Inspiration + Inline skating

It's time to go outside and skate a bit :) However, I've promised myself to update my lovely little bloggy a bit more often (as if anyone cared!). I'll also take care of the blogroll soon - it's time to show those I read daily how I appreciate their thoughts and pictures (as if some of them needed additional PR from Frau Mayer, a highly non-famous blogger).
Right, my first task is The Kitchen. I've already chosen a fridge and a dishwasher and now it's time to move a bit further. The place is SO tiny I don't even need to be creative. Well, not really.

The kitchen of my dreams. Well, I do have a couple of ideas... My version will be pretty ikea-ish, of course, and as I am not very keen on the black dishwasher/black handles on the picture, I'll go for lighter ones.


I told you. No Smeg = no high electricity bills. Also, I am going for a smooth beige version. Hope it won't stand out too much. Another problem - the sink. The Ikea one which looks like this is a double sink which probably won't really fit (also, what do I need a double sink for?) The single one is not a free-standing variant and has to be integrated into a worktop. Talk about dilemmas.


I'm loving the handles!


Suspect N1 - the double sink! It HAS to be this shape. HOW am I going to fit it into a ktichen 2,80 metres long?

Leaving you with this non-existent riddle, dear non-existent readers.

Inspiration in the tub

I consider myself a happy person. Most of the time. While I'm desperately waiting for several things to be finally over, I'm checking on that Alvhem site quite often - and always make myself tea as soon as I discover new pictures there (which means - Frau Mayer is going to intensify the pleasure :). Today was such day again...

Me+laptop+tub+this flat:

 

There are so many elements I'm loving here: the art wall, the sheepskin on the pristine white floor (too scandi to be anything else), the shelves in the background, that A (WHERE do people find such letters?) + Kusmi tins on them, my favorite flowers on the coffee table... And the colourful Eames chairs!

 

Those shelves are too lovely not to do a close-up! Mmmh... What have we here? Beautiful cookbooks, vintage scales + botanical postcards arranged in a frame (guess who has recently purchased two deliriously beautiful botanical postcards. Well, it might be Frau Müller the Cat but ...) Ikea lamp, got you! 

What makes me feel a bit better is the fact that my coffee machine is cooler. But that's about it. 

Yes, they have a little vintage table here. And some cushions on the floor. Lovely. Ebay's been mean to me recently - no good tables out there. But it will change, I'm pretty sure! And then I'll post pictures so that Nadine can be proud of me :)

See that sofa? As for me, I do it all the time - in every second scandi blog I visit. I wonder if it has a name... 

And there's something about those white Ikea picture boards/shelves that makes me want to have loads and loads of them as I've already accumulated enough artwork to fill at least seven!

Don't you want to steal all kinds of scandi ideas when you see such flats? I certainly do! 

The secret of scandi design - a bit of picture analysis

Every now and then the entire blogosphere seems to admire apartments sold by a Swedish company, Alvhem.

They've got a wonderfully yummy site where they post numerous pictures of wonderful places in the middle of Göteborg.

I've been brooding over these pictures for so long, I started analyzing them and as all the flats are very obviously styled by the same person, I'm going to post a couple of my favorites here, along with the elements of that yummy scandi style that are to be found everywhere.

Let's get Swedish!

So, already in picture number one we have at least seven of them:

1. huge windows, filling the place with light

2. white walls

3. canvas/frames covered in fabric (a hilarious idea, in my opinion, as I happened to have found three lovely Ikea frames on a street one day and also to have scored some deliriously beautiful silk - in three different pastel tones - on my trip to Thailand this summer. And yeah,  I got myself a staple gun at ebay if you know what I'm driving at...)

4. a fur on the floor  - mostly a sheepskin

5. a beautiful chandelier
6. accent pillows on a neutral sofa - generally good for everyone who's not ready to spend his days with a lilac sofa + pink pillow covers
7. floor made of natural materials - a big NO to laminate

Take this one and find almost all of the above here. Plus number 8 - art wall  (sometimes it consists of differently sized frames, sometimes it doesn't. Oh, I'm SO looking forward to creating my first very own one).

and number 9 - pastel walls. Mmmh! Don't they look like a freshly brewed latte? Here also comes my personal favorite, number 11 - a ladder shelf. Yes, I possess 3 of them. Thanks for the hint.

 Let's move on... These floors make me have a severe drooling attack! Sorry, I was actually about to point out some further favorites. Number 12 - a vintage item integrated into an otherwise modern environment. You know, sometimes you just surf by some blogs that are stuffed with shabby chic  - and nothing but it. Brrr! But this cupboard looks like it's been there for ages (and, indeed, it has). Number 13 is a bit Freudian - a low-hanging lamp in the kitchen. I guess I'll go for it as soon as I have a kitchen table that's slightly bigger than 2 DINA4 pages glued together. Notice the smart use of black here (which is not my favorite, though).

Right, 13 is a good number, I might go on some other day, should there be any non-existent interest.