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Perhaps I'm a little influenced by all the Danish style I was fed on my trip to Copenhagen last week, because this home is a little softer and more cluttered than the usual suspect here, but I love it! It has some great graphic prints and cushions, wonderful wood floors, and a cool mix of retro and modern.

Styled by Rikke Graaf Juel and shot by Frederikke Heiberg for Alt for Damerne. Find many more photos here on Rikke's blog.

 

 

 

 

How about a plate of mixed greens to keep you going until I have more time to post? Enjoy!

 

Normann Copenhagen's flagship store

 

From the sneak peek of Mary Jo and Steve Hoffman's home on Design*Sponge. Photography: Mark Andrew

 

 

As I told you before, I was invited to Blog'nhagen 2012, a small blog meet-up in Copenhagen, the beautiful, boho chic capital of Denmark. I went together with Annaleena from the blog Annaleenas Hem, and we had so much fun! Here are a few of my photos of our days in Copenhagen, to let you see a little bit of what we experienced...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the event we went around town in golf carts from By Cart, which gave us a lot of attention and smiles from the people in the streets. We visited Royal Copenhagen and got to paint our own plates, and learned to make our own "flødeboller" (a Danish specialty translated as foam kisses) from chocolatiere Jesper Rahbek at A Xoco, which was a lot of fun and so delicious! I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank the rest of the sponsors who made this event possible!  And a special mention to Brøchner Hotels. We stayed at Hotel Kong Arthur and got a very nice suit with our own exit to the courtyard, so lovely.

Danish photographer Diana Lovring teamed up with interior stylist Sanne Korsholm to shoot these wonderful, summery photos in an old police lockup. I love the light and the colours and the unexpected addition of the snails, an uninvited summer guest in our gardens, but in this case quite beautiful.

You can see more photos from this shoot on the creators' sites, here and here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm trying to prepare for a little summer vacation by working for two behind the scenes here, and that's why the blog posts are kind of few and far apart at the moment. I'm also preparing for the Blog'nhagen blog meet-up in Copenhagen next week, by trying to read up on the city and deciding which places I'm going to visit on my free days. Me and Annaleena are going to hang out in Copenhagen from Monday to Wednesday night, so if anyone has some city tips, feel free to share them in the comment section!

 

In other news, I am testing the new Samsung series 9 Notebook, and so far I am loving it! It's extremely lightweight, stylish, and very fast. It is actually so lightweight (less than 3 pounds/1,2 kg) that I get an urge to throw it like a frisbee every time I pick it up, but so far I have resisted... I am an Apple fan since way back in the 80's, but am seriously considering bringing the Samsung on my trip next week instead of my MacBook Pro, which feels like carrying around a pile of bricks in comparison. The only thing I'm not loving about the Samsung is the clickpad, which is acting a little weird, and I'm missing some of the gestures I use on the Mac, like pinching for zooming in on texts and photos. And then there is the Windows OS of course... Not my thing, and I will probably install Mac OS X on it very soon. But other than that, I'm very happy with the laptop!

 

Enough about that, let's look at some nice photos now! All photos from my Pinterest, where you can find the sources.

 

 

While we are still waiting for summer to make an appearance between the heavy rain and cold winds, I found some inspiring summer photos, mostly old favorites, by Swedish photographer Stellan Herner.

 

 

 

 

The new Grand Central hotel in Oslo, Norway, looks great! However, I wish they would have incorporated some more Norwegian designs, to give it a more local flavour. Norwegian design has really stepped it up in the last few years, so I think they should be proud and show it off!

 

Found via Elle Decoration Norway

 

 

Time for a giveaway! Danish company Sort of Coal has some seriously cool products, made of Japanese coal, that can help you purify your home, food and water from pollution and bad chemicals, and instead add healthy minerals. To make it even better, their packaging and products are super stylish!

Now you have the chance to win a handmade Bincho water bottle with a Kishu Binchotan coal stick (worth €85) that will make your ordinary tap water into healthy mineral water just by putting it in the fridge for a couple of hours.

 

To participate in the competition  all you have to do is 'like' the Sort of Coal Facebook page and answer these two questions:

Submit your answers on Sort of Coal's Facebook page by writing a comment underneath the picture. 

Sort of Coal will pick a winner on July 2 and the winner will be announced on their facebook page.

This competition is sponsored and presented by Sort of Coal.

Loving this project called Ant House by Japanese architects mA-Style. The entire interior of the house is made of plywood, with a smaller house shaped structure inside.
Via Dezeen.

When I was looking through Fantastic Frank's site today I found so many amazing homes for sale that I decided to make a Fantastic Mix instead of my usual Saturday Sweets. Enjoy!

British location agency Tattersall Love are on the look out for Scandinavian style homes in London, to use for photo shoots. If you have such a home, please contact them, and perhaps it will be your home featured in the next Elle Decoration...
Below are some of my favorites from their location library.

Via Dezeen.

Jewellery designer Marie von Lotzbeck shares this Danish country house with her family, where she created a light and simple oasis for the mind and eyes, with lots of natural materials like wood and concrete. The strong contrasts of the black and white interiors are softened by green plants, rustic surfaces and wood tones.

Photography: Line Klein for FRI

Do you remember the Christmas Calendar I had in December last year? One of the prizes was a white fire extinguisher, and the winner of that prize was Addy in Germany. He just emailed me to show me some photos of the fire extinguisher in his home, and I think it looks so good that I wanted to share them with you. Addy also told me that he just started a little side-business called Dortraum, where he designs and decorates homes, doing almost all of the work himself, from planning and researching to building and photographing. Check out his site for more photos.