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24/05/2013

Appealing walls

What if walls could speak – tell you their story. About colours they have been painted in, patched, scraped, plastered & painted over & over again. Or tell you about those who lived here before to give insight into what life was like, during an epoch. It would be exciting & interesting. But see, that’s not what this post is about today, unfortunately.

I like colour, it’s a big part of my life…professionally, that is. But I’m not the first to raise my hand regarding colorful walls. But still. I have the ability to enjoy a variety of things or events, no matter what I prefer. It’s all about being able to see beauty in most things, right?

If you were to ask me which of these rooms I would consider myself to live in, without changing the wall color – then, the closest in style, would be room number six with light blue wall. Maybe, possibly, even number three. (but I would most certainly go for the black & white one) How about you, which one do you prefer?

Bring down the sense of height of a room by leaving space between the paint & the roof / frenchbydesign

Or paint the space in an additional colour / apartmentteraphy.com

Shorten the distance with a sharp colour / styleessentials.com

Or create an exciting corner / miluccia.tumblr.com

Paint in a color that suits the child’s height / pinterest.com

Amplify a piece of furniture by matching the wall color / stadshem

Contrasts that create excitement / mialinnman.blogspot.com

Coordinate with a few pieces / housetohome

White higher up plus wall paint & tile in similar shade / estudiogutorequena

Graphical & classic with powerful impression / flickr.com

White at the bottom & with turquoise at the top – different / thenewyorktimes.com

Within the same colour scale but the window in a stronger shade / interiorsoriginal.blogspot

Nice & different / homesweethome via pinterest

Stylish contrast to all white, especially the addition on the inside of the door too / mackapar

Rough style that becomes more enhanced with the black together with the leather & concrete / ovgwebdesign

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Take care / Marie

Tagged choosing colours, colours, home improvement, home styling, Interior design, Interiors, paint, wall colours

17/05/2013

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Floral style

I spent a half day in a flower shop the other day. Not so much for the flowers, to be honest but the more for the owner & all her stories about different flowers. There’s all types of individuals, which I always find exciting & interesting to listen to as well as ponder about. People, in general is an interesting phenomenon – imagine all different individuals with different opinions & viewpoints. It turned out that this lady’s view of plants, resembled my way – only that it is people instead.

Every plant behaves different to another. SO when she talked about a certain flower, or plant, I actually saw a person in front of me. This was especially between rose varieties. From the simple & humble to the real divas & everything in between. You could say that we found each other through a common view despite different interests. Life can be that simple at times.

Colour combined with white / Kim Timmerman

Colour with white again but more pale / 79ideas

Flowers with stripes & squares / suziebeezie.tumblr.com

Old-fashioned rose pattern / llebeatelier.tumblr.com

Striking / pinterest.com

Cute / ideasandinspiration.tumblr.com

Stylish / google.com

Summer feeling / fancy.com

Romantic / theinfamous

I seem to have a fondness for white & floral / happydayout.tumblr.com

Modern cottage style / sanna&sania

Timeless / keltainen

Matching accessories / obaz.com

Detail that makes a difference / husligheter

Textile styling / 79ideas

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Take care / Marie

Tagged Floral, Flower, matching, romantic, Rose, rose pattern, rose varieties

05/05/2013

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Porcelain pattern

Chinese blue pattern is so common in the trade nowadays, whether it is textiles, porcelain, or other. When I grew up, it was usual with the blue pattern on porcelain to collect mainly, not antique, but the kind you got at each celebration, so that you had a complete set – when it was time to leave home. There were one collection that I remember was very popular although I didn’t really fall for that particular style. I have struggled ever since then actually. I can’t really decide whether I like this kind of pattern & colour. I do that sometimes & so suddenly it feels boring & predictable. Maybe it depends on the occasion & mood, what do I know. Well, I know that some of my friends is completely in love in both this colour & pattern. Either way, it is perhaps not so bad anyway, it’s rather neat when you look at the variations of the pattern & the different blue tones of the china – Swedish East India – as I prefer to call it. What do you think?

Nice patterns & shiny blue on the inside / anettewillemine

Glamorous style / agatha via fancy

French inspired / pinterest.com

Greek inspired / weheartit.com

Swedish style / analoguelife.com

Summer house style / housetohome

Party style / katelondon

Grandma style / waterproofvalentines

Talented painter / wordpress.com

Styling / rusanson.com

Bike style / thebonafidechainblinger

Coordinated / theshinesquirrel.tumblr.com

Modern skull / darksilenceinsuburbia.tumblr

Patterned blues / studiokarin

China blue / passages8391tumblr.com

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Take care / Marie

Tagged blue, Bone china, china, collections, Crafts, Crockery, porcelain, swedish east india

02/05/2013

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Black & white

Inspiration can be found everywhere & there are always details that catches the eye, even if only a colour or a tiny item that attracts. Some sees the whole solution where others might not see anything special at all. It’s hard to tell what makes some things immensely popular, where many suddenly seem to like or fall for the same things. While similar solutions are completely without charm & arouses no-must-have- feeling at all.

There’s not much to say really – black & white always works, although I’m aware of & respect those who want more colour in their everyday lives. I just think that it’s nice to have a base that always works & which is also easy to change, when you feel like it. With simple means.

A pleasurable environment / dusty.com

Classic piece / breitling.com

Frames with black white photos – so simple / vineetkaur

Posing / fabforgottennonility

Black & white base / lovelylife.com

Amazing tiles / newravenna.photoshelter.com

Beautiful image / solidfrog.com

Great storage / trendland.com

Stylish style / tumblr.com

Useful / suitupordie

Love(ly) design / momadesignstore

Suitable quote / hgreytale via tumblr

Neat candy / etsy.com

Dramatic architecture / fancy.com

Styling / livethemma

Take care / Marie

Tagged black and white, Fashion, home decor, office, picture frames, style, suit, underwear, watch

29/04/2013

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Light grey shades

We are just in the phase to renovate our shed in the garden. It’s around 15-17 square meter & has been used for various storage needs. It’s a perfect little house to furnish as a guest house. And so it will be used too – with relatives that will arrive within four weeks & stay for four weeks. It’s just outside the veranda, in the corner of the garden with all the lovely trees & bushes around. It’s been made in country style which fits well with the rest of the house. We will retain the outside in same style so most of the work will be to get the interior nice, comfortable & functional. All walls white, I guess we will choose white floor also. White tiles for the shower area & for the sink too.

It will not be much color except textiles, rugs & accessories. The usual, so to speak. Colour is always nice in many ways but ” colourless” works well too. To visualize that, I chose to do a post with images in grey – shades of light grey.

Stylish & simple / mtrlst.com