bathroom adjustments

Ha, lots of baby posts now. Getting ready is all! :) Here's how we managed to fit a changing table in our tiny bathroom. The window recess was deep but not deep enough to fit a babycare pad on so J built a kind of fitted shelf to put in front of the window and voila! :) With it comes a lot of well-needed storage space!

new, new & new

So we went to IKEA the other day and now we've got a new pendant for the kitchen table (unsprayed as of yet and maybe we'll keep it this way? Kind of looks light (light) grey with all the white-white around...) and a big chest of drawers in the wardrobe. The drawers take a lot of space but then they give a lot of it too! So definitely worth it. And it's white :) of course.

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And now I have somewhere to put all our cute baby clothes! Perfect! Ahh, can't W A I T! :) And here's how the wardrobe looked before.

i'm going to do this

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Heaps of pretty postcards, cutouts, photos and what not! Love it! Perfect for any white doorway with white walls around = just about any doorway in our apartment :) And oh-so-easy! Note to self: do this!

final touches

on our new kitchen! Today, finishing the counter top with hardwax oil. It's a massive oak (not properly portrayed in colour...) counter top and we hope that this'll do the trick. Earlier, it was so sensitive to anything and everything that wasn't wiped off immediately. And that's not good enough for a kitchen, hey.

More pictures of finished kitchen (+before-pictures, obviously!) coming up!! :)

Concrete

Hello again :) Pause over? Play pressed? Maybe, and maybe not. Anyways, I just really wanted to show you a recent project of ours. As well as save it for myself. A concrete top for our tv bench. I love the way it turned out so great! :)

More of this definitely coming up in the future! I've been browsing google image search for a while [read: hours] and now I'm bursting with new inspiration!

Such lovely summer days!

Had a lovely day today, after work. :) Went to Sandviken (40 km from where we live) with J and had delicious ice cream, took a swim, and picked a huge bouquet of lilies of the valley. The lilacs+cow parsley are from my mum! Thank you... :) We finished the day with eating some food in one of our favourite spots. Beautiful view! (Well, in all honesty, we finished the day with cleaning and tidying our entire apartment... hehe)

I'm really trying to enjoy summer and life to the fullest, and loving it! :)

Finally Finished

The entrance ceiling, that is. The electrician was here earlier this week and now we can finally turn the lights on in the entrance when we get home. Here's a picture:

As you can see, we had one of the rows of downlights follow the line of the wall. It was a great decision because it really enhances what is unique about the room. And thank goodness we chose to add a dimmer to the installation. With 8 downlights on full beam it gets awfully light in such a small area. Anyways, we are really happy about this. :)

See more about our entrance here.

First of March + new addition

Here is the latest addition to my collection of "night light holders". :)

Just another entrance post

Here's the latest achievement in the entrance, gypsum boards. Just thought I'd show you! :)

This is a song that I like a lot. Shivers!

Quick update!

The renovation of our entrance in general, the lowering of the ceiling in particular, is going good. The electrician was here yesterday and today and prepared for the recessed downlights. I kind of think it looks like an alien :S ha! Here's a picture of the progress since last time:

And anyways, "quick update!" because I really have to go like 10 minutes ago! See ya!

Renovation update - the next project

The ceiling in the entrance. We're lowering it so as to make room for recessed downlights. It is going to be so nice! :) That's also what all the marks are for - how to place the lights.

After this comes walls. But one thing at a time, right? :)

Finally

Just here to let you all know that Grey's Anatomy finally set an air date! On

this is the place to be:

in our super comfy couch. And I'll watch Grey's on this one:

37'' Philips tv with ambilight. Pictures: Me

Specification

We're talking about the area right here:

Underestimated: Full length mirrors

Today when I got home from work, J had finished our entrance closet. (YAY! I now have a full length mirror again!) Here you can see the process from an empty space of uselessness to a perfect closet. Behind the entrance closet is our wardrobe. Talk about a change for the better! :)

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Coffee table candle group

Time for some living room pictures, I should think. Our living room has been finished for a while now, since about a week before Christmas. Obviously, these are not the "official after renovation pictures", they will have to wait a while longer. I need to clear out all things Christmas and let spring in before. Anyways, this is our current coffe table and a nice group of candles that I put on it. It's a vintage American trunk that I think belonged to my husbands grandfather's aunt (or something like that). It has travelled across the Atlantic Sea many times.

I like how candle holders + trunk details are the same colour + the heaps of storage that's inside.

Pictures: Me ©

Oh, Christmas Tree!

We just(!) finished decorating our Christmas tree! I'm so happy! It turned out just as great as I wanted it to! Notice the tree stand, what do you think? I've seen it in a few places and we decided to have a go! We like it! (Only it took us forever to get the tree down into that thing...) Anyways, colours are strictly gold+red. And green of course... So, there you go! Now I'm off for a nice winter wonderland walk!

Picture: Me, click to enlarge

Christmas in my windows!

Today I visited my parents and had such a nice time! We celebrated little sister's excellent grades from school with a lovely cake and also mom and I planted flowers - all of them for Christmas. So now Christmas has come to my windows at home! It's lovely! Flowers are hyacinths and amaryllises - very Christmassy! Pots are second hand + red ones borrowed from mum.

Picture: Me (click to enlarge!)

I seriously can't believe the amount of snow that we've gotten in the last few days... I. Love. It. Have to show pictures... I'll see what I can do! :) Anyways, now I have faith for a WHITE Christmas!

My first first Advent

About a week late, I know, and in time for the 2nd Advent Sunday - But... Anyways! Here's my traditional Advent candle holder decorated with moss and "other things to be found in the forest" (or: "stuff I've got no idea what to call and I don't wanna waste my tyda.se-searches" ...never mind). So last Sunday we got to light the first candle in Advent and for the first time in a place that is our own. That is memorable to me. Here it is, just recently prepared the night before.

And this is Sunday morning - first candle lit. Yay. The candle holder is from a second hand shop and cost me about $2.50 (15 kr). The best mother in the world (my Mum) prepared the moss for me to go creative with -

Thank you!

Bringing new life

Currently, we are, as mentioned earlier, working on our living room. A few days ago we started renovating our oak parquet floor. After sanding the floor several times to make sure the old varnish was gone, we decided to finish the floor with oil instead of varnish - it looks so much better plus it ages more beautifully. I've got before & after pictures right here. I really didn't even retouch the photos... and if anything, I made the before-picture look slightly better than it originally did :P The floor has now got a whole other depth and luster to it - it looks alive. I'm in love with it! How amazing? Amaazing!

Pictures: Me (click image to enlarge)

Another thing that makes me love this floor is the structure, how it's layed out. I haven't seen a floor like our's before and love having something that's original.

Christmas (Tree) Dream

I could totally have a Christmas tree just like this one right here. Totally.

Picture is from an old Christmas collection by Sia Home Fashion.