Tag: Fixing

Colours in life.2.

My inspiration to colours in life comes mostly from some interior magazines.

This is my second book of inspiration, or scrap-book as most people would say, where I do my version of “the pins” you find online. I have to keep my inspiration or ideas when I find something I like. Most people who buy a interior magazines maybe keep it a month, I keep it for years. I go back and find something “new” I have not seen or maybe I did not like it when this magazine was new in my home..

Here is few pictures from my 2nd scrap-book… it’s a good mix of Christmas to how to organize flowers with candle ligths 😉…

Some ideas from my first scrap-book..

This is like a candy store for me.

This gives me lots of positive energy and it’s relaxing for me, it’s like to “go in to a hobby room” even if I just do this in my couch or sewing-corner. 😆😆😆

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Project Wardrobe.

Project Wardrobe.

I started my wardrobe project about a year ago in my head, because when I moved in here in my apartment about 3,5 years ago I realized that the wardrobe was build in to the wall like you probably did in the 1950’s. Probably also a man who did it because it was not really a good place to have it or good design or function for modern time. It was at least not what I needed. So i asked my Land Lord if I could demolish it and do something else in that corner. And he said yes.

The time fly by and I started it this Autumn.

The whole project has just been a “breathing whole” between the days of applying for a job. It is one of my ways to be creative. And to finally “grab” this project has also more then just one good benefit after when I’m done. I will have a new sewing-corner and finally a table to sit and write my applications or blog which I have not ever had since I moved in here. And for the one who move’s in here after me will be able to have a Kitchen-corner.

#StepOne. 10th of September-15. This picture is from the beginning of the demolition. One door is off and the wall in between have I started to saw to get out.

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#StepTwo. 19th of September-15. On this pictures have I finally removed both doors is off and the groundwork with putty all the uneven surfaces in the wall and paper-sanding starts. And with my body (which is not the best right now) this part took a bit longer time then I thought it would take. But in the same time I did not need to stress, I did not have a deadline of when it had to be done.

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#StepThree. 21st of September-15. Is ground-painting with white color for whatever color I could decide to pick. And I did not just paint daytime. No no, I am a night-owl so I do it when I am more “awake” which most the times are after 9 pm. So those days did most of it happen “by night”. And as long as I don not have a day-time work I do most things whatever it is when after 7 pm.

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And in between of this bigger project, did I finished a smaller creative project I started in August to a friend-couple. More just because I wanted it out of the way but also because they kind of needed to get before the time was out.

#StepFour. 29th of September-15. This day was the day when I went to one of the stores were you here in Norway go to buy color. Maxbo is the name. They have everything you need for whatever you do inside or outside on your house. I had decided what kind of color I wanted and took the bus there. It was a very nice Autumn day with sunshine and all the lovely colors in the trees. But when I came in to Maxbo, and chatted with one of the “painting cow workers” this guy told me the color was to dark for the painting-machine to make. Oh no !! What shall I do now? I just could not decide there and then so I had to go back home and think. And time to think I got but I kind of decided on my way back. Got realistic and said to myself “just get the lightest version of the color”. This was a Tuesday. I decided to try to go back on the Friday the same week but I did not manage. And the week after I got fever and could not go…. So there I were, I just wanted to start with the painting.

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#StepFive. Two weeks after the first trip to Maxbo, this Monday the 12th of October-15, was I “back in business” and without fever. So I went there after some other errands in town. I got my color and went home Happy.

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#StepSix. Painting-day. Happy. Finally could I start. The rest of Monday 12th of October (after 13 o’clock) did I paint. Luck-ally was the paint dry after 2 hours for a new layer. Times fly by so much faster when you do have something fun to do!

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#StepSeven. Tuesday the 13th of October (yesterday when I write this) was all about to put the furniture’s in place. To finally get my sewing-corner on place, make a “TV-corner” that I never have had before either. The only thing I miss now is to have somewhere or something nicer then the chairs to sit and watch the “television”.

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I still have some things to fix like the last layer of color on the walls, a new layer of floor, screw up the mirror and drill and screw up the grid on the walls, but I can at least sit and work at the table now.

/Mia-Simone.