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{red} modern kitchen

Mia — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:57:00 +0000

{red} inspiration – a modern, pretty kitchen.

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A peaceful kitchen

Henen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:03:19 +0000

This kitchen, which was used as the set for Sophie Dahl’s cooking show “The Delicious Miss Dahl”, is tranquil, bright and bang on trend with a rustic cooker, smart Belfast sink and public toilet style tiles. Although I’m not normally a huge fan of the all-white colour scheme or the shabby chic look, I really like this kitchen design. To me, it’s a blank canvas and perfect backdrop for adding splashes of colour and fun decorative objects according to mood and season. I just know this kitchen will look great even when it’s totally messy!

In the TV show, the kitchen looked much more lively than on the above estate agent pics (the north London house to which the kitchen belongs was for sale a few months back for £1.45 million (!)) With only a couple of additions - like a cheerful and pretty wallpaper and assorted vintage items, the kitchen became a much more colourful and homely space.

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Dining: Warm as Sun – Cool as Sea

Mia — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:38:14 +0000

We have tropical temperatures in the cold North right now! The mercury is stable at 90° F, the sun roasts and you yearn for the blue, blue sea and lapping waves. This contrast is useful in home decor – the hot and the cold. Sunny yellow and cool blue-turquoise for dining..

| pics: channel4 – 4homes |

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Turquoise Kitchen

Mia — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:30:22 +0000

There is so much beauty in the world, when it comes to interiors. Like this turquoise kitchen.

…with this view.

| images: 1st option |

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Kitchen Inspiration: Stainless + Colours

Mia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:22:25 +0000

If I were to choose a brand new kitchen today, I’d probably go for something like this:

| pic: marie claire maison |

Stainless steel backdrop + colours. It’s absolutely trendy, but with its variation possibilities it has a potential of resistance to the changing times.

| pics: living etc |

Another, possibly more daring, choice is to let colour have the prominent place. Blueish, redish, yellowish…All excellent kitchen-colours.

| pics: living etc |

| pic: Sköna hem |

So… those were my picks for inspiration. What’s YOUR dream kitchen like? Would you go for something 2010-hot like this or keep it more traditional?

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Bosse stool goes twisted

Mia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:56:17 +0000

Aren’t chairs and stools the funniest decor pieces of them all?! I think so. In our kitchen we have a table by the window for fast breakfasting chews whilst watching the traffic on the bridge outside. To sit on, we got 2 IKEA Bosse stools. Bosse is small and handy, seat has a hole makes it easy to move. Here’s what I chose for personalizing our Bosse’s: the cool pale-blue hue havsbris (“sea-breeze”) and the warm light sand-yellowish hue strå (“straw”) from the Alcro Design Collection. Painted with a twist.

I’m not influenced by the Olympics and the roar popular hat, I promise..!! But I recognize the colours are hot these days (at least in my home country :)) There’s plenty of inspiration around, I got mine from images of browsing past. Think I fell for the light yellow colour on the cover of the book Cheap Chic (an excellent book btw) and various funny stool and chair ideas blogged, such as paint company Beckers’ inspirational photo via the blog Husligheter and Chair Personality Socks from Charles & Marie via High Fashion Home Blog. And not to mention the lovely Wood & Wool Stools. Imagination is the only limit when it comes to chairs and stools!

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Vintage Tableware

Mia — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:55:02 +0000

I visited a flea market in Northern Sweden last weekend. These are my lovely findings! Twelve flawless and super-charming plates (six dinner plates, six smaller plates) for the modest price of 60 SEK (Â£5) in total. My first thought was to make something out of them, maybe a funny lamp, maybe break them all and rearrange into a porcelain uh, something! but we have been eating on them ever since and enjoyed it dearly. Arn’t they sweet!

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The right tools for a nice Salad

Mike — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:54:29 +0000

Salad cutlery does not have to be boring. With this nice set of trendey tools from Atypyk you can get even the most hard-boiled person impressed. They are made out of Hard wood and you can get a pair for around $20.

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Vintage Coffee Cups

Mia — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:02:13 +0000

As you probably already know, no one is drinking coffee in mugs anymore. It’s all about petite and beautiful vintage coffee cups. This phenomena goes along with the 1950′s/60´s housewife trend. For today, a non-negligible amount of young urban people has brought sweet new life to chores and duties our parents thought were overdue. The trend is aimed at the American housewives from the 50s. A bit harsh, a bit glamourous, but mostly back-to-the-bone. The new born interest in home-made soup and bread, 7 kinds of cookies, spectacular cupcakes and in exchangig tips on how best to manage antler salt has not necessarily anything to do with a backlash; i.e. a desire to never work and just wear a floury apron and be devoted to housework. Inside of the trend there is indeed an element of admiration of each other’s vintage china and puffy vintage skirts, but there’s also a high awareness and a play with stereotypes. It’s way aside from the heroine chic fashion, quite the opposite: with the hair come wavy on rollers and with the tilting pleated skirt, you can eat as much frosting as you wish. It is permissive, and that’s probably one key as to why the trend is so easily absorbed today. The appealing part of the housewife in modern times seems altogether to go back to the genuine: to make real food, cooked from scratch. To practice the tricks and that grandma taught us. To stand firmly on our roots when the wind wines. As long as you know how to grow and harvest potatoes you’ll survive difficult times.

So, even though not all of us will be making 7 sweet pastries for the coffee rope on Sunday, we cant’t escape reality. For this, we need flowered tablecloths and china from the first half of the 1900s. Here’s a lovely vintage coffee cup example:

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