Lifestyle Brand & Interior Designer
I think I underestimated the amount of time it takes to write a daily design blog in Swedish, while renovating a house on top of my regular work, so I apologize for the silence. But I’m getting the hang of it now. Renovating is staying on top of a million details and making a crazy Renovation diary
Calling all Swedes! I have some exciting news. Today I started a daily design blog for the Swedish design magazine Sköna Hem. I thought it would be really fun to share my renovation diary and all cool things design here in LA with Sweden, and I’m thrilled that my favorite design magazine back home felt My new blog for a Swedish design magazine!
Now is the time to reflect on the year that has passed, and make plans for the new one to come.
Looking back at 2014 I definitely made the mistake of being a slave to daily chores and responsibilities, instead of following some well written plan of action. Something I aim to change in a big way.
The great thing about a New Year is that you can wipe the slate clean and get a fresh new beginning. The next two days I’m going to steal some quiet time to clarify my direction, and write down concrete goals for 2015. We finally will move in to a new home and I’ll get a big new office, so I’m super determined to get focused, grow my business and go after and accomplish all that I want.
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I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We drove up north to Santa Barbara and stayed at a beach hotel with our dogs for a couple of days. Seeing the big blue ocean and that magnificent sunset every night its hard not to believe that there is something so much bigger than you out there. This is what gratefulness looks like.
Some pictures from my week on the west coast. Fall day in LA. A snapshot from our booth at West Edge Design fair in the Santa Monica airport hangar. A last minute fake prototype of the Leaf bed skirt designs that’s coming out. With Poseidon Mark carpet. Snap shot of carpet display. Beach House Maze, Pictures from my week
It was not supposed to work out like this. If you followed my blog last year, we were moving to LA and were going to buy an ugly house to renovate…remember this video? Well I found a house before we even moved here. The day I was leaving a bid on it Henry, my awesome Has our crazy House Hunt finally come to an end?
I hope you had a good week. We are enjoying every minute over here and are not ready to leave. Here are some pictures from our week. Amusing art from lots of vintage shopping. Monogram carpet-Lavender. The old stone bridge in the town I grew up in close by Karlstad. The main who built this INSIDE MY WEEK IN – BEAUTIFUL SWEDEN
This week could not have come soon enough. It’s my favorite time of the year when we get to head back home to Sweden for the summer. I work from there for a big part of it, and get to spend quality time with my family on our farm in the middle of nowhere. And Departure DC – NEW YORK – SWEDEN
Do you love or hate Instagram? When life gets super busy, parenting, working, meetings, doctors appointments, sports games, graduations, staying fit, whatever it is that makes life so stressful when you’re a “grown up” — it’s so easy to just sprint through your days, and not take in what’s around you. You just go, go It's just that perfect Instagram moment!
Hope you had a great Easter!
Luke and I celebrated Easter with some Swedish friends high up in the mountains in Malibu overlooking the Pacific. Just a 15 minutes drive from where we live now, and we were remote up in the hills with the most incredible ocean views you can imagine.
We’re looking for a house to buy and trying to figure out the best lifestyle….neighborhood in the city or further out by the ocean? Ahhh….decisions, decisions…
The hike they took us on was out of this world. Easter celebration – Malibu Style