Five reasons for swooning over this apartment ..

This is  the home of the interior designer Tanja Jänicke, and perhaps not surprisingly it is an apartment packed with creative solutions! I  especially adore the way black, white, and natural materials play a major part throughout!

The gorgeous wooden floors

The cool storage solutions

                                                                    The sense of S P A C E

The feminine pastel coloured wall

  

The utility room for its functionality and beauty

Photos: Lykke Foged, Source  Bolig magasinet 

When love is a tree stump..

I have fallen in love with these Nordic tree stumps!  They are the creation of Cathrine Glende from  the farm Krosser in Ås, Norway.

Her idea is simple, and that's perhaps why the stumps are so very special.  The entire "production" takes place at the farm.  This is no mass production! Each pine tree is carefully selected  cut into chunks, sanded, dried and nurtured before it is finally painted.

 Simple and beautiful!

                                                                                                      

Top Styling

I just love the work of the Finnish stylist Susanna Vento, and particularly these shots, packed with humour, simplicity and class.

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Photography from the top: Kristiina Kurronen, Rikka Kartinkoski, Mirva Kakko


Styling by Susanna Vento

A peek at my home ...

I just love looking at other people's houses, so I thought it might be time that I let you had a peek at mine too...

Photos by Jill Macnair

A bite of something Danish...

Okay, this is definitely a case of "what took me so long!" But frankly I thought, who could possibly compete with my mother's cooking!  I've got to be careful here, but Madsen's restaurant  is right up there, and has managed to turn the Scandinavian classics into something contemporary and cool! And if my hubby has any sense he would secure that table for our Valentines special!