Painted Sofa

The sofa-project is ready
Sofa isn't the original design I was thinking (look at the older post). And lucky it wasn't, because this easy-lookin pattern was suprisingly hard to do! I painted it twice with acrylic paint and then I made the mattress from old textiles I wasn't going to use anymore (like felted wool gardigan, old towels, a stained and really old bedspread...) I'm always really happy when something garbage-like thing can be re-used!! The striped fabric was just waiting in my fabric stash (it is wast)... And the pillows I found really cheaply from work, when we had closing-down sale of Esprit Home. The dog tried to eat the buttons that I made for the mattress :) Before the hall was so lame

And after!

I'm thinking of doing a picture collage over the sofa. I'm thinking ancestral dogs. I'm thinking fake (I'm so cheap) gold frames! You'll see

"Summer" holiday begins tomorrow

It's sunny (but cold, as I realized when i went jogging with the dog just now - wearing too little) spring morning and I have two hours before I go to work and after 6 hours - HO-LI-DAY (I can hear Madonna singing it for me). Then I can spend my days (for two weeks) working on the interiors of this home!

And then the one week trip to Belgium to see my little brother who lives there at the city of Brussel. It will take me deep into the summer weather and feel (because here in Finland it still can go freezing at night in May). I'm waiting for the trip for so many reasons: I'll get to hang out with my beloved family/ I'll get an early start to summer/I'll see things that inspire me/ I'll take interesting and artistic holiday pics AND I'm pretty sure that I can find some home interior things (extraordinary) to bring back to this home nest of mine.The renovated kitchen

The things have evolved here at the home nest remarkably: The clock (if you see the older posts you know what I mean) is on the wall. The kitchen is now officially ready! (Alltough I'm thinking of changing the insides of two tall cabinets that are from 1949 and in those times everything was really tiny?! I mean - there is no packages or parsels that will fit into these tiny small shelfs.) I'm enjoying it so much: running water makes all the difference!


This picture show next: tells you the story of how a small dressing room is turning into a inspirational safe heaven for my idealistic passions for making things (clothes, miniatures, quilting, jewelry, comics...) At first it looked a bit like some dark cave... (but it is one of the biggest reasons we liked the appartment in the first place - the potential!)But it was fixed with a splash of colour :)But then I took (almost all of) my important things in and it looked like...well...not like a safe heaven at all! This will be the first task I'll attend to. I need the forse to be with me!!!

I hope I'll get this done, and after that I can think again about the hallway, where I plan to (maybe) make the painted sofa I was telling you...