Happy New Year! And lots of inspiring rooms!

Happy New Year!
Why not starting 2011 with lots of inspiring rooms?!

Here some I found in the last couple of days...


Colorful and shiny room. The natural roller curtains. Most likely, the HEMNES sofa/bed from IKEA, that we have considered as a possible solution for the guest room. It easily expand to a double bed + it has storage space beneath.


I like the practical solutions about this room. Lots of shelves and storage space. With lots of color to cheer things up ;)

Then a DIY (Do It Yourself) project, the transformation of the Billy bookshelves also from IKEA. We have a couple of Billys as well, and I have always thought of doing something with them to spicy them up a bit. Here the final result

Found through Design*Sponge, original project from Sharon Pakir.

About the office. Here an idea I like

where the desk and other storage space are kept together by the continuity of the wooden plate above them all. Through The Marion House Book

And from the same site, a solution for sliding door.

We plan to use sliding door between the living room and the hopefully soon-to-be baby-room/office/guest room. We are still not sure that the wall we want to set the sliding door into is or is not a carrying wall, so we are considering having the doors outside the wall, like those in the picture above. I like the sleek solution to cover the carrying rail.

And for a delight, have a look at this calm, relaxing and amazing apartment found through MadeByGirl

Many sleek solutions, like all the storage space behind this white wall

and the illuminated shelves for a even more dramatic effect of the pieces displayed.
The light and the soften use of the purple color (one of my favorite) throughout the whole apartment.

And even more bright the top floor where you can also find the office corner

Again I love the continuity of the surface of the desk and drawers. And continuity of another white storage wall in the bedroom

Just so lovely, with the nook for sitting and reading

More here. Just lovely!

And if you are not tired yet. Here two more things.

One from ApartmentTherapy, ideas about beautiful organized homes


And this one AtCasa, a bright white apartment full of sleek and smart solutions


What a great way to start the year!

Dreaming of kitchen renovation

Our kitchen is pretty small and we often dream of removing a wall to create an open space with a kitchen island towards the living-room.
However, I don't think we will ever renovate our kitchen, there is no major work required. But it still nice to dream on how we could get more space by rearranging the furniture or getting new ones.

When I saw this kitchen this morning...


I thought Orna (the owner of this apartment) did a pretty good job in exploiting the wall to create storage space. And I love the nook with spot lights and colorful vases she has to break the continuity of the cabinet wall.

I found her kitchen through this post at Apartment Therapy ;)

Time for a new inspiring room!

Yes, time for a new inspiring room!

Especially in such a rainy day (or should I say week?!), this room make me feel better ;-)



Don't you agree?

I like the light, the bookshelves and the bed/cozy-corner above the entrance ;-)

I found it through So'Mace blog in this post

For more pictures of this apartment check here at The Brooklyn Home Company

Here we go!

Here we start with an inspiring board and inspiring ideas.
I start with interior ideas but who knows where I might end up.

So here we go with a first very nice idea for the leaving room and TV settings




Through MadeByGirl. Picture by Otthon Magazine