Restyling

Old and new furniture has entered the rooms again. That's the fun part, decorating, styling and seeing how it all comes together.

There's a new (bigger) dining table with the same old Tolix chairs and lamps. 

A small change but it brought a whole new feel to the dining room. 

The same couch and the lamp has switched from the left to the right. Having problems to decide witch colors of cushions I want to use on my couch. Me and colors, a tough combination :)

The previous coffee table got a different destination so a new one is high on my wish list. Still haven't found the perfect one so for now this has to do.

 

To the right you see what destination the coffee table got. We stacked them together to what it originally was meant for, a rack. I guess the content in it will change regularly.

For now it is dressed up like this.

The fire place isn't quit finished yet. Some small adjustments need to take place, but I'm happy how it came out so far. It's hard sometimes to imagine how the final result will look like for real. I had an idea in my head, but my men and the painter weren't convinced at first if it would work. Well it does!

And this corner is still a bit empty. It is waiting for a costume made cupboard. But first things first, it'll come in due time.

In in all of this the new concrete floor is the hero. We should have done this ages ago.

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HOME RENOVATION

Finally we started on our project floor last month. Something we wanted to do for years, but never came around to. When we decided it was time to repaint the downstairs thing sort of kept on rolling en before we new we planned a whole renovation of the living room.

First the wooden floor of the dining area had to be broken out. A tougher job than expected, but after that the demolishing team took care of the rest and all that was left ....

... was a giant pile of sand.

 Cracks appeared in the walls but everyone assured me it all would be alright so I had to trust them and let them do their job (hard sometimes though not to interfere  ;) )

We also had floor heating installed. The floor was open anyway so let add some winter comfort to it, we'll never have cold feet anymore. No more rugs needed for that, hallelujah!

And than the big day arrived, the concrete came in which looked like this ...

and after it was "gevlinderd" it looked like this. Now all we had to do is keep all doors and windows closed and wait ... wait ... wait very patiently ...  for it to dry.

A few days later the result started to show

and three weeks later the floor was ready to be polished and finished.

Meanwhile all the walls and woodwork was painted. That's where it all started. We just wanted a fresh painted living room but things got a bit out of hand (recognize that?)

After a two weeks holiday abroad the paint was dried and hardened so we finally could get the furniture in. All pieces felt into place and we're thrilled with the final result. Now the real fun part starts ... styling it! Best being done when my men are not around. Promise I'll share the results with you

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Dinner with Kinto

Some time ago I bought myself some aqua culture vases and that's when I discovered the Japanese brand Kinto (wrote a blog post about it which you can find here). 

Looking at their website I came across some wonderful tea and coffee items and I was especially impressed by their ceramics. Love the minimal look and design of it. When I posted some pictures of their vases on Instagram I came in contact with Kinto Europe and they offered me to try some of the items from the new NORI collection from Kinto. I choose the grey and black colors (who would have guessed!) but it's also available in white and pink. When they arrived at my home I couldn't wait to use them and I came to the conclusion that the NORI bowls and cups where even prettier than I expected. For the pictures below I did some styling with them and they make a lovely table setting.

So now we have dinner with Kinto every once in a while.

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