Lovely Tiny Apartment

Dear blogfriends,

Hi!

I'm quickly sharing this lovely apartment designed by Clayton Apgar and photographed by the super talented Bethany Nauert.

I have never seen a Eero Saarinen table that looked bad.

NEVER.

Ah! I love this bedroom. This bed is so inviting.

I love the brass sconces.

Credit : Apartment Therapy

Hollywood Regency Week : Serene and Contemporary HR Inspired Home

Dear blogfriends,

Our Hollywood Regency Week is almost finished. I realize many aspect of this style hasn't been tackled. I'm sure we'll come back on that style.

However, today, I take the opportunity to present a blog that I like very much. I think it is very interesting to see how bloggers that are inspired by the same interiors, decorate their interior in a slightly different way.

Danielle Oakey is a very talented blogger and decorator. She can create very lovely and unique decors on a budget. She always gives very good tips!

We featured similar interiors on our blogs, like Lindsay Mens Craig's apartment or this house designed by Jessica Helgerson (just to give some examples), however, our personal styles are a bit different.

She introduced some Hollywood Regency's element in her home and used a very bright and happy color palette, so the result has enough drama and splendour. However, the neutral tones of the walls and of the sofa and the delicate use of the happy color palette create a serene an informal atmosphere that the scandinavian-interior-lover that I am totally love!

I'll always love a Eero Saarinen dinning room. The fabric used for the upholstered chairs reminds of the Hollywood Regency classic imperial treillis.

I also love campaigner inspired painted desk. The color is perfect.

Do you recognize the Chiang Mai fabric? I will love this fabric forever.

Happy and dramatic (Ikea) baroque console and subtle animal print ottoman.

Credit : Danielle Oakey

 I love that reinterpreted every element. The result is sophisticated and unique.

What do you think? Isn't it lovely?

Ideas for the Dinning Nook (3) : The Bertoia Chair

I am so so glad we (my boyfriend and I) made up our mind for the chair of the dinning nook.

I wanted a modern classic chair.

At first, my choice was the Eames chair.

Credit : La maison d'Anna G.

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I still love them, but I think they are a bit too industrial for me and would work better in a kitchen.

Then, I was truly loving this model from Habitat.

Credit : Habitat

Which matches our office chair. I love how the leather warths up our interior. This is glam and cozy. But I think it would be too matchy-matchy (with the office chair) and quite "heavy" (because of the chrome and the leather).

It's not stricto sensu a design classic, but it reminds me those beautifull mid-century rooms.

Credit : Somewhere on Pinterest...

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Some other chairs came in discussion, like the Saarinen tulip chair.

Credit : Houzz

But finally we agreed on...

 the BERTOIA WIRE CHAIR!

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Credit : The Designer Pad

Credit : Habitat + Beyond

I love that's unformal yet elegant and that you can play with cushions to make it cozier or lighter. We still have to make our choice for the cushions though...

Apartment therapy just published an article on this modern classic chair.

And you? Do you like modern classics? Which is you favorite? Have you some? I'd like to know...

Ideas for the Dinning Nook (2) : Options for the Table

We are seriously thinking about changing the dinning set.

The current table is a bit too small for the space and definitely too small to welcome more than four people. I bought it 7 years ago for peanuts form the former renters of my first apartment (along awful aneboda closets), so it is ok to splurge on a new table.

The chairs are adorable "Herve" chairs that I bought for 1 euro each and sanded years ago. I like them a lot, but they don't fill the space and look too shabby for the room.

I am usually very hesitant when its about decorating my house, but since I am ready to splurge a bit on this future set, I am even more hesitating...

Here is my check list :

1. No more Ikea in the living room!! I love Ikea but too much Ikea kills Ikea. Learn it.

2. Dinning room is, in my point of view, THE place where you can make a statement  : be vintage, be quirk

3. I know a round dining table will look better. It fits the space better.

Those are the tricks :

1. Round dining tables are spares. Not a lot of choices. Plus I want a pedestal. I despite four-feet round tables.

2. The table should be big enough for at least 6 people (more would be event better). But round tables usually don't have extensions.

3. White would be too white, but I already have three different finishes of wood in the living room (the coffee table, the kitchen and the piano), so can't have more wood. No wood, no white.

4. Last but not least : my boyfriend doesn't like round tables very much.

And the nominees are :

1.  Eero Sarrinen Tulip Table ( = for ever love)

Credit : Apartment Therapy

Totally cute...

It comes in different finishes. The most common ones being white or marble.

Marble would be perfect, fullfilling point 3 of the check list.

It comes also in comes also in glod if you want :

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It works with all kind of chairs.

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Even rustic chairs :

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I hunting on craigslist but the price of vintage ones is quite prohibitive. I found some seller on line, but the delay of delivery is about 18 weeks (so I can change my mind and torture myself a billion times before I get it).

Besides that, the only inconvinients are the fact it is not modulable and that my boyfriend doesn't like round tables. 

2. Some other round tables on pedestal

Pretty :

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Totally pretty :

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To die for:

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I could also find very cheap ones on craiglist and do a little makeover.This could be fun, but I get tired just thinking I have to go pick them in deep wallonia or flanders...

3. A rectangular table:

There are a few that are ok. But I am really not convinced...

My boyfriend likes this one :

Credit : Ikea Fans Sverige Facebook Page

I am fair ; this is a nice picture. But I think it is too "cold". It looks like an office meeting table. No. Really. I don't like it.

I would like this one better, I think :

Stockholm Table form Maison du Monde

Credit: Maison du Monde

So it's obvious which one I prefer... But would I survive 18 weeks for the delivery????

Ideas for the Dinning Nook (1) : Lovely Inspiration Pics

This is a tragedy. I just can't decide myself or just find the right things. I change my mind every day.

I have a pretty good idea of what I like, but I just can't get the thing done.

I need a method.

First, the inspiration.

I like glamourous, feminine, personnal, uncommon dinning rooms.

I like chrome, rich textures.

BUT, I don't have a coherent style. It could be all styles, from french to mid-century, as long as it is glamourous.

This one is amazing :

Credit : www.houzz.com

A love the Saarinen marble tulip table, not so much the chairs. However, like this, there is nothing to hate :

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Faux bamboo chrome chairs. I love it, I am not joking.

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Simple and cozy, yet glamourous and really stylish :

Credit : Ana Antunes www.home-styling.blogspot.be

This is crazy. There is nothing special to this dinning set, however, it looks so chic.

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