nonchalant mum

found these gorgeous photos on the Cookie Magazine website...It's Carina Schott's house outside NYC. She is the founder of Nonchalant Mum http://www.nonchalantmom.com/ a fab online kids clothes shop pulling together a lot of cool brands including a lot from Scandinavia. She is also writer of a blog which talk about a lot of things that interest me right now, kids, family, food and natural and alternative living. http://nonchalantmom.blogspot.com/

I just love the light, easy scandinavian feel of her house. The Josef Frank fabric behind her and the happy bright rug from Ikea ( we have the same one in red). And don't get me started on the sand pit. Alvar would go NUTS for it....

bookshelves

The boys in action. Alvar is making sure that the ladder is holding up.

They making bookshelves in our living room. Floating bookshelves. At the same time we are trying to decide about wallpaper and colour on the wall. We want something colourful on the chimneybreast and I am thinking something from the grey colour spectrum. This might take a while.