Due to recent holidays it has all been a bit quiet on the blogging front. I actually went to Finland last month and I am very excited that our Iittala family has grown a little more thanks to this trip. I am a keen collector of Iittala products and love their timeless design and I have been so happy with our new additions that…
My new years resolution, well one of them, has been to do something about our bare walls. The walls are off white and it can look very clinical at times. I have nothing against all white rooms (coming from a Nordic country I am well used to it!) but I do agree that I need to break down all that…
For the first time ever I decided to put some Easter decorations up 🙂 I think this will become the norm when you have kids but it is nice to find joy in the simple things in life and I also feel Easter highlights the height of spring time. Yellow tulips are the ultimate Easter flower for me. They seem to be in…
Our old dining room couldn’t have been further from my contemporary taste. Not only was the carpet old and dirty, the back boiler in the middle of the room turned out to be the biggest challenge and the first thing we got rid of! I was excited to transform this room and after the removal of the boiler and new Quickstep laminate…
From day one, I have hated the back boiler in our dining room. All 1930’s houses in the UK used to have one, and some still do, but we couldn’t even have a warm bath downstairs, as the boiler wouldn’t heat enough water (not the mention it doesn’t really fit into my idea of contemporary). In order to remove the old back boiler,…
