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   

Minimal chic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This family home of the Belgium designer Melanie of Simple Kids has everything : beautiful old mirrors, wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows. The sanded floors were left natural, while the white walls are accented by touches of color.


Aude Bunetel / Photo: Karel Balas - Credits and more photos: Milk Déco

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-

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

 

 

Styling love

This new apartment in Sant Gervasi (Barcelona) is so beautiful styled/ designed by Katty Schiebeck. I follow her blog and a while ago I showed you the pictures of her beautiful home on my blog (click here to see them back). I really love her style: Lot's of white, natural colors, beautiful furniture (those lamps above the dining table, the marble table and the white Eames lounge chair etc.) and what a great wooden kitchen.

I also would love to have those beautiful large black & white photos. I hope you like her style as much as me.

Enjoy!

 

 

Click on the following link to see all photos: designed and credits by Katty Schiebeck 

Scandinavian country chic

I'm totally in love with this house. I just saw it on the blog of Design Sponge. I love it all: 

black & white & wood: what a great combination. This country style home has a beautiful Scandinavian feeling and I love all the rugs and anthers. I'm also liking the diner chairs: I'm so happy that my mother gives me two of her Pastoe chairs #luckyme :)

 I'm not blogging as often as I want, because I'm very busy at this moment with all kind of things at home and working on our room & kids rooms, painting furniture and walls etc. etc. I hope to show you more about that soon :) Further on I'm taking care of my 3 sweeties who have all the flu.... :( Luckily Jorgen is feeling a little bit better as from today. 

Are you going to the Woonbeurs??? I'm so looking forward to go to the Woonbeurs this week. I'm going on Saturday, because that's the only day I've time. I want to combine it with the Merci pop up store (check it here on Amsterdam Next) and maybe the new Hay store in Amsterdam... Are you going or did you go??? I already saw some amazing photos on instagram of vtwonen... I can't wait!!! 

 

You can also follow me on instagram & facebook for more interior inspiration.  

  



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos thanks to Design Sponge & Photography by Maxwell Tielman

 (click on the link to all photos)

 

Happy week to you -XO-