I’m very easily inspired when it comes to bathrooms. I suspect it has to do with the Swedish tradition of not decorating bathrooms and instead keeping them sterile and top-to-toe (white-)tiled. Apart from some nice towels and a white or wood cabinet, they tend to look like a public toilet more or less! I appointed [...]
It’s the last trembling hours of 2011 and time to look back and summarize. And mostly though: focus of the future! During the year, I’ve done a few trend summaries, here’s one from early 2011, and one from summer of 2011. Although Trendey hasn’t dedicated it too much space, the Megatrend of the Year 2011 [...]
…is certainly a favourite topic of mine. I can’t get enough of nicely decorated bathrooms, because in Sweden, we are uncontrollably late in that regard. It seems to take forever to leave – or at least ease up – the sterile totally-tiled ideal. I’ve collected some dreadful Swedish examples in this post (along with some [...]
I say Yes please to this bathroom. Extraordinary cozy & trendey. Wow for decorated bathrooms. | Castello di Vicarello via From The Right Bank |
I love bathrooms like these! With a vibe. I’ve said it thousands of times and I say it again: Swedish bathrooms are the most boring in the world. More often than not they look like a surgery room; all tiled, all clean and desinfected. All white or some other boring colour. Rarely decorated at all…Not [...]
a lovely lovely bathroom w grannyesque / faded glamour vibe faded walls & full simplicity, just on the edge to look like a prison cell… and an effortless, whiteish but homey kids room | click pics to sources |
This picture from the front cover of World of Interiors June 2011 issue really appeals to me. It steams vacation and relaxation. In an exotic faraway place (like Morocco :)) The ethnic/grobetrotter trend that smashed in late spring seems to have gone on holiday but I am convinced it’ll be back full furce once it’s [...]
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 [...]
