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Home: Refresh the Home for Spring with Accents from Target

It’s time for Springtime When buying new home decor pieces for spring, I wanted to challenge myself to buy versatile pieces that I could use throughout my home in various ways. When I laid eyes…

Home: 4 Tips How to Mix & Match Colors and Patterns

It’s time for springtime With the official arrival of spring, I always get the urge to “redecorate” my house. Incorporating bright colors and fun patterns into your home can be the perfect way to prepare…

Just in: Luxury hacks for IKEA Furniture – Introducing Superfront

Swedes can now enjoy luxury hacks for IKEA A new kind of home design company opened its doors this week in Sweden allowing people to revamp their existing IKEA furniture to look like a higher…

Easter Table Setting (on a dime) Inspired by Gramma’s Vintage Style

Welcome our new writer Caitlin Covington of Southern Curls & Pearls It’s Time for Springtime My debut post for Skimbaco couldn’t be more fitting for the beautiful spring weather we’ve been experiencing lately in South…

IKEA Outdoor Living Products Hit the Stores

Think Spring Oh yes, it’s spring here in Sweden too. The birds are singing, the snow is melting, water dripping, I can already see my driveway on a few places, and the daily temperature highs…

Fragranced Coffee Filter Flower Pom Pom Tutorial

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Stay tuned for more home decorating posts and never miss a post – subscribe to Skimbaco Home feed. Coffee filter pom poms / flowers are inexpensive way to decorate your home, and they are great…

Print out Valentine’s Day Art / Cards

If you are running out of DIY Valentine’s Day ideas, here is an easy one. I was inspired by the word love in different languages to create these prints. Love never gets lost in translation…

Pictures from Our Christmas Home

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Our home is finally getting there with our Christmas decorating… We added Marimekko Hetkiä fabric on the top of the fireplace and while it doesn’t really go with our Christmas theme that includes doves and…

Less is More

Less is more in design, in decorating, and especially in Holiday decorating. I have been featuring these beautiful Scandinavian homes this winter, and I can’t get enough. These photos are by Walter & co. I…

Holiday Gift Ideas: Inexpensive Gifts for Home

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Buying trendy home decorating gifts doesn’t have to be expensive. Most of these home gift ideas are under 30 dollars, the most expensive being $75. And even if you add these gift ideas with candles…

10 DIY Tips for a Budget Kitchen Makeover

So, you’re not up for a full scale kitchen remodel, but you would like to update your look. Whether your reasoning is due to budget concerns or you just aren’t ready to start over from…

Decorate with Fresh Flowers, Live Plants & Food

If I were really honest with myself, I could admit that what I really want is for my home to look like something you’d see in the pages of a magazine. Of course, real people…

The Second Step in Green Decorating: Buy Used

I am a design blogger, but I am also a voracious reader of design blogs. Without question, my favorite posts are those featuring furniture makeovers. I diligently stalk Design Sponge every Thursday for their before…

Hostess Gift Ideas

Looking for hostess gift ideas..? Summertime is full of parties from backyards BBQ’s to visiting people while traveling, and you might be looking for some great hostess gift ideas. Stock up with some nice gifts…

Store Spotlight: H&M Home Store, Stockholm

Swedish H&M’s Home collection launched last year in Sweden. The collection is not available in the US yet, but I was able to see this summer’s home collection in the H&M’s Home store in Stockholm,…