I keep telling you how important it is to create a personalized atmosphere at home. I always advice you to make it colourful, warm and cozy ! Today, I  explain you that you should follow exactly the same steps for your outdoors!

1- Create a coherent and harmonious atmosphere for your outdoors.

2- Choose your flooring

3- Select the material of your furniture

4- Think of adding fabrics

5- Bring the colours outside !

6- Don't forget the lightings when necessary !

7- Tips for small spaces

8- Don't forget your kids !

Even in Iceland outdoors are important so take the best advantages of them !!

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There are of course a lot of ideas to create a warm atmosphere (choice of materials, colours etc.) but curtains, rugs and cushions participate largely in a cozy atmosphere !

Here are a lot of tips for each of them !

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Materials are very often one of the first choices we are making ! And when you choose them, there will be here for years and years ! Although it is easy to re-paint a wall, you will not change your flooring every year, nor the tiles in your bathroom ! So choosing your materials carefully is important !

It is important to be aware of cold and warm materials. One common mistake is to have far too many cold materials at home and this prevents you from having a cozy and welcoming atmosphere.

Space by space, we are talking about the best choices !

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Lighting is really an important subject to feel well at home ! Lighting is always a balance between functionality and aesthetism ! The common mistakes are to have too much light or on the contrary not enough. 

We are going to talk of technical (yes I know a little bit boring !! but useful) aspects, I will give you the positive and negative points on spots and decorative lightings. 

And we will study space by space to see how we can optimize your lighting ! 

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When our kids are more often than usually at home, we realize their bedroom is quite messy, they don’t have enough storage and that sometimes they don’t feel so well in their room. What could we do to improve their bedroom ?

1 – Create an atmosphere with nice colours!

2 – Choose adapted furniture

3- Help them to keep his bedroom tidy!

4- Don’t forget to make the bedroom cosy and cocooning!

5- Use paint to partition the space

6- Be sure there is enough lighting

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For the coming weeks, our reality will probably be to be more and more at home ! The schools may all close and we will be asked to work from home. So we will have to organize our spaces to fit this new reality !

Here are some tips to help make the best of it !!

1-Organize a working space for your kids and yourself, either in bedrooms or using the dining-table 

2- Create a daily routine !

3- Don’t forget having breaks !

4- Be careful of the mess ! 

5- Don’t forget decoration

6- Think of your colours choices

7- Make the lighting a priority

Working all together from home will require new adjustments, collaboration,  some creativity and imagination to make it possible and bearable to everyone ! So let’s try and do our best, to keep some study times but also some fun times ! I am convinced that it is this balance that will help us to keep on going !

Of course as parents our role is to support our kids but I think we are also allowed to ask them to respect our own working space and time !

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I like to give you details about what to do but today I would like to point out general mistakes I have often seen. It should help you not to do the same ones.

1- Copy-pasting exactly what you see in magazines, social medias or at your neighbours' !

2- Having over-sized furniture

3- Too dark or too bright colours

4- Having too many pieces of furniture

5- Having messy spaces

6- Too white

7- Too much or not enough light

8- A house like a museum / not enough accessories

9- Forgetting the windows and the curtains

10- Letting walls empty

Like us, our decoration does not have to be perfect !! But sometimes we are making a few mistakes and it prevents us from feeling really well at home ! So make a few changes and everything will be fine ;-)

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After having my house shown in the magazine Hús og Híbyli, I thought I could use my own house and experience to give you avice and tips !

Advice 1: when choosing your home, focus on things that can't be changed or created. The negative things that can be changed and solved don't matter that much !

Advice2: do not hesitate to let your children participate and chhose their own colours, harmony and decoration in their bedrooms ! They will love it !

Advice 3: when you don't have the budget for a complete renewal, think of easier and cheaper  solutions and these can make a huge difference. 

Advice 4: create your own colour harmony, don't keep the colours and atmosphere of the previous owners ! Make the house your home !!

Advice 5: create a very cozy, cocooning and comfortable parental bedroom. Your couple will thank you ;-) 

Additional tips: think of mirrors, storage and lightings !!

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I think I should tell you what being an interior decorator really means !

My job is to bring different elements together to create a new atmosphere ! My job is to help you feel well at home and to propose you an amazing wallpaper, beautiful pieces of furniture or lighting. My job is to guide you with colors and make sure that all these elements are harmonious together ! 

10 reasons why you may need to call an interior decorator !!

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This week, I had the pleasure to welcome my first guest : Hulda Jónsdóttir. She is an "arkitekt MA/FAÍ" in Iceland. 

In this episode, Hulda tells us about her background and her experience.  She also explains us the diffrent steps of a project with her and how she is working. She confesses about her favourite projects and also the ones she enjoys less ! She also tells us what qualities a great architect should have ! And finally you will discover what an amazing vision she has for the future about architecture!!

I really feel she is extremely talented and very sensitive to her clients and their projects so if you want to contact her, here are all her details : 

[email protected]

00354 8650649 

https://www.huldajons.com 

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