Natural weekend

Thank God it's Friday! 
Time to eat. 
Time to relax. 
Have a good weekend, all! 



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All but one pic is from an unknown tumblr source


Bloglove: Norwegian Wabi Sabi

Don't you just love this no nonsense guest room? You'll find it in Liv Sandvik Jakobsen's home in Norway, if you are so lucky to be invited! 

I love the combination of whites and greys mixed with multicolored traditional textiles. 

I love the dark colors in the old etchings and little photo on the wall. And the black sheep skin and black stripes in the woven textiles. 

Simple elegance and Wabi Sabi in a very traditional Scandinavian way. 
Liv Sandvik Jakobsen is the person behind the blog Livs Lyst, where she generously share pictures and ideas from beautiful Norwegian homes. Head over ASAP for more inspiration.

Beautiful bowls







Top pic via
All the other pics found via tumblr, 
but with no proper source attached...
Love to know who took these pics. 
Do YOU know? 

DIY: Virka in allt i din lägenhet?

Nu är det mycket hantverk som gäller. I går gjorde jag ett inlägg här där jag frågade om stickning är det nya svarta? Vad sägs om denna konstnär, som gått hela vägen och virkat in hela sin lägenhet! Vet inte om jag skulle orka... 
Den virkade lägenheten har varit utställd på ett galleri i New York. Bilden kommer från New York Times Magazine, som skriver: Artist Agata Oleksiak says she often spends nights at Christopher Henry Gallery—where her crocheted apartment is currently installed—just to sleep in her own bed. 

Knitting - the new black?

Make something cozy for the..
Sticka något värmande till...
... body/kroppen







A love of Imperfection - Bedagade skönheter

When I see todays romantic love for decayed surfaces and spaces, I'm reminded of US artist Elana Herzog's art project Civilization and its Discontents, as seen in New York City 2003. 
In this textile project, Herzog stapled a series of Persian carpets in varying quality and condition, onto an art gallery's walls and then worked on them further to give them the right state of decay. Read more about her project here. 



What do you think? 
Where do you draw the line between imperfection and decay?

Lundberg Design: Beautiful Work in Wood and Steel

When I saw the stunning table in Wolfgang Behnken's new Hamburg home (which I wrote about here yesterday) I was reminded of Olle Lundberg's beautiful designs in wood and metal, as seen in these pictures:
Olle Lundberg is a Californian based architect, but with such a name I suspect he is of Swedish origin.Lundberg primarily works with salvage wood and metal in his own studio, where he and his collegues create stunning objects for private and public spaces
I love the different designs for wood storage, that Lundberg has designed for his own cabin in Cazadero
Lundberg Design excel in metal designs of all sorts: stairs, railings, hangers, sliding cabinet doors, practical kitchen tables etc. Apart from his San Francisco home, a re-designed ferry boat (!), he and his wife love to escape to their cabin up north in Cazadero - a woody, simple, airy house, largely built of reused material

Images from New York Times and Lundberg Design. 

White, aged - and very Wabi Sabi

Photo: flick

Favorit i köket: My kitchen stove

My blog friends over at Fabriken, ask: what's your favorite item in your kitchen? Without a doubt it's my old, black iron stove. 

When not in use, different kind of every day items seem to pile up there.... So before taking some snapshots with my mobile phone camera (hence the quality), I used what was sitting there today, arranging the stuff into a still life. Or three. 
Behind the stove is the chimney which I painted black (chalk paint) this summer. The iron pots & pans, and the pic of the boy, are from my Granny. 
OK  - off to clear the stove now, in order to light a fire... Mmmmmm...
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