Designing Decor: A Discussion Of My Style

I bought these candelabras just lately from Kremmehuset. There are silver coloured, and that’s why I bought them. I just love silver plated items, I have the beautiful silver plated tray for the same reason. I like to buy things that look like they might have been bought whilst I was abroad. I like to try and have a somewhat colonial feel to my home. I’m a traveller, I want my house to tell people that.

 

So if you look around my apartment you will see things that might have come from somewhere else. The geometric monochrome area rug for example. It was originally purchased from IKEA, but I think it has an exotic feeling almost as if it came from North Africa, at least in the context I put it in.

I like having artwork that reflects the places I’ve been. So I try and buy some sort of artwork wherever I go. There are paintings that I have bought when I was single, that are in boxes at my parents home in Britain, but maybe if we get to move back then I can add it to the pieces I have here.

Luckily my husband too has accumulated things whilst he was single that were or could have been bought abroad. Like the poster of Jerusalem which he bought home as a souvenir of his trip, or the ceramic bowl given to him (probably) by his grandparents.

I think that I can be forgiven for attempting to marry this colonial-esc style with a touch of retro country cottage. They tie in well together and make a very cohesive look, bringing a sense of luxury to my small but attractive little flat.

Well that’s what I wanted to say. Perhaps this might be interesting and inspiring to any that might wish to blend two styles together. Please subscribe and comment.

Until next,

Davita

Mrs Egeland’s Note: I just wanted to mention that I made a soap from my leftover soaps just lately, it had never occurred to me to try before, but then after watching Wartime Farm and Ruth Goodman I decided to have a go myself. It’s a strange shape and very multi-coloured but anything to save a few pennies and stave off the moment I have to buy some more.