Photo Mood . white . shadow . freshness

The heat is getting the best of me. 

Can't get any proper work done, my brain is a melted mush and I'm in dire need of cool and shadowy places to hide and do nothing. Come back rain...you're forgiven!

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[ a gesture in black&white ] by Norm.Architects

A few photos of a townhouse in Copenhagen renovated by Norm.Architects. 

A home of contrasts.

A white background and open layout that make for a serene, pure and fluid refuge, in opposition to it's exterior body and surroundings. And an almost graphic gesture through the punctuation of the space with black details. I find it beautiful (if maybe not very liveable). What do you think?

photography by © Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen

via Yatzer

Home Flowers Snapshots

Some white flowers for my white Scandinavian Kitchen. 

And, for a change, the weather is lovely outside.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

PS: I normally keep my cooking herbs in that flower pot, thus the 'herbs' written with chalk.

Scandinavian Style - white and airy apartment in Sweden

Today, I'm loving this bright apartment in Sweden. A lot of white, punctuated with grey tones and green plants, make it feel very fresh and serene. And I'm crazy about some of the details, like that geometric lamp on the living-room window or the gorgeous door wall paper from Mr.Perswall. But above all - and maybe I'm just weird - I love the airy, uncluttered, general atmosphere of the apartment, that even with white floors seems to be very easy to clean.  

all images via Alvhem

Bright Dining Room - Scandinavian Style

Today I'm posting some eye candy with this dining room from an apartment in Helsinki.

Mostly white with some whimsical details, like the wall paper and the coloured interior of the lamps.

And I love the wooden floor painted white. I don't care if it's not practical!

photography: Simon Bajada

via: Emmas designblogg

Indoors Garden

I've been working on a Pinterest board called [ Indoors Garden ] and I'm loving the atmosphere it transmits. It's fresh and full of good ideas for having plants inside our homes.

Here are some of my latest pins. 

Hope you like it!

all images via Pinterest

White, Black and Wood Mood

The tones I'm loving these days.

Wishing all a great weekend!

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Nü Home Styling

Spring 2013 styling, for Nü Home, with neutral tones and ethnic details. 

all images via Nü Woman

Balfour Place by KHBT

Today I want to share the renovation of an apartment in Mayfair, London, by the design team KHBT.

The whole space was planned to be completely white with rather "clean" lines, where a strip of walnut timber crosses the apartment, and connects it's opposite sides, becoming the kitchen counter at one end and the bathtub at the other. A dark, warm, wooden element contrasting with the cool white background.

Going up and down the stairs may seem a bit weird and inconvenient but, since this is a renovation and they were constrained by the several levels of the old construction, I quite like that they decided to embrace these features to create this beautiful, mostly graphical, gesture, that completely transforms the apartment into something unique.

photography: Johannes Marburg

all images via Dezeen

Bulb fiction - Scandinavian Lighting

Because I love their lamps and also their catalogue's styling, today's Scandinavian Lightning is, once again, from the Danish company Lightyears.

Bulb Fiction by the Danish design atelier KiBiSi. 

all images via Lightyears

It wins me over by being all white...and I really like to see several of them clustered at different heights.

Scandinavian style - Bright apartment in Sweeden

I've been struggling for a while trying to decide if I wanted to post about this apartment or not. But I kept finding my self going through all these photos, over and over again. It's the styling of it that puzzles me. There are many little decoration elements that I don't like, I can even say that I find them hideous. But then there are other details that work perfectly for me. And I love the space, the brightness, the white from ceiling to floor...and those double doors. And the general image looks actually very cosy to me. So I'm still confused but I'm sharing it anyway...

photography: Janne Olander

styling: Emma Fischer

all images via Stadshem

London House

The SHOOTFACTORY is a company that rents spaces for filming and photo sessions. They have dozens of gorgeous places, in the UK and abroad, but I just happened to have fallen in love with the house in Tulse Hill  which I'm sharing today.

Bright, white ample spaces...Victorian details, mid-century design furniture... and that kitchen! I would die just for that kitchen. It even has a Nespresso machine, which means I could move in right now and be in heaven. The house is not meant for people to live in it, but tonight I will still dream that I win the lottery and make it my home.

all images via SHOOTFACTORY