Easter decoration

When we went to the family woods two weeks ago,

I gathered a lot of moss with the intention

 to make some Easter decorations.

And that's exactly what I did today 

(I made two nests, and I would have loved to

 make some more, but I went out of moss).

The eggs looks like real eggs, but they are

 chocolate eggs from Aldi.

And this was all I needed to make them.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!

Hanging on the wall

Over the Christmas break my husband finished some

 of the French hooks we have been collecting. 

I love these antique "patères" 

(and I like hooks in general because I prefer 

"hanging on the wall" to "lying on the floor"). 

They were cleaned and attached to a small wooden plate and we even found some cute enamel numbers.

The most beautiful hook is reserved for my 

grandfather's violin, of course. 

Seeing that violin every day is such a joy!

The guest room is finally ready!

It is so nice to have this guest room ready.

No need to drag mattresses

around the house anymore.

The men in the house wanted the room to be gray,

so gray it is.

The first thing we bought was the closet (here).

I love see through closet doors! 

They make me keep the closet tidy.

We found the throw pillows here.

The bigger baskets come from Ikea.

See the little round basket?

It's an original Zulu basket from South Africa. 

There's another one on the windowsill. 

We bought them for the boys the first time

we were in Johannesburg.

I keep a pile of nice white towels in this room

(you don't want to see what our everyday towels look like).

 

The giant paper clips are so cute

(found in our local shopping mall). 

We use them for wet towels.

The bed is from ironbed.de.

Son number two asked for a bed without

 a footboard (he is rather tall).

We first bought a king size mattress from Ikea,

but unfortunately it was way too high for

the bed and it covered half of the beautiful

headboard. Ikea always promotes itself by 

telling that you can bring back your mattress

when you're not satisfied, so that's what we did.

(Did you ever try to roll back up a king size

Ikea mattress?

Too bad we didn't take pictures). 

We bought two smaller ones instead.

The teabag artwork from South Africa! 

I love the way it looks in this room.

Brown, silver and black, the exact color

scheme of the room.

I only have one set of sheets for this bed. 

When the boys leave, the sheets are washed and

 put back on the bed again immediately.

 

The floor lamp is from Ikea (Barometer).

 

We wanted neutral curtains and found them at Heytens.

 

We hadn't planned to buy this buffet, but walking

 around Ikea it caught my eye (Liatorp). 

It was the perfect fit and not very expensive.

 

 

The clothes stand used to be in one of the boys' rooms.

And finally the flowers...they were for free.....

.....from the garden.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

A touch of spring

 

Boys bedroom make-over

This is the last part of my son's bedroom make-over. 

It is actually the only bedroom in the house that

is completely done.

 

  

This was the old closet he inherited from one

of his big brothers. It used to be on the opposite

 side of the room, but we had to move it due to

humidity problems. However, it just didn't look

good in this corner, too narrow and too high.

So we decided to move it to the garage and bought

two of these (we call them "cages") at IKEA instead.

New coat hangers, a couple of baskets,

some cardboard boxes...

and voilà!

He says it's cool.

Handmade wooden hooks

I asked my husband to make three wooden hooks

for our son's new starry room, 

and this is what he came up with. 

I think they are really cool.

 

 

Boys bedroom make-over

My 22-year-old finished his three months' internship

at a bank here in Luxembourg two weeks ago

 and went back to Germany again.

Now that the boys are both adults (with girl friends), 

we decided to turn their old rooms into guest rooms

 and use some of their furniture for our (almost)

 10-year-old's new room (the bed, night stand, 

bed lamp (new lamp shade) and the  book case).

I found grey bed sheets and a bed cover with stars.

The pillows were his brother's.

Even the curtains have small grey stars.

The desk and the lamp are new (IKEA).

The chair is old (IKEA).

Bookcase from his oldest brother.

This beautiful print from South Africa was a

 birthday present (I framed it myself).

The eye catcher in this room is definitely Rudolph. 

My sister brought him for Christmas, but

I just couldn't put him away after the holidays.

This old crate holds part of his books.

Love these IKEA bins, I use
them everywhere around the house.

One happy boy!

P.S. No, I'm not sponsored by IKEA ;-).