This weekend I had my first cup of chemex-brewed coffee. Delicious! I used freshly ground Kenya AA beans, and the result was the best coffee I’ve had in years. No giant step from my usual coffee making – which used to be a plastic filter holder placed on top of a cup – but a lot more refined. And hey, with the clean mid-centrury modern design – a blond leather band corseting the hourglass curves, it’s so stylish! Verdict: Chemex is found well worthy of its hype.

Invented in 1941 by German doctor of Chemistry Peter Schlumbohm, recognized as one of the best-designed items of modern times in the 50s, and honoured a place in the permanent collection of e.g. the Museum Of Modern Art, this retro piece is both spendid American design and excellent functionality. Schlumbohm is actually quoted saying “with the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.” I think it’s true! and maybe he had his hunches this invention would be ultra-trendy in the capital of a land far far away (Sweden) in the end of year 2011, at its 70th birthday :)

Update Nov 30th: I just noticed Anthropologie now has Chemex’s in their range! I guess it isn’t only Stockholm trendiness, then. It’s a wave.

That’s what I love. I didn’t know about photographer Ashley Campbell, until I stumbled upon a reference to her blog Under the Sycamore in French Côté Maison. I also learned she sometimes writes about DIY on Design*Sponge. Anyways, the bohemian spirit in these pics makes me so happy…

An absolutely amazing kitchen wall – gorgeous mix.

| Sources: #2 via Cote Maison and #1&3 via Under the Sycamore |

Todd Selby has visited the New York City home of Colin Tunstall, co owner & creative director Saturdays NYC, and I cherish the laid-backness! A melodic and interesting tune is what I hear. Detailwise, I Iove it that he’s got a beautiful Dala horse in the window (actually there are more Swedish details if you look further at the Selby – e.g. some bottles of fine Swedish snaps. Good choices).

Lived-in and hodgy-podgy. On the verge of messy, yet I still hear a good tune, fine lyrics. Love this display below.

We are just moving into a new home decor season – the lovely fall of 2011 – so what suit better in this downtime of news than to (again) summarize some ongoing trendiness. Without claiming to be complete, of course. Now to start, the allover trend is of course UNDECORATE! Coined by DwellStudio’s Christiane Lemieux, the no-rules/non-decorating approach to interior design is gaining ground steadily. A close friend to, and sometimes inseparable from, the good ol’ (awesome!) eclectic style. Laid-back, funny and personal.

All the oddities. Of any kind. Busts, psychology heads or any other fairly quirky & odd object. The science trend also shows a lot of anatomy posters, bell jars, eye tests and well, you name it. And we’re into retro, retro, retro! Retro might be the strongest trend of the 2010′s, so far and I wouldn’t be surprised if totally (I mean we have yet to see the full swing of 80s and 90s.). Moving on, home decor smacks of creativity. It’s the #1 feature of the undecorator. Personal collections in a variety of ways, e.g. mood boards, are typical (and functional) interest-adders to a room.

And the letters and numbers of course (companioned with vintage signs and messages). Oh, and the hotter than hot drinks trolley. Crazy popular.

Wallpapers are as popular as dark or mildly painted walls (or white walls, but I wouldn’t admit that, you know how I feel about white :p) Preferably Granny’s old wallpapers. And we’ve seen loads and loads of world maps and globes:

Riding us into the globetrotter-trend. With kilim (or kelim), ikat and other ethnic inspired fabrics and patterns. And to close for today, all the wild & creative frame groupings. To display art, pant hangers are useful or well, just ordinary clothes hangers can also do.

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Hello! Now I’m back and refreshed from a week in sunny Majorca. I love that island, it’s so beautiful and nice. Here’s a round of charming and trendy details. First, a lovely countryish room with granny-vibed wallpapers, a rag rug, vintage furniture and well, loads of charm! Next, an idea for frames – why not fill the empty beautiful golden frame with some nice piece of fabric? In this case it’s just hanging, but it could also be pulled aside and fixed with a little tassle.

| via hus&hem and via sfgirlbybay |

Pant hangers as art displayers – again! A very nice, trendy and low-budget alternative. Can be varied endlessly. And below that, a kind of new trend in wall decor: arrows! These are home made, from the webshop quivver.

| pant hangers via apartment theraphy and arrows via kurbits |

Round is my favourite shape. I really like to have round going round – in a room. In our living room we have a round rug and a CYRK poster with a round motif and a lamp with round wood beads. And a curvy sofa. Everything else is of course squary, including the TV (but hey, isn’t this a great new design idea – round tv’s? Would look wonderful…) My point is the round shape can be a unifier just like colours and other themes. And the roundness adds some kind of movement, which I like. Anyhow, the round shape is all over the walls these days!

We’ve seen the a lot of plates…

…maybe they are starting to come down.( and broken china is an excellent material to reuse).

The ethnic and globetrotterish trend brought baskets, which are the new plates.

| both pics via vtwonen |

Another cool, round, detail is the convex mirrors.

Abigail Ahern has someultra-stylish ones in her collection (one featured bottom left) and Graham & Green has some really nice ones too (all the others in above pic.) Well that was all the roundness I had for tonight, now I’ll rotate to bed :) See ya!