Swoooosh - it's wednesday!

It goes by fast, indeed!
It is already wednesday. It has been a pretty calm work week for me,  since my work place has been closed for PCB-sanatory work and I and my co workers have had planning days, visits at interesting places and work from home, to do.
This means less travelling hours and a little more time to rest.

Unfortunately our camera has, once again, had the same kind of failure as it had in New York and it still drives me nuts!
We finally bought that long sought after table for the living room and it is now in place. The room took on, not only a totally new look, but also a brand new function.  We can't get enough of sitting there!

Here are some iPhone shots for you:

So worth waiting for! It's interesting how much you (always) appreciate something when you've really had to wait for it. Now the room feels balanced and "as it was supposed to".

Now the week moves on. Since it has been undescribebly draining at my work for quite a while I've done all that I can to decompress at any spare time that I have. Spending an entire sunday in bed watching movies/sleeping was a good move. Lighting a fire every evening watching old episodes of "Midsomer Murders" is also effective, I've come to notice.
During the weekends I make sure that spending time with loved ones is at the highest priority. Hence I see friends and my family (consisting of two sons, a hubby and a dog). I also see to it that we visit loved and beautiful places such as our coffee place (almost every saturday!), some other exceptionally good coffee places and favourite restaurants.
This upcoming weekend I've asked my husband if we can just take the car out for a ride. We've recently moved here so there are lots of places we've never seen! I love to just ride around discovering them, bit by bit.
Yeah, that's what we'll do!

Tomorrow I take my co workers with me to Denmark, that'll be a good workday :-)

Trying out another decorating idea...

Earlier in this blog I wrote that we'll have a rattan chair, book shelves and a table at the other end of the living room. Well, when I had a minute to spare, the other day, I thought I'd have a closer look at this. I had a feeling the room is too small to fit a rattan chair with a lamp, for reading.

I then brought down the tub chair from my son's room to see if there's room enough. And there sure wasn't!! Not by a long shot...

Good to know, at least.

Then I happened to try it out by the sofa, to see how that would look (we need more seats by the sofa but this living room is the smallest we've ever had!) and that looked great, I think!

Here are some pics of that new furnishing.

I was a bit worried that the colouring wouldn't work and started to think about buying a new cover for the tub chair. For some reason I think it works very well. It's more "coastal" than "New England" but coastal is OK for us. We even think we needn't rush to buy that white cover for the sofa: we rather like this light pink one.

Go figure!

What do you think? Are there to many colours, or does it work?

Today I've been working and it has been a hectic day. On days like these it's extra lovely to come home to a dinner table set and the dinner ready!

We have a cosy time every time we sit down and I do love the season for candles and fire.

Now a new week soon begins.

For me this means commuting to our nearest big city. I spend four hours a day travelling back and forth to work. It is a lot of time but I use the time wisely and catch up with friends via iPhone aswell as I rest, in order to be energized for the evening with the family.

It works well but during monday through friday there is almost no time for "me time"in the home. But, as I said, plenty of it on the train, bus and bicycle!

Have a nice week everyone!

Photos!

Hubby has been busy and the first steps of these rooms are finally done: the walls.
In the living room there are still a few things to buy, as I mentioned earlier, such as a table, a chair and shelves.
In the kitchen we are going to change the cabinet doors and the bench. For  now, though, we're fairly pleased!
We've been longing for the wall paper quite some time.

The son is better now and I hope he stays that way. I myself feel the cold, still, but apart from that the evening is calm and very nice and cosy in our little coastal house.
The dog sleeps by my feet, the son is figuring a jigsaw puzzle out, husband is reading and I'm in here - in the Secret Rooms - feeling good about the sunday.

Kitchen photos:

A view of the living room:

The dog:

The husband brought me these, on friday:

The son plays with these:

And in the middle of all this, here I am. It's the middle of my life. Moods, weathers, laughs, stories, thoughts and feelings: all around all the time. During the work week there isn't much time for all of that but during the weekend you may catch up.
It's important to catch up often, I've noticed, so that you don't lose touch of what's real and genuine.

Have a nice sunday evening!

A quick photo round...

Well, being ill and taking care of a five year old who's ill, at the same time, gets a little boring at certain points.
I managed to sneak around the living room and garden to get some shots! Since hubby finished the walls in the living room just a couple of days ago, it's fun to get som new photos.

This light blue, soft blanket from Ralph Lauren is a little gem I brought with me from New York. I love it and my five year old loves it since it is the opposite of our other blanket: it is soft...

The Lexington pillow adds a little of that US feeling to the living room and the striped Artwood pillow completes the sofa look, I think.

This is where we are when we're home ill, as we are now :-) It's a good couch for just hanging around.

Some work of art behind these leather chairs and Josef Frank pillow makes the New England theme get a scandinavian feel to it. Or just a personal feel maybe?!

The window with all the lanterns. I simply love lanterns, as anyone entering here might notice right away!!

The family dog wants to get in the middle of all this photographing. Sure, he can lighten any picture up :-)

Another window display.
I want our living room to be both vibrant with bright colours and calm and soothing.
Quite the challenge but managable, I should think.

Outside moss had blown on top of the table: a sure sign it's time to close down for business for the season.
We've had many lovely meals out here and will have many as soon as winter comes and goes!

A leaf tells of autumn out in the garden, on the terrace. The colouring of this is so nice, I think.

The grapes still hang in there! We should make some ice wine, really, but we can't find the time...

A nice autumn sky today. If we had been well it would have been a glorious day for an outing to the beach with the camera, and a picnic basket, but it will have to wait.

This little darling we purchased and planted. How surprised we were to see it in bloom - in november! Nice to see you, little fellow.

Few things are better than having a garden. We moved from a house with a big garden that was a forest and needed a lot of work done in order to be enjoyable.
When we bought this house we were extra pleased that it has a small garden, since we don't have a lot of time at this point of our lives.
The garden that we do have, we love!

Living room

Our living room is where we really live and socialize!
The trend in Europe, at least in Scandinavia where I live, is that it's the kitchen that ought to be the it-room whe3re it all takes place. Not in our family however: we watch TV, have coffee, play games, listen to music and just sit and talk in the living room. We love living rooms!

My husband has been renovating our living room since we bought this house, may 1:st 2010.
This week he finally finished it and the walls are now light blue! I can't believe it took us six months!! We haven't been able to work on it as often as we would have wanted and we don't have much spare time, so it's due to different things.
Now it's finished and now.... we have to nuy that table, that chair and those shelves..! We nearly forgot!
I will absolutely show you photos of our Hamptons influende living room, when it's "finished". Until then, some pitures of nice looking coastal living rooms:

Photos: coastalliving.com

I'll visit IKEA for these:

It'll be fun shopping for these things and some details aswell.
In december we'll take a trip to our closest big city (I guess that'll be "our New York" then if our town is "our The Hamptons"?!): Copenhagen and there I think I'll find beautiful things for our living room.