These posts are about furnishing and decorating. Both generally and in our apartment.
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.
I try to keep the overall look of our home calm and uncluttered but I don’t like a minimalistic look, I really like having little things on display. I’ve arranged my favorite little things in the livingroom, they make me happy every time I see them. The K is a new find, now I’m trying to find an M to keep it company on the picture ledge.
Sunshine does wonders, February is off to a lovely sunny start and the light makes the whole apartment look and feel so much nicer. Some days I want to find new colors for our livingroom but today I really like the greens and blues with gray and black + white. Poor Lissu has been sick but thankfully she’s feeling better now and is back to being my little helper when I try to take photographs.
