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31/05/2012

Minty scent / 159

Hej friends,

I’ve been browsing the web for fun while waiting for my darling to meet up. Thought it looked like mint is in favour, at least on a lot of websites & blogs. At the beginning of my professional life, I lived in a small town for a year where I rented a small apartment which I furnished in white, pine & mint green. I would never think of that colour as a choice today, for sure. But like most things, it’s always nice to relive stuff & things at a distance. Been there, done that…feels good sometimes. Especially when one wouldn’t like to do it again. It’s one of the advantages of getting older:)

Mint can be a bit too cute sometimes, for my taste. It needs to be mixed up with one or two other colours & materials to become more appealing. Concrete or stripes gives an interesting look. There’s so many possibilities for whatever style or look. In addition, there are infinite shades of mint. The sky is the limit, as always.

Stylish collarless jacket / Prettystuff

Styling with some mint objects / Sockertoyforogat

Kitchen cabinet doors in this pretty mint colour / Beatricehernandez via Pinterest

Black-grey wall is a nice contrast to mint / Monicafury via Pinterest

White with mint details / Mokkasin

Cute wall houses to use for small items / Micasaesuscasa

Cool floor lamp / Lamaisond’annag

Bathroom for lovers of mint green /dkshopgilr

Looks almost like an installation / Designtraveller

A mixed sweet style / Mokkasin

Backsplash that ends with the fridge / Skeppsholmen

Candle light, always beautiful / Pappa-bear

Different green tones / Lamaisond’annag

Haute couture in mint / Monsieurwintour

Take care / Marie

Tagged colour, colours, green, home decor, Interior design, Interiors, mint, mint green

29/05/2012

Creme / 158

Hej dear friends,

Creme, or if you prefer, beige is as colour that I do return to periodically. I know some find this colour boring & predictable. That’s ok really, it’s the beauty of life with different views, opinions, taste etc. To be open & curious is a way to broaden the horizons & learn a thing or two. Which in many cases is easier said than done since many of us are creatures of habit. This applies to most things in this wonderful but sometimes complicated world.

I think that beige is an excellent color that blends in nicely in almost everything or everywhere. It’s a pleasant colour & combined with white, so very fresh & appealing, whether it’s clothing, architecture, home furnishing or…you name it. Let’s have a look together…

Paris an early morning / Aprilfools

A bathroom as close to a dream as you can get / Inspiringinteriors

Wild & beautiful / Lum-inescent

A beauty on my wrist / Andwhiteflowers

Beautiful everyday objects / Maisonblanches

So neat & serene / Livethemma

A still-life with ceramics, works everywhere / Emballes

Wonderful coat as well as umbrella / Twentythreefour

Simple & appealing / Desiretoinspire

Favourite shoes in our family / Youbroketheinternet

Neat, nice & beautiful still-life / Thelittlecorner

Atmospheric set, of loved things / Pinterest.com

One of Prada’s best looking clutches / Rocknrolldoll

Subdued & pleasant tones / Sallyconran via Pinterest

White painted wooden walls & flooring combined with soft creme tones / Designedforlife

Take care / Marie

Tagged Beige, Color, colours, creme, Fashion, home decor, Interiors

17/05/2012

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Design, Homes / Interiors

Clothes rack

Clothes racks on wheels, attached to the wall, leaning against the wall – perfect for all areas of the home.

/ 79ideas

/ pinterest.com

/ Emmas designblog

/ fancy.com

/ clubmonaco via tumblr.com

/ Kakfor

/ Kakform

Take care / Marie

Tagged clothes hangers, clothes rack, clothes rail, coat hanger, home decor, wardrobe

15/05/2012

Sweet to a point / 153

Hej dear friends,

I had in mind to blog about autumn after my nice breakfast in the sun with all the beautiful colours around me…it almost looks like the trees are burning…with the diversity of brown-red, yellow & the burned tones, especially when rays of the sun gleams through. But when I finished it became more rosy than I had imagined, for some reason. Never mind, it works anyway. It might sound odd to you but I’m not particularly fond of flowers or plants for that matter. I appreciate the beauty but have no interest in engaging in it. At most, it’s enough to arrange fresh flowers in a vase. We don’t even have pot plants at home, believe it or not. However, the garden is flowing over by plants, seedlings, shrubs & trees, thanks to our landlord which we rent the house of. There’s even a small vegetable garden. Nice indeed:)

Flowers are not the biggest part of my field of interest, as I said, but enjoyable when it’s picked together in an appealing manner, whether it be in interiors or as bouquets, by all means. I made a bargain, a while back on the flea market, a floral one. A padded quilt that was striped on one side & with small-patterned roses on the other side. Really nice! But when it’s in use, it’s the striped side that’s visible… with the roses on the back which can only be sensed.

A painting or for real – can you tell? / Purebeachboho

Nice combo with flowers & stripes / Inspiringhome

Almost three-dimensional feeling with roses that are stitched to the fabric / Moltex

Always dramatic with a black surface / Coolchicstyle

Rather common but still sweet / Cafenohut

Stylish with a bit bigger size on the flowers / Desiretoinspire

Collection with mixed patterns / IKEA

Cupcake design / Pinterest

Typical cottage style – perfect for a break on the porch / Cafenohut

Reminiscent of the 50s & the 60’s / 79ideas

Create an impact with wallpaper inside the cabinet / Cafenohut

Various designs, sizes & colors of the roses – striking / Desiretoinspire

Knitted underwear would perhaps be an idea / Tornaud via Pinterest

Can never get enough of these quilts / Olsson&jenssen

Nice styling / Nestprettything

Take care / Marie

Tagged Floral, Florists, Flower, flowers, home decor, Interior design, prints, roses, textiles

10/05/2012

Grass green / 152

Hej dear friends,

The most recent entries have been pretty colorless, so I’m going with a green theme today. Especially when the summer is around the corner back home in Sweden. It suits as well over here in Australia despite the autumn, the weather is just so nice, most of the time. So this morning we headed out to a nice restaurant where we met up with a group of friends for early breakfast, – as always, a pleasure to spend time with people I love. It struck me that we now have lived in Sydney nearly five years & that we’ve known those particular friends as long. A rather cool feeling considering that they have been with us from the start, in our new homeland.Very nice feeling, actually. What would life be without friends, huh? One of life’s greatest pleasures, for sure.

Back to the theme, green is not a primary colour, it’s created of a mixture of blue & yellow. It’s considered as one of the additions to primary colours. The complement of green is magenta, at least according to RGB colour wheel. That’s a purple colour corresponding to an equal mix of red & blue light. On the other hand, based on traditional colour theory, the complementary colour to green is considered to be red. The word green is closely related to the old english verb growan which means to grow. It’s used to describe plants or the ocean. It can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous or sick.

In USA, green is a slang word for money, among other things. Several everyday expressions have been developed from these meanings, such as “green around the gills”, a phrase used to describe a person who looks ill. In some cultures, this colour symbolizes hope & growth, while in others, it’s associated with death, sickness, envy & even the devil. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility & rebirth for its connections to nature. Recent political groups in Europe & the West have taken on the color as a symbol of environmental protection & social justice…& consider themselves part of the Green movement. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green or environmentally friendly products. (look up the word green in Wikipidea, where you can read more about colours).

Fashion from 1952, nearly 60 years ago / Glamourmagazine