Hello dear all and happy August! The 20th this month is Trendey’s 2nd birthday! I have a plan for this day… and it involves me going to Henen’s house in London, bringing my camera :) I really really like August. The only drawback is that summer is coming to an end. A fact that makes me enjoy the last weeks of delightfully balmy evenings even more. These are some home decor stuff & scenes I love right now.

| white bedroom via house beautiful, a stool from reclaimed timber via rockettstgeorge, an electric arrow via mwest0425 at Etsy and a rococo-style velvet sofa via norrgården |

| cozy/boho photography by ditte isager via room and serve |

| white scene [DIY-tip for the mirror!] via inredningsbloggen & black vases via norrgården |

Have a nice week! See you when I see you.

This trend is by no means brand new, but the drinks trolley is surely appearing more and more often. Here’s Victoria Smith’s and here’s some other nice ones. And speaking of trends, the pic below is a display of trendiness.

The sofa, the tiny tables, the anatomy/biology posters – everything!
And the drink trolley, it can have innumerable looks. Retro, industrial, elegant…

..or arty. It’s a cool, beautiful and actually very useful piece of decor.

| sources: click images |

| images via the fab magazine AD France, april 2011 issue |

Here it is! Our looovely 2nd-hand sofa and chair! It’s from an old Swedish brand called Lani (AB Larsson & Nilsson), that used to manufacture style imitations. In this case: rococo. I can’t wait to set into place in the new living room!

Some time ago, I confessed my love of the Day Home-sofa. I still have a passion for it (we do have a distance-relationship still) but it turned out it’s an impossible love affair. I went to a retailer, I test-sat the couch, I touched the velvet, I thought, felt and decided: Yupp, we take it! This is the one! Though, everything aint easy when it comes to picking the right one. It was a wolf in sheep’s clothing! I had fallen for a prototype! To my surprise and, of course, great disappointment the lovely warm purple-aubergine-plum hue that I adored was only the prototype-colour. Production colour is a colder, more blueish purple hue. See? Not the same.

On the bright side? I saved four thousand bucks! Our superb vintage-findings cost only a tenth.

One of my favourite brands, for both clothes and interiors, is the Danish DAY Birger et Mikkelsen. The DAY HOME winter collection of 2009 is, as always, well-thought-through and absolutely stunning in its perfect colour mixes.

The atmosphere is cozy, intellectual – a little messy, inviting and warm. You want to stay at home with the fireplace on, read books, drink toddy´s, maybe start knitting a sweater to a loved one. The colors of the season are WARM with red, pink and purple, COLD with blue and army and an ethnic GOLD to tie them all together.

This latest collection includes a piece of furniture I’ve fallen helplessly in love with – the Conversation Sofa. A velvet sofa with a warm purple-aubergine hue that is totally consistent with DAY’s inspirational thoughts: I want to stay home in that sofa, with the fireplace on, read a book, drink toddy´s, and maybe start knitting a sweater to a loved one. All winter long…

The DAY sofa measures 200 X 80 X 100 cm and has a pricetag of approx £2500 (29 900 SEK).