Showing posts with label Mora clock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mora clock. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A beautiful dining room





All from http://www.housebeautiful.com/photos/designer-dining-rooms
Oh, la, la, don't these dining rooms make you want to drool?  And it's not the food we're talking either.  So bare with me please dear reader as I tell you why I am bombarding you with pretty pictures on this dreary Tuesday morning.  As I may have mentioned already HH, the two kiddos, and I moved into a new home in October.  We love it but it was the land of the beige... beige carpeting, beige walls, beige wainscoting between beige walls... you get the idea.  In order to rescue our new home from this affliction we painted the living room a nice greige (not too daring I know but it did make all the difference!) and removed the yucky carpeting.  Voila!
before and after, below.
Edgecomb Gray has a nice warm tone to it
Then we did our son's room with a wall of orange and new blue carpet.  He was thrilled.  So now it is time for the dining room, the heart of the house.  We really don't have any furniture to speak of or preconceived ideas on how it should be done, but we do think it should flow from the white kitchen to the living room (painted Benjamin Moore's Edgecomb gray) as it is the pass through room.  Looking through the internet, old magazines and old blog posts is one way to go, as is searching in the paint store gathering every color I can get my hands on.  What do you do when you are trying to decide on a paint color?  Anything like this?  

When I am done it would be nice to get one of these beautiful Mora clocks from Sweden, but dream on...
Antique Gustavian Tall Clock at Cupboards and Roses for $6,800!


Friday, June 14, 2013

Swedish Mora Clock and more

So into this look now:  Swedish vintage, romantic, white, pretty, etc.  Do you like it?  The killer is the Mora Clock.  Made originally in Dalarna these timepieces can go for thousands of dollars, but the care that went into creating them, and the craftmanship makes it all worthwhile.

Take a look at this one, on auction now at Bukowski's Market.  I'm going to get myself in trouble if I spend too much time on that site.  :-)  And for the handy more mora here.  For more information on the real deal check this out here, it was a cottage industry laid to rest - synd.  (too bad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_clock.

Here's some nice picture to put you in a happy weekend state of mind from a Swedish blog that I like by Creations by Lis.  This store is on my list of go-sees in Sweden.  It's in Helsingborg.  Let me know how you like it, maybe I'll get some nice shabby chic things for the States.  Happy Friday!

Swedish Folk Art at GNACE

Get a load of these lovely artists! All of them finished and embellished their beautiful kurbits paintings at Greater Newburyport Adult Educ...