Image credits: 1. Untitled, 2. swallow, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. vintage egg cups, 6. Untitled, 7. Untitled, 8. rocks and rainy day, 9. klee

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.

Today is the first day of my week long winter break from school. I have no big plans, only a pile of books from the library. Couldn’t think of a better way to spend the week! I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather for the past few days so a couple of quiet days at home sound perfect.

Thank you Katie for featuring our art wall on your blog and a big thank you to Klikk.no for including Nestled In on their list of best interior blogs!

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)

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.

The lucky winner of the Kauniste teatowel is Kay! Thank you everyone for taking part and sharing your birthday stories, we really enjoyed reading all 123 of them!

Image credits: 1. deskafter1, 2. come to my window, 3. New lamp, 4. Vintage Bottles, 5. Untitled, 6. Modern white kitchen: Saarinen table + Emeco Navy chair, 7. succulent from monkeysalwayslook, 8. Untitled, 9. fern

Ps. The giveaway ends tomorrow at 9 am (local time). I’ll see you tomorrow to announce the lucky winner!

A few more pictures from the weekend, looks like I spent a lot of time in the kitchen. I think that the kitchen is the heart of the home, it’s my favorite room. And even though our kitchen is lovely it’s also unfortunately a bit small, I’d love to have a bigger one or a dining room so we could have people over for dinner more. In my Dream House we’d have a great big kitchen in the middle of the house and a dining room too, it would be perfect for dinners, board games and sewing and crafting projects that take up space. I guess it’s always good to have something to dream about!

In a completely unrelated matter, if anyone is using a feed reader service (RSS or Atom) and having problems with our photos not showing up, please let us know so we can try to fix it. And speaking of feed readers, if you use them would you mind sharing what you use and how you like it? I’ve been meaning to (finally!) start following all the (many) blogs I read that way instead of just visiting each blog to check if it’s been updated (so old fashioned, I know!).

Another cold weekend makes me dream of a short holiday somewhere a bit warmer. Traveling isn’t in our plans (or budget) right now but I can entertain myself by checking the current weather conditions in my dream travel destinations anyway, they all look good: Dublin -1 C, San Francisco +11 C, Seattle +7 C. Where would you travel right now if you had the chance?

Every once in a while we get emails from people/companies interested in advertising on our blog or asking if we could mention their products in our blog posts. As a rule we say a polite thank you, but no thank you, as we like to keep our home blog exactly how it is, a blog about our home and about things that inspire us when decorating our home. Our blog is a fun hobby for us (we both work/study full time so blogging is done in our spare time), a good way to collect and share inspiration and connect with people who are interested in the same kind of things. While we have absolutely nothing against ads on blogs (in fact we really admire people who can make a living out of blogging – it must be a lot of work!) we feel that for us personally accepting advertising would add a lot of pressure that we don’t want right now.

Even though we don’t have advertising on our blog we do feature things we’ve bought or things that are on our wishlist, or artists whose work we like on our blog all the time. We’d never post about something just because we were asked to and in fact don’t post about 99,9% of the products we’ve been asked to mention on our blog. But then sometimes we get an email about something that we love right away and we think that our readers would love too, something that feels like a right fit for our blog, and then we’re more than happy to post about it. So when Finnish textile company Kauniste contacted us about featuring their collection of lovely dishtowels and offered to send us a couple of dishtowels so we could give one away to a lucky reader we said a big yes, please! right away. We love the fact that the Kauniste dishtowels are handprinted right here in Finland and that the company works with young Scandinavian designers. We also adore the 60’s and 70’s inspired designs!

So, if you’ve made it all the way through this long post, we’d like to announce a giveaway. Thanks to Kauniste we’ll give away one orange “Sienet” dishtowel (pictured below). We’ll draw the winner on my birthday, Saturday February 27th. If you’d like to take part in the giveaway just leave a comment in this post and tell us a favorite birthday memory or a gift you’ve given/received.

(All images from Kauniste except bottom image by us.)