Another great art installation by Anthropologie. A “coral reef” of coffee filters and cupcake baking cups!
Dubbla Chokladflarn
One of the reasons I love Ikea besides the $.99 breakfast, cheap modern furniture and scandinavian-ness, is whoever is in charge of the naming of the products. I love that they’re in Swedish and I love it EVEN MORE when they sound like the Swedish chef. For example, the worlds most wonderful cookie: the “DUBBLA CHOKLADFLARN”. Say it with me “DUBBLA CHOKLADFLARN”. And the crazy thing is THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY TASTE LIKE.
Here are some other ironically-named Ikea products:
- a wine bottle opener…. “Groggy” of course
- that’s not a knife…. that’s a “Smeltpunt”
- the smelly kid in the office isn’t sitting at a desk… it’s a “Fartful”
- that kid’s bowl/silverware set over there????… oh, that’s for “Hungrid”
Living Room Mural
The living room in the new apartment has vaulted ceilings. So if we want to paint in there we’d need to paint the ceiling too. In addition to buying a neck brace, we’d also have to buy a lot more paint. One idea is a doing a wall mural that add drama for less money. These two are great.
Neon Grey
I like the idea of a clean modern grey with pops of citrusy neon colors. Here’s some eye candy.
ColourLovers.com
I stumbled upon this great website a few weeks ago that is helping me try to decide an allover color scheme for the new apartment, or at least the kitchen/diningroom/livingroom space since they’re all open to each other. My top color scheme right now is this….
based on this picture I found.
And this pendant lamp is now in the running…
So obviously I’m not painting the walls dark plum (although if I owned my own home…) and unfortunately I do not have that wonderful mustardy couch. But I like the colors. I’m pretty set on light grey walls and these colors would work well with it. Also, I like the small accent of the cobalt blue. The bathroom has new cobalt blue tile in it that you’ll probably see most of the time with the door slightly open, so I need whatever color scheme we use to be able to work with that color. And I like that there’s no red. I kind of hate red right now. I’m shunning red. Shun. Unshun. Reshun. (The Office anyone??)
A few more color schemes to come!!
Uff Da
So I’m very Scandinavian- Norwegian and Swedish with a dash of German- which explains a lot. The pasty skin, the penchant for modern/scandinavian design, Troll 2, aversion to the sun and warm weather, etc.
So we should not be surprised when this 1955 Norwegian travel poster would be a impulse buy, had I $495 laying around somewhere. LOVE IT.
Anthropologie Love
Pink Poodle Parade
Cupcake Wrapper Garland
An “Apple-a-Day” Calendar made with apples
A “T” made of cups. T cups. Get it. “T” cups. Teacups.
One of my favorite inspirations is Anthropologie’s store art installations. They are AMAAAAAZING. Sigh. I can remember one of the first times I went to an Anthropologie store. It was downtown Chicago and it was in the fall/close to winter and they had this massive spool of thread (and you know how I love massive things) with the coordinating massive red string threaded throughout the store ceiling and walls into beautiful swirls and patterns. Wonderful. Enjoy the pictures above and if you can recreate that “T cup” installation in your kitchen you will be my lifetime hero.
