Working from my dinning table
I´m currently working from my dinning table – due to all the deadlines in my designstudio. Working from home makes it a little more pleasent to work day and night for a while. So here are a few photos of lovely and inspiring dinning tables from my inspiration folder – hope they will inspire you too! I´m trying to find out where the photos are from – the top photo is from Rum magazine, for the second I need help – maybe from Decor8?. The last photo is from this home shot by Katrine Martensen-Larsen via Stylefiles
More Black & white
Maybe you can tell thay my interior decorating side is very much alive these days – cause here´s some more black and white inspiration – from RosenbergCph´s website. RosenbergCph is a danish company that design and produce articles for the home, and clothes for women and children. I think their patterns are modern classics – and enjoyed seeing their products in situ at their press page – and the pillows are of course on my wishlist!
Black & white kitchens
This weekend we tore down most of our old kitchen in the summerhouse. We took down the upper cabinets which will be replaced with open shelves instead – and already now the room looks so much brighter and bigger – and I can´t wait for the final result! The pictures above are from my inspiration folder - I´m not sure where I found the photos apart from the bottom left, which is from Made a Mano´s website – I just love those big ceramic tiles! I took a lot of “before” pictures and plan to share the final result after the summerholidays.
Summer Living Moodboards
I found these oldies but goodies in my archive. I made these moodboards when we bought our summerhouse almost 3 years ago. And they still inspire me and makes me look forward to a Danish summer. I hope they will inspire you too.
Cool Kitchens & Ikea upgrades
I´m doing a lot of kitchen research these days, since we will renovate the kitchen in our summerhouse soon. Above is some clippings of my dream kitchens – but the actual kitchen project will be a small basic kitchen from Ikea. So I was very thrilled when I discovered the swedish companies Pickyliving and Studio10 – who both design nice kitchen cabinet doors that fit Ikea´s kitchen elements. And I spot a new trend here – since theres also another swedish company Bemz – that sells slipcovers for sofas & armchairs to fit the most popular models of IKEA. I think it´s such a clever concept – to take some very popular product and design an up-grade to it! & I wish I had come up with this idea!! It´s the stylish step-sister of Ikea-hacking I guess.
TooGood Moodboards
Via Twitter I came by Studio Toogood’s inspiring website today – and I just had to share these amazing moodboards from their Interiors portfolio. I love moodboards and often make some myself when I start on new design projects – and I love to get a glimpse of other creatives work process. Do you make Moodboards?
Rooms from Rum Magazine
I read the May issue of Rum Magazine yesterday and just loved every page and every photo – it´s such an inspiring magazine and I hope it never folds. All these rooms are from Rum´s website – and now also on my wishlist. I´ll be back next week – but my shop is always open you know!
Envelop – illustrated cotton goodies
For a while I´ve had my eyes on Envelop – a Belgium company that produces made-to-order textile products. And with their new & awesome selection of graphic prints from illustrators around the world – it´s time to share! I tried to select a few of my favorites here – but have a look yourself in their shop if you are looking for unique and cool designed textiles . And if you are a designer or illustrator – you can design and sell your own textiles via their online store.
Does it get any better than this?
Happy Hours
Our home has been full of guest, presents, flowers, food and joy over the weekend – and I´m just sitting here feeling so thankful. THANK YOU!
And my upgrade to version 4.0 feels so good!
Impatient Paper Flowers
To celebrate the 2010 International Women´s Day I would like to share this simple DIY-idea with you. I came up with this idea when I looked at my cherry blossom branches which I´m impatiently waiting for to bloom. I cut some simple paper flowers which are both quick and easy to make. See the drawing above for the size, and start by cutting a hole in the size of the branch – then cut 5 petals around the hole – and wrap the flower around the branch – you might have to vary the size of the hole from branch to branch. I used plain white paper – and painted a yellow circle around the hole on some of the flowers – I think thick paper will work great too. Happy Womens day and have fun cutting – and if you have any questions please let me know.
P.s After I posted this I suddenly realized where my inspiration also came from. Last month at Formland I saw these flowers by PFISK, and loved the idea – so if you don´t enjoy cutting – you can buy these - which are a bit more sturdy than paperflowers. Inspiration is everywhere – sometimes I don´t know where it came from – but when I do remember - I want to give credits.
