Already long before I had my own place to live and long before I moved into my own appartment I knew that one day I would like to paint my front door pink. I got hugely inspired when I saw this photo, I just had to wait until I had my own place (and no [...]

It is slowly starting to look like a real home. New York I painted the below half of my entrance walls grey, it makes it look a bit more sophisticated (and will go well with pink, which is the colour I will paint my front door!). And I put up some small frames with photos [...]

Sleeping in a new home is always a bit special. Especially when your bed collapses in the middle of the night when you are sleeping. Which made me think of two things: How can it be that it didn’t collapse the first night I slept in it? I am not the DIY master Jedi I [...]

Bedroom with Pirates of the Carribean blue wall Mini garden There is progress. All the paint work is done, wowee! Except the stripes in my living room, but that’s not a lot of work and will be done next week. I have assembled 4 closets. There are two more Billy’s to assemble, that should be [...]

Empty new house I can’t look more depressing than it does now can it? It will only get better from now on. At least it is stripped if any sign of previous inhabitants now, ready to be built up again. The old laminate floor has now been completely removed too. And I have the plastic [...]

Making a place your home needs a lot of: Endless trips to the DIY shops Hole filling Red (no really!) Carpet removal Laminate floor removal New floor installation (this will be done for me thank goodness) Wall painting Wall papering Patience Decisions on what colours to put on the walls (any ideas?) Loads of Radio [...]

It is time When? Very soon.

The other side of the castle I survived a couple of hours of “assemble IKEA furniture” torture (those are the moments where a man could come in handy I admit) and now I am sitting close to Jonas, and that’s very, ehrm, comfortable. I didn’t know I missed him this much until he got here, [...]