Home Design Cool

It’s funny how our styles change throughout the years, right? In college and in my early 20’s I was ALL about maroon and green. I had ivy everywhere. Then it was red and gold soon after we moved into this house 11 years ago. Whoooeee…all the things were gold and red. After that I hit a paint-everything-black phase too – mixed in with the gold and the red of course. It was getting a little dark around here. ;) It’s funny, but back then I would never ever ever have put blue in our house. I’m quite...

This Friday I'm part of the  'Makers Spaces' blog tour, a new book by Emily Quinton. And it got me thinking about the wonderful creative spaces people live and work in. Johanna Bradford  and Kristin Lagerqvist shot this simply beautiful home and atelier in Varberg on Sweden's West coast a while back. With a sea-view on one side and forests on the other, it's the perfect place for Lisa Burenius to paint and enjoy life with her family - Petter and Eddie. The artist describes her interior...

Hey there! Hope your weekend was wonderful! My sister’s shower was just lovely and I’m pretty sure they are all set with the most adorable baby girl clothes I’ve ever seen. I don’t know if it’s because it’s finally spring or that the sun is out again or that the temps are finally warming up (for good this time), but I’m getting really excited to start working on more kitchen projects. I’m tackling building in the fridge next but what I’m really dreaming about is taking down the microwave and...

Hello week, how quickly you came around again?! Wouldn't you love just one more day of long breakfasts, tinkering and generally taking it easy? I'm going to dream for a minute that I'm in this lovely Gothenburg pad and it's actually Sunday, I've just woken up, the coffee's brewing.... *ahhhh* so nice! I do love the Stadshem style, and this particular space in white and grey is particularly lovely, don't you think?StadshemWhat do you say? The perfect place from which to start a week?I spy so many...

Thanks to everyone who entered the Sticky9 give-away, the winner of the magnet wall frame is Alex (Freebird). And the winners of the two sets of nine magnets are Sabrina M and Laia Torrente, congratulations! Please send me a mail so that we can supply you with your code to claim your prizes. Thanks to my new found love of Instagram, I've teamed up with Sticky9 to offer you the chance to win a magnet wall frame handcrafted in London containing nine of your favourite pictures, or one of three runners...

Hey hey all! Hope you have a fun weekend planned! I have a quick post for you today because I’m off to prepare for my sister’s baby shower tomorrow – can’t wait! I shared this on Instagram the other day because I was just so excited to get this done. I picked out the fabrics for the window seat pillows a couple of weeks ago: I definitely wanted something colorful against all the white in the bay window and I LOVE how these all work together! When it comes to mixing fabrics I usually go...

I do love a pared-back rural retreat. Every Friday I dream about packing my weekend bag and zooming off to the countryside. There's something wonderful about the back-to-basics, fuss-free life-style, don't you think? This lovely cabin is located in a forest in The Netherlands. The owners (with the help of stylist Kim Timmerman) have brought in hints of the great outdoors - including a bird garland, animal motif cushions and bedding, and a branch used as a clothes rail and kept everything else very...