pear house

I love doll houses and not the sweet ones only appriorate for girls, just like Ruffled Snob of Pirates and Peonies do.
We have a black chalkboard painted wooden Amsterdam Canal House in the living room, a large old doll house also painted black on the outside and white on the inside in Pip and Floor's bedroom and a small cardboard house from Ferm Living with 4 departments, just like the pear house by Rock & Pebbel.
Love this original house, but four doll houses seems a bit exaggerated :)

By the way Rock & Pebble also sells an apple house. And recently I bought such lovely doll house furniture at IKEA like a miniature Klippan bench and Lack cupboard and table.

pinned up

Last sunday we visited the Pinned Up exhibition of Marcel Wanders at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Especially loving his basic designs, realizing I own some of his designs because of his collaborations with Randstad, my former employer, and some because I had a crush on his timeless designs myself.

Go visit his exhibition at the Stedelijk until june 15 yourself!

just enjoying life

Looking back on such a nice Easter weekend with my love: having dinner at Het Koelhuis on friday evening, visiting and falling in love with Delft, enjoying sun and laziness at Whoosah Scheveningen, lunch at Dudok The Haque, Easter breakfast at Kek Delft, having a drink outside at the Molenpad, Prinsengracht Amsterdam after visiting Pinned Up by Marcel Wanders at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (more about that later in a new post :)). 

Realizing I didn't take as much pictures as I intended to, because I just wanted to enjoy and capture the moments together. 

Feeling so blessed! Hoping you have had a nice Easter weekend too!

IXXI love

 

IXXI design is a great concept to change your wall and interior in an instant. On the IXXI-site you can pick and choose from their continiously changing image bank and special collection or design your own IXXI by using your own picture(s). Making a collage, an enlargement or a pixel-ixxi consisting of square cards connected by x's and i's.

I really enjoyed designing my personal IXXI eye-catcher. Using a picture of a painting bought in Beiing and Pip's wooden china girl. It has a special place in our living room, but it will be on Pip's room in the future. Thnx to the easy way to just move it to another wall without leaving behind ugly wholes.

If you want to IXXI your wall visit their site or the IXXI-your-world blog for inspiration!

Lucy in the Sky

Everyday while travelling to work I pass the Havenkwartier in Deventer. An industrial harbour area which is being rebuilt into a urban district for living, working and culture.
Recently they built the first of four different mini-hotels alongside the harbour, the Lucy Cube. The Lucy Cube is an artwork consisting of a white cube placed on top of an old black sand hopper and with a great white interior.
I could see this great design from my office but never drove by to actually see it. But yesterday I did!
It is really beautiful and it must be a great experience to sleep in there after having dinner at Dok H2O.
It makes me very curious what the other three designs of this Lucy in the Sky-project will look like!
Knowing I will visit this area and its wonderfull streetart more often.

kids room: my deer

Some details of a kidsroom with such a great combination of white, wood and green. Designed by Maaike Koster for her own son. Maaike is the owner of My Deer, designing concepts, brands and interiors.
I love her work!

You can find more information and pictures of Maaike's work on her site mydeer.nl and on some posts about her house by &SUUS.

M is for ... - blessings

M is for Museum and for Marco or actually for celebrating Marco's b-day visiting the Rijksmuseum on this saturday. Lovely to end a nice week this way and start the holiday with the kids.

Love the Rijksmuseum, such a great building exposing wonderful art, like the 'Nachtwacht' by Rembrandt (the kids favorite :)) but also more modern art like the Rietveld chair in white. Not being able to see the whole art collection yesterday, so considering to buy a museum card to visit it again and again, and also visiting the Marcel Wanders exhibition Pinned Up at the Stedelijk Museum soon :)

Ending our trip to Amsterdam having diner at Magnetico, the former Praq-restaurant in a red fleapit at Zeeburgereiland. Such a relaxed place to have dinner with kids.
Feeling blessed!

Follow the weekly count your blessings posts of all participants mentioned on Anki's blog Zilverblauw.