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I am an avid traveler. Yes. Anyone who follows me on Instagram will have noticed it - I am here and there, quite often on quick and short-termed trips as well as longer ones. But sometimes I do stay in Munich, in my tiny rooftop apartment and then, well then I pretend to be on holidays - at home.
Today, I have decided to declare my bed nook an official tropical holiday resort. You know, with everything that goes there - a jungle of plants, good reading material, a straw hat and a new set of bedlinen that look like I am actually in the sea or in a pool. Admittedly, the only thing missing is a good cocktail. Alas, next time, I promise! And before you nag, is a pool or sea ironed? Voilà! :-)
My bed is still the same - I've been sleeping on this rather unspectacular bed for the past seven years (notice: I've changed my mattress though). However, I am still dreaming of one of those super soft box spring beds from Auping - some might remember that I did some 'bed hopping' in their Hamburg showroom last year. Well, until I can afford one of those beauties, I've teamed up with them to show you their wonderful new range of bedlinen. But that's not it! I am also giving away a set of this fantastic bedlinen - for one of YOU my dear readers, I have the bedlinen set 'Misty Morning' in the colour 'powder' (as seen in the last picture).
If you feel like your bedroom deserves a holiday makeover, feel free to join the giveaway. It is as simple as this: Just leave a little comment under this blog post or under the bedroom picture on my Instagram account and you are in the draw! Double chance if you double comment here and on Instagram! The giveaway is open to all readers and will be running until Wednesday, June 18th, midnight CET.
So what you're waiting for? Grab that cocktail and comment - your next holidays are just a comment away!
Photography by Igor Josifovic, Misty Morning Powder pics via Auping
This post has been brought to you in cooperation with Auping
Yesterday I announced that I will tell and show you a bit more of our blogger apartment in Stockholm. During our Bloggers Tour in Stockholm we were lucky enough to sort of move into the headquarters of the hyper stylish Swedish real estate agency Fantastic Frank. We had their entire upper floor to style and create an apartment feeling with the support of our generous sponsors. Emma was the leading mastermind in styling the entire space which was pretty important because we hosted a design party last Thursday night for the creative scene in Stockholm.
I need not tell you that the party was a full success - design journalists, designers, bloggers, brand representatives, stylists - all flocked at our party and made themselves at home in our blogger apartment. But all of this would have not been possible if we had not have an excellent set up of interior goodies for the apartment:
One Nordic Furniture Company provided us with stylish furniture pieces like chairs, a dining table, sideboards, a magazine ladder, a sidetable and beautiful and comfy cushions.
No Early Birds added more furniture bliss to our apartment - a desk, stools, another table, and other accessories.
Granit was kind enough to offer us their brand new collection of rugs and cushions that were not even available in stores at that moment.
Auping took care of beds - two brand new models like the super stylish Criade boxpspring bed were added to our apartment including bedlinen by Auping - this bed was a hotspot during the late hours of our party as people flocked in bed for comfy chats & drinks.
Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY added to the real life setting their latest home entertainment products like the sleek BeoLab 18 wireless speakers with oak lamellas, a huge home cinema TV and the latest product called BeoSound Essence, a handy round device to control your sound by one simple touch. All this was also put into full force the day after our party when we had our own private movie afternoon - enjoying the full force of picture and sound!
I hope you enjoyed the little tour through our one-of-a-kind blogger apartment in Stockholm. Hopefully we can carry on the concept into other cities all around the globe! And another big thanks to our private driving service during the Stockholm Design Week offered by Uber - such a cool idea to call you private driver through a smartphone app!
Happy Thursday!
The weekly hump day mission here on Happy Interior Blog is to provide you, my dear readers, with five selected happy ideas to cheer up your home. Now someone will want to inject some more colour into the home, someone else looks for patterns, others for refined textures or timeless design. Whatever you are craving for, just make it a decision that will make YOU happy! As you can tell from today's selection, I am still under a magic Danish spell from my last design trip to Copenhagen, but judge for yourself!
Oh and I would like to thank you so so much for supporting me at the Pinterest contest by Auping (I blogged about it HERE) - thanks to your likes I can giveaway two sets of lush Auping bedding* to two of you. All you have to do is leave a short comment under this blogpost and you might snuggle up in happy stripes very soon!
Happy hump day!
*One set consists of a quilt cover (size 135 x 200 cm) and a pillowcase (size 80 x 80 cm)
Can a bed make us happy? A legitimate question, isn't it, especially for someone who tries to detect the happiness in our homes. Well, the answer could be unsurprisingly easy: Yes! Whenever we are dead tired, any bed will make us happy. When we sleep next to the person we love, any bed will make us happy. But let us go further in the consideration of a bed as a piece of furniture and thus a part of our very own interior design.
A bed is the heart of a bedroom. And a bedroom is the most private of rooms in our home. Usually, our guests don't have access to our private and intimate haven called bedroom (apart from home tours). And the design and styling of a bedroom is hence a deeply private and intimate task. Everyone must answer a few questions: Do I like my bedroom to be a serene, neutral space where not only my body but also my senses come to rest? Or do I like a themed design because I feel all calm and balanced when I think of the sea and the beach for example? Whatever the decision is, it influences our choice of bedroom furniture, too.
Now I am a pretty happy guy I'd say (please confirm LOL) and I do love a good dash of colour myself. So when I got in touch with the Dutch bed manufacturer Auping (who are now a 'Happy Sponsor' too, see the little banner on the right), I was delighted to be introduced to their brand new bed 'Essential'. I was immediately smitten by the happy yellow bed - it ignited a spontaneous inspiration of creating a happy bedroom that would always make you smile when you go to bed and when you wake up. I imagine the bedroom to be a sunny and happy place no matter what the weather outside is. And after all, this seems like a good idea (at least for me) as I feel that getting up early in the morning is way easier when it's sunny and bright outside, right? And with a yellow bed, I fell like it would always be kind of sunny and bright in the bedroom!
Whether this bed would really make me happy or not, I will tell after I've seen and tested it a little bit. Later this summer I will head north to Hamburg to inspect this happy bed and will report back here to answer the question: Can a bed make us (an our interiors) happy? Stay tuned!
