More kitchen inspiration + money talk

Here it is, another almost perfect kitchen. discovered at Emmas Designblogg
The sink + the blue chair are talking to me in a loud, clear voice. Meanwhile, I've purchased the fridge - only to discover it's sold out and will be available again on the 19th of May which will leave us with 10 days to have it delivered in time.
The kitchen's completely planned, I've just purchased door knobs at eBay (apothecary ones, what else?!) - and we're awaiting a reply from an installation team. IKEA does offer installation help for 239 Euros (4 hours) but with all the things that need to be connected (dishwasher etc.) and shipping it'll surely add up.

IKEA's got several special offers right now - for instance, all Faktum Abstract door fronts are 1/4 cheaper. They've also go that 0,0 % finance offer (with a fee of 39 Euros :(
I guess, I'll be going for both as the total cost is quickly approaching the 2000 Euros mark.

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! 

Objects of desire: Cavallini

I've spent ages recently looking for this calendar by Cavallini&Co:

 

It's called Flora and Fauna and it's sold out EVERYWHERE in the world but some shop in Florida that hasn't answered my request yet. The German distributors aren't worth mentioning, it took them more than a week to process my order and in the end all the calendars I ordered were suddenly "not available" (though listed on their webpage).

Any hints/advice on Cavallini calendars are welcome here. You may even stop lurking! 

I wonder why a company producing such wonders doesn't care enough to get itself decent distributors. I guess the calendar's gone now. Can't imagine finding it offline anywhere in Germany although I did come across this set of cards which was mercilessly purchased the moment I saw it:

Visualizing wishes

There's a lot being told about visualizing one's wishes in order to help them come true.
I have never been really serious about it - and should probably give it a try.
Let's start with porcelain!

I can recall endless hours spent reading and re-reading, re-re-reading and re-re-re-reading this book. At a certain point I even started biting little pieces off the pages, probably trying to swallow a part of that magical world. Mumins are the best possible creatures ever and I still love them all dearly!

And this is Mumin Troll himself! 

And these are Hattifnaten, those weird electrical creatures who always travel in groups and never say anything.

Oh, so many childhood memories... I would love to have the entire collection - but a couple of them actually costs a small fortune (which is why I need to visualize those :)

And now back to the more realistic items. I know that nowadays almost everyone who's a bit into Scandi style possesses some Greengate items. And I know I never really liked polka dots. However, I was thinking of adding some blue to my future kitchen (right now it's down to all possible tones of yellow+green) and I guess these would be just perfect for planting some future victims of mine:

Well, green will not be forgotten, for sure!

I'll be modest and call it a day - and there's another draft waiting to be written.

See ya none, dear noones!