Morning joy

Sunny City Walk

Patchwork Curtain

Our kitchen and living-room is now located at the ground floor, the former snowboard shop. Because of the 4m x 4m single glass show room i made with my mother a big patchwork curtain from old recycled fabrics. Inspirerd by a curtain i once saw in a museum, winking to an old cafe were you still can find a dirty, smokey brown curtain when you enter the door.
Making this curtain was a perfect job for mother and daugther; quality time and functional! It took us about 5 days, including the claptrap. The curtain is finally hanging, quite a necessity with the upcoming cold days (we allready had frost at night). I am really happy with it, especially because i am a beginner when it comes to handicraft. This way my mother can teach me a bit and i can develop some missing skills. Thanx mom!

Home made Heaven

A lazy Sunday Morning in our new kitchen! My boyfriend worked so hard for the last couple of months, so it was a true, true Joy to share breakfast together. Home made hapiness!

The kitchen is self build by my handyman: he did the building and made the design.The faceplates are made from oak by a carpenter, the cabinets are from Ikea and the concrete dresser is made by my love. Making the concrete dresser was a big big experiment. Everywhere on the web you read how specialised work it is, it is discouraged to do this by your self. But my love likes to take a venture, and he succeeded!
I had some strong wishes, like i insisted on a 70 centimetre deep & 8 centrimetre high concrete dresser. And i did not want to have high cabinets because of the beautifull old medieval wall. And there had to come a Smeg fridge. All the equipment is second handed bought at Marktplaats (something like Ebay) and there is a lot of old material from the house re-used. This way it is a affordable, ecofriendly but design kitchen. The tap is a Starck design, made for a bathroom but adapted with ball bearings (rubber from a bicycle), the kitchen wall is painted with lacquer paint (normally you use this at wood) and there are more of those funky ideas. The old medieval purper door will soon become a spice rack.

I am really proud of my love; he did the best job ever. It turned out to be perfect, or more than perfect to me. I love everything! It feels allready like home, and i am really looking forward to cooking vegalicious dinners and have endless dinnerparties with friends.Thank you my love!

Love at first sight 2

Do you remember this post? I bought this tin it in a Vintage webshop called Les Filles, and just before, the lovely owner made a beautifull picture of it. Well, now you can find The Bird in Flow magazine.nl. The owner of the shop sent it to me, thank you Erica!
The Bird really wants to fly out (it is still living in a box called "Kitchen Stuff"), next week it will finally meet his new friend Rabbit!