Sunday night

Another week’s gone by. This weekend we have painted Eowyn’s door (the back of the door I showed you before) with blackboard paint, so that she can paint on it. We’ve also painted the shelves we put up on the hallway (I’ll show you later) and the kitchen cabinet. Yesterday we visited Kretsloppsparken in search of a second hand door for our bathroom.

I’ve also been to dinner with two good friends. We discussed recycling (amongst other things). Turns out that Trolhättan, where one of my friends lives, has a really neat system in place. Everybody puts their organic waste in green waste bags and their other garbage (that can be burned) in red bags. Then you toss everything in the same bin and it gets sorted later on. Very easy! I wish we had that system here in Gothenburg. Right now we have no where to put our organic waste for composting.

And I’ve gotten the nice little fellow that I won over at Hello Tiger’s in the mail. Thank you! Eowyn was very excited about opening the package:

And Ester thought it (he/she?) was very tasty. :-)

Here are some nice pictures via Sofie Lawett to end the week:

(images Marcus Lawett via Sofie Lawett)

Eldblomma

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.)

To renovate or not to renovate?

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)

Dust everywhere and a lot of noise

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.

Snowstorm

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.

Another stool-makeover

We needed somewhere to sit and put on our shoes. Johan went ahead and made this from an old ikea stool and some wallpaper:

Here’s how he made it:

The end result:

Eowyn’s room

This is Eowyn together with our cat, Curry, in Eowyn’s room. She’s extremely happy about her new room in general and about her new bookcase, where she can also sit and play, in particular. We’re going to buy some more shelves for it the next time we visit Ikea.

String shelf in the kitchen

Originally we planned to have simple white wall hanged shelves in the kitchen, but today we decided to go in a different direction and put up one of our String shelves instead. It turned out very nicely, I think. Below the shelf is our own recycling station, consisting of two big white bins.

Now we’re only missing some artwork to hang above the table, a kitchen lamp (perhaps a Verner Panton Flower pot, in yellow - according to Solrum, they’ve been on sale in a local Gothenburg store. I have to stop by there tomorrow to see if there are any left.) and a cabinet besides the fridge. Tomorrow we’ll have some carpenters coming over to discuss the cabinet, since it has to be custom made (and we’re not that crafty).

Bright red + soft grey

As I mentioned the other day we went for the easy way out and bought us an Ikea Linnarp cabinet to fill the storage need in our hobby/dining room. Here’s how it turned out:

I love the red color against the soft grey walls and the pine wood floors. Bright red and soft grey really is a great combo.

Ester’s room

Yesterday we put up some shelves on the walls in our youngest daughter Ester’s room. Below is a list with hooks and a small shelf on top that we made for the hallway in our old apartment. It fits perfectly above the Ikea PS-cabinet:

We also put up this shelf, that was a Christmas present for her:

The books, except Pek-Elvis, are from my own and Johan’s childhoods.