Wall art

We bought quite a bunch of 50's ads that were glued on dark paperboards. A few of them we hang on the living room wall (photo below), the others are in the shop museum.

Cows banned

We used to have our LP's in an old potato measure. As it happens, we now have a lot more LP's than before and the old measure wasn't quite big enough anymore. Luckily we found an old wooden cattle drinking trough that is perfect for holding records.

No feet on the table

In Christmas our sofa table is full of stuff. You wouldn't believe that I used to love black-white- grey decorations...

Who knows

What do I do with an old traffic sign? I don't know, but it looks rather good. I am not much into blue anymore (the eightie's ruined blue for me), but the sign was rather cheap and how often do you see these in flea markets? Never, is the answer! So of course we had to buy the only one and now it decorates our living room at home.

Take the lead

If you sing, I'll dance. Julpolska, anyone?

A great foursome

I got the big white Arabia platter from my mum. It has been standing on the living room table by itself. After looking at it for a while I decided to spruce things up a bit and put the table lamp on it. The vignette looked still a bit boring. After adding the two H&M apes, I was satisified. The brass apes go well with the brass rod of the lamp.

Line up

I have a small collection of Russian dolls. When cleaning up yesterday I put them all on the cabinet in the living room. More is more, I say.

Great design for reasonable prices

You never know what you'll find in fleamarkets. My husband saw this lamp in Loviisa's market place (there are always one or two flea market tables there on Saturdays) and bought it straight away. The design is very modern, you'll find brand new lamps that are almost excactly like this one except the quality is not as great. The lamp is perfect for our living room as we needed more light on the table and there is no use putting up ceiling lights before the room is renovated.

The bigger the better

I just love having a big dinner table! When we are four or more people for dinner there is still lots of room for decorations even though our dinner plates are rather big.

Flowers that don't wilt

We have a "temporary" (not so temporary really, as it has been in its place for years) wall in the living room. The wall and the door are of boring brown paper. As it happens, we went to Ikea last week and found a poppy wall decoration for 12 euros. Now the wall looks a bit less dull and poppies suit our house really well as there are a lot of real poppies growing in the garden (not yet, though).

And I don't even like whisky

As it happens we have collected bar assecories and a lot of them are about whisky. Well, maybe one day I just have to drink a glass to celebrate our collection. On the other hand I could have a sip of gin instead, we have gin jugs and trays, too.

Higher and higher

I wanted to have a cabinet for glasses but there just wasn't room for one. I started to search for a smaller glass cabinet that could be put on the top of the already existing one. On Friday I happened to find (=searched and searched for weeks) a good candidate in tori.fi. My husband took out the legs and voilá, we have a perfect high cabinet and lots of room for our glasses.

There is still a slight problem with the stuff that was on top of the old cabinet. Some I'll put on the top of the new one but as the top area is smaller than before, I am bound to have some leftovers. Let's see what I'll come up with (maybe I'll have to store some stuff in the cupboard for the time being).

Yellow fever

If yellow is not the new white, at least it is the new turquoise. I've seen a lot of yellow in blogs and magazines and this kind of created a need to get me some, too. I found two yellow pillow cases from H&M home and got them for our sofa. Spring is here!

The thing is

The thing is to have lots of things...for years I was a minimalist and now I am definitely not, or what do you think?

Putting things on the table (or not)

I have been on a lookout for a cover for our sofa for a long time. All the blankets I have seen have been either too small or too big. Now I found an Austrian table cloth that is just the perfect size. The cloth is of heavy cotton so it is well suited for a sofa cover, too. I would have liked the cover to be in a warmer shade but as this is from a flea market, there wasn't any choice.

Waiting for the first advent

I started decorating for the Christmas yesterday. We don't yet have a Christmas tree but otherwise everything is in its place.

I found two copper pots last summer and they are perfect for Christmas flowers. As we have an old wooden table I have to have pots that won't let any water come out and you couldn't get safer ones than these two. Ceramics have been shown to be unreliable, I bought two really thick ones and still they seeped water on the floor.

What's the time?

Thank you cousins Tiina and Jaana for the handsome timepiece! It is perfect for our living room in Vårkulla.

Just carry on

As we got my grandpa's chest (see here...) in the living room, we had to move the white chest of drawers to the bedroom and the little cabinet from the bedroom to the living room. That's life with old furniture and old houses...one thing leads to another and this usually means you have to carry (heavy) furniture around the house. Well, the little cabinet looks good in the living room and the radio and the globe that were on the floor, now have a good place on top of the cabinet.

What's up?

The chest my granpa left to my brother has found a new place in our living room in Vårkulla. The chest is scratched, its locks don't work (and one is missing altogether), its legs are wobbling and a dog (?) has eaten one corner so the plain wood shows but the chest still looks rather handsome. At least after I loaded all the stuff on the scratched top.

This is what I mean with a phone

This corner in our living room is a real mix of new and old. The lamp stand I got from my cousin Satu and my husband painted it in soft pink, the lamp shade is from Hemtex's summer collection. The old school board, the phone from the 60's, the vase from the 40's and the small table are from flea market. The green wall is the original from the 60's - we haven't yet decided what to choose for a new wall paper...The stack of books seen in the left corner are under the load speaker as the stool the speaker stands on is not high enough...