houses | anordinarywoman

Hej dear friends,

Rooftops have always been exciting, from the time when I as a child ran around with the big kids at building / construction sites where you really could not be … & were so exciting precisely for that reason. To the rooftops you get to see from hotel rooms … when I dared to look out from the windows from that hight. I loved the movie Aristocats where the characters ran around on the rooftops in Paris. And something exciting always happened. I think I watched it hundred times with my boys. It’s not only the view that is exciting or the height, but also the fact that you are on a roof, at the top, where nobody can see you but you can see everything.

It’s exciting, fun & uplifting, but also romantic, isn’t it ?

Tightly as in a sardine tin / Weheartit

Worn rooftops over beloved homes / imgs via the Fancy

Unusual place for a break / Thatkindofwoman

Fine straight line of rooftops, with an own world / TimBarber

Straight architecture with greenery all around / Tumblr.com

Tin roof / Pinterest.com

A swinging road in full view from all the rooftops / Annabananna via Pinterest

Green grass above to keep the warmth / Nestprettythings

Small oases that floats above / Annloise via Pinterest

Necessary roofs indeed / Brightbazaar

Incredibly beautiful roofs / Cricketbriggs

As far north as you can get & as in a as in a fairy tale with cute colorful houses / Imgs via the Fancy

Mini version of a street with houses in different heights / Kowalski via the Fancy

House roofs as far as the eye can see / Darioendaraphotographer

A small secluded roof terrace, between the large houses / Skonahem

Take care / Marie

Another brick in the wall / 147

Hej friends,

I’ve been out on a city tour with some friends & Sydney’s suburbs are full of beautiful & exciting brick houses & buildings. Our first house was in red brick, even though we said, anything but a brick house. It turned out well anyhow & we lived there long enough to renovate the entire house before we moved. I have not always been particularly fond of brick as material. Maybe because I felt that those houses was cold & without soul when I was younger. I grew up in a society that largely consisted of wooden houses, since it was traditionally, the material used in the construction industry …& that still is. What else can you expect from a country that is covered by forest. I love wood in all kinds of shapes, it’s an unbeatable material.

We once had a recreation room with a red brick wall around the fireplace while the other walls were pine paneling. I thought long to paint the brick wall white, but never got started, I think deep down, I wanted to keep the natural red brick as it was. That said, it’s nice with brick houses but I also think it’s exciting to let a brick wall be visible, in a room together with other materials. It adds another dimension, an additional structure that provides warmth & character. Let’s take a look at the different interiors below…

Such a nice feature wall in natural stone that looks so good with white furniture / Ustagerimez