MOOD

Some moodboards expressing ideas to redecorate the living room.
Rearranging miniature furniture cut out from paper on a paper plan.
Exploring just the right place for a new bench including it's most perfect size and color.
Matching existing furniture and accessories with new ones on our wishlist.
And dreaming about the perfect workspace to blog!

carpet crush

pic: Rene van der Hulst

Today I was browsing through the last edition of 101 woonideeen, a dutch interior magazine which unfortunately doesn't exist anymore, when my attention was captured by a picture of such a colorful carpet. 

I had an instant crush on this great carpet designed by Petra Janssen from Studio Boot as part of the Dutch Landscapes collection. 

It really fits the interior styling of their own house I wrote about in an earlier blogpost and its so beautiful! It's definitely on my I-wish list!

kids room: alejandrina bessoberto

I love her blog, her basic style, this great kids room for her son Leonardo and her instagram feed.

Just so many beautiful basic pictures.

'jij bent de liefste'

Today it has been exactly four weeks since we have moved to our new home. So special that a house feels like home from day one when you share it with the people you love.
After moving all the things that were necessary and decorating the kids rooms, we are now making plans for changing our living room.
While making a moodboard on Pinterest for our plans, I fell in love with a pin with the lovely sentence  'jij bent de liefste' [you're the sweetest] made by Nelleke | Langius Design. When she saw my pin shared on Facebook she made one for our new house.
I'm so happy with this cute present!

PS. the black and white cards on the snapshots are bought at ABCD kaarten. I like the lovely freckles.

kids room: rock that wall

This weekend, just like the last two was all about painting. In order to prepare the children's rooms for our removal in february.

Creating an extra room, a white base for Sam's room and some colorful walls for the other kids besides some white ones. Like bright yellow and silver for the girls and green for Floor who asked for a football field on his wall.

After painting a square on his wall with magnetic paint his wall became "football field-green".

Today I designed the actual field with MT-masking tape. It's not finished yet, because we have to think about the curved lines on the field. But according to Floor it is already "cool".

I wished I had made pictures with my Nikon instead of my iPhone, because of the quality of the pictures. But I just wanted to share it anyway :)

NOW or NEVER

Last summer I discovered Ávivre, a great French interior design magazine, in a local bookstore in France. I fell for the cover with a picture of this inspiring house designed by NU architectuuratelier in Ghent, Belgium.
Or actually a picture of their beautiful house, studio and guest room built within the walls of an industrial building. With much design, recycling, containers, carpets and a wonderful open space, which is both a park, play and work area. A great place to live.
More pictures (also of the interior of this great home) and more information on ArchDaily.

our house (for sale!)

Since one month our house is for sale. In order to make pictures to publish it on Funda, I changed our interior. So no more black painted moustache on the wall, a more ordinary interior plan for our furniture and actually getting rid of our personal touch. It felt like the first step in saying goodbye to our home.

Today I made some pictures still reflecting our personal touch. For pictures of the house itself you can visit Funda.

Hoping someone will fall in love with our house, the neighbourhood and Zutphen. Like we did nine years ago.

blog breathing

Blogging is sharing my inspiration and beautiful things in life. But sometimes or perhaps even for some months there is less inspiration. Fortunately there are allways beautiful things and people in my life. 

Today I checked and deleted more than 30 blogs from my 'inspiring blogs'-list. Because they posted no blogposts since (more than) one year (or because they recently started their blog on another blogadress in which case I loved to add the new adress :))

But I don't want to quit my blog. Actually it feels so nice, so lovely, so worthwhile, so me and something to breath new life into!

Today I made some pictures of our interior for a magazine. Nice publicity while we are selling our house. But it feels empty after cleaning up and removing all things 'unnecessary' for the online presentation. Feeling the urge to share a styled home for inspiration: a beautiful house in a former garage in Den Bosch inhabited by Studio Boot published in the june edition of VT Wonen. 

Love this interior, the PHE furniture, the lovely moldavian carpets, the combination of basic and bright colors, the enormous industrial space and the eclectic styling!

no dogs allowed

Yesterday I spent a lovely day with my best female friend in Eindhoven. Visiting one of my favorite places-to-be: Piet Hein Eek at Strijp R. Until yesterday I always visited this spot on busy days during the Dutch Design Week, captured in previous posts. But yesterday it was a lovely quiet place, having dinner outside in the sun, celebrating 30 years of friendship!

painting blessings

Painting blessings :) Keeping the black walls black, but painting the other walls and the ceiling: white it is. 

Saying goodbye to the mustache on the wall, but captured on my instagram account :)

bloginspiration: eclectic crush

Love the ceiling, the windows, the tables, the bench, the carpet, the accessories, the pillows, the prints, the....

Actually love this whole bright, lovely and eclectic styling and interior.

More pictures and rooms on: depto51 blog.