We’ve paid a couple of blog visits earlier but now we’re going to make them a more regular thing over here at Nestled In. Every once in a while we’ll visit the home of someone whose style we admire and learn a bit more about them and their home. Today we get to peek inside Katrin’s beautiful home in Austria. Katrin has just started a blog called Taking Notes and you can also find more pictures of her home at Flickr. We asked Katrin a few questions about her home, here is what she said:
Where do you live? Me, my husband and cats Marlene and Lulu live in a small house with a large garden in Vienna, Austria.
What are your favorite and least favorite things about your home? The favorite thing about my home is the light we get through the many windows we have. The least favorite is the very tiny and hideous bathroom.
If you could add one extra room to your home, what would it be? Oh, definitely a dining room. We only have a small kitchen table which seats 3 so that we can never have friends over for dinner (except for barbecues in summer). I´d love to have a beautiful large dining table and something where I could store all the extra dinnerware which currently resides in our basement.
What is your favorite thing to do at home? Decorating and gardening. At this point I actually feel my house is “done” decoration-wise but I still manage to find some projects around :)
Where do you find inspiration? I´m inspired mostly by blogs, Flickr, magazines and nature.
Home is where… I can truly relax, and for this I need some of my favorite things and my little family around me. For me it´s not a question of “where” but more of “how”. Does that make sense?
Thank you so much Katrin for welcoming us into your home!
(Image credits: Katrin)
Today I want to introduce you to a new blog favorite of mine, KITKA design toronto and to share a few images of their gorgeous cottage remodel. (Click here for more pictures!) I don’t know what I love the most about this cottage – the white floors and walls, the high ceiling, the use of plywood or all the great furniture and details! (Maybe the plywood, it looks really amazing.) I think that if I ever had a cottage like this I would never want to leave it!
But enough gushing already, I’ll let John and Juli tell you more about themselves:
“We are John & Juli, and we live in Toronto Ontario. Back in January we decided to share our collective obsession with design by starting on our blog KITKA. We wanted to create a design blog from a Toronto perspective, featuring local design shops, architecture, andl vintage finds. With the renovation of our inherited cottage, however, our Scandinavian influences became very apparent, from design aesthetics to furniture to nic nacks.
We spent the summer renovating Juli’s parent’s old Georgian Bay cottage. Since we had a minuscule budget we had to do a lot of the work ourselves. That meant removing the old linoleum floors, refinishing and painting the old hardwood, tearing down walls, building a kitchen, and keeping the rest minimal.”
Thank you so much John and Juli for inviting us in and sharing about your amazing project!
All images by Kitka design toronto.
Ps. Alison from Lipstick on Your Teeth featured our home on her blog yesterday. Thanks Alison!
On Saturday we spent the day at my grandparents’ summer cottage. My mother cooked for us and my sister a meal in the simple summer kitchen my grandfather built for my grandmother.
Dinner at Minna’s Mom’s house this past weekend. I love the food of this season – lots of vegetables and new potatoes for dinner, strawberries for dessert.
Today I want to share with you pictures that I took of my friend Jenni’s gorgeous new home when I visited her this afternoon. (You can see a post about her old home here.)Â Jenni has just recently moved into a two room apartment in a lovely old building that has so much character and charm. The high ceilings, original wood floors, big windows and beautiful old doors are not easy to come by in our city, not many of these old houses are around anymore. As you can see Jenni has done justice to the building she lives in and decorated her light-filled home beautifully. I adore her style and the way she lets her personality show in her home.
