Kelly Hoppen store - disappeared?

sourceWhatever has happened, me not know - but the Kelly Hoppen online shop seems to have disappeared!! I guess as her own boutique is moving to Selfridges&Co, she has also closed the online shop. What a pity!!! She had a beautiful, wonderful collection of cushions, lanterns, prints...and I really wanted to share those with you, in my own way. Now gotta settle for this photo...sourceIt was in some magazine a couple weeks back, that Artwood will present her products in the Scandinavian market shortly, but at least today their...

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EVTEKS

 White&soft catalogueI mentioned in some post(s) last week that I had the chance to visit EVTEKS 2011 in Istanbul. This is the second largest annual home textile fair in the world, and I can't even imagine what the largest then feels like...You like feel the fabrics (in this specific case) in your hand and just adore the patterns and the VARIETY that there is available now-a-days? I LOVE FABRICS!! I've inherited it from my mom, yes - she is always buying when she sees a nice material - she comes up with something she will make...

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Side Tables

HOME art May 2011EVTEKS in Istanbul was wonderful! The fair gave me tons of inspiration, as well as the rare chance (read: time in the airplane) to flip through 10-15 international lifestyle / home decor magazines.Here is a collection of some beautiful side tables and arrangements I found. Needless to say - Turkish are the best at this. Anyone who has visited a Turkish home has seen that they have these wonderful arrangements even outdoors in their garden. Below also a nice tip for us: have your arrangement on a beautiful...

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Wrought iron headboard

House Beautiful Turkey edition May 2011I’ve been looking for a headboard to our bed since we moved to the new house. In the previous house we had an inside ‘window’ facing the walk-in-closet as a headboard, so didn’t need anything else. Now there’s just a plain…brown…wall. A couple of weeks back, I was reading Ruby Rhino's blog on a orange bedroom. She was more talking about the color orange (can’t really recall what she wrote, sorry!), while my focus was completely on the headboard (perhaps a gate-turned-headboard?)partly visible in the picture....

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See-through pieces

Source I’ve been writing a couple of times before about my current passion for see-through pieces. How I want to get Harri Koskinen’s block lights to the summer house,  and  Philippe Starck’s Louis Ghost chair, just don’t have a perfect spot for it yet. Here's also a beautiful piece - Magino stool designed by Karim Rashid, working as a magazine rack at the same time. Anyway - I mentioned about the vision in my head about the chair – there should be a birch tree on the back-ground. The below picture was in the June ELLE decoration...

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MAVI

This goes now a little off from the home decor world, but look at this now!!Mavi is a Turkish brand which happens to make the best jeans in the world. I am not just saying so – it is a fact. When you visit Turkey, or even New York or Oslo, go and try on Lindy, or Alma, or Sophie, and you know what I mean. AND – their accessories are like candy – can’t choose which one to take, gotta taste them all. And now – I bet these pretty much tell us, what next spring/summer home décor will look like!Some ethnic touch with natural and sweet colors:And...

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Spring flowers!

My sister is a true green thumb - look at these beautiful arrangements she has all around her house! Love it! I will try to convince her to start contributing to weranna's about her garden - it is just georgeous, and of course changes every week. It is admired by the by-passers, and envied by us who just cannot even remember the names of the flowers we have bought just last week. Enj...

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Kitchen renovation

Bengt EkBengt Ek designs - always as great. The above clock is one of those items we have around which I wanted to renovate the kitchen.Here are some BEFORE pictures:Here some AFTER -shots - looks fresher after changing the cabinet doors, the hood, and the tiles, don't it?This empty wall here is asking me to get the below serving cart by Tecta:***Keittiö, keittiön sisus...

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Bathroom items

everythingsimple.comI've been thinking to have curtains in front of the bathtub. Looking for ideas in the web found the above. The below curtain holders I've bought in the central market of Kuala Lumpur, if I remember correct - now they will be used!Some other items I'm drooling over are some pieces from Balmuir - should check, though, how they take the humidity of a bathroom...Balmuir glass lanternsBalmuir directors chair***Kylpyhuone, kylpyhuoneen sisustus, sisustusid...

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Mini Cooper

 newcars.comThis car was driving in front of me this morning - had to put it here - it looks just like my blog ...

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Bathroom

I wrote earlier about the major bathroom renovation we have to start immediately to even be able to use the bathroom. Perhaps NOT such a perfect timing for this, but gives me something nice to think about.Above is gathered all the things I used when my planning for the new bathroom started. It has some bathroom accessories from Chakra, a wonderful chain in Turkey which sells bathroom and homespa items. The handmade Villeroy&Boch lanterns I got from my husband (he has a great taste!) for Christmas some years back. And most importantly -...

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Lightning - table and floor lamps

Picking the livingroom lightning - the light either creates, or sometimes destroys, the atmosphere. A couple months back, though, I ran into 2 beauties (above and below) in Zandvoort, which I couldn't resist. At the moment they stand in our living room, and in our dining room.I guess those of you who have read more of my notes, have figured out already my current obsession - GLASS :)! I don't know when this started - last year perhaps? I guess it has something to do with the mood swopping into more greyish colors, with industrial retro...

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