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07/11/2012

Summer feeling / 210

It’s beautiful weather one day & the next it’s too hot so one must hide indoors, with air conditioning close to hand. Spring is here & with it the weather that can’t decide on a more balanced temperature. It’s quite funny that people gets just as annoyed here over weather changes as one does back home in Sweden, even though the temperature there differ significantly, because we are talking about freezing temperatures. It’s early November & the snow has already arrived, as I understand & the tone on social media is getting a bit negative. Summer with sun, heat & cool breezes are beautiful everywhere. But I still have a hard time believing that there’s anything which can be comparable or can beat the Swedish summer. I guess I’m influenced a lot in that statement through experiences, happy memories & dear flashbacks.

Anyway, I’m the last one to complain. I woke early this morning, walked down the street to buy freshly baked bread & pick up a cappuccino – while waiting for a prescription at the chemist … outside in the sun. To feel the heat, be dazzled by the sun & experience the different scents that occur in the heat … it’s not bad at all, actually. Let’s celebrate the sun & the summer with some images that’s influenced, to some extent, by a Scandinavian touch.

Perfectly organised for hot summers / Bobedre.no

Well, open doors throughout the season, a dream / Desdemyventana

Everything you need to enjoy the beach/ Dustjacketattic

Natural sunscreen / Expressen.se

Berry-sorbet, refreshing in the heat / Jelanie via Pinterest

View of the lake, greenery & white summer furniture / Hus&hem

Colourful picnic styling / Juste-la-vie via Tumblr

Peaceful, harmonious & relaxing / Keroiam via Tumblr

I adore this image, no more, no less / Myinnerlandscape via Tumblr

Romantic for sure / Ruffledblog.com

Perfect escape /Ruffledblog.com

Navy inspired summer feeling / 79ideas

Very appealing with mixed bottles & fresh flowers / Annatruelsen

Inside & outside – perfect combination / Expressen.se

Worn charm with abraded paint & happy rubber boots, in waiting for rain / Desdemyventana

Take care / Marie

Tagged home decor, outdoor, season, seasons, summer, sun, sunny, weather

05/11/2012

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Food, Homes / Interiors

Small

Small houses in different design takes the form on fabrics, pillows and decorative light points to brighten the home.

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Tagged decorative, design, fabrics, home, home decor, houses

30/10/2012

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Food, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Just for fun / 207

My house has not yet turned into a home. It’s going to take a while. There’s stuff everywhere, furniture is still in the same place as where they were left by the movers. The boxes are countless. A great deal of them, in different rooms, are still unpacked. One can safely say that right now we do not have control over our lives. Instead of trying to get things done when we had a day off together, vi decided to stroll in the neighbourhood, grab a coffee & do NOTHING at all. I wouldn’t mind a nice long holiday with absolutely no activities at all. It felt like a good decision at that time. Unfortunately, everything looked the same when we got back. Well, well, what’s the hurry…we will get there sooner or later.

There’s no theme today more than that this collection are some cute, simple, quirky or just fun images.

Pipelines with new functionality / Moothie via Fancy

Illustration with reality / Normanncopenhagen

Fun sight to be greeted by daily / Biscuitmixer via Fancy

A good combination, cute & tasty / Design dautore

Hello there / Asdringo via Fancy

Don’t know if I would choose this at home but still cool / Hittahem

Storage for tea bags / Thefancy

Fun detail / Hu2design via Google

Eye candy / The Fancy

Skeletal design / RockettStGeorge

Completely charming / Travelfoodandwine

Everyone needs to wash now & then / The khool

White tangles / Google.com

Scary bracelet / Theheardirector

World map in a coffee cup / Designdautore

Take care / Marie

Tagged architecture, design, food styling, home decor, illustration, images, street art

16/08/2012

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Something in red / 183

Hej there friends,

I’m going with something red today, just like that, with no specific reason. Not that I’m a bearer of red, but on the other hand, things can change. I went for a stroll during lunch & happened to fall in love in a red thin knitted sweater in soft material. Last time it happened was about a year ago & that love is somewhere in a drawer now. It will surely be different this time 🙂

Everything in moderation is a very common phrase in Sweden. I think this phrase fits into red, because it’s a strong & energizing color … which can dominate depending on where & how it’s used. The taste is of course different, but I for one, prefers red accents, whether it comes to fashion or interior design. It’s very much as shown below, actually. Moreover, I appreciate red with basic colours as white or black. I’m fully aware of how boring & predictable I am, but I’m an ordinary woman, you know! I leave with a warm hand, the extraordinary & exciting to someone else.

Red is a color that must have the correct red tone to appeal to me. Not too yellow so it slopes towards orange, not too blue either, so it becomes pink purple etc. It can look too watery in the expression together with white – it’s nicer whit contrast. Fresher in some way – take a look, what do you think?

The icing on the cake, with the red wall mounted lamp in bright red / Annixen

Energising red fridge to brighten up the kitchen / Interiorphotos

Exciting red details that makes a difference to the whole expression in the room / Keltainen

Beautiful styling/ Annixen

Nice contrasts & a beautiful old sofa bed / Ustagiremez

Classy accessory suitable to every outfit / Classycolours via Tumblr

Scandinavian style is fresh, bright & simple / Thefancy

Nice styling where the feature wall makes the impact / Keltainen

Sorbet, anyone? / Technicolourmyworld via Pinterest

Small work space with energising red accents / Dengodafen

Great combination with the stairs & the painting / Skonahem

Cute & certainly excellent mini pastries / Pinterest

Staircase painted in red in the middle with white on the sides / Flickr.com

A fun way to recycle / Sanna&sania

A little red splash of colour / Lokal54

Take care / Marie

Tagged Color, colours, design, Fashion, home decor, Interior design, Red

02/08/2012

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Randomly brown / 179

Hej friends,

I had coffee in a beautiful little chocolate shop a while ago & the coffee part is located below the ground floor. The store it self is not so overly special but the serving area is very nice, cozy & inviting. They have obviously decided to work with the shop fittings in various shades of brown which in this case was the right choice. The lighting, colors, furniture & store expression was quite appealing & inviting. The environment was excellent together with the range … lovely pralines of all sorts, sizes, taste, shape…that is just waiting to be chosen! And when you add to the smell of coffee, then it’s easy to think that you are in heaven.

Brown is one of my favourite colours. I do prefer to combine it together with white, beige & black or just different brown shades. That is me, the predictable one. Well, it’s all about flavor & there are just as much tastes as there are people, of course, right?

Cookies in a vintage tin can / Neutralneverland