I have to say, all this snow is bringing me down. It was so lovely to have lots of snow for this winter but now it’s the end of March and all that snow is still here and it’s still snowing every single day. I took these pictures about a week ago when we had a break from the constant snow fall and a couple of days of sunshine. I really like our living room again (we’ve had our ups and downs), it houses many of my favorite furniture and art so it makes me really happy to spend time there. I only noticed after looking at these pictures that the table looks weird so close to the sofa -Â and if you’re wondering why it’s there it’s because we often (OK, most of the time) sit down in front of the TV to eat dinner (Oh, the shame!) so it doubles as our dining table.
We’ve liked the picture ledge in the living room so much that we decided to go with one in the bedroom too. It’s just so easy to change the art around whenever you feel like it. The picture ledge is an old one I’ve had around for years, it’s from my apartment from the time before Minna and I moved in together, but it’s very similar to the ones at Ikea. So, here it is, above the bed. For now it’s just displaying a pretty random grouping of things so I think it will look much better once I rearrange it a bit but I wanted to show it to you already.
Looking at these pictures I realize that the room is way too blue for my taste all of the sudden. I think that the grayish blue wall color needs other colors to accompany it, maybe it’s time to make new pillowcases?
The sun is out and the days are getting milder and there’s a promise of spring in the air even with all the snow we still have. I’ve been looking around our home, thinking about making little changes to welcome the new season. But looking at these pictures I realize that our home has been in spring colors for many months now, I guess it’s no wonder that my favorite colors reflect my favorite season.
March is here and for me that means that it’s time to start looking forward to spring. Outside it’s still snowy and white but the bright spring colors in our kitchen make the wait a bit easier. It’s been a really nice winter but now I’m looking for the first signs of spring and for the first green to appear in nature after so many months. Until then I’m enjoying the potted herbs we bought for the kitchen, they’re such an easy and inexpensive way to bring a bit of green inside.
How was your weekend? Yesterday we headed north to Haparanda, Sweden, where our closest Ikea is located (about 1,5 h drive away). We bought a new office chair, looked for storage systems for our basement renovation plans and bought the gorgeous Henny blanket I’ve been coveting.
It’s as lovely in person as I had thought it would be and I think it looks really nice with the wall color and the warmth of the wood furniture in the bedroom. The blanket is meant for one single bed (the width is 150cm/59″) so I laid it sideways on the bed and left the old black bedspread (also from Ikea) underneath it. Our bed isn’t very wide so I had to fold the blanket a bit at the other end, otherwise it would have been quite too long for the bed but you can’t really notice it now.
