I’m not that great with interior design or decorating, but I do my best to make my surroundings pretty. Recently, I’ve been using books as decoration. I love an overflowing bookcase, but I also like books stacked in more unexpected places. It’s a great way to display your favourite books after you’ve read them, and you can change them around regularly if you get bored. I usually see this done with coffee table books, but I find novels can work just as well. Just this weekend, I decided my dresser looked empty and arranged a few piles of to-be-read novels on top of it! I also like piling books on the floor, sideboards and coffee tables, and I love the wall shelves in the picture below.
{Images from some of my favourite Design*Sponge sneak peeks: Vynsie Law, Marianne van Ooij, Nicole Hill Gerulat, Vanessa Dina}
I picked up the latest issue of Real Living today, and I’m totally crushing on this beautiful bed linen from Castle & Things. The designs are hand-printed on the highest quality cotton sheets. I love mismatched, patterned sheets, and the orange and aqua colour scheme would match our bedroom perfectly.
{Image from Castle & Things}
I’d love this Swedish milk poster. It reminds me of my childhood, even if we always drank “green” milk, not “red” milk.
{From Väckra Väggar, via Emmas Designblogg}
Sometimes when I go on Etsy, I find the most beautiful things right there on the front page. Case in point: these gorgeous bowls from Clear Mountain Craft. Major covet!
{Images from Clear Mountain Craft}
I love the idea of a perpetual calendar that you can rearrange year after year, but knowing me, I’d probably get bored of it after 6 months or so. Still, I can’t get past this calendar that I’ve seen popping up on some blogs recently. I love that all the images are from Paris, and it looks so striking on the wall–not at all like most calendars.
{Image from Little Brown Pen}
