Raw, French romance meets cool Nordic simplicity

Seen on Emmas designblogg: this extreme monochrome apartment via BoBedre.

Stylist Ingeborg Wolf and her boyfriend Claus Larsen's live in this very international apartment in central Copenhagen.  Everything is kept in black, white and gray with materials such as wood, iron and leather. The owners are inspired by the fashion designer Rick Owens' dramatic avant-garde design, click here.  It's amazing that you really cannot find any colors in their home...

Raw, French romance meets cool Nordic simplicity. 

Enjoy!

Credits and more photos via : Bo Bedre

Photographer: Pernille Kaalund   

Inspired

I absolutely love these nude shades:

 

1 poster via Etsy 2 woman via tumblr 3 shoe via Acne 4 capsule collection from Isabelle Bois

 

Happy new week!

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Thanks to 1 2 3 4

 

ENJOY YOUR DAYS WITH YOUR DEAR FRIENDS & FAMILY

 

You are my bucket list



On this grey rainy day I'm collecting ideas to decorate my home for Chrismas on Pinterest.

 

I don't know about you, but I will soon decorate my home with some simple Christmas decorations and Í would like a simple branch like this one here from Stylizimo.  

 

I also get so much Christmas inspiration from the blogs I follow : don't you love this wonderful DIY Avent calendar from the blog  Elisabeth Heier? The count down will start soon !

 

 

Click here for my pinterest board Winter & X-mas and here for my pinterest board DIY XMAS to get inspired !

 

Sources via Pinterest: 1 2 3 4 5

Have a beautiful weekend!

Flavouriteslive 2013 - 160 webshops together in Amsterdam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I went to Flavouriteslive.  This year there where 160 webshops present with all beautiful styled stands. Besides the shops, I absolutely love the beautiful industrial building in Amsterdam North where it takes place. Let me show you some of my favourites. You can still go until tomorrow the 24th of November. More information about the event on the Flavourites website here.
I met some nice people again and I came home with some extra bags. More about that later...

1 the industrial building where Flavourites takes place in Amsterdam North
2 beautiful handmade leather bags from Pieterszoon
3 lovely Scandinavian style wannahaves from Byzenz
4 great styling ar Meesie : specialized in living accessory and jewelry
5 Deense Kroon a shop specialized in beautiful Scandinavian living and fashion accessory
6 Manonjuliette: you can make carpets out of these tiles
7  great concept of Granny's Finest: knitted by grannies and designed by young designers 
8 Studio de Winkel : great shop with lots of beautiful Dutch design accessory
9 the shawls of Pom Amsterdam where beautiful
10 one of my favourite styled industrial shops in Amsterdam: love their Dutch sheep rugs
11 Label 99 sells beautiful cushions with photoprint, knitted and furry ones

Have a beautiful weekend! v-XO-

Sunday Inspiration

Sunday Inspiration via my Pinterest boards here

1 I'm in love with this DIY golden spray painted branch via casasugar.com
2 These simple white tiles would be perfect in my kitchen, love the A and this note makes me smile via designlovefest.com
3 Normal is boring via Brigittew
4 Soft furry things like this faux sheep skin rug via Urban Outfitters
5 Love the style of one of my instagram favourites:  @frustilista interior stylist Jenny Hjalmarson Boldsen on Pinterest

Have a nice Sunday! -XO-

Light in the darkness

Too fast for me, the days are getting shorter and even the autumn/ winter daylight is different (less bright) than in spring/ summer. My plan is to make my house more bright step by step. My inspiration comes from these stunning white interiors that I'm sharing with you today.

 

What I absolutely love about it are the beautiful white walls with high ceilings, light floors, simple but wonderful styled with a touch of black & wood and these large windows where the daylight can play with the shades of white and decorate your room with beautiful shadows.

 

They create a Scandinavian feeling that I love so much. I live in a old house (1920) with a lot of windows in my living room (8) and high ceilings. I would love to have new window blinds like on photo 3. They would perfectly control the daylight in my home. Especially for my 3 bay windows during summer. 

 

These blinds make it easy to adjust the incoming daylight, as it can be positioned anywhere in the window seeing that it's not fixed either at the top or at the bottom. This provides privacy and greater control of sunlight. They would be perfect for my living and dining room where I have in total 4 windows. What do you think?

 

All these beautiful white pics come from my Pinterest board: WHITE.

 

 I almost forget to tell you: I'm so happy that I reached 10.000 followers on Pinterest and 1.000 on Instagram: thank you so much followers and of course I hope to meet you there :)

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credits 1 Norm Architects 2 Elisabeth Heier 3 VELUX shop ® 4 facingnorthwithgracia tumblr

5 birdcagewalk tumblr 6 Branding Identity Design 7 Vastanhem

 

Enjoy your weekend!

 

This post is sponsored by VELUX and written by Margreet de Vries

 

 

Julen inspirasjon + Inspiration for X-mas

Have you seen the Norwegian blog Vintagepiken yet? I lOVE her style. Today I found these beautiful Christmas inspiration photos on her blog made by Line for the Norwegian shop Linneas Hage. This shop sells beautiful interior items, clothing, shoes and jewelry. I know it's early, but I want to decorate my home right know when I see these amazing photos. I love the use of these sheep rugs, antlers, raw wood and a touch of brass. I hope you get inspired...

All photos are made by Line from Vintagepiken for Linnéa Hage

 

The Histor event #101karakters at Piet Hein Eek



Yesterday I spend my whole day in the amazing old Philips factory in Eindhoven. Now this beautiful industrial factory is the workspace, restaurant, showroom, art gallery and shop from the talented Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek. I was invited to see the winners of the competition paint their cupboards, that where already partly pre painted in the designs of the winners with primer by the Histor paint specialists. The whole place was decorated with the unpainted and painted Piet Hein Eek cupboards made by stylists, bloggers and press.

 

here you see my cupboard (second under from the left) exposed in the event space

 

Piet Hein Eek opened the event together with marketing director Mylène Heystek of Histor and the chief editor of 101 woonideeën Annet Niterink in the event space. Followed by a personal tour by Piet Hein Eek.  "If you want to function properly, you must ensure that you are in a fine setting. That's what I've made​​ from the beginning" says Piet Hein Eek. The cupboards, specially designed for this event by Piet Hein Eek, are designed to be painted and easy to manufacture. There are now 200 cupboards made and maybe they will be sold to customers in the future. 

After the press meeting, presentation on trend colors in 2014 by Histor and a tasty lunch, all very well organized, we went to see the creative winners who where painting their cupboards as you can see. You could really see the 101 characters of them in their cupboards and it was so great to meet and see them work on it with help of the Histor specialists. I can imagine that it's very hard to concentrate on your painting process, when everybody is looking, taking photos and asking questions. 

Of course I did some shopping and saw almost every corner of this beautiful place. I met a lot of enthusiastic bloggers & instagrammers who recognized me from my photo. It was so great to meet them. I had a good time and want to thank Histor and Piet Hein Eek for the warm welcome!  Last thing to mention: in two weeks all created cupboards will be visible with photo on the website www.101karakters.nl with an explanation of the painting process.

 Photos made by me (c)

Check my facebook page here to see a lot more photos of the event!

 

Happy Sunday!

Important links to read more about it:

• Piet Hein Eek
• 101 karakters competition
• Histor Perfect Finish
• 101woonideeen
• inspiration video 
• Histor Press release about the 101karakters event yesterday

 

 

 

 

My Piet Hein Eek cupboard - the result 101karakters #5

Let me show you my cupboard. Inspired by this moodboard I made: Perfect Imperfection (you can see it here). 

This upcoming Saturday my cupboard and I are invited to the workspace of Piet Hein Eek in Eindhoven, where I will enjoy a guided tour and lunch and where the winners are going to paint their cupboard with help of the Histor paint specialists. Of course I will tell you all about it!

You can find the program of this day here. I'm so looking forward to this day and I would love to see all other creative ideas coming to reality and meet the people I know via blogs, Instagram and Pinterest. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross - Quip & Co, Ball - Hay, Zoo Magazine, felt basket - Hema, lamp - thrift find, chair - thrift find

My 'Perfect Imperfection' cupboard - the making of

 

Step 1 I have sanded it first completely

Step 2 Then dusted

Step 3 Degreased with ammonia

Step 4 Cleaned with water

Step 5 Now the primer on it. I used white primer except for the top of the cupboard ( inside ) and the bottom inside. For this I used the gray primer. I have not taped it, but you can of course if you don't have a steady hand. I also haven 't painted all edges of plywood and the tough nuts and bolts, because I think these are just beautiful details! All corners and edges I have done with a small brush and the rest with a paint roller

Step 6 Repeat steps 1 , 2 , 3 and 4
Step 7 Now comes the fun part : the finish ! I started by using the Histor perfect finish satin white on all parts that are painted with the white primer. When the paint was dry, I flipped the cupboard and painted the inside top black. The inside of the bottom I painted with beautiful gray paint MUS

Step 8 Again light sanding and dust

Step 9 A second layer on it ( repeat step 7 ). This was especially necessary for the dark paint

Step 10 How I made the dripping effect? It is so nice to work with acrylic paint : I used the acrylic-based primer of Histor. Advantages : you don't have a huge paint smell in the house, it dries quickly and it's so easy to get of your hands afterwards. I can highly recommend it! To get the dripping effect I diluted the black satin paint with quite some water. If you put enough paint on your brush, you will get drips easily. In doubt, you can test it before on a piece of rest wood

Step 11 The text 'I feel peace in the rain' I made with 'typewriter' alphabet stamps. Put just a little bit of paint on the stamp and stamp it!

Step 12 Finally I added a tough industrial detail, these are the two brass solder wire fittings as handles: for sale at a hardware store

 

& Finished!

 

Thanks for all your sweet words!

Important links to read more about it:

• Piet Hein Eek
• 101 karakters competition
• Histor Perfect Finish
• 101woonideeen
• inspiration video