London House Front ELevtion

Côté Maison

Je suis si heureuse de voir mon blog sur Côté Maison.fr aujourd'hui, comme l'un des trois blogs qui ont suscité le coup de coeur de la rédaction! Un très grand merci!
Cliquez ici pour lire tout l'article. Félicitations aussi à Hege in France et Seventeendoors qui font partie de la même sélection!

I'm so happy  see my blog featured on Côté Maison.fr today, as one of the editorial team's "3 design blogs that we love" ! Thank you very much! 
Click here to read the full article. Congrats also to Hege in France and Seventeendoors for being part of the same selection!

Captures d'écrans de Côté Maison

Rêver...

Ces photos par Pia Ulin m'ont fait rêver de l'été...

These pictures by Pia Ulin made me long for summer...

Photo Pia Ulin

Fritz Hansen forever

Si j'avais un budget illimité, je sais où je ferais mes courses...

PS. Plus de 1500 fans sur facebook maintenant... waouh! Merci d'être là :)

If I had an unlimited budget, I know where I would be shopping...

PS. More than 1500 followers on facebook now... wow! You make my day :)

Source Fritz Hansen

Best Blog in a Supporting Role...And The Award Goes To...

You want to be friends with her.

As soon as I heard the blog's title, I was intrigued. Who wouldn't be? And when I read the story behind the title, I was captivated. And in tears!

Of all the blogs I read, Use the Good Dishes is one of the few I jump right over to as soon as I see a new post. Why is that?

Experience Counts. Carol-Anne, the creator, is helpful. A voracious reader, an ambitious worker (she has three jobs), and a talented designer, she seems to be more than happy to pass along what she knows and what she's learning as she makes mistakes and shares her successes.

She'll give you the details for instance, on how she paints furniture, revamps her office, or stretches her budget for fresh flowers. And that's just for starters. Check her archives!


Honesty Rrefreshes. Carol-Anne is candid. She never backs down from her true nature, no matter how revealing, embarrassing, or conventionally unflattering.

She lets readers know what it's like to live with her obsessive-compulsive disorder, but never in a negative way. Instead, she channels her compulsion into organizing and redecorating.

She humbly admits her own shortcomings, details her confusion about choosing a paint color or changing her curtains, and is brave enough to post photos of herself with a haircut gone wrong, or in a bathing suit (and looking good).

Humor Entertains. Carol-Anne is one of those people who sees the light side of everyday events.

I always get a smile and some encouragement from the graphics she chooses. Here is an example:

Or this:

So, if you like being informed, refreshed, and entertained without a lot of gobbly gook to wade through, by a woman who hates doing laundry, can't sew, drinks wine daily, rearranges furniture almost as often, changes all her everyday dishware with the season, is a self-confessed craft-klutz, and never shies away from happy color combinations or gluing feathers on a lampshade, you'll probably love reading Use the Good Dishes as much as I do.

FLATTERY GETS YOU SOMEWHERE. Okay, the last reason I'm giving Carol-Anne my award for Best Blog in a Supporting Role is that she recently reviewed the latest ebook I've written. So, when you're at her blog, please read her comments about my No-Sew Window Treatments To Stage Your Home.

Weekend mix

Le mix du jour est une sélection de photos des agences immobilières Bolaget et Alvhem.
Pour plus d'inspiration, vous pouvez aussi me suivre sur Pinterest, où je poste régulièrement d'autres images qui m'inspirent.
Je vous souhaite un joli dimanche!

Today's mix is a selection of photos from real estate agencies Bolaget and Alvhem.
For more inspiration, you can also follow me on Pinterest, where I regularly post more pictures that inspire me.
I wish you all a lovely Sunday! 

Photos Bolaget except n°3 & 7 Alvhem

Pakistan 1 kanal, 10 Marla Plan, 3d Front elevation of House Beautiful design

Avant-après

J'adore des images "avant-après" (à condition que l'après soit plus joli que l'avant bien sur... ;) ) et via Hanna je suis tombée sur ces photos de la rénovation d'une maison de campagne en Suède. Appartenant à Louise du blog down2thewire, cette maison prouve bien qu'avec un peu d'imagination tout est possible! Voilà une série d'images "avant-après", où les petites photos montrent la maison telle qu'elle était quand Louise et son mari l'ont acheté, et les grandes photos telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui...

I love "before-after" pictures (provided that the "after" looks better than the "before" of course... ;) ) and via Hanna I came across these photos from a country house renovation in Sweden. The house belongs to Louise with the blog down2thewire and really proves that with a little bit of imagination anything is possible! Here's a series of "before-after" pictures, where the smaller ones show the house as it was when Louise and her husband  bought it, and the bigger photos show the house as it looks today...

Source down2thewire via Hannas room

Je voulais aussi vous montrer ce rangement astucieux, appelé The Traveler, que Louise a créé elle-même à partir de tuyaux. Fabriqué sur demande et sur mesure.

I also wanted to show you this clever storage solution, called The Traveler, that Louise has designed herself with pipes. Custom made on request.

Source down2thewire