Inspirational homes: The home of Ingrid & Remi from BLAFRE DESIGN

It's no secret and it's no news that I am deeply in love with Scandinavian homes. So how could i not love the home of Ingrid & Remi from BLAFRE DESIGN.

All images are taken by Elisabeth Sperre Alnes. Please check out her work at her blog elisabethalnes.blogspot.com.

Check out all images at Ingrid's blog at blafre.blogspot.com. Once again that I wish I would speak Norwegian.



But not only their Norwegian home is to die for also the products they design and sell at BLAFRE DESIGN - their family business - are lovely.

Images from www.blafre.com

Inspirational homes: Sanne's livingroom

I'm in love with the livingroom of Nina's (ninainvorm.punt.nl) sister Sanne. Have a closer look at Nina's blog.

Inspirational Homes: Kitchen Love

Images from viivilla.se

I heart the kitchen of Li Aronsson who runs the boutique by liebling and the blog lieblingallsorts.blogspot.com. You can find more information about the kitchen at viviella.se (in Swedish though).

Inspirational Homes: Rie Elise Larsen

Journalist: Rie Elise Larsen og Stine F. Mathiasen Fotograf: Lisbett Wedendahl

I know these images from BoBedre have been posted on several blogs before but I can't get over how much I love it. Especially the awesome white table in the 10 m² kitchen of Rie Elise Larsen. I've been looking to find an old Gründerzeit table about the same size for our kitchen on ebay for months now but unfortunately without success. We recently replaced our kitchen table with a smaller one but this is only temporary solution becasue I do not like the table itself. But it was amazing to find out what a difference it makes. Since we moved in back in 2002 we've had this rather large IKEA table (ablout 1,60 m x 0,80 m) in our kitchen. It was way to large for our kitchen and sitting there always meant at least one of us had to face the wall - something we both really dislike. So basically we always ended up eating in the living room and using this table only as a storing area or additional counter top. The strangest thing about this is that I always thought we do not like to eat in the kitchen because our kitchen is uncozy or something while the true reason was the huge table...which we did not notice until we threw it out and replaced it with a smaller one.
Anyway, I will keep looking for a similar table and meanwhile please enjoy the lovely home of Rie Elise Larsen...I will most definitely steal some of her ideas to make our kitchen cozier nevertheless...because we now LOVE to eat in our kitchen but some coziness and decoration will never do harm, right? ;-)

Journalist: Rie Elise Larsen og Stine F. Mathiasen Fotograf: Lisbett Wedendahl

Inspirational Homes: Polka dots

I'm working a lot these days and have very little time for blogging and reading blogs...which sometimes isn't the worst thing - getting used to having all the inspiration 'delivered' happens so quickly. But sometimes you should really try to find it for yourself. Elsewhere than in the internet or in magazines. So I want to share some more images I have taken in the apartment with the pink bedroom. For the love of polka dots :)

Inspirational Homes: Pink Bedroom

I just couldn't let the opportunity pass to snap some images of this pink bedroom. And although I'm slowly getting sick of all the pink on my blog (I feel the urge to redesign my blog and go all white) I love it. I think I couldn't live with it but it makes me want to paint something pink right away...

Inspirational Homes: Tobias & Hanne

Today while doing some research on photographer Tia Borgsmidt I stumbled over the images she has taken of one of the most awesome apartments I've seen in a long time. The home of Copenhagen based graphic designer Tobias Mikkelsen and architecture student Hanne Scheel Andersen. Together they run the blog What We Do where they write about personal projects and share inspirational links. Recently they posted some images - taken by Tia Borgsmidt and styled by Sidsel Zachariassen - of their apartment for an upcoming editorial in Boligmagasinet.

In the kitchen they mixed low-budget IKEA drawers and cupboards with custom-(family)-built shelves and great sea-green glass tiles...The apartment is lovely by itself already: bright, wooden floors, nice trims, old doors (Is there such an thing as not-pretty apartments in Denmark at all?) but they turned it into a perfect home. I'd move in right away...

Images from Tia Borgsmidt, Image on the lower left from Tobias & Hanne

I truly love their mix of new and old, of colorful accents and classic black-and white throughout the partment. In the livingroom the white TV on the wall almost completely disappears and the cupboards mounted on the walls give the whole room and light an airy feeling. I've seen this idea last year - of course in a Danish Interior magazine - and wanted to do the same in our living room. But, well, without those beautiful white trims and such a lovely wooden floor it looks nothing like that...

Images from Tia Borgsmidt

In the bedroom of their 85m² apartment they share with their little daughter Silke they installed a modern, custom-built work space in a black glossy look for the both of them. You should most definitely check out the original blog entry from What We Do for all the links to the manufacturers they provide and some details about those great black cupboards they used as base for their desk...

Images from Tia Borgsmidt, Image of flowers from Tobias & hanne

I think what attracts me so much about their home it that they seem to have a very similar approach to Interior design than I do. And we seem fall for the same things. There is not one single piece in these shots that I do not like. But there are even several things we both own or love and that I have already written about here. Chalkbarod - check, dishwasher - check, Kramfors sofa - check, Trollsta series - check...