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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…

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…

Interiors: New from Scandinavia – Kauniste

New from Finland: Kauniste I’m so excited to share design news from Scandinavia that are not from Sweden, but from Finland. Kauniste is a new multi-designer brand from Finland, and their shop in Helsinki was…

Gorgeous Notting Hill Home in ELLE Decor

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Here is some eye candy for you my design friends. These gorgeous photos are from home of an Australian-born designer Peter Mikic in London’s Notting Hill. Notting Hill still has some undiscovered gems that are…

In Search of the Perfect Modern White Dining Table

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I’ve been searching for a modern white dining table that can seat at least 10, and it hasn’t been as easy as I thought of. Maybe because Scandinavian homes are small, and most Swedish tables…

My Modern White Living Room Inspiration

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Modern White Living Room Inspiration When in Rome, do as the Romans do, right? So here starts my Swedish home decorating project, the Swedish style. While our home decorating style has always had Scandinavian influence,…

Parisian Inspired Dishes Designed by Lovisa Burfitt for Rorstrand

This beautiful, small, five piece dish collection came out already last year, but I can’t resist showcasing it, even though you probably have already seen it. I also just featured a cup from this collection…

Delightful Porclain Designed by Elisabeth Dunker and Anna Backlund for RYM

Elisabeth Dunker from blog and shop Fine Little Day and collaborator Anna Backlund recently released a look at their new porcelain line for Rym.

Designer/artist Elisabeth Dunker from blog and shop Fine Little Day collaborated with fellow Swedish designer Anna Backlund and created this delightful porcelain line for Rym, and it will be available at Fine Little Day shop…

Awesome Black & White Prints on Dishes

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When it comes to dishes, it really was clear to me what to keep and what not to keep in our latest move when we had to get rid of even more things than normally…

Villa Overby as Seen in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo movie was well represented at the Oscars, but went home only with one Academy Award for film editing, but if there was an Oscar for the best house in…

More Iittala Shopping: Lempi glasses

Last month I admired the Matti Klenell’s Lempi glasses for Iittala designed by Matti Klenell, and last week when visiting an Iittala store in Finland my husband spotted the same glasses on the shelf. “Hey,…

ferm LIVING 2012 Spring & Summer Collection

I adore Danish ferm LIVING and their modern graphics, simplicity with color pop and their practical everyday use design. Their spring/summer 2012 new graphic print isn’t my favorite ferm living print, but it’s gorgeous nevertheless.…

H&M Home Collection Spring 2012: White Rustic

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I featured the bold colors from H&M’s spring home collection a few days ago, and exactly how all the bolder colors are like directly from Pantone’s 2012 color picks, so are the more neutral colors…