Well you don’t need to look that chocked my Christmas list is not that long! Here are a few items I wouldn’t mind receiving under my Christmas tree. Who doesn’t like to receive flowers? I think the Hortensia is a beautiful flower. And why not eternalize it into a vase as did the Dutch flower artist …
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Dear Santa,
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Let’s get ready for x-mas together with the kids
I have something with red apples at Christmas. After all red is the x-mas color and bringing the nature into your house makes it really cosy. We threaded each apple and just nailed it up on the porch. Great entrance isn’t it! Apples again! Such an easy way to make your own candle lights. Just …
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Honeysuckle – the color of 2011
The Guru company when it comes to color Pantone has given it’s verdict for next year; Honeysuckle is the official color of 2011. It’s courageous, confident and vital! The motivation for the choice of color is – need for something uplifting saturated bright pink. I am not a great pink fan but due to the reddish …
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Stairways to heaven……
The starecase is a major feature in your home sometimes neglected and sometimes not, The red enhances the staircase with the dominant grey color all over in this entrance. This is such a great idea! Who doesn’t want to have a rainbow in the middle of the house?! And it fits perfectly the bohemian atmosphere …
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Bon Appetit!
Here in the US today is the famous Thanksgiving a true only American holiday. It’s all about family and friends gathering around the table. So I picked out a few scenarios of beautiful table settings to inspire a Thanksgiving table or for you other guys outside the US an autumn table! I love this so …
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The love affair between Haute Couture and Interior Design
The border between fashion and interior design is getting looser and looser. I suppose when you are creative you just want to go on and create and it is even more challenging when you walk over to the other side…….. The French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier was asked to come up with a collection …
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Sleeping Beauty!
This story is just incredible and has been talked about on several blogs and I would like to share it with you. Parisian flat containing €2.1 million painting lay untouched for 70 years For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of …
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Let’s go Hunting!
The autumn is among other things connected to hunting. But how many of the hunters nowaday really puts up there hunting trophieson the wall? I am not really into hunting but for some reason I have always been very drawn to animal horns, skins etc. Thinking about it I have plenty of it at home …
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Happy Halloween!
What attracts me the most with Halloween are the colors this deep orange and the black are great color combinations. Here are some interiors that have gone halloween all year round! and it just looks great. So let’s get bold and play around with the orange and black a little bit more.
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Don’t forget to look up it might be worth it!
We have a tendency to forget the ceiling in our homes, just paint it white that’s fine, I think is the general phrase we use when decorating our homes. When I lived in Geneva, Switzerland I would walk down the street and all of a sudden I looked up and just realized what I had missed, …
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Paper Sculptures
One of my colleagues showed me today some pictures of the works from the American artists Allen & Patty Eckman and I was completely blown away. First of all I have always been attracted to the Native American cultures and secondly the fact that these meticulously executed sculptures are made out of paper is just fantastic. Allen …
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Let’s prepare Halloween with the kids
And with Halloween the wonderful geourgeous autumn, that surprises us every year with its amazing colors. I was driving around today and took these pictures Peoria is definitely prepared for Halloween Well I suppose so are we too……… This installation is on our dining table. On a butcher block we placed this foot and hand …
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Let’s cook!
Working on a kitchen project I came over these pictures the other day for inspiration and just realized they all have a common factor WOOD. Tired of the granite counter tops then just enjoy these pictures. Isn’t this a dream space to get inspired for some great cooking. A lot of light, a lot of …
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The past goes contemporary
We all know as designers we couldn’t create without the inspiration from the past and the best result is when we can give it a little twist……….. And the twist has certainly been given here in this very contemporary coucou clock by the Italian designer Raffaele Darra (he is actually a glass artist) “Arcoiris” which …
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All that glitters is not gold………
I suppose we have since very ancient times always had a great appeal to gold. It gives us a feeling of luxury, glamour, power. And yes it can be kitch but also if well placed in your interior quite outstanding. The traditional Maroccan pouf takes a new step into the 20th century dressing itself in …
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How rough can it get?
Are you board with the sleek looking hotels that you find every where on the planet ? The designers have lost them selves in some kind of mainstream look and forgot why they became designers in the first place. The following hotels certainly have it going for them when it comes to their uniqueness, each one …
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Gingham, Ikat, Kuba
No I am not trying to speak Chinese but Fabric! Gingham is an adjective in the Malaye language ging-gang meaning funnily enough striped. Because when this fabric was originally imported into Europe it was striped, however, today Gingham fabric is always referred to its checkered pattern! This is probably the most wellknown Gingham furniture! in …
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Wall candy!
If you said the word wallpaper a few years ago people would look at you as if you came from another planet – what do you mean, wallpaper! are you kidding! And now we hardly can’t open an interior magazine with walls that don’t have wallpapers at least on one wall! the accent, the accent………….. …
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Give me that sCrap!
These tools should be a normal daily use for a furniture designer but I am not sure it is any more in the computerized world of design we are living in today. But for the Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek it sure is. I think he would be completely lost without them. Working with waste …
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Paper what a fun material!
We all know this very famous paper chair by the now famous architecte Frank Ghery, however, back in 1969 when he came out with this series of “Easy Edges” he was less known and experimented with this material. Since then there has been several trials to make furniture out of this very flexible and cheap …
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