article about a year and about 500 000 Swedish crowns).
(images Tia Borgsmidt via Hus & Hem)
We’ve had a little bit of help from two carpenters this week. This meant a lot of noise and dust everywhere.
On the plus side we’re not that far from being finished with all of our planned projects for the apartment (apart from the bathroom, but that’s another story). Among other things they’ve built a shelf where the door between Ester’s room and our livingroom was before. We’re very pleased with the result.
On Monday they’re coming back to finish off some other projects. Then we’re gonna do some big time cleaning of the entire place.
Every now and then I start to dream of a summer house. It doesn’t have to be big or fancy but it should be near a lake where we can go swiming. And not too far away from town either so that we can use it on the weekends too. Unfortunately those last two criteria combined sums up to quite alot of money - that we don’t have… But If I do get one some day I would decorate it just like this!
(images Tia Borgsmidt via Hus & Hem)
Checking the apartment adds looking for bathroom inspiration. Didn’t find any bathroom to my liking but this apartment was very nice, despite the usual for-sale-styling (I find the styling of apartments that are for sale quite boring). I should have added some bright colors to mix up all that white though! :)
(images Alvhem)
The last 24 hours we’ve gotten a lot of snow here in the south of Sweden. It’s been a little bit of chaos, actually. So instead of going to an indoor swimming pool today (we didn’t feel like going anywhere in the car. probably wouldn’t have gotten the car out of the parking space anyway) we’ve been decorating our walls.
A couple of days ago we got three of Madame Mo’s beautiful posters in the mail from Havtorn design! Eowyn got to decide where we should put them. Two was placed in the hallway and the third in Eo’s room.
