I don’t think that anyone has the months of January and February very highly on its list over favourite months. They are like 2 months in waiting (we could almost skip them) for the wonderful time to come i.e. spring! But as we can’t get rid of them we might as well make something fun …
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Set to Play or Pig Out!
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Tangerine Tango!
Is the color of the year! Pantone is giving us a spirited reddish orange for 2012. “A color that continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward”. Well I suppose that is the kind of energy we need in these troublous times! Let’s see what this color can bring to …
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Cocooning!
Christmas and New Year often involves a lot of socializing and sometimes it would be great to be able to have a small retreat to go to. Perhaps a little bit of cocooning would we a good way to start the new year…………. The famous Alcove Work by the Bouroullec Brothers is a great way …
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Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree……….
Tomorrow we’re gonna go and get our x-mas tree. I am too much fond of the real Christmas tree so however nice the substitute is I am too old fashioned. But that doesn’t mean that there are great ideas out there and here are a few for those of you who want to do it …
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X-mas time kids-time
If you want to give your kids something over the usual I’m gonna give you a few ideas….. My daughter would like a camera for Christmas and so I stumbled over this and how fun isn’t that! Lego did an agreement with Digital Blue a company producing kids technology and up came this 3 megapixel …
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Knock on Wood!
Of all the materials you can choose from is wood definitely my favourite. The warmth it gives to a room, its own design made by the veins, the touche of the wood is a marvelous feeling. So as we are redoing a few rooms in our house I have abandoned the idea of paint in our …
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Felt an ancient art
I was looking for some really colorful runners to put in our hallway and came across these really beautiful felted carpets. Yes I was looking for a runner but couldn’t resist this one the beautiful combination of turquoise and grey is just irresistible! This felted method is over 2000 years old worked by the nomadic …
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Happy Halloween!
When you have lived in the US I think this is really the time of the year when you miss it the most. Because they sure know how to celebrate Halloween, my kids just said to me I wish we just could take a plane and go over there right now! Well, in the meantime …
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Sit down if you dare!
As we are approaching the scary date of 31st October I thought we would sit down on some scary seats if you dare……… Pretty cool heh, The reversed colors really gives a great effect on these antique chairs, made by the interior design firm Geoffrey Bradfield in New York. The Atlanta based artist Philip Barlow …
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The transformation of Cork!
When you think about cork in interior design I believe most of us see in front of us the horrible dark linoleum flooring from the 1970’s but this ecological material has reinvented itself, and I would for sure put it on my floors and even walls without any hesitation! The peasant look of cork has …
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What can we do with the World?
Kevin Van Aelst Well that is a very big and metaphysical question that I’m not gonna try to answer here, my contribution will be what can we do with all those globes that we all had as a child in our room (and which has been constituted by – google where Afghanistan is!). The French …
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The World is coming home to you!
The past 10 years I have lived in 3 different countries and on 2 different continents. I am now back where I’ve started 20 years ago Geneva, Switzerland after a few years in the US and Spain. It’s great to be back and it just feels like jumping back into the water! Travelling and moving …
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We are all different!
I have never been too much into “matchie matchie”, after all we are all individuals and why wouldn’t chairs be too! These settings of all different chairs bring great energy to the rooms. What do you think? Same chairs but all different colored upholstery gives it a fun impression. Or all different but the same …
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Upholstery
Every time I move I finally get some old projects finally finished….. Moving back to Europe after 4 exciting years in the US I am now digging in to the wonderful world of fabrics. And I am doing some exciting upholstery on my own (the easy ones) and some more complicated are going to the …
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Cut the cords!
There is something that is really annoying in interior design and that is all the electrical cords we need to deal with. It’s long and ugly and when shooting photos you really need to be careful to get them out of the picture. If only we could go cordless as the Internet! Well for the …
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Shadow becomes Art!
Yes, yes, yes we have finally got rid of the rain here! It is nice and warm outside in the 90’s or 30’s as you wish! With the sun comes shadows right! Here are a few examples how designers have gotten inspired by this natural phenomenon. The Brittish designer Chris Duffyactually uses the shadow as …
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For the love of reading
In the busy lives we are all living I think we owe ourselves a great place to read and relax. I’ve always made a nice reading corner for my kids at an early age to cultivate the love of reading! The first one I did, I took a big mattress folded it up in a …
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Rule Britannia……
Apparently there is something written about the forthcoming Royal wedding every 10th second, and I thought we couldn’t let this British euphoria go by us here at Nordic Rooms either!! When you think about it there are a few design icons that has sprung out of the British Island. The Union Jack is perhaps the …
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Shouldn’t it be Earth Day every day?!
I must admit I wasn’t really aware that we had an “Earth Day” I got reminded about it by my daughter who had seen the commercial of Walt Disney’s latest movie “Cats in Africa” coming out on Earth Day and she wanted to go and see it! Well seems like Peoria is not on the …
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Embroidery entering a new era
As I’ve said before , I like to work with my hands. Especially living in the technical era we are all surrounded by working with your hands kind of takes you back to your roots so to speak! However, I am a person living here and now and love when old fashion traditions goes through …
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