Marcela´s house

Yesterday, I went to my great friend, helper, collegue and assistant, Marcela, to shoot her wonderful home for Kamille magazine.

It was a busy day for both of us with styling and photographying in between feeding and changing diapers (I had to bring my daughter...). We were quite happy with the result and so were Kamille.

Marcela is from Argentina, but married a Norwegian and ended up in Norway. She lives in a nice house right outside Oslo, with husband and two, soon to be three kids. When she is not helping me, she is busy blogging on penelopehome. She is also one of the founders of Bla-d, the South American network for interior bloggers. As you can see she has already become "one of us" and adopted the Scandinavian look.

Here´s a sneak preview of what we did, the rest I have to show you when the magazine is out.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Marcela Recondo

The great Kristen Visdal

You may have seen her house before, but not in a while and not like this. New colors, new combinations and new furnitures. You can see Kirsten Visdal´s "new home" in Elle Decoration´s (the Norwegian one!) June edition which is out now.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Kirsten Visdal/kvistbloggen.blogspot.no

Sneak preview: Fab fluorecent

 

Not too long ago, stylist Kirsten and I visited ex- co employee at Kvist (now Bolina), ceramist,
Silje Aune Eriksen in her colourful home in Briskeby, Oslo.
 Her place is filled with colorful and humorous details and everywhere you lay your eyes, you´ll be suprised by a funny note, an animal of some sort and a great selection of cool design (chairs, lamps, tables and more) in the colors white, grey, black and neon pink. Silje is weak for ceramics (surprised?), and together with her own designs, her collectibles are neatly displayed throughout the apartment.
The feature will be out in Elle Decoration´s second issue of this year,
which will be out in the stores from February 27th.

Styling feature: Kirsten Visdal and Silje Aune Eriksen
Styling cover:  Jannicke Kråkvik

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Concrete and colors

A few years ago I bought and apartment just like this- in the same building- just a few doors away. I had for years been dreaming about a "New York style" loft, with concrete floors and walls. The project didn´t end up the way we were predicted (the builders changed the look, took away the "rawness" and decided to go for a cheaper, mainstream look), and with a help from a experienced laywer in this field, I was able to withdraw from the contract I had signed. Helene was another one who fell in love with this cool to be project, but took the contractors to court, and ended up getting the apartment the way she was promised in the first place.
 

 I had decided that I didn´t want to set my foot in that place again, until one day someone tipped me about a cool apartment in the east side of Oslo. It was with mixed feelings I entered the building the day of the shoot, but it ended up being a fun day with inspirational things to shoot and a lovely, energetic  hostess it was fun being around.
Helene is a cool, sporty gal who loves skating, bicycling, surfing and travelling, and as you can see, her apartment reflects her very active lifestyle. Right now, she is having the time of her life surfing in beautiful Bali (lucky her!), while someone else is a lucky tenant of this ccol apartment.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Tara Ballantyne

Apartment love...

 

My absolute favorite apartment right now is the new home of my ex-roommate, stylist and former editor of Norwegian Elle Decoration, Line Dammen. This home is right up my alley color wise (greys,whites, browns and black), furniture wise (a great mix of old and new) and style wise (ethnic meets industrial meets retro meets modern meets antique and so on). Yes please!!! Line is now working  in Kamille magazine, being in charge of the food- and interior section. These are a few of the images that was featured a few weeks ago as a "get to know" the new and talented addition to the Kamille staff.

Styling: Line Dammen
Photography: Trine Thorsen

White on white

 

Around this time last year, Norwegian Elle Decoration came out with a white issue.

One of the homes that was featured in this issue was Elle´s former Deputy Editor, Cecilie. Love the way she has transformed her small apartment into a white and spacious looking place, by keeping it white and neutral. I am especially a big fan of her art wall, with frames and objects in various shapes and sizes. As I guess you can see, Cecilie has a big weakness for white porcelain and her collection is to die for!

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Concrete and wood

A couple of years ago I shot this house on an assignment for Elle Interior. The house is located in Oslo, close to the great outdoor and skiing area, Sognsvann. I really like the way the have combined new architectual design with old furnitures, concrete, wool and wood and think it looks perfect together.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Christine Hærra

Just like paradise?

I can´t wait to get my bathroom up and running, but when that will be, I don´t know for sure. But, what I´m definately having when the time is here is a bathtub, so I can defrost and reheat during our cold winters. Brrr... (I have an clawfoot tub waiting outside which is covered with tons of snow at the moment).

This beautiful bathroom is from the fantastic home of stylist Ingvild Flesland that I showed you a sneak peek on earlier. Love the beautiful and great idea of filling the room with plants and flowers, to get a feeling of being somewhere very excotic.

Me like alot!

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Ingvild Flesland

Rut Kara´s house

The third home I visited when I was in Iceland last summer, was the home of Icelandic interior architect, Rut Kara.

The feature is now to be seen in Bo Bedre, Norway and will soon be printed in the Danish version also. I am very happy the way it turned out, and I guess Bo Bedre is also since it made this month´s cover ;-)

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Gerdur Hardardottir