Nov
8
New home
by Sofia - in Interior design
You asked me about the new house and to include you a little bit in on our process. We are not renovating it ourselves but have a professional crew doing it on our behalf so I don´t have any neat renovation tricks to share but I can tell you a little about what I have planned for the house. Most likely I have to let go of a few of my dreams as there is a budget that is not endless. But luckily a house can always be added on to later on if one feels like it.
The new one will have basically the same elements as this one. Two bathrooms, a dining room, a living room and a separate kitchen. This new apartment has one extra room so in the future the girls have their own rooms. I also get to fulfil another dream of mine and get a large pantry in my kitchen with glass doors to the kitchen. It even has a large window and a place for a breakfast table. A dream come true!
In the future the girls will share a bathroom and in there, behind closing doors we also have our laundry “wall” ( instead of a separate room). My husband and I share an en suite bathroom with a bathtub and a shower that you get to from our bedroom by walking through our dressing room ( walk in closet if you may).
The building is late 1800´s and our apartment has some gorgeous old features like original doors, fishbone parquet and a green tiled Jugend style fire place that is in fact working! We will restore the apartment in the style of that era, very much so as we did on our current one. I hope it will turn out as lovely as it is in my mind. The colour scheme we will keep light and airy but with added warm touches of blue, grey and gold. That also draws from the colour schemes of that time. Obviously also from what we like. This time it looks likely we will be using a bit of wallpaper. But mostly something that looks time appropriate for that era.
Nov
5
Have a great week!
by Sofia - in Random
I just wanted to drop by and tell you to have the most amazing week! I thank you for all your lovely wishes on my blog birthday! They put a big smile on my face.
Nov
1
Today, the first of November, is always a very special day for the blog as I consider it as some sort of a birthday. Today it is already six years ago that I started writing mine. I still love writing it and always look forward to your comments on my posts!
You really loved a few posts more than others this past blog year. Your absolute favourite seemed to be the very last post of last year. Some of you were perhaps planning a trip to Disney too? You liked reading about bucket lists and the one about positive and negative people. And the-post about letting go. Also the en suite post and the Girls Room post were also popular so I´m sure you would like to see more interior things in the future. Let´s hope the light in the new house gives ample opportunities for great interior posts. The post about living your best life made you comment a lot which I find to be important to me on a successful post. You also enjoyed reading about my style here, here, here and here. One of my favourites was perhaps the Still post that you also liked.
And here are some pictures from the previous blog year. I hope they bring out some lovely memories for you too or some of them inspired you t make something delicious or fun. I must say I was personally a little taken aback at how few recipes I shared so that definitely needs an improvement for the 7th blog year!
November also marks the start of the month when we are slowly allowed to whisper the magic word… Christmas. As if one only starts at the beginning of December the season is inexcusably short. I know many people find November to be the darkest and dreariest month but as I am a creature of comfort I consider November to be a month of rolling through everyday life with a side of candles. It´s the month where you want to go to the sauna after gym and lay there for a few minutes. You can usually start wearing your super comfortable soft cashmeres from top to toes and say they make an outfit ( and get away with it). For us it´s also the month we plan Cotton Candy´s birthday party. This year she has something very special in mind for her friends and I hope I get the execution right. It involves the attic and plenty of led ” candles”. And a pre-party trip to London for me for some “accessories”. Then after that it is high time to start the Christmas plans. I sometimes wish my girls were born either at the beginning of the year or at summer time as this time of year there is just always so much going on. And spring and summer has all the pretty flowers too. But this season has the upper hand on anything remotely scary or pretty candle light themed.
