Wishing you a lovely and sunny summer weekend!
Image credits: 1. Untitled, 2. Untitled, 3. Untitled, 4. i think summer has officially begun, 5. .Dream house., 6. June 13, 7. Dining Room, 8. window box, 9. tuesday. my man bought me the most beautiful flowers ever.
Lovely bird themed wallpapers from Louise Body Wallpaper & Design. Maybe someday when we redecorate…
On our trip to Ikea we also picked up this inexpensive Rationell Variera container at the kitchen product department. It’s perfect for storing CDs that we’ve been recently playing in the livingroom. We store our CDs in the basement (no place to store them in the livingroom) but we listen to them in the livingroom (although, like most people I think, we mostly listen to music on our computers) so there were always small piles of CDs laying around the room. It’s funny how a small pile of CDs can look messy but once you put that same pile into a small container it all looks so much more organized!
(You can also see there my favorite album this summer, Rearrange Beds by An Horse. There always seems to be that one CD that I absolutely love every summer and listen to constantly. It doesn’t have to be new music or released that summer, it doesn’t even have to be new to me, there’s just something about the music that makes it the perfect soundtrack and companion for those summer months. And Rearrange Beds is it for me this summer. What about you, do you have a summer soundtrack too?)
Last week we took advantage of the mid-summer sales and now we finally have a TV bench and a rug in the livingroom, both we’ve been waiting to buy since we moved here in February. We found the TV bench at Ikea (where else!), it’s the Linnarp TV bench/coffee table in black. We had been thinking about it earlier but we had also been thinking about either making a TV bench by ourselves or trying to find something at a thrift store. But at only 30€ on sale it was much cheaper than the materials for making one and since we hadn’t had any luck thrifting we decided to get it. It’s solid pine so we can always sand it and paint it again if we get tired of the color.
I’ve had my eye on the Jorun rug from Ikea for a while now but when we were at Ikea a week ago we realized that it was way too big for our small livingroom. (I guess I could have found that out at home if I had bothered to do some measuring!) It was so disappointing! But then I found this wool rug at Finnish store Isku a couple of days ago and I like it even more than the Jorun one, so it all worked out really well. And it was on sale for only 55€! So there are our summer sale finds. What about you, have you been shopping at the sales?
I’m taking a little summer break from blogging this week, I’ll see you again next week!
Image credits: 1. succulents, 2. Untitled, 3. friday afternoon, 4. A night on the roof