Tänd på tegel

Yep. Så är det. Går definitivt igång på tegel just nu. Rött och slitet eller gammalt tegel nymålat lila, eller varför inte vitt? 

Tegel är tryggt och tungt både kilomässigt och  rent känslomässigt.

Har kämpat med mycket puts genom mitt liv för att finna tegelväggen där bakom och har sökt för att finna vägar för att laminera den gamla väggen så att putsen ej fortsätter att ryka. Det finns ju bra lack och annat fästmedel som tar hand om det. Prata med en färghandel om du vill knacka puts i helgen. 

I just go for brick at the moment. 

Heavy huh...No really, it feels comfy and safe. Found this NYC loft in one of my favorite magazines in the world´s online verson, Living Etc

Ceiling gallery not Sistine Chapel

I don´t paint my ceilings very often. I mostly consider the ceiling something to match the rest of the room and something you do not see that much. Is that true ?

As soon as I lay down in my bed I see my ceiling clearly, especially on summer nights before I close my eyes and fall asleep I do think of whats above.

What if the ceiling held a whole gallery of wonderful images that I love?

What if the sky opened up and showed an cherub like this ceiling painting at Gyllene Uttern close to Gränna, Sweden.

It does not have to be the Sistine Chapel, it could be anything you want.

Maybe Paul Smith type of stripes in the entire ceiling, or leaf gold in the ceiling over your entrance?

Whatever floats my boat.

What would you you like your ceilings to show?

Spanish influence

 Window shutters old or new in all shapes, sizes and colors I love. They also make for a wonderful partition for any room if you just connect three together with some hinges.

Above a flowering cactus, never seen such flowers before. Beautiful!

Below a white house with a very green tiled door frame which just got to me. Brick closest to the door and a frame of green handmade tile around it. The door frame really stood out on this white house.

The Spanish influence is from my travels this summer. Love seeing new ways of doing things I thought I knew all about. So inspiring to experience. What about the butterfly?

With this I bid you a very good weekend my Dears

/ Jimmy

Door to door experiences

An industrial blue metal door can be so inspiring. This one I found in Malmö, Sweden.

Metal ornaments on a wooden door in Lund, Sweden.

Powerdoor. Wood off course with metal studs. Very impressive. Barcelona, Spain.

Large angel above your door feels safe and welcoming.

A beautiful simple wooden double door with a small angel above and and the eight that here looks like the eternity symbol, don´t you think?

Keyholes can look this beautiful

For a more stylish knock knock knock. 

Door ornaments. Not decoration any longer. Sooooo inspiring. Saw these in Sitges, Spain.

The ornaments are made in metall on the wodden door. A technique used in Sweden aswell on church doors.

These doors a few of my favorites I´ve seen this summer.

Doors say so much. About the house. The owner. The times.

Back on track

Let a tree go through your ceiling or grow out from a wall or form a  green wall between two houses like this one I saw in Sitges, Spain.

Clothes inspire me. Want to make more cushions out of old jeans. The beeds make for great decoration both on your jeans as well as on the right type of furniture. 

WANT a house with a straw roof NOW! 
Sooo beutiful!! LOOOOOOOOVE!!

Flowers in a bowl show your energy of the day. The simpler the bowl the better...

Me love :)

Spanish style : Tile numbers on your house. Why not ?

Can you ever have enough flowers inside your house, or ouside for that matter ?

Concrete pot covered with all your seashells found this summer.

Half-timbered house in English. Korsvirkes hus in Swedish. Have red brick ever been more beautiful ?  A wall or a whole house. Always right. Always red. Together with black wood it´s a hit. 

Don´t be square. Who ever thought windows had to be ? Live life more round. 

Summer for me has been celebrated on the westcoast of Sweden in Varberg or in Skåne where my love lives and by the mediterranean in Sitges and  Barcelona. Offcourse in Stockholm aswell as outside of Uppsala where my friends have renovated an old school house. Summer is a state of mind. 

Look at my summerstate in pictures. 

Good to be back on track blogwise.

Hope you all had a good summer so far.

I sure did. And for all of you that have winter were you live, hope its a good one :) 

My vacation is over for this summer and you find me here again with more stories to tell. 

See you tomorrow :)

Summertime

My nephew Jonathan says: 
See you soon.

So do I.  

Right now its time for summer 
and the living is easy   :=)

Can it get better ?

JOY!

Jimmy - who will be back in Aug :)

Organic roof

Love the thought of a whole roof of greenery - this is one way of going about it. 

The large windows in connection with the organic roof will create the most magic natural lighting indoors.

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