This home is featured in Danish Bolig Magasinet headed “Luxury home on a budget”; through a thorough search for 2nd hand stuff you can surround yourself with great things in spite of a relatively modest budget. Danes, Danes, Danes….they are so creative and fun! A style that is very much Scandinavian, but far far from rigid white, bright fresh and sterile.

The residents themselves say it like this:

It’s all about mixing styles, to buy a few things of good quality, to know your local charity shop and plow through ‘Den Blå Avis’ [the Danish equivalent to Craigslist/Blocket] In addition, online auctions such as Lauritz.com and Qxl.dk are great places to make good purchases. There’s really no reason to buy everything new.

Hem (Home) 2010 is Sweden’s largest interior decor & design fair. It has the great advantage that one can shop on site, not only look. And as the fair is organized in cooperation with Elle Interiör (Swedish Elle Decor), there is an emphasis on trend display. This is Trendey’s report.

First of all, the knitted recycled and handicrafted home decor trend. It’s stronger than ever and sooo cozy appropriate in the Autumn. My favourites are Oddbird‘s lamp with wooden balls and knitted lampshades (top right) and Wendinskan‘s new Rag Lights (bottom left, made from old rag rugs). You can see more of these rag lights in Wendinskans blog, where you also in the near future can follow her work to renovate an old house. Next up are some trendy details: playful, vintage and gold (I love circus-themed decor!) – from the shop & webshop Koffert – plus some nice retro robot candle sticks.

Designgalleriet choose to display what they call one of this year’s big trends – the pool party. Think happy and cheerful, and more specifik the 80s, Falcon Crest, Miami Vice, pastels, plastic, flamingos, umbrella drinks and sand between your toes. Optimistic, young and innovative design displayed:

Now lastly, the nature trend was overwhelming, almost. The moose is the new antler. Moose or elk, same king. They had a pretty one at the trend display:

And some more nature to round off this interior trend report. With a magpie included, the trendiest bird.

| pics: trendey |

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Fembots (fembots) have feelings too

Are-n’t the-se fo-bots lo-v-ely! Found object robots - in artist Amy Flynn‘s versions made up of various bits and pieces such as old tins, handles, tea infusers, a pocket watch and hydraulic fittings. Very creative, quirky and fun. An assortment of Amy Flynn’s Fobots can be found at Anthropologie.

I think there are several elements that make retro robots, and fobots in particular, an interesting decor item of our time. It’s recycled waste: Old parts transformed into something new through pure creativity. Each piece is unique. Vintage. The retro look of these robots has aesthetics of a bygone era: Reminiscent of technology beliefs in the 50s and 60s that maybe, around the distant year 2010, robots like this will be serving us humans…(!) Hm, wouldn’t that be something! :p

The fobot is charmig and an excellent eclectifying detail. Retro robots of course feel at home in an industrial vintage style, and may for sure add interest and fun to any scheme. There are quite a lot of robot stuff around, including some nice posters/prints. Below are some examples: Doreen Box Art Robot Print and The Warmth of Your Metal Heart Print from John W. Golden and a Vintage Robot Retro Pop Art Print from Moster Gallery. Also, I couldn’t let this cute thing out, a Robot Corkscrew from Urban Outfitters.