Shabby Easter - Dining room

 Nu är vi mitt i den härliga påskhelgen, många av oss passar på att ta en minisemester eftersom helgen är rätt lång jag är en av dem och befinner jag mig med familj  i Strömstad, västkustens pärla :) skööönt med avkoppling från storstad Stockholms brus.

Glad Påsk

Now we are in the middle of Easter weekend. Many of us in Sweden take the opportunity to have a minivacation because the weekend is pretty long here (5 days)  Sooo Me and my family left the city life and went to the Swedish westcost and we live nearby the ocean...mmmm the sea has such calming effect..I have the camera with me and pictures will soon come up at the blog to show you the beauty :))

Happy Easter

 

Shabby easter dining decorated by Pottery Barn via blog more chic than shabby

 



Spring decor easter breakfast from shabby chic queen Rachel Ashwell

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Swedish Country Living

When the story is made is the farm in winter.

Eve whos lives here say it as beautiful as the spring when

the apple trees are in bloom..

Eve is a warm and gracious person who welcome us into her home.

 

Eve think its  a privelege to live in an old house with a soul.
The old atmosphere that already exixtx here is reinforced with furniture style
Shabby Chic

The small annex build in early 1900th with deep window niches
and visible beams in the ceiling

There remain some project in the house, one of those on here wish list is to repaint the kitchen cabinet.

When Eve moved here she resumed herinterest in art , and upstairs she has her studio today (not in picture)
The life she has today is exactly what she wished for , to able to have a creative atmosphere where it can be chaos
without affecting the rest of the accomodation.

Living room, bedroom , kitchen and toilet on ground floor and studio upstairs .
-Im a perfectionist and likes order. Being able to have order in ground floor and 
untidy and cluttering upstairs without having a guilty conscience fit me.
No one else more than I need to see more chaos ,she says, laughing.

This picture is from christmas time..but I just loved it..Eva love christmas to and says that winter time can be very loooong out here so she starts to decorate for christmas quit early and use a lot of candles to create a cozy atmosphere

The wineyard in winter time

 All the pictures are taken by Jörgen Jn fotozon Nilsson , 

text Eva Sabo and Marie Söderberg (me)


Click here to visit Evas Gallery

Scandinavian interior ideas

I love this Swedish company

Garbo Interior

Here you will find Classic furnishing suited in our times.

Swedish-made custom reproductions of Gustavian furniture mixed with antiques.

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Contact and more inspiration you will find at

www.garbointerior.com


Go back to Gustavian ideas

Scandinavian christmas house

Its November and Winter time in Sweden..well..I should be..but the snow is far far away..

Just found this beautiful home and I can't help feeling  a little sting of envy over this blissfully snowy and quiet Swedish house tour. the Christmas decor is so discrete you hardly notice it...

xx Marie

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beautiful blog space for inspiration

original swedish magazine skonahem

TREND 2012 anti-consumption

No 2 TREND 2012

The trend continues in 2012,that actually was already begin in 2008. Im talking about the anti-consumption.

The "Shabby Chic" trend will continue in a long time, however,with other TREND Colours..We can already see that the white graduallu begins to take more of the colors..BUT the base consists..We want to recycle and love the feeling of old furniture with a history.

WE CARE ABOUT OUR EARTH

We recognize the value we have in our furniture at home and begins to replace the ruling againts another..Ex If you take my chair..I can take your table.

Antiques markets and flea markets in increasing all over the world

go out to the woods pureboheme

DIY trend helps to breathe life into old furniture.

You can revive, istead of replace , old furniture

this beautiful kitchen from swedish magazine skonahem

keep your old chair and put some new textils on it,

this one from smallkaramell

This is Doris Lessing, a women we will increasingly take on board and find inspiration of.
the book The golden Notebook  is lessings most celebrated achivement, a book to be affected by.

Stefan Nilsson Swedens  most renowned trend forecatser, has set the bar with anti-consumption he says-  The environment debate has become too complex for us so we bothered to take a decision on what product we actually going to buy. We like recycle, we like slow food, raw food

We like what they did in the past. We appreciate the "lady" " the old lady is the new vogue".




We will of course continue to consume things 
BUT, 
we become more aweare of what we buy.


keep on glam and rock on//Marie Söderberg

French Shabby Chic Style

Shabby Chic Mania

Woaw..Im soooo trilled over these french vintage shabby pictures..

they are SO ME..love it..i just let the pictures talk for its own..

enjoy my lovely readers.

amazing picture source  

Shabby Chic Mania

Leftovers reborn

I love we make use of old furniture,

they are born again.

Design by leftovers

Im going to "re born" my old rococo group but have noooo

idea what fabric to use...here´s some inspiration..

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*black rococo sofa with chandelier via 
*white
*lilac
*pink
*stripes in black and white
*turquoise
*pale pink
*pink and gold
*pink with black 
*pink wallpaper gold chandelier
*vintage rokoko sofa big clock in the background

Shabby Chic Love

Why do we love Shabby Chic so much?

Do we want to go back in simpler times?

Is it the old soul in us or the pure beauty of the patina?

Is it because it is made of real wood or metal..Not plastic particle board?

Is it the many years it has been weathered or waxed ,painted over and over..lovingly

passed down the family..the furniture tells a story..

Please tell me what you think..

Why do we love Shabby Chic so much?

*Shabby Chic FRENCH HOME

*Shabby Chic BATHROOM