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A book, tea, beautiful interiors, amazing view...

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rainy (happy) days

Because rainy days can also be wonderful...

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Boy's Room Inspiration | graphic + black and white

If you read my last post, you know I'm expecting my first child - a boy - and that I've been looking for inspiration for his future nursery/room.

One of the styles I'm more fond of is the graphic + black and white room.

I found this example from SISSY+MARLEY (you can see more of their portfolio on Pinterest here) and I'll tell you what I like more and less about it. 

project by SISSY+MARLEY

all images via: Project Nursery

I like the black and white. There!... I can't help it. I'm not a big fan of a lot of colour. I absolutely hate those rooms that are all pink or all blue and everything matches. They give me nightmares and I simply can't have it. I love neutral colours as a canvas, and then yes, then I can introduce some colourful details: with the books, the toys, some clothes...

I don't really like the starts on the wall... to me it's too much. A white wall there, maybe with a frame or a poster, would have been much more to my style. 

I'm also not crazy about some of the pop design elements that we've been seeing spread and repeated till exhaustion in many interior design blogs: like the batman poster or the big Lego head. But once again this is due to my personal taste. I much rather prefer the vintage vibe from the leather trunk dresser.

Now the best part for me, and something that tends to be a theme in black and white children's rooms, is the chalkboard wallpaper. There's just so many things we can do with it, so many inventive and fun ways to use it that I'm 100% sure that that will be part of my little Matheus' room.

It's a Boy! | Looking for Inspiration

Three weeks ago we found out the gender of the baby we are expecting. And just in case the tittle of this post didn't give it away...It's a boy!

I can honestly say I had no preference. I wasn't rooting for one or the other and was sure to be very happy either way. And all that was true but I hadn't realised one thing - the last two babies in my family were girls, I'm a girl, I know what girls like, what they dress what they play with and... somehow when I imagined the baby's room I always pictured a girls room! 

So my first thought, as I was lying on the ultrasound table, was that my nephew will be hysterical that I'm having a boy (he really, REALLY, wanted it to be a boy). My second thought was...oh oh, a boy's room...need to figure out a boy's room!

So for the last three weeks I've been immersing myself in baby boy's stuff. I've got some really adorable clothes (one word - overalls!), and have been looking at tons of images on Pinterest  (I have a [ Kids ] board with images both for boys and girls) searching for inspiration for his bedroom.

I narrowed it all down to three styles that I really like: 1. black and white graphic, 2. soft tones nature inspired, and 3. vintage/retro details; all with a Scandinavian feeling. Knowing myself I'll probably end up trying to manage a mix of these three. But I'm planning a series of posts with different examples to explore each type a bit more deeply, and maybe inspire some of my readers. 

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Calendar on the wall

As promised, I'm sharing today a few pictures of my 2015 Printable Calendar on my gallery wall.

You may recognize the Minimal Vases from a previous post on this blog. They were a Christmas present from my mother in law, and I love them!

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And in case you missed it here is the printable for the first three months.

(click here for the rest of the Calendar)

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Printable Calendar for 2015 | Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

I have prepared for you a new home printable calendar for 2015. This year I chose to make a less minimalistic calendar because I'm going to need to keep track of all the appointments I'll have (and already do) related to the baby that is on his/her way. I divided the months into 4 separate posters that can be arranged and displayed in different ways on your wall. And I also associated to each month a photograph taken by me during 2014. I already printed my version and put it on the wall, and as soon as I have enough day light here (sigh...Scandinavian winters!) I'll share it with you.

I Hope your year has started in the best possible way and that it continues to be great and with happy little notes every single month.

 

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December Mood

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Hello...Ho! Ho!

A photo from my Instagram with some of my DIY Christmas decorations.

- The Hello...Ho! Ho! print you can find below on this same post. 

- For the hanging stars all you need is black cardboard, a white thick thread and a star shaped cookie cuter. 

- The jar is actually a chocolate milk bottle covered with chalkboard paint (you can see the DIY here). 

- And I placed some string lights inside a metal plant pot for an unexpected effect. 

The decorations are all done, now I just need to do (a lot) of baking!

 

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Turn on the lights! | Styling for Autumn

It's true that during the Summer we get these wonderfully long days, here in Denmark, with lots of light from early morning until very late in the evening. But in the Autumn and Winter we get (suffer!) the exact opposite...

Now that the days are noticeably shorter I wanted to share with you this apartment from Fantastic Frank, beautifully styled to translate an Autumn Mood. The lights turned on on every room are necessary even during the day because it's very dark anyway, unless the sun decides to grace us with it's presence and that doesn't happen often. 

The various lamps give the rooms a warm colour and cosy - hyggeligt - atmosphere, that is absolutely fundamental to survive the Winter blues (it's that and chocolates). I only wished they had also used some candles because that would give it an even more Scandinavian feeling.

styling: Thomas Lingsell

photography: Emily Laye

via: Fantastic Frank

Black and White Stairs

Today I want to show you these wonderfully graphic black and white stairs. They were introduced in an old apartment in Stockholm during it's renovation by Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter. 

The result is a beautiful and extraordinary new architectural element that stands out while still belonging to this space.

architecture: Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter

styling: Sofie Ganeva

photography: Emily Laye

via: Fantastic Frank

For Rest | want!

I'm in love with the 'For Rest' print from One Must Dash.

It's a real rest for my eyes... and I just feel like getting lost in the fog in the middle of those trees.

This would definitely have a place on my wall.

 photo via: One Must Dash

On Instagram (at last)

Yes! I have Instagram now!

I'm still getting the hang of it but I'm having lots of fun and loving it. 

You can check my profile here: life_as_a_mooboard. And I also added an Instagram button on the right column, next to my other social networks.

Now I just need a little bit more natural light to use anything as an excuse to walk around the house taking more of these snapshots.

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Dark&White Scandinavian Kitchen

Today I want to show you this gorgeous kitchen in a 155m2 Danish apartment from 1908.

I love that it looks so elegant and yet cosy - with big contrasts of dark and white and a masterful mixture of vintage and contemporary design pieces. 

A perfect fit for this wonderful, huge space with it's old, high ceilings in plaster.

 

photography: Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer

all images via: Femina

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In the dining space, the wall lamp - 265 - is from Flos, designed by Paolo Rizzato, and the chairs are a mix of the Eames plastic chairs from Vitra

The kitchen furniture was specially made for this apartment by the Danish company CPH square, and the beautiful and huge pendant - Taraxacum 88 S - is designed by Achille Castiglioni also from Flos.

On the side wall you can see the Stendig Calendar, designed by Massimon Vignelli and to the left a Gubi black stool.

A bun in the oven!

No, this isn't a post with a delicious bread recipe (sorry to disappoint)...

... this is another kind of bun and the reason why I have been away for over a month.

I was about to start IVF treatments when I found out I was pregnant! As you can imagine it came as a huge surprise... more like a shock - thus the 2 home pregnancy tests, plus one at the doctor (and I still had trouble believing it!).

I'm still in the first trimester and have been experiencing a roller-coaster of feelings and symptoms. And I couldn't seem to be able to focus on something for more than 5 min... which resulted on this long absence from the blog. 

But I'm starting to feel more human again (yey!) and I intend to come back very soon... I miss it so much! (Just be warned that there might be an increase on children's bedrooms inspiration).

&Tradition | &Autumn

I really love these photos from &Tradition.

The photos were taken on the new &Tradition showroom designed by Norm Architects, and feature their new releases for the Autumn of 2014- like the beautiful Marble Lights. 

A gorgeous atmosphere of Nordic simplicity and minimalism.

photography: Federico Cedrone

via: &Tradition

Black and White Kitchen

Today I'm loving this kitchen - with a bit of a dramatic flair - found on Fantastic Frank.

The black walls covered with photo frames are a consistent theme throughout the whole apartment. But I find them particularly original and interesting in the kitchen. 

The black frying pans against the black wall is a beautiful, almost understated, detail and allows for the contrast between the black walls and floors and the white tiles and carpentries to be more accentuated.

A single pop of a bold colour, with that ceramic pot on the stove, and we have a truly inspirational kitchen .

styling: Ida Cederlöf

photography: Emily Laye

from: Fantastic Frank

Nudes and Pinks | Trendy Mediterranean Tones

Today we have some colour inspiration from my vacation photographies.

In the so many different places I visited, I could always find the tones that are really trendy for this Autumn/Winter - the whole range from nudes to dark pinks. 

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Dot Hanger | design crush

A quick design crush post, while I try to find my bearings again. 

(organizing photos, reading and replying to 3 weeks worth of e-mails, getting up to date with all the blogs I follow, preparing new posts, planing some tweaks on my blog, preparing my home and wardrobe for Autumn... wait, did I really just had a vacation?)

The Dot Hanger, designed by Afteroom for MENU.

Graphic minimalism for your walls! 

images via: Afteroom

Back Home

Hello everyone! 

I'm back home from a mentally relaxing and physically exhausting cruise in the Adriatic and Mediterranean. We had a great time, but now it's "back to work".

Before I went away I posted a photo of an origami paper boat... and by a funny coincidence I came across this sculpture in one of our stopping ports - Valletta, Malta. 

Isn't it cute? It seemed fitting to share it with you on my return. 

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I'm hoping you all had a nice vacation and gathered enough energy (my energy is accumulated around my waste!) for the cold seasons that are coming. 

Vacation | white paper boat

I'm going on vacation! 

And it's about time... Autumn is actually hitting Denmark already!

We're going on a wonderful (hopefully) cruise in the Mediterranean so I won't be posting again until the middle of September. But I leave you with this origami boat which is a little taste of some DIY projects I've been planning for my blog when I'm back. See you all soon!

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