Fnubbu in our house!

The very talented danish designer Signe Møller Jensen with her brand Fnubbu actually has her studio and shop at street level in MY house!! She does some really beautiful work and I love peeking through the windows while waiting for my boyfriend to get ready when we are going somewhere ;) I would wear this anytime!

Fnubbu

Kitchen first aid!

When we moved in we decided not to do anything about the kitchen, not even repaint it or remove the wallpaper the previous owners put up, since we were planning to do the whole thing later. The kitchen is in a sad, sad state and I don't feel like cooking at all.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to just try to make it a bit more cosy, and I took down most of the open shelves to make the tiny kitchen a little more airy.
The cupboards under the sink were really old, ugly and unfresh so I used some of the selfadhesive vinyl I sometimes use in my illustrations, to cover them with. Then I spraypainted the handles with a bright yellow paint and painted the tabletop black.
I had a really good time doing this and in some weird way I think this kitchen now looks a bit like my illustrations.
It's not perfect in anyway, but it makes the months before we start the big renovation project, a little happier.

This is what it looked like before:

And this is now:

Found!

Sometimes I can't believe what people throw out. Today I found this beauty in the backyard, thrown away by one of the neighbours. We've been looking for a globe in different antique shops but never got as far as buying one so this was a great find! From the way the countries are divided on this one I can tell that i'ts quite old.
In our backyard we have a little shed were people can put stuff they can't make use of anymore, but still is fully functional. I've found so many nice things there and I think "Found stuff" has to have it's own category in my blog!



After studying the names of the countries me and Simon used some of our history knowledge and figured out that the globe is from around the 1940's!

How I long for a real kitchen!

We have alot of plans for this place and one involves taking down the wall between the kitchen and what is now the bedroom. The bedroom goes to the other side of the appartment and there is room for an open kitchen/livingroom.
I've been giving this alot of thought and have been looking for a good kitchen soloution for quite some time. Either they are too expensive or just plain ugly. What I was looking for was a type of unglamourous, rustic and plain kitchen without unneccesary details that could fit in a small place.
I stumbeled over the great blog Door Sixteen and saw Anna's really cute, simple and inexpensive kitchen and was really inspiered. As a Swede you can imagine I have spent my fair share of hours at IKEA but I never really noticed the kitchen "Udden". It will be perfect for us! Thanks Anna!





from: Door Sixteen

And below you can see the sad little space where we cook now...

The view from our bedroom

This is what we see every morning when we wake up. I love the amount of sky we see from the 5th floor! Behind the yellow building in the middle you can see the roof of "Riget" wich is the main hospital i Copenhagen. If anyone has seen the Lars von Trier TV series this is the actual hospital (i think they made an American version of it called "the kingdom") and it sometimes spooks me. Just a little bit. Brrrr....
We can see helicopters landing on the roof every night.

The ceiling had to come down...

The first thing we did was to tear down the ceiling. Someone had put it up sometime in the 70's and we were hoping that underneath it there would be the original 1880's ceiling, maybe even with som stucco... Boy, were we in for a surprise!



Appearantly our house had been in a really bad state at some point of it's history and at that time some of the ceiling had come down. So there we were with just half of the original ceiling left and the rest of it was stuffed with something we really didn't know what it was and sealed with some kind of aluminium foil. Luckily we couldn't see that there ever had been any stucco, so at least we didn't have to feel sorry for that.
After some hard work, and the help of a very tall and sweet friend, we had a new ceiling up and now I remember what people say about old houses. Lots of surprises!

First real post!

Almost a year ago me and my boyfriend were lucky enough to be offered to buy our small but very cosy appartment in central Nørrebro in Copenhagen. We had been moving around quite alot and it was a huge relief to finally get our own place after months in different sublets.
At the time we were subletting an appartment in the very same house where we live now, the rent was too high and the woman who rented it to us was quite frankly a bitch, so when the sweet couple next door asked if we were interested in buying their place we said yes immediately. Without even seeing the place! Such a happy happy day!!
A couple of moths later we moved in and I really love this place. Yes, it's small and yes, it has some very strange soloutions but the location is great (could't think of a place in Copenhagen I'd rather live) and the athmosphere of this building from the 1870's is very charming and danish. Both me and my boyfriend are Swedes and even if I have lived in Denmark for more than two years now, to me, there is still something exotic about this place!
We have alot of plans for this place and I will be blogging about the process here and every now and then I will throw in a post about graphic design or illustration sinc that is what I do for a living!
Welcome (if anyone will ever be reading this ;))

Before we moved in it looked like this....

The tiny kitchen with the big flowers



The-toilet-in-the-closet-soloution.
Very common in old appartments in this part of Copenhagen.



Livingroom with view into the hallway and the bedroom with
the (also very common) shower-in-bedroom-soloution.



Livingroom facing the street