Scandinavian Patterns and Prints

I have always wanted to go to Scandinavia, but now I really want to go to pick up some awesome fabrics and wallpaper like these.

http://www.kauniste.com/product.php?lng=en&id=25

http://www.shop.finelittleday.com/wallpapers/gran-wallpaper

Young or Young at Heart

On Friday, Jordan Ferney posted a slideshow of her favorite ("most original") kids rooms on Babble. A lot of them were really cute and simple. There is something so great about decorating and putting together a room for a person who has a limited number of possessions. Everything can be more whimsical and less functional. I feel like figuring out where to hide away some of my uglier belongings (like my iron, steamer, and collection of papers and hand outs from a grad school info session I went to) is one of the more annoying tasks in decorating and organizing my room.

Anyway, the whole point of this is that one of the rooms was absolutely cool and funky. I think it would be great for a human of any age who enjoyed the funkier things in life, and perhaps for someone who didn't have to store so many unsightly possessions in their bedroom (me).

image credit housetohome

As a kid I would have loved creating miniature displays in those shelves with dollhouse items and other small toys and trinkets that I collected. I was a serious collector (of mostly crap) as a kid. Now, I would love to put small books, candles, jewelry, and other weird things that I have collected (I guess being a collector-of-crap never really grew out of me). I can think of a few q-tip dioramas that would look nice against a background of fun, eclectic wallpaper.

Landscape Art

Something about the coming of summer has me excited to get outdoors. I am most definitely a city kid, but this year I think I am going to try and get into hiking - it's (mostly) free, it's exercise, and you get to enjoy some natural beauty.

I think it is this same excitement about natural beauty that is making me crave some really awesome landscape art for my new apartment. I find landscapes to be really inspiring; I always end up dreaming about the places I could travel to see the best natural scenery or the most sweeping views.

These are some really great, really different pieces that I would love, love, love to own:

image from apartment34

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And I would love to collect enough to make a whole wall of them, like these:

image from elle decor

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I am not surrounded by a ton of natural beauty (the only views from my apartment are a parking lot and an alley where you drop off recycling) but landscapes remind me that there are so many natural wonders and awesome vistas in the world, and I need to get out and see them.