Two Years Blogging & Giveaway Of The Book 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben'

Hello my dear readers - today is a special day for me, it's the second birthday of Happy Interior Blog! I can't believe it's been two years - what a whirlwind period! So many great and exciting things happened during this time and one highlight is my very first book project. So well, what better occasion than a birthday to present the book I contributed to! And this is a special birthday - I don't expect presents, instead I'm offering some. To be precise - three presents in the form of a book giveaway. So join the birthday party here!

The book 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben' (literally 'Living ideas from real life') is a creative concoction of 15 European interior design bloggers from Norway to Greece. And almost all of them are my friends which makes this book a wonderful book to me - a book of friends. Every blogger shares pictures of their homes and inspiration for happy homes. And every picture is a real life story - unpretentious, unstaged, just honest and real. 

The book is structured into room chapters, so you get ideas for your kitchen, living room, bedroom and more. Additionally, general interior topic chapters give insights into the use of colours, the creation of still lifes or moodboards, decorating with flowers and much more. The chapters are rounded up by individual presentations of all bloggers including short interviews. And let me tell you - each and every of the 220 pages is a wonderful visual inspiration.

Even though the book has been only published in German, fret not! The photography speaks for itself, it speaks the international language of visual aesthetics. The language we all speak! 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben' was published on September 20th by my publisher Callwey and is available in their online shop as well as on Amazon. But before you hit the buy button, leave a comment under this blogpost and secure your chance to win one of three copies of the book. The giveaway is open internationally and runs until coming Sunday, October 27th, midnight CET! So join in!

P.S. The Monday series 'From Place To Space' will be back tomorrow. It's birthday week so everything  turns topsy-turvy!

Photography by Igor Josifovic

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Ideas For A Happy Weekend

So how about this idea for the weekend: Packing a suitcase and traveling? Now don't tell me I am traveling all the time. It's just a basic trip to my family back in Austria, so nothing all too exciting. But taking into consideration that I haven't seen my family in two months, it is pretty exciting! Actually I should be at the book fair in Frankfurt today promoting our new interior design bloggers book 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben' but after my Canada & US trip I felt it's time to spend a weekend with my family instead. You can't help it, right? 

Speaking of the book that I contributed to: I will soon make a proper book review here on the blog and giveaway three copies to you my dear readers! Stay tuned. But for now, have a happy weekend!

Photography by Igor Josifovic

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See you soon!

I've been waiting quite a while for this day - it's the start of my annual big vacations! I've blogged on my travel feature about my upcoming trips, dwellings, plans. And now it is time all this happens for real. I am already in Paris and tomorrow I am boarding the plane to Seattle. Three weeks of holidays! I can't believe it! 

I won't be blogging but I have lined up some of my favorite design bloggers from around the world. Make sure you come back to discover amazing blog posts from the USA, Germany, France, the UK and more!

And if you want to join me on my American road trip, make sure you follow me on Instagram. I will be sharing cool finds, shops, designs, nature and some blogger meet-ups across the pond. 

Oh and before I leave you, just wanted to tell you that I've received some copies of my new book that I've contribute to with a bunch of fantastic European design bloggers and let me tell you one thing - it is so great! I will be giving away a few copies of 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben' right upon my return early October!

In the meantime I am wishing you a fabulous time and hope to see you on Instagram soon!

Photography by Igor Josifovic

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Exclusive & Big News: My First Book Project

It's time to share some big news with you, my friends! And Friday is just a perfect day for it. We are all in a happy weekend anticipation mood, and this news are definitely happy, too. I am beyond happy and proud to be contributing to a book with some of my favorite blogger friends. This is my first book project as a contributor and I was very excited to work closely with the German publisher Callwey here in Munich.

It was back in March when I was first approached by the project coordinator from the publishing house and we worked together on the book outline. Later on, I was asked to suggest some of my favorite bloggers as further contributors and this was more than a pleasure to me. Then it was time to start working - lots of pictures had to be taken, texts to be written, I was interviewed about colours for interior design projects and managed to round up my work just a few weeks ago.

The book will be published in German on September 20th this year with the title 'Wohnideen aus dem wahren Leben - Inspirationen der besten Wohnblogger' and is already announced in the publishing house's catalogue and my excitement grows! Expect a whirlwind of inspirations on 240 pages with 400 photos! Today I am sharing exclusively the cover and a few shots from various contributors and myself from the book.

I hope you are equally excited and will follow me along on this amazing publishing adventure - there will be more news coming and - well of course - I will giveaway a few happy copies to you after it's been published!

Happy Friday, friends!

Blogger photos courtesy of Callwey Publishing

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