candy room design 5 - The Candy Room

The Candy Room

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This is a project set forth to bring lots of smiles for sure! Melbourne based Candy Room is way beyond your regular experience of a candy shop, which speaks of the company’s anyway innovative idea, this of offering sugar free sweets, which are though sweet enough.

Sweet Enough is in fact the name of the importer who decided to set up a store in order to serve more than the need of customers to purchase something sweet while healthy at the same time. They wanted to encourage customers to spend as much time exploring their shop, as much as actually shopping. They wished to create an experience for the clients that they wouldn’t forget. Continue reading

stylish home krosenlund 9 - In the kitchen and beyond with Kara Rosenlund

In the kitchen and beyond with Kara Rosenlund

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Are you prepared for some serious dosage of deep rooted elegance, charm and impeccably beautiful order? Then I hope your feathered wings are all shiny and ready, so that you can come fly with me above this amazing home residence belonging to Kara Rosenlund, the accomplished photographer, stylist, buyer and seller whose career takes her all over the world and her clients include famous people like Madonna. Continue reading

danish home design 81 50x50 - A Danish apartment: simply delicious

A Danish apartment: simply delicious

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I can’t, I simply can’t get enough of those Danish apartments with the sequenced rooms, separated by gorgeously looking wooden doors! Can you? Do forgive my obsession, but however alike they look, I always experience a rush when encountering one that thrills me in new ways, making me mumble to myself, ” Oh my goodness , I would so love to live here!”. Continue reading

small space design casab 32 50x50 - Casa H, Brussels: a small dream home

Casa H, Brussels: a small dream home

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The renovation project shared here today is a great example of how thoughtful planning and spending can result in a wonderful, newly bright apartment made to fit exactly the special needs of its inhabitant.

Graphic designer Herman Rios, the owner of this 1968 Louis Herman De Koninck building situated in the center of Brussels, Belgium, calls himself a maniacal perfectionist. One could guess that this aspect in combination with a rather limited budget made the job of Barcelona based architects Matteo Colombo and Andrea Serbol a tough one to complete. But they and their company CaSA managed to deliver a crisp interior where natural light reaches every single of its compact space of 98 square meters! Continue reading

ascer ceramic house 91 - Ascer ceramic house: a three dimensional model full of ideas and charm

Ascer ceramic house: a three dimensional model full of ideas and charm

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When it comes to showcasing the use of a product, the winner goes to anything replicating reality as well and vivid as possible. The Spanish Association of Tile and Ceramic Flooring manufacturers (ASCER) supported the realization of the ceramic house. More specifically, the Madrid based architectural practice around Hector Ruiz-Velazquez realized this showroom, which is planned like a three dimensional object.

The space is divided into several levels and layers, offering a highly flexible utilization, demonstrating how versatile applying ceramic tiles in a living space can be. Indeed there are uses that quite surprised me, as you’ll notice further down. Continue reading

lake cottage denmark 5 - Cottage by the lake in Denmark

Cottage by the lake in Denmark

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There is something about Scandinavian summer cottages that pull the strings of my heart towards happiness… much like this one presented today, situated in Tibirke by lake Arreso, owned by the painter Bear Agertved and his girlfriend Maria Krogh. Characterized by rustic elements harmoniously mixed with clean modern lines, it provides a calming environment to spend weekends, rejuvenating, while enjoying the pretty interiors. Continue reading

photographer home design 5 - Home of photographer Jacob Nylud

Home of photographer Jacob Nylud

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Sneaking into the home of a photographer, how’s that for a visual treat? The place Swedish photographer Jacob Nylud calls home seems to be bathed in natural light, thanks to plenty of windows and naturally the choice of the brightest of whites for its walls, which reflect it all over, maximizing the effect.

Simplicity prevails, yet this wouldn’t be characterized as a minimal space, unless we are referring to the classic color combination mainly of black and white. This is the home of someone who loves displaying his favorite things, a person who enjoys bringing home furniture and objects that have stories to tell. Continue reading

tea room tabernacle 5 - Tin tabernacle room: tea, cakes and sandwiches for unforgettable weekends

Tin tabernacle room: tea, cakes and sandwiches for unforgettable weekends

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Sometimes you wonder just how much cuter can a concept, an idea, a space can get, until you stumble upon something that blows your mind in the sweetest of ways. I mean, just look at this little tin house in its perfect classic shape with a triangular roof and all, a little porch and wooden details to totally make out with the grey metallic, semi shiny texture of the metal “skeleton”!

And then just dare to take a step inside, after walking a bit on the yard’s gravel and the porch’s reclaimed wooden floors to be confronted with a totally serene white interior, wooden accessories, stools standing on metal legs and a giant fork and spoon resting on the wall! Continue reading

modern manhattan home 5 - City modern Manhattan Home tour

City modern Manhattan Home tour

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This light filled duplex in Manhattan’s Union Square belongs to Daniel and Kate Wadia and has been an unexpected dream come true. After finding this space in a Beaux Arts building in the 5th avenue and having priory lived in a two bedroom apartment in the Flat Iron building, their hopes were totally exceeded.

It comes as no surprise as it is like a house in the sky, in two floors, with three exposures and essentially no neighbors to the right, left or behind. Oh my dear, must I exclaim myself, this sounds like heaven on earth! However to reach to the point of transforming this former four bedroom suburban town house into an urban loft bathed in shades of white, the couple worked closely together with Joseph Tanney from Resolution 4 Architecture for about a year. Continue reading

stone house mallorca 51 - Stone House by the sea: A modern cave house in Mallorca

Stone House by the sea: A modern cave house in Mallorca

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I have a soft spot for Majorca and I can’t hide it. It’s a marvelous place, combining beautiful beaches, picturesque villages and amazing rides up on high mountains with breathtaking views down the Mediterranean sea. It’s one of these places on earth I feel totally at home.

Sometimes I daydream about owning a house there and today I thought I daydream publicly out loud with you here, while sharing this beautiful stone house on the beloved island. Continue reading