anordinarywoman

04/08/2013

Shopping

Shopping now & then is rather nice., especially if you’re on the hunt for something you need. Otherwise, I find it enjoyable to just to wander around, look, compare & take in things around me. Also, its fun with all the visual exposures of various trademarks & solutions. The way the creativity has been used to inspire us customers.

Sometimes, I have to admit, I don’t always get the idea behind. But if it’s aesthetically pleasing, it works anyway. You don’t sell more just because there are lots of products on the shop floor. It can sometimes be overwhelming. Carefully selected & coordinated range – it has to start there. A desire to inspire!

Colourful design & details / athome

Inspiring visual merchandising / theverden

Swedish design / 10gruppen

Same colour scheme / pinterest.com

Girlie style / google.com

Tie factory / countryliving

Rather new Swedish store / haberdash

For the kitchen / herdofblack.tumblr.com

A day of shopping / google.com

For the connoisseur / melroseandmorgan.com

Coordinated range / butikenhoganas

Window shopping / nestprettythings

From the yearly exhibition fair / stockholmfurniturefair

Inspiring Scandinavian shop in Sydney / nordicfushion.com.au

Mix of things / thedesignfiles.net

Take care / Marie

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Tagged Display window, Fashion, home decoration, Interior design, retail, Shopping, shops, swedish design, Visual merchandising, window shopping

03/08/2013

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Homes / Interiors Gallery

Eclectic

A colourful interior in an exciting eclectic mix.

/ vtwonen.nl

Take care / Marie

Tagged bench, ceiling light, cottage, design, eclectic, eclectic style, homely, Interior design, rustic, table

02/08/2013

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Homes / Interiors Gallery

Daily inspiration, antiques

Sweet things for the eye in our everyday, isn’t that wonderful, really – for the well being, at least. I think it makes us humans more friendly & more compassionate when we have nice & beautiful things around us. It might sound silly but it’s about the beauty in things & in people. Not perfection but valuable things that has certain memories connected to them. Or people that has certain behaviours, smiles, insight or other, that makes them irreplaceable. It is about the feeling things or individuals create within us. One cannot go on collecting people, but you can surround yourself with them as well as other things you happen to like too.

/ casasugar.com

Take care / Marie

Tagged accents, antiques, Auction, collections, collectors, Fine art, home decor, silver, silverware

30/07/2013

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Homes / Interiors Gallery

Flooring

We’ve usually had wood floors in our homes over the years. Always in light wood too. The last house we lived in, we painted the floors white. Gloss lacquered white floors throughout the upper level. Really nice but oh so hard to keep clean, especially with a black labrador. Black lacquered floors are also extremely appealing. But I must say that I probably prefer hardwood flooring if there is to be painted surfaces. It’s important that the wood slats are visible through, to avoid a flat & bland expression. Painted & lacquered concrete is not to bad either for that matter. The limit for me, is probably black or white. Although I think it is neat with green, yellow or red floor, I find it hard to see that I could cope with the colors in the long run. Here are some variations of flooring solutions – with not overly strong colour choices.

bhg.com Black floor to country style kitchen / bhg.com

Industrial contemporary beauty / thepoetryofmaterialthings.tumblr.com

Green all year around / elleinterior.se

Wallpaper styling to a dark floor / countrystyle.com

Black & white can never go wrong / tumblr.com

Green & white / google.com

Blue & white / simplylovelystuff

Nice colour choice to the white kitchen / featherstonemoonanddiverybone.tumblr.com

Black is unusual in kids room, nice / feelinspired

Black coated floor / pinterest.com

Bright & energising / casaabril.com.br

Dark walls to the dark floor / archilovers.com

White & fresh / amerrymishap

Bright yellow / apartmenttherapy.com

Cool contrast to the white kitchen / stadshem

Take care / Marie

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Tagged floor, flooring, flooring solutions, hardwood flooring, home improvement, interior, lacquered flooring, painted floors, wood flooring

29/07/2013

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Homes / Interiors, Outdoor Gallery

Daily inspiration, lighthouse

It would be exciting to know what the story is behind this lighthouse. The aging, wear, wind & weather only makes the house more beautiful, more charming, more interesting. Just as with people who have lived, worked & loved, those who lived their lives to the fullest or who just wanted to have a simple & uncomplicated lifestyle. It’s amazing when you can see traces of life in the buildings as well as in humans. It is for me, what life is all about. Long live the natural aging process, in everything.

/ lighthousefriends.com