Colour
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Yellowed chest of drawers
What do you think is bright yellow? The perception of colours is purely personal. If you ask a person to choose, say, a basic colour from a colour chart, you get a surprisingly wide range of answers. That someone could choose a shade so different from the one they would choose! We tested this at an interior design school and found we could get as many shades as there were respondents. And the answers were not from the same magazine, but everything between blue and red....
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Pair selection
Green. Green ties the rooms of our apartment together. It is repeated in different shades in every room. The large window wall in the living room needed this bond, so I painted the wall with Tikkurila colour palettes with great care. I picked up a pair of original stone window sills, with a beautiful pale green as one of the colour swirls, to colour the whole wall too. It made for a clever colour pair. I'd also seen a colleague of mine with a great idea to make radiators...
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A barren nice space for sex
It was a great opportunity for me to exercise my interior design brain in a new office space that was clean, but barren and a bit bare. The start-up company Premis makes software, and is quite a trendy breath of fresh air in the somewhat dusty world of hosting. Premis offers a property data management and ERP system, essentially a service that makes it easier to manage property management and property data. I visited the office, where I was told about the desires for a change in the atmosphere of the space...
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What is a hole, what is full
Black and white. Hole-in-one. Front-back. I'm looking for round shapes and holes. How many places can you apply the ball-hole-neck counterpart to create a repeating shape in the interior of a home. A painting of a bamboo artwork depicted from the bottom up. A hole is left in the middle, showing the sky. The painting stands as an extension of a white table against the wall. A black round tray can be placed on top of the table. The hole in the sky is as if it has bulged out onto the table as a physical...
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Time for the bathroom is
Now that the bathroom is ready, we can discuss the before-and-after situations. The starting point was a basic white-tiled bathroom. It had two showers side by side, a washing machine and a basic sink, mirror cabinet and toilet seat. I envisioned a dark-walled, rough-hewn spa experience room. The next steps were to walk towards it. For the cabinets, I chose a shade of green called Studio Green. A really beautiful smoky dark grey green colour. I thought it would suit...
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In search of bridges
Colour is a surprisingly big unifying factor in interior design, even if the rooms are different. I really fell in love with rose gold when I was choosing the taps, and by sprinkling a little bit of that colour on small details in different parts of the apartment, it's like an invisible bridge between them. The colour unifies the different parts of the apartment in my mind. Rose gold faucets were chosen for the bath, shower and sink faucets. A momentary problem was that...
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