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.

Me and Henen had a refreshment break at this incredible pub in Upper Street, Islington. It’s called the King’s Head and is world renowned for its music and its theatre that is located in the back room behind the bar.

I love the eclectic and theatre-ish athmosphere! So homey and inspirational. The wall colours, the dark wooden floorboards, the stage lights, the velvet stools…. and the walls covered with photos and posters of the theatre’s many productions (it has enjoyed numerous transfers to the West End and Broadway). And of course the fresh flowers on each table. And the beer was excellent too!

via decor8 and kurbits…

…via atelier abigail ahern

…and via four walls and a roof

When in London Henen and her husband dragged us (willingly!) along to those delicious antiques shops and question kept nagging me: how come Stockholm don’t have places like these? With hand-picked designer goods, odd curiosities and hearty old furniture? Then by coincidence, I discovered vintage/antiques store Dusty Deco. Had to pay it a visit this wknd just to make sure there’re for real.

And YES,… it’s real. There is a garage in north-east Stockholm city that houses treasures! Hand-picked furniture and odds and ends from 30s, 40s, 50s…this place is a real treat for Retro and Industrial Vintage lovers. Excellent website shows all the goods, new stuff added (and removed/sold) every week.

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 |

This kitchen below belongs to Underbaraclara. She has been mentioned before, not least lately as I’ve snowed in on the trendy countryside :) It’s a kitchen in 30s/50s style mainly made up of old recycled parts.

An old genuine kitchen was disassembled then rebuilt to fit into this house. The decor scheme is fresh bright pastels with a mix of patterns under the motto ‘colourful but bright’.

They found and installed an old beloved wood stove, and even the tiles are second hand! The checkered 50′s wallpaper is Rut, by Sandberg. In the window stands the Swedish National Flower in Interior Decorating – a  pelargonium. The curtains, lovely hanged as you can see on the upper pic, were a 7 buck bargain at a flea market. Very charming I think!