Just a quick note about the brand new British online interiors magazine Heart Home. Great stuff! This is my favourite pic from the 1st issue. Love the style, the philosophy and the fact that the table is set for fika.

In the meantime, while Trendey sisters focus on their regular careers & professions, we have the greatest blog tips for you: Dos family. As always, you might already know all about it, but if not: this is a blog by decorator (slash designer, columnist, TV-presenter, etc)  Isabelle Halling McAllister and photographer Jenny Brandt (who also has the sammy rose blog + shop) The lovely pics above are shot by Jenny at Isabelle’s. I think the black wall display is fabulous! And there’s loads of more inspiration on playful and charming kids’ rooms (like the one right) on their site. It’s undoable (and unnecessary) to define their interior style tastes, but I’d summarize it Happy Scandinavian :) Clearly creative, retro, personal, arty, homey, free-spirited and fun. Below is a really nice example of a ‘Dos Visit’, photographer Jenny Brandt visits Lisa Grue’s home. More of this lovely retro charm can be found here.

I think these two rooms below are very interesting! The decor is simple, yet the Josef Frank wallpaper looks nicer than ever together with the retro/vintage caramel sofa. The bathroom could have been downright boring but the pink pastel door (and a photo display or something hidden behind it) and the orange rug on the grey patterned floor is ‘all it takes’ to give the place some interesting character.

| all photos: Jenny Brandt @ DosFamily |

Now, lastly, I will join DosFamily’s upcoming blog battle – no idea what it will be about, but I will take the challenge :)

Sometimes, the city life gets a bit wearisome. Too many people, too little space..What suits better then, than to take a glimpse into the life of blogger Jonna Jinton. She’s the 21 year old city girl who decided to leave town and move to the remote far Northern Sweden countryside. She found herself a new place – an old cottage – in the midst of the Northern Sweden wilderness: in a very tiny village surrounded by beautiful natural scenery. I think her activities and whereabouts actually are interesting, liberating, and calming. She chops wood and struggles to keep her house warm, takes care of her property – and no, she’s not into that 50′s housewife glamour and cupcakes – she works in the local grocery shop and simply enjoys the changing of the seasons and the earty life in the outback countyside.

Every now and then she visits Grandma and Grandpa for a fika (that’s quite simply a cup of coffee and 7 cookies) and you’d guess they live next door, but it’s actually approx 40 miles of winding roads (and that’s no distance to speak of, in the wilderness!). Jonna Jinton has now the chance to get a scholarship for being such a nice representative of the district she lives in. I think she and her blog without doubt deserves this price (if you do too, the pic below will take you to the voting form). Jonna and her cottage. It’s a miracle she’s managed through the lengthy winter up there! :)

Update: In this post Jonna has a collection of pictures from her house!

There’s a challenge going on in the Swedish blogosphere: to select 5 favourite blogs. I have to choose on a very ‘right now’ basis because it’s ever-changing. So here it goes, 5 fav blogs – in the interior design area – in no particular order:

• Solid frog. Why? It has great content! Lovely pics and above all: style is varied, creative and fun, it’s not only the “usual” stuff. (Blog language: English)

• atelier abigail ahern. Why? Because she is the coolest interior designer on earth, of course! Very inspirational. (Blog language: English)

• style made simple. Why? Again the content is varied with pics and styles from all around. (Blog language: Hungarian & English)

• UnderbaraClara. Why? She’s adorable and most certainly also her house is. Retro and countryish vintage with a huge portion of creativity. (Blog language: Swedish)

• purple area. Why? It’s good, it’s comptetent, it’s meat and potatoes: it covers the broad strokes. (Blog language: Swedish & English)

…ever wondered what’s the hottest colour right now according to trendey?

Nah, I figured! ;) To me it’s blue, always, but this Autumn grey is all around. From raw concrete to the silkiest sophisticated shade and everything in between. The ‘new’ base colour. I like the room above, from Danish RUM. Shades of grey is not the base, but the elements that assemble the style and provides the harmonious and cool vibe.

And now to the thank yous. A great big THANK YOU to all you lovely readers, for following us, commenting, greeting and feedbacking. Without you trendey wouldn’t be nearly as fun. And a thousand thanks to all of you who have written about trendey this last month. We appreciate it dearly. This has also given us new blogs to follow, and I wish to highlight three of our new-finds. Thank you Sunny @ beautiful morning’s light. Thank you Natacha @ interior-passionate Mocca & Me and Thank you Michael @ inspiring and charmy Inspired by charm.

Discuss!