Inspiration for your home | Cool curtains for your walk in closet

While working on my blog, reading your blogs and websites, my Facebook | would love you to join me there!| is always open at the background. I like to see what friends are posting and if it seems of any interest I click on the link *hello distraction*. The next minute I can find myself surfing around and […]

The Blogger Apartment | Blog tour Stockholm #1

Furniture and accessories by One Nordic | No Early Birds | Granit  One of the best things of our Design blog tours is that in every country and town we visit we work with different brands and do different and exciting things. Also for our recent Stockholm tour we came up with a new concept. We called it the Blogger Apartment! Well known Stockholm and […]

Shelf Systems | Scandinavian and Dutch design

I remember we had lots of shelving systems for books and small items at home as a kid. It was the famous Dutch Tomado rack, developed after the second world war and it was one of those things every family in the Netherlands had at home for decades. Shelf systems have never gone out of […]

HISTOR 101 karakters | My little black cupboard

This last weekend I finished working on my Piet Hein Eek cupboard. My main inspiration was a black box with a little leather handle, yes! inspiration can really be found in everything! Black being my favorite color, I used black Histor perfect finish on the outside. And still being in love with the combination of […]

Piet Hein Eek | Histor challenge update

Today I posted this picture on Instagram, my Piet Hein Eek cupboard is nearly finished! A few more things to do and I can finally show the result. There were so many colors to choose from, but I think it is always best to stay close to yourself so I choose Black, tin and a […]

Designerbox | Unique design as a gift object & A giveaway !

Designer Box has launched a new way to promote international design talents through membership. Every month another international designer creates a unique and original object that you will not find anywhere else. I was really happy to receive Box nr.3 containing a precious object from Dutch designer Aldo Bakker. Not only do I love the […]

Ideas on on how to enjoy long summer nights | DesignTrade blog

Summer is here! And I hope you are enjoying the warm days and looking forward on enjoying a hopefully long summer with lots of outdoor activities. Dutch company Weltevree loves to prolong the outdoor season and therefore designed a range of products that allows us to spent more time outside… how about making a pizza […]

Hotel Droog at Merci | Voulez-vous coucher avec Droog

Do you know this DOH!! moments? I got one after coming back from Copenhagen! Checking my emails I found a 3 day old email from Droog Design | I participated in their online competition some time ago where you could win a night in the temporary one bed room Hotel in Merci! | And guess […]

Dutch Design week 2012 – Unplugged with Piet Hein Eek

How to sort out 150 pictures from just a few hours of Dutch Design Week 2012 in Eindhoven?  It’s almost  impossible to show them all, so I made a selection of what we saw yesterday. The Dutch Design Academy was our first stop, but seeing the long cue we decided to go straight to Piet Hein Eek with one of […]

Exclusive Piet Boon Concrete wallpaper Giveaway

Voor Nederlands scroll je naar beneden I love the rough and tough look of concrete walls and on the blog I have been talking a lot about it. Seeing the amount of mails I get with questions on how to make a concrete wall. I know there are lots of you who love the look […]

Concrete + White @ Pols Potten today

During my grocery shopping for the weekend, I popped into Pols Potten. It’s such an amazing store to wander around and I love the view on the harbor you have in the back of the store. Recently the total look was changed into a more open concept (see one of the previous looks here) and having […]

Elle inside Design… unplugged

Some random pictures made at Elle Inside Design… of things I liked & loved!  Black moodboard @ Studio Aandacht Celebrating the anniversary of their book ‘How they work’ See my post about it Here Modern doctor’s bags by Laurens Schellekens… loving the ‘inspiration’ picture!