Colour coding

I myself am quit keen on a dash of colour organizing (you can see that right over here) but I love how Hilda from Forever is today has taken it to a whole new level by making monochromatic photographs of her vintage collections. Very inspiring.

Dreaming of...

I'm hoping for a white Christmas, be it in or outside...


Tea for Joy


Living Etc


Freshome

DIY: Christmas wreaths

Christmas is approaching fast and I thought I share some lovely ideas for modern wreaths with you.

And what's even better, all come with a tutorial! So if your front door is still bare, you have no excuse anymore...

– Wonderful x-mas wreath by Pickles


– Ruffly felt rosette wreath by Domestifluff


– DIY wreath from thrifted elements by Candi Mandi

Drum roll

Pantone unveiled his coulour of 2010: turquoise.

"Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing."

So here are some inspirations how to make this bold colour work in your home.



Metropolitan home


Wide open spaces


Through Flickr

In the mood

I find that I get inspired by almost anything, from road signs to candy wrappers. But a great way to integrate some visual inspirations into your interior is by making a moodboard. They can almost become a work of art...


emmas designblogg


Summersville


Polly Wreford

Do not disturb

Sometimes I wish I was a cute little squirrel so I could hibernate for most of the winter. It seems that how shorter the days become, the longer it takes me to get out of bed.

And the view of the following fluffy beds just want to make me pull the duvet back over my head...


Apartment Therapy


Apartment Therapy


Desire to inspire

Pop

I love how just a few accent colours can make a white interior pop.


Bolig


Emma's designblogg


My Scandinavian Retreat

Wallpaper goodness

Just a few images featuring drool worthy wallpaper...


Design Evolution


Design Evolution


Inspiration Bubble

Back to the future — Fifties interior book

Once a year our local libary has a sale of their discontinued books, with all profit going to charity. Being always on the hunt for that perfect second hand treasure I am off course present every year. Last time I found this neat little sixties paperback.

'Het Binnenhuis' — roughly translated to 'The Interior House' — contains 150 pages filled with interior advice and decorating tips. Although I fear there pricelists might be a bit out of date...



Now I have to admit that my attention tends to wander when reading non-fiction but fortunately for me this book is brim filled with illustrations!







One of the illustrations I am fond of the most is the one with the futuristic looking television sets, much beter looking than the current flat screens.

Ring in the new

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's eve.



This year me and the boyfriend kept it very low key, we just had a few close friends over for dinner and afterwards we just sat around and talked, nobody felt like going out in search of a somewhat decent party.



To be honest, I didn't mind at all. I must be getting old...

Bird of love

I love visiting my grandmother. For all the obvious reasons off course but also because she helps me with my various collections. Mostly by asking all her friends - my nan is very socially active - if they have nothing lying around that I collect.

This means that she finds me a lot of ugly stuff that I don't like, and that I throw away the moment I come home, but once and a while she finds me a real gem. Like for instance this tin by Beyers coffee.



The bird illustration is wonderfull. But best off all I already have two other Beyers Coffee tins in. So now I have a collection in my collection, how pro is that!





Being a bit of a coffee fobe myself I don't know if Beyers make great coffee but they surely made beautiful tins...

Christmas in the blogosphere

I guess by now you must be getting bored of my Christmas decorations. So let's share the Holiday spirit with some of my fellow bloggers and see what they are doing, decoration wise, this Christmas?

Here are some of their trees:



Nicole from Making it Lovely put up a silver tree. I love the personal touch by adding the initials. And we both have a bird as tree topper!



White trees are popular this season, Here's the one in the perfectbound studio.



I'm glad to see that J from A Merry Mishap agrees that there's nothing like the real thing!



Although after seeing Jennifer's tree on Madebygirl, I have to admit that white trees look pretty fabulous too...



Jane from All the Luck in the World isn't officially a blogger, but I'm not going to let a little technicality like that stop me from sharing one of the most original trees I've seen in a long time!

What a bright time!

I already showed off my Christmas tree but that's not the only decoration going on in our apartment for the moment.

I made this little sculpture with the remaining ornaments, lights and a vase I once got as a present but which is actually too huge to put any flowers in.



The blue mirror ball baubles are my favorite Christmas thrift store find of 2008!



Then there's my PVC deer pop up. You need a little bit of Rudolph to get you through the season!



And last but not least, I hung these gigantic Christmas baubles from the ceiling beams. I rescued these a few years back from the garbage bin of a local shop, they were old store decorations.

Vintage Chic Christmas

There are a lot of vintage ornaments in my tree this year, but when I saw the following eye candy on Flickr, I got a bit jealous.


Clare Nicholson


sicook52


Gigi & Big Red

Collections: coffee pots

Time to post anoter one of my collections. This is a small one: my vintage coffee pots. They' re part of the much huger ceramic collection which, according to my bofriend, is getting out of hand. I'm just ignoring him on that one...



Back to the coffee pots! My favourite one is the yellow Melita one, purely out of sentimental reasons. Me and my sister used to play tea party with it when we were kids. And it came along with me to college. Unfortunately I dropped it once too hard in the sink when I was washing up and broke the handle. I glued it back on but now it's for display use only!

Let it shine!

Once upon a time when MTV was actually still showing music video’s, I came cross the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s video for ‘Can’t stop’. I don’t know if any of you can remember that one, it was inspired by the 'One-Minute Sculptures' of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. There was one scene which gave me an eureka feeling. It was the one with guitarist John Frusciante standing in the middle of a room filled with vintage lamps.



That’s what I needed : a room full of vintage lamps! Well, or at least a corner or something…

And this is what I have so far, three lovely thrift store finds. Whenever we have friends around I put them on and they really create the right ambiance for entertaining.



(The painting is by the boyfriend by the way, you can check out more of his work here.)

I’m hoping to find some more in the future but until then I’ll just have to satisfy myself with these lovely internet finds.


NinaInVorm


Through Flickr


DesignSponge


Through Flickr