Styling by Lotta Agaton

The beautiful home of the Swedish interior stylist Lotta Agaton is featured in the latest issue of Residence magazine photographed by Pia Ulin. A lot of blogs already showed her beautiful home. Don't you love her home? She really inspires me. I couldn't stop looking at the photos and that's why I found some beautiful styling photos of Lotta Agaton that I want to share with you...

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Raw elegance



All neutral materials which I love. I find them raw, honest & simple but elegant. 

 

I had a chair like this peacock chair, when I was 15 years old. I got it for my birthday and was totally in love with it... I found this beautiful photo at ANOUKB boutique. Anouk has a great shop with products I LOVE..  If you don't know the shop yet, go take a look and see for yourself.

 

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Peacock chair ANOUKBboutique

Photo Margreet de Vries

Painted crates

The bag Merci 

 Love French Bulldogs 

Greige design

 Moroccan Blankets, Table Tonic

Chair

Tea time...

Recently I found a cute Japanese tea set and tea box at the kringloop = a second hand store. The 2 first pics are from my tea set. I had some lychees at home, because my daughter wanted to try them. She didn't realy liked it... Lychees are a delicious fruit. The inside may not always look appetizing to some people, but never judge a book by its cover. Beyond the look is the sweet fruity taste of lychee. A lychee is not only tasty, but juicy as well. They go well on the picture, don't you think?

After buying this set, I became curious about Japanese tea... Here some facts I found on Wikipedia:

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, powdered green tea  (see my 3th photo). In Japanese, it is called chanoyu (茶の湯^?) or sadō, chadō (茶道^?). The manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance, is called otemae (お手前; お点前^?). Zen Buddhism was a primary influence in the development of the tea ceremony. Much less commonly, it uses leaf tea, primarily sencha.

If you want to read more about Japanese tea and Japan, I found the blog 'How to Japan'. Click here.

As from know I'm going to try the real Japanese tea! 

Photo Margreet de Vries 

Photo Margreet de Vries 

 Japanese tea "matcha"

chasen (Japanese tea whisk) 

 Japanese tea boxes 

Geisha 

 Japanese tea ceremony

A house with an artistic touch

This Monday I'm very pleased to show you the home of Ab and Wil Koning. You can find this lovely old house from 1924 in the center of Tiel. Wil loves to paint and you can find her artistic touch every were in their beautiful home. She has a great feeling for styling and colors. On the attic you can find Wil's work space. The light is perfect over there to work on her paintings. I have made a lot of pics and will share more photos with you later on. I want to thank them that I could make these photos and share this on my blog. They are the uncle and aunt of Jörgen.

 

 

Photos Margreet de Vries  

If you are interested in Wil's paintings you can contact me.

Go green in my home

Yesterday I was so fed up with the winter and the rain that I decided to bring more green in the house. It's a big trend at this moment and I'm glad, because it's now cheering up my living and therefore my mood! As promised I made some pics of a few the vintage finds from last week. More will follow... This morning I saw really big snow flakes falling down. This afternoon the sun finally break threw as you can see on the pics...
Tomorrow I'm hoping to take photos in the home of Jörgen's uncle and aunt. They have a beautiful interior. I will of course share this with you soon...

my dining: I've painted the inside of the lamp & cable vintage blue

I found this vintage camera at the second hand shop

 I think it goes well with my boots and lovely Cowboybelt bag

roses and blossom in my new old jars I found in the second hand store

the table is made of teak

 an old apple crate with cactus plants and the antique French mirror I bought at the antique market in Lille (France) I can strongly recommend this market: it's the biggest in Europe

 and it's a pleasure to be there. Lille is a beautiful city. I've studied there for 6 months.

  The market takes place in the center of the city once a year and has a great atmosphere:

  on every corner you can eat 'moules frites'. This year the market takes place on the 31th of August and the 1st of September

The 2 lamp shades you can see I found in the second hand store (I ripped of the fabric)

I've put the plants in cans (for beans) and decorated them with black & white tape

a few months ago I spray painted this tray with copper spray

 I like it with the 'bambino' plants

don't you think this green goes well with copper...



these are the same plants as in the previous picture: don't you love these mini plants?

They are in my Ikea greenhouse now...



Smile

This made me smile...

The world biggest desk lamp

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Pallet love

I had a great day today. I went to the 'kringloopwinkel' in my town: that's a second hand store that you can find in almost every city in Holland and I was lucky to buy some really nice things. You can also bring them the stuff you want to get rit of. They will sell it again.

 I wanted to buy even more stuff, but I couldn't carry it. It's only a five minute walk from my house, so it can be so tempting to have a look. I have to be careful not to buy too much. I had two full plastic bags today and payed only 20 euros. But sometimes when I go, I don't find anything I like or want. I will try to make some pics soon of the stuff I found.

Don't you love plain cheap objects that can be used to make beautiful things like furniture? I'm in love with these pallet ideas. A project I would like to do is to make a pallet table (or maybe two) and I would love to have a pallet bench in my garden. It's very easy to create. Don't you love these following pallet ideas? The first one is from Body and Fou. If you don't know this blog I can strongly advice you to visit this blog. This blog is very high in my top 10 of best interior and design blogs. I'm in love with this living...
Check out my Pinterest board for lots of amazing pallet ideas...: Pallets if you can't get enough of it yet!

  

  

1.  Body and Fou
2. Body and Fou
3. Plaza Interior
4. Shelterness