One day Irina invited me as a guest designer to offer a "Martine Claessens touch" to one of her armchairs. With my love for colours and my fashion background, the Ribbon-Couture came to my mind.
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Fresh Start.
A new year, a fresh start. I never make a list of resolutions for the new year, as they will fade away along with the holiday glow. I make a list of goals which is helping me to focus and get things done. But there is nothing like to the start a new year in a cleaner, more organised, and more peaceful home.
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It's party time! Lets have a drink.
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The end of the year is near, we all get in the mood to party. May it be celebrating Christmas, parties with colleagues or friends. The last weeks of the year and the first weeks of the new year are a perfect time for cocktail parties. They are easy to plan and glamorous.
Read MoreCounting down till Christmas/ Wrapping gifts
Wrapping presents can be as enjoyable as opening them. Plan ahead, choose your materials carefully. This will help you make a well-organized gift wrapping project. Some gift wrap tips and inspiration will help you to make the outside of your present as special as the gift inside.
Read MoreCounting down till Christmas / part 2
A nice decorated table makes every occasion special, not just Christmas, when we do an extra effort. Beautiful napkins in cotton jacquard, linen, embroidered. Silver cutlery, crystal glasses. Once you realize table setting is based on logic, things become less intimidating.
Read MoreCounting down till Christmas
Two styles, one inspiration: Maramures. The days are short and dark, Christmas is coming soon, perfect time to start decorating our homes.
Read MoreTurning your Bathroom into a Wellness
If it wasn't for the Romans and the Greeks we probably would still be taking a cold shower. Our modern bathing finds it origins in the invention of the Roman Thermae or hot baths. What comes to our mind when we think of wellness?
Read MoreMake Over: From a dark apartment into a sparkling one
It was immediately clear for me, from the first meeting, which colours to use for Madalina's apartment. Her sparkling presence, colourful outfits were saying everything without words.
Read MoreSimply White: colour of 2016
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Simply White, Benjamin Moore announced recently that this is their colour for 2016. White is associated with freshness, purity, innocence. It is as a blank paper, up to you how you want to fill it: to write a letter, to make a drawing, to fold and unfold. White can represent a successful beginning. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
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