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31/01/2013

Open sesame

Storage – with simplicity, stylish & functional solutions, it’s no easy task to achieve. It’s not always that cheap either. Using cabinets with doors combined with open storage is a good solution. Closed storage for things that you don’t want to be seen & highlight your everyday objects – in good order. They should be easy to reach & easy to use. Whether it’s for the kitchen or for other rooms. It should be easy for you to live your everyday life.

An alternative is to maximize with shelves either on consoles or screwed directly into the wall. It’s super stylish & super easy. Keep it together in one place & not all over the place. Letting things lie visible creates a homely feel depending on how you make it or how well you do it. Or else, the impression might be messy instead of interesting or inspiring. The amount of variations & solutions is endless … use your creativity & adapt after your needs. I am right now cleaning up & storing things way but also storing things visible. Getting there – slowly 🙂

Cabinets with doors at the bottom & open storage at the top / fantasticfrank

Industrial look with everything visible / sanna&sania

Crafts cabinet for the creative. By the way, if you haven’t looked into the blog mokkasin, so do it. You will not be disappointed / mokkasin

Divided areas on two levels makes it more limited & surfaces easier to use / atelierueverte

One way is to keep material together / sanctuary

Closed cabinet with things stacked in a row on top / google.com

Stacked on one side & simpler on the other but still balanced / pinterest.com

Neatly in rows in simple cabinets with shelves / annagillar

Super neat with white shelves, white tiles& white porcelain / trendhome

Charming style & makes everything visible more homey / boligpluss

Graphic styling with selected materials / lamaisond’annag

Simple & eye catching / micasaessucasa

Adjust & customize to your corner / livethemma

Use the space along the height to get a good overview as well as more space on the floor / make-living

Here, an adult version / lamaisond’annag

Take care / Marie

Tagged craft, creativity, home decor, Shelves, simplicity, smart solutions, storage, storage designs, storage solutions

28/01/2013

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Design, Food, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Pink shades

Occasionally, I get a craving for a certain colour – an influence from somewhere … AND I find my self searching or looking for that colour AND of course, I see it almost everywhere. That comes without saying. … as a letter in the mail ( swedish expression ). A soft, pleasant pink color that’s not too harsh or sharp in tone. That goes well with grey, white or brown, black. Just the right colour without getting too pastel pink, if you get what I mean. Simply soft for the eye, soothing, warming, inviting, promising & up to date.

I pulled together some images with one thing in common – this colour. Or should I say those colours, maybe … they differ slightly in shades. Just when I start to get used to the colour, I bet that something else comes in the way. Whether this is another colour or … only time will tell 🙂

Grey & light pink – refreshing combination / bestbuy

Soft colours with wood / petrabindel

Almost edible / skandinaviandeko

Appealing impression with simple means / helenaaro

Modern Scandinavian living / bobedre.dk

Colourful choices / desdemyventana

Nice framed photo gallery / atelieruverte

Warming colour / fancy

Homemade peppermint marshmallows / celiacteen.com

Cool / marymadethis

Robust but still soft / laredoute.fr

Romantic / prettyinpearls

Professional styling / lineklein

Simplicity / hannasroom

Nice mix of items / 79ideas

Take care / Marie

Tagged colour, colours, decor, furnishings, furniture, home decor, homes, Pink, pink shades, styling

25/01/2013

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Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Green feelings

Our small garden is blooming despite the heatwave. It’s green everywhere. It’s no bigger than that I can see the whole garden in one go. It’s very lush with trees & bushes that goes in various green shades – powerful green, or perhaps saturated shades of green. There’s thousands of different green nuances, however a green garden is easy to imagine, anyway. Regardless of the imagination, one becomes very inspired by plants, greenery & incredible lushness. All at once! It’s strange that something can grow in this heat but 96% humidity explains everything.

We have started to take walks in the evenings to shake off a long day at work but also to get to know our neighbourhood. Now, to tell you the truth, we don’t get that far actually because of the attraction to all those small cafes that runs along the street a few hundred yards from us. However, we do have time to see all the greenery, from palm trees to all kinds of trees & blooming bushes. It’s wonderful despite the steaming heat that we are experiencing right now.

So, here’s for the green colours with various pics that demonstrates the beauty around us … us all!

Timeless craftsmanship / tantjohanna.se

Poetic styling / vartnyahem

Wonderful doors / hus&hem

Fabulous forest / google.com

clinical cleanness / sanna&sania

Coloured enamel / google.com

Modern textile collection / api.qbank.se

Stylish simplicity / chezlarsson

Colourful style / sanna&sania

Antique green round dining table / hgtv.ca

Boyish stuff / iverashus

Paler shade of green / lamaisond’annag

Just very lovely / hus&hem

Beautiful facade / mechantdesign

Take care / Marie

Tagged Color, creativity, emerald green, garden, Gardens, home decor, indoor, nature, Pantone

22/01/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Stylish solitaires

Here & there you see ladders standing, either casually or deliberately, in different environments … often without one notes them immediately. When you are scrolling through magazines, catalogues or other, you can many times find things that recurs, in one way or another. Either it’s a trendy thing or just props which works in the environment. Blogs work that way many times. Stylish appealing images shown on a popular blog, explodes soon within the blogosphere. You get to see those pictures almost everywhere. To that extent, that they almost become worn out. There is nothing wrong in it of course, that’s how it works when we have great interest in something whether it’s in interior design, fashion, food, photography … or whatever it may be. (you notice how limited my interests are, right?)

Anyway, to get to the point, all of a sudden I found myself seeing ladders everywhere. Used as a furniture to store things on – hang clothes, jewelry, textiles … or to use in the bathroom or just lean against the wall in the living room … or just as a solitaire or statement somewhere…even if it’s just to climb on. It makes a difference in the room, no matter what. Don’t you think so?

Within reach / designinspiration

Storage place / stylizimo

Great statement / desiretoinspire

styling / dezeen.com

Stylish fill to the room / elleinterior

A nice helper / hus&hem

Functional / jordicanosa

Nice to use as hanging device / meandalice.blogspot

Storage space / likainenparketti

Still-life with ladders / mechantdesign

White & grey / thingsilike

Splashes of white paint – right up to the steps / desdemyventana

A nice looking combination – wood & white / fromscandinaviawithlove

A simple solution with step support & bed support / pinterest.com

Pale earthy tones & a ladder ready for any possible need / micasa

Tagged design, furniture, furniture design, home decor, Interior design, ladder, Ladders, living area, living rooms, solitaire

16/01/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Bed joy

Few things can make me as happy as a newly made bed with clean & fine bedlinen. It’s certainly true height of luxury. I can’t get enough of stylish quilt covers, with a cabinet filled to the brim . Maybe it’s a small obsession. I have the same love for all kinds of textiles actually. I did give it a go a few times, when we moved, to get rid of some but I just couldn’t. I’m too soft-hearted in respect of those treasures. Well, there are worse things to worry about.
It’s a wonderful feeling to crawl into a freshly made bed. New clean sheets, puffed soft pillows, neat bedspread. Yes, it’s the height of happiness. It’s often the simple things in life that gives one, pure joy, right? So how about some inspiring images for the bedroom. Bed joy maybe 🙂