Found some decor ideas from HM Home for a black, white and grey room. The function of this room is a guest room slash home office slash music room with guitar & drums. Perhaps some cushions, a blanket, candles, baskets and curtains are needed. There's place for a small puff and frames to have some black and white family photos on the wall. A black & white world map is on the shopping list as well. It will be nice to mark the next holiday destination there. New lamps are already bought.

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(FI) HenkkaMaukka Homesta löytyi kivoja sisustusideoita musta-valko-harmaaseen huoneeseen. Tämän sisustettavan huoneen funktio tulee olemaan vierashuone/kotitoimisto/musiikkihuone. Ehkä tarvitaan muutama tyyny, peitto, kynttilöitä, säilytyskoreja ja verhot. Tilaa löytyy vielä pienelle rahille ja musta-valkoisille perhekuville. Ostoslistalla on lisäksi musta-valkoinen maailmankartta, johon on kiva merkata perheen seuraava matkakohde. Uudet valaisimet on jo ostettu.

A few years ago the room was made for a teenage girl. As she has already moved to her own home, needed to change the function of the room. Just by painting you can make miracles and change the whole atmosphere. Now this room starts to be a perfect extra place for a teenage boy to practise drumming, for mother to have a home office day and for friends popping by and staying over night. 

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(FI) Muutama vuosi sitten ko huone sisustettiin perheen teinitytölle. Nyt kun hän on jo muuttanut lapsuudenkodista omaan kotiin, oli aika muuttaa huoneen käyttötarkoitusta. Jo pelkkä maalaaminen sai ihmeitä aikaan. Nyt tila alkaa pikkuhiljaa muotoutua paikaksi, jossa perheen teini-ikäinen poika voi harjoitella rumpujen soittoa, äiti työskennellä etäpäivinä ja ystävät majoittua yön yli. 

Before painting / Ennen maalausta:

After painting / Jälkeen maalauksen:

There was some new ideas for the flooring, but as the soft surfice is good for the drums, decided to go on with the existing carpet. It just needs a bit cleaning.

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(FI) Lattialle oli muutama uusi vaihtoehto, mutta koska pehmeä alusta on sopiva rummuille, päätettiin jättää olemassa oleva kokolattiamatto ja vain pesetettää se kunnolla.   

Sneak Peek To A Bathroom

 Here's a sneak peek to the downstairs bathroom of the house at Lake Balaton, which has been my main project for some time now.

This space used to be the kitchen of the house, but after a total reno it's now turn to the second bathroom. 

Wanted to keep the colours as neutral as possible and not putting tiles everywhere. At the moment the accent colour is sunny yellow as the owner like bright warm tones, but it's easy to change the mood of the bathroom with different colours of towels and accessories.     

Save some of the original retro tiles from the previous bathroom and made an installation from them. 

Master Bedroom

After showing the upstairs guestroom options in an earlier post, here comes the master bedroom locateted downstairs. The couple wanted something light, simple, airy and Scandinavian. The walls were painted and one of them was wallpapered by Cole and Son's Woods. Actually only the walls were left during the reno and everything else was demolished and built again with better materials. The house was originally built in the 50's and some adjustements were made in the 80's so the condition wasn't the best possible. A heated floor was installed and all the windows in the entire house was changed.

There's nothing extra in this bedroom. It's kept simple and functional with big wardrobes with sliding doors. The colour scheme is greyish with a hint of deep golden yellow, and of course, lots of white.

ps. this was the starting point:

Here you can see some other parts of the downstairs while it was still in progress, click!

And here are the upstairs guestrooms, click!

ps. always remember the importance of home insuarance! Just found out that Allianz has a great option, check it out here.

Small Bedroom

This small bedroom had an iron-wrought bed and shiny orange walls, which were actually handpainted with a special (and expensive) technique. It was not possible to re-paint the walls nor to put there any wallpaper. Instead used simple, thin basic white panels by Halltex to hide the plastic looking and overwhelming (restless) effect of the walls. 

The owner had already bought a dark Ikea Malm bed and 2 high chest of drawers beside the bed. There's storage place under the bed, which is a great idea for a small bedroom. To keep the bedroom fresh and airy added white curtains and white linen duvet cover. The owner has a loads of photos, posters and souvenirs, which he wanted to put on display, and anyway those are the pieces that makes a place home.

The colours of the posters give nice warm look and feeling. 

Here are some tips to keep in mind when furnishing a small bedroom:

• Light colours enhance the feeling of space,while darker hues tend to close in. Lighten up tour walls and furnishings.
• ditch the king size (or evven queen) bed and use space-saving furniture. If storage space is an issue, under-bed storage containers can free up a lot of space.
• Visually expand the room by using mirrors.

You can find more great inspirations fro a small bedroom at Freshome!

PS. This was the starting point:

Still kept the warm tone - at least slightly!

Back To Grey - Guestroom At Lake Balaton - Part 3

Here's the third version of the guest bedroom upstairs of this Balaton home. So it's back to grey.

 Below you can see the 2 other options, and more of them by clicking here & here.

Which one is your favourite?

Guest Room At Lake Balaton - Part 1

Here's a sneak peek to a project I've been doing at Balatonboglar for some time now. There're 2 guest bedrooms upstairs of this renovated house. The aim is to keep it simple and create a light atmosphere with a Scandinavian twist.

As the other guest bedroom was still totally empty, I decided to create 3 different options for this one and then the owner can choose which one she wants for this bedroom and which one to that other one. Stay tune to see all the options!

If you like to know how it looked before you can quickly check it out here!

This was the starting point...

White On White

At the Housing Fair 2015 in Vantaa there was a lot of white - not a surprise. Do you need any colours to go with it? Not really. White on white looks good.

I suddenly started to feel sleepy...

Who needs colours?

The Ultimate Beach House

This definitely is an ultimate beach house, isn't it?

I don't think a beach house can get any better than this Venice Beach hidden oasis.

There's a guest house just as charming as the main house.

Modern beach bungalow with decked courtyard garden on Rose Avenue.
Would you like to live there?