Blowtorch Crafts

I long for my apartment so much – and the wait is made unbearable by a tenant who won’t move. While waiting, I plan and re-plan. What to do? In what order? Painting walls and floors, ripping off the horrid 80s wallpaper in the hallway, possibly getting a new wardrobe. Where to put the furniture. Staining the wooden bench top a darker colour. Painting the kitchen cabinets – but what colour? How to separate the bed from the living room.  The list is endless.

I entertain myself searching for posters on etsy – and there are really some great ones! Here are a couple of my favourite poster shops:

Dkngstudios ^ is a small design studio located in Santa Monica.

Claudia Varioso ^ makes posters based on movies – I love the consistent style.

Farouche ^ makes vintage-style, bright and lovely posters – I just imagine waking up to this every day.

I love love bomobob‘s ^ carnival series. Makes me feel like a child again. In a good way.

Gotta love it:

This and lots more at Keep Calm Gallery

After living for two years in my sailboat, I am moving back to my tiny apartment in September. I am looking forward to it like crazy! Imagine, hot water in the kitchen! Nobody in the bathroom but me! Dishwasher! Whoa.

I have decided on painting my ugly wood-imitation laminate floor white. I will also give my walls and roof a fresh coat of white paint, as I have been renting out for the past two years. My kitchen cabinets are a light green at the momet, which i like, but they will also be painted white. And my oak worktop will be tinted darker.

I have bought a hardly-used-at-all sofa, which can be folded out to make a double bed. Nice for having company over!

love my new sofa/sofa bed

I already have a sort of apothechary chest of drawers, a huge thing with lots of tiny drawers, of a dark brown wood. At the moment, one of my friends have borrowed it, but soon it will be returning home with me.

I am debating within my head on what to do with my books. I don’t want open bookshelves as the dust drives me insane, but I haven’t found any good alternatives yet. I could go with all white IKEA shelves or closets, or I could trawl the flea markets and used furniture stores for old cabinets to paint in bright colours. Which might be too chaotic in such a tiny apartment.

Because I really, really want a bedroom of sorts, I will install a bed where my hallway closet is now. I know, it does not sound like a good idea, but I think it will work. I will need to make some measurements before I can be really sure, though.

Not much else have been decided yet. I want to make a couple of these, probably in orange:

look at it! like a sea urchin!

I am also definitely going to get one of these, a Svinga chair form IKEA:

hanging chair, appropriately named svinga

With walls, floor and ceiling white (and I mean completely white), I need to be careful choosing my accent colours. I used to like mild colours, like pale green and light wood, but now I’d like something that really pops. The orange has been chosen for me by the sofa, and I am thinking about a grassy green and buttercup yellow as well. Too citrusy? I don’t know. Yet.