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  • Dos Visit Isabelles old summerhouse

    Jenny’s spring post made me drool for summertime so I wanted to share this. A couple of years ago I rented this magical small house in the Swedish (Stockholm) archipelago. Built in the fiftie’s and not much had been done since. Oh, I truly loved this place…

  • Dos Visit Örjan the painter’s old workspace

    Photo’s by Isabelle McAllister In our garden at the cottage there is another little fantastic house. It’s been wash house, the main house for a family of ten and the last 20 years it’s been Örjans workspace during the summers. 100 years of wear, tear and paint make the patina amazing! The light is amazing and together with the traces from the artist it becomes stunning! I would just like…

  • Lace lamp/Doiliy Lamp – DIY

    We are at our little cottage in Dalarna and we are fixing it up. So we are able to use it even in the winter. (Dalarna is in th middle/north of Sweden. To me and Jenny it’s north but Sweden is a very tall country so I guess we are not even in the middle). Anyway it’s great cause I have the time and space  to do lots of DIY…