Like nothing else, flowers represent summer.

What would this white-tiled kitchen be without the flowers?

Instant loveliness.

The most effective home decor feature of them all.

Hepp, I got a second summer house! In my mind…that is. A green oasis and energy booster retreat! It has the loveliest windows (above, via igotasweettooth), cool details such as the vintage lamp (via etsy) and loads and loads of fresh flowers and lively popping colours:

And of course, a huge huge garden, almost a forest. With some seating areas here and there.

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Mm, that’s my summer hideaway!

Wow, Friday already! This week has been so quick. And forecast says the Stockholm weekend will be sunny and warm. Happy times! Today, I’m liking this…

This style appeals to me. The place is featured in SvD Bostad and it’s Scandinavian yet it could have been anywhere in the world. Lively, homely and harmonious.

I also love this hallway below (same source, different house) maybe mostly because it reminds me of my grandparent’s summer house. There’s a Swedish saying that goes “Sun outside, sun inside -  sun in heart, sun in mind” and this room is the epitome of the sun’s effects. I feel I want to run down to the lake that probably is somewhere outside the window. Later I’ll jump into the folklore-rubber boots and go pick some delicious berries :)

| stylist lara hutton – the names agency & petra bindel – agent bauer |

| the house that kat and fred built via solid frog |

I just finished my remake of an old sewing box: A really ugly, scraped, brown and green painted one, bought last summer at a flea market for five bucks. It has been tucked away awaiting better times but when I got a spare paint sample from Henen (of Farrow & Ball’s Downpipe) an idea was born and it got to see light again.

I dispatched the lid and painted it first a round of plain blue and then almost a round of Downpipe (I left out some areas in the back and on one side just for the fun of it). Finished off with some lace around the opening. I keep my sewing tools in a very manly, practical, compartmentalized toolbox – while this box now got a second life as a keeper of flowers in front of the balcony. In Spring I will fill it with pelargoniums.

| image via kelly wearstler |