Oh no!!

Jeg må male. Hele stuen. Vegger, karmer, tak. Jeg har ommøblert i dag, og HERREGUD, veggene ser ikke ut! Ikke akkurat så hvite mer... De er så strukturert at jeg ikke får vasket dem. Det har jeg også lyst til å endre på. Kunne egentlig tenkt meg å tatt gulvet i samme selengen, men siden det tar litt tid og helst skal herde tror jeg at jeg finner noen som kan gjøre det mens vi er på ferie.

Spørsmålet er jo farge da... Har egentlig lyst på en hvit som bryter litt mot grått på veggene, men er litt redd for hvordan det blir i de månedene vi ikke ser sola... Synes 1002-Y ser bra ut.


Via Nancy and I

I have to paint. The whole livingroom. Walls, frames, ceiling. I've been mooving furniture around today, and GOD, the walls does not look good! Not so white anymore... They are to structured to wash. I want to do something about that as well. I would like to do the floor when I'm at it, but I'll get someone to do it when we are on vacation.
So the question is color... I would like a greyish white, but I'm a bit worried how it will look the months we don't see the sun... Kind of like the one on this picture, 1002-Y.

Dark...

Etter å ha sett bilder av Birgitta Wolfgang Drejers lyse hjem synes jeg stuen min er for mørk.
After seeing pictures of Birgitta Wolfgang Drejers bright home I think my livingroom is too dark.

Jeg ønsker meg hvit bokhylle. Har expedit fra IKEA. Jeg liker den egentlig, men skulle ønske at jeg hadde valgt den hvite. Mulig den blir byttet ut ganske snart!
I wish I had a white book shelve. I have expedit from IKEA. I do like it, but wish I had chosen the white one. Might exchange it soon!

Jeg har lurt på om jeg skulle male gulvene mine hvite ganske lenge. Tenker bare at det er mye styr, og er usikker på resultatet. Noen erfaringer? Anette Willhelmine forklarer det godt virker det som.
I´ve been thinking about painting my floors white for a while. Just afraid it will be a lot of hustle, and I´m uncertain about the result. Any experiences?

Pre-teen

Hjeeelp!! Jeg har en pre-teen i huset! Er ikke det tidlig? Hun er jo bare syv!!
Heeelp!! I have a pre-teen in the house! Isn't that early? She´s just seven!!

Men hun har vokst fra det grønne og rosa rommet... Jeg synes hun er ganske kul, hun ville det skulle vært inspirert av surfing! Så da hun reise på feriekoloni var det bare å sette i gang.
But she has outgrown the green and pink room... I do think she is pretty cool, she wanted it to be inspired by surfing! So when she left for summer camp I got to work.

Tusen takk til selgeren på Fluid,som ga oss kult stash til å ha på rommet hennes! Men jeg tror jeg henger plakaten med den nakene kjekkasen på MITT soverom ;)
I want to send a BIG thank you the seller at Fluid, for cool stuff to include in her room! But I think I´ll put the poster with the naked hunk in MY bedroom ;)

Pulten. Jeg liker Expedit serien til IKEA. Her har jeg brukt arbeidsbord og bokhylle.

The desk. I like IKEA´s Expedit. I´ve used the table and shelves.

 

Sengen. Hvordan jeg bygde den kan du se  her. Sengehimmelen er fra IKEA. Jojo hang drømmefangeren på toppen. Stjernene inni lyser i mørket.

The bed. You can see how I built it here. The net is from IKEA. Jojo put her dream catcher on top. The stars glows in the dark.

  

Alle små frøkner trenger en sofa. Rislampe fra IKEA. Jeg tegnet en hawaii-rose og lagde en sjablong.  Belte fra Fluid holder gardinene på plass.

All girls need a couch. Lamp from IKEA. I drew a hawaii rose and made stencil. A belt from Fluid keeps the curtains together.

Jeg har et par prosjekter til på rommet hennes. En bokhylle skal bli barbiehus og nattbordet/sminkebordet er ikke ferdig.
I still have a couple of projects in her room. A bookcase will become a barbie house and the nightstand/dresser is not done.

Roygbiv - Orange

Jeg er forelsket, i en farge! Orange (tangerine) dukker opp en del forskjellige steder i leiligheten min. Denne klare, varme fargen minner meg om solen :)
I'm in love, with a color! Orange (tangerine) is making an aparance different places in my appartment. This bright, warm color reminds me of the sun :)

Leiligheten min kan føles litt kald på vinteren, for det er en del måneder vi ikke se solen. Så når jeg valgte å ta inn mye blått på kjøkkenet og turkis i stuen måtte jeg krydre litt med noe varmere.
My apartment can feel a bit cold in wintertime, as we don't get any sun for a few months. So when I desided to bring lots of blue into the kitchen and turquoise in the livingroom I needed to spice it up with something warmer.

Jojo´s rom har og litt av fargen. Hun så den da jeg malte fatet, og hun fallt og for den :)
My daughters room has a touch of the color aswell. She saw it when I was painting the big dish, and she too fell for it :)

Old photos

Jeg elsker gamle bilder!  Denne posten fra Feel Inspired inspirerte meg :)
I love old photos! This post from Feel Inspired, well, inspired me :)

Jeg har en del gamle bilder, og skal vise noen fra her jeg bor senere. Skulle gjerne stilt ut dem, men tørr ikke rive dem ut av albumet. Disse var løse, så da ble det dem nå.
I have a few old pictures, and will show some from where I live later. I´d love to have them on dislpay, but I´m afraid to pull them out of the album. These where loose, so I´m using them for now.

My grandmother, my great-grandfather with the gun (staged), my great-great grandparents at their farm, my great-grandparents (double exposure)

Jeg fikk noen gamle kaffe-glass, nescafe ble visst solgt i disse, og syntes det var en fin måte å vise bildene på.
I got some old coffee-jars, nescafe was sold in these, and thought it was a good way to display the pictures.

Fall love

Den siste ukean har det føltes som om høsten er her. Jeg liker høsten! Føles så godt å tenne lys og krølle seg opp i sofaen med et glass rødvin!
For about the last week it has seemed as fall is here. I like the fall! Feels so good to light candles and curl up in the couch with a glass of red wine!

Jeg elsker mine Fuego stormlykter fra Hadeland glassverk!
I love my Fuego hurricane (think that´s what it´s called in english) from Hadeland glassverk!

Turquoise table

Avlastningsbordet i stuen har blitt turkis!
The side table in the livingroom is now turquoise!

Før. Jeg kjøpte bordet på loppemarked i fjor, for 50 kr. Jojo hjelper til med å pusse bort lakken!
Before. I got the table last year, 50 kr at a flea-marked! Jojo is helping sand it down.

Jeg er sååå fornøyd med resultatet! Fargen har jeg blandet selv, så den macher de nye putene.
I´m happy with the result! I mixed the color myself, to mach the new pillows.

Saturday wishes

I really, REALLY, want these! 4 or 6 of them, they are only 10 cm in diameter. Perfect for créme brûlée!

Le Creuset mini bleu, via

Dreaming....

Of my own summer house! I know where to put it... A part of the lot where my dad´s summer house is is not being used. You can´t even see it from the existing house. What I want to put up is this one from Enkelrum. It´s 20 sqm. I don´t think it has to be big, just need some good solutions! Anyway, we´ll spend most of the time outside (counting on better summers to come). I want a big deck!

I want to put up a wall inside, so Jojo gets her own "room". It´ll be just big enough for a family bed.

from Skeidar.no

The rest of the house , except a small room for a toilet, will have an open solution.

 

Sofabed with storage, compact kitchen, table that can be pulled out to seat 6, chairs that can be stacked, all from Ikea.

Roygbiv - Red

Since my blog is called "Over the rainbow" I want to go through the colors of the rainbow one after the other. First I want to show you some of what I have in the different colors. Over the next weeks I will do a post on one color each Wednesday. Starting this week with RED.

I don´t have much red in my apartment, but when I started to look for it I realized that I have more than I thought.

I LOVE my mug :) I don't have time to sit at the kitchen table and drink my coffee in the morning, so this is perfect for me! I (almost) always have fresh chili in this bowl. My grandfather won it in a ski-jumping  competition, can you see the little jumper? Old style! Red spices! Saffron (fake) and tandoori. The Swiss flag, to honer my daughters Swiss heritage. A few of my albums, the little red one has pictures from a wedding where I was the flower-girl :)

Fail2

I love theLENNOXX! Lindas DIY Zebra Accent Pillow made me want to do something similar.

But I used the wrong kind of paint... FAIL! I was going for clean stripes :P Next time I will use acrylic paint...

Makeover in the livingroom

Inspired by House of Turquoise I've given the livingroom a makeover. Erin is showing a wonderful turquoise and tangerine home, I think it looks so fresh!

New pillowcases are ready. I got the fabric from Stoff og Stil, at 50% discount. Me like :)

The turtle dove inspired a bit of art, but I´m not completely happy.

 

Rondane

On my vacation I came across this wonderful place. I´m gonna let the pictures speak for themselves.

Fail

I left a big candle in my window when I went on vacation. This is what was left when I got home...

I can´t get the orange of the sill!!

Irony

I was looking through some of my old posts, especialy the one about the big dish since I've just painted it again. I never really got it to fit in the living-room, so now it's getting a new chance in the kitchen.

After a lot of back and forth considering colors for the kitchen I've ended up with blue and tangerine. Funny how it ended up with those colors, seems like they chose me!

I got these lovely vases after my grandparents.

Then, when I passed a used-marked in Stavern, I saw these bottles! I'm using them for water.

And here is the irony! In the first post about the dish I said that it was too orange. Well, now it's orange!!

Think it looks good with the vases and bottles :)