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

Time flies (when your having fun!)

2012 has already started out to be a busy year and blogging has been put aside. Again :-(. 

So far this year I have visited and photographed a couple of beautiful homes, photographed new wallpaper arrivals (LOVE Andrew Martin´s "lumberjack"), delicious cakes, and a cover for Elle Decoration, Norway. I have even judged the "global chic" challenge that NIB (Norske Interiørblogger) put out earlier this month.

My job is so varied and exciting and I am SO lucky being able to work with something that makes my heart beats faster. My job takes me to many new and great places both in Norway and abroad, and I meet so many wonderful people everywhere I go.

My collegues, all the great and talented stylists, make my job fun and inspiring.Together we try and create new and inspiring images for all you readers of this blog, other blogs and magazines around the world. Hope we are able to inspire you in 2012 too. I will definately try my best! :-)

Here are a few bedrooms I have photographed in the last couple of years which inspires me :-)

The home of Line Dammen, stylist and journalist for Kamille magazine.

Styling: Line Dammen

 

 The home of Oliver Gustav in Copenhagen.

Styling: Christine Hærra

 The home of artist Maria Øverbye

Styling: Maria Øverbye

 

My guestroom that Kirsten styled so lovely for our "lovely linen" shoot.

Styling: Kirsten Visdal/Kvist

Photography: Trine Thorsen

It´s x-mas time...

It is less than two months until Christmas and several magazines are already out with their Christmas issue. It seems like Christmas hits earlier and earlier every year, but I guess people like to be ahead with the preparations. Have to admit I´m one of them, especially with the presents. The first ones have already been bought and are secretly hidden in the house....

What we can´t get enough of is recipes, gift and decoration ideas and the x-mas issues are full of them.

In Kamilles x-mas issue you can see some of Alexandra Villefrance´s wonderful decorations and gift wrapping ideas.

Styling: Alexandra Villefrance
Photography: Trine Thorsen

rust & rustic

As written in my profile, I am a big fan of old, rusty and rustic things. Every time I visit my local thrift store,  I look for something "new" to bring home to go with my collection. My last find was an old pair of scissors and a screw and bolt which both had no purpose than as decoration on one of my shelves. My good collegue and friend, stylist and designer Kari Delotis share the same passion, so we decided to do something on the theme. We gathered new and old rusty and rustic findings, and the result was these images that were featured in Interiørmagasinet earlier this fall.

Styling: Kari Delotis

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Couldn´t resist...

Guess what I ordered on Amazon today?

The latest book by Dutch stylist, Pia Jane Bijkerk.

Love her style, love her blog, love her books!

PS! It is sold out on amazon.com, but check out the UK site instead!

www.amazon.co.uk

Image by Pia Jane Bijkerk

Thinking...

My new kitchen is getting there, but there´s a few things still missing. I really need a new picture to go above my kitchen table and would really like an image with a food theme... I am thinking about a large one, app. 90x160 cm, or a triptych- a serie of three images. The cheapest is of course to create one myself, but it would also be fun if I found an image taken by a fellow photographer (I have seen a few that I like!).
Large format prints are quite expensive, so I have to be sure that I have chosen the right one before I go ahead and have it made.

Right now I am considering this one...Maybe this can help me get a love for baking?

Photography: Trine Thorsen
Styling: Tara Ballantyne

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

Farmhouse

The last weeks has been filled with many exciting photoshoots, one of them a shoot for the next issue of Interiørmagasinet.

On Wednesday last week I filled my car wih my photogear and stylist Kirsten and designer/model/assistant, Heidi, theirs with lots of lovely things "farmer style". We met up in my favorite location, the wonderful home of Ingvild and Olaf, to shoot an inspirationl feature containing great textures and materials like bamboo, recycled wood, ceramics, linnen, cotton and hemp.

The magazine will be out on May 11th.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Kirsten Visdal

Model/designer: Heidi Bjørnsdottir

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

Absolutely fab!

Jeg stresser ofte fælt med alt som må pusses opp i huset og hvor mange rom det er som gjenstår. For ikke å snakke om alle dørene som må skrapes, pusses og males tilbake til sitt gamle jeg.

Hver gang jeg kommer innenfor dette huset mange vegger senker skuldrene seg... (burde egentlig dra hit oftere!)

Det er intet hjem som inspirerer meg mer enn hjemmet til det norsk/tyske ekteparet, stylist Ingvild Flesland og psykolog/astrolog Olaf Rademacher. 

Ikke bare gir deres levemåte og fine filosofi en deilig ro, men også en ro på at jeg fint kan leve med avflassede dører i mange år til.

Huset er et levende bevis på at alt trenger ikke å være i skjønneste orden, nypusset eller nymalt, og at det ikke så perfekte kan være helt perfekt!

Avskallet maling, resirkulerte materialer i alle form og farger, gamle skatter og enkle, kreative og dekorative løsninger gjør dette hjemmet til en klasse for seg.

Sjekk også deres hageblogg her!

I am often stressing too much about how much work my old house is and how many rooms there are left to renovate. Not to talk about all the flaking doors that needs to be scraped and painted back to their old selves. 

Every time I enter this house my shoulders lower and lots of  weight comes off (I should come here more often!). There´s no house that inspires me more than the home of the Norwegian stylist Ingvild Flesland and German psycologist and astrologer Olaf Rademacher. 

Not only gives their great philosophy and way of living a calmness, but also a confirmation that I can live with flaking doors for many more years. 

This house is a living proof that everything doesn´t need to be freshly painted, expensive  and new, and that imperfect is absolutely perfect! Flaking doors, recycled materials in all colors and shapes, old treasures and simple, creative solutions makes this house one of its kind.

Check out their blog here!

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Ingvild Flesland

Sneak preview: stylish stylist

Et annet vakkert hus jeg fotograferte på Island, var hjemmet til den finsk/svenske stylisten Katri Tauriainen. Det var kjærligheten som tok Katri fra Sverige til Island for 27 år siden, og siden den gang har hun rukket å bli en kjent stylist som ofte er å se i magasiner og på tv, hvor hun gir råd og tips om hvordan folk bør innrede hjemmene sine. Selv har hun en ren og gjennomført stil med hvitmalte vegger og gulv, og  møbler i nøytrale, gjerne litt mørke farger som brunt og sort, gjerne kjøpt i- eller inspirert av - Afrika, Østen og Stillehavet.

Saken kommer på trykk i magasinet Bo Bedre  (norsk utgave) i nr.1 2011

Another beautiful house I shot in Iceland  a few months ago was the home of the finish/swedish stylist, Katri Tauriainen. It was love that took Katri from Sweden to Iceland 27 years ago. Since then she has managed to become well known for her work and is often to be seen in magazines and on tv, giving people advice on how to decorate their homes. Her own style is clean and well thought of, with white painted walls and floors, and with furnitures in neutral colors such as brown and black, often bought from-or inspired by- Africa, the far East or Oceania.

The feature will be printed in the Norwegian edition of Bo Bedre and is out in issue nr. 1 2011

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Gerdur Hardardottir/Katri Tauriainen

Sneak preview: christmas cakes

Jeg elsker å fotografere mat, og til Maison Mat og Vins julenummer har jeg vært så heldig å få lage en kakesak sammen med stylist Tara Ballantyne. Saken har en fin en miks av oppskrifter, innpakningsidéer og shopping tips, og er å finne i hyllene fra 15.november.

 

I love taking pictures of food and for Maison Mat og Vin´s christmas issue I have been so fortunate to photograph a feature on cakes together with stylist Tara Ballantyne. The feature has a great mix of recipes, wrapping ideas and shopping tips, and is out from November 15th. 

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Food and propstyling: Tara Ballantyne 

Frames!

Har alltid likt bruk av tomme rammer i stilleben, stående inntil veggen på gulvet eller hengende på veggen. Mange! I forskjellige størrelser. Helst gamle...

Have always loved the use of empty frames in stillifes, leaning against a wall or hanging. Lots of them! In different sizes and shapes. Preferably old...

Styling: Emma Thomas

Photographer unfortunately unknown :-(

White on white

Hvitt går aldri av moten!

Her er noen bilder fra en sak jeg gjorde med stylist Susanne Swegen for et par år tilbake, men som er like aktuell i år som da. Så fremdeles aktuell at det ganske så kuule mote- og interørbladet Vårt Nya Hem i Sverige har den på trykk i disse dager.

White never goes out of style!

This is a couple of images from feauture I did with stylist Susanne Swegen a few years back, but is still as up to date now as it was two years ago. So up to date that the trendy Swedish fashion- and interior magazine Vårt Nya Hem is showing it their August issue.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Susanne Swegen

Sneak preview: colourful ceramist

I går tok jeg bilder hos en veldig søt og kreativ familie på et koselig lite tettsted rett utenfor Reykjavik. Huset var nydelig, lite og fylt med mange fine, fargerike detaljer. Det ble en lang dag og maaange bilder, et par av dem deler jeg her. Hvem som skal ha saken enda vet jeg ikke, men regner med det er et eller annet magasin som vil falle pladask.

Yesterday I took pictures of a very cute and creative family and their house in a small town right outside Reykjavik, Iceland. The house was small and very colourful with many great details. It was a long day with maaany pictures taken, a few of them I share with you here. I don´t know where the feature will be published yet (I have get my selling skills together), but I bet there will be a magazine or two that would die for a home like this.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Gerdur Hardardottir

I love flowers...

Jeg elsker å ta bilder av blomster! Skjønnheten ved dem bergtar meg helt. Her er en inspirasjonssak vi gjorde for endel år tilbake. Det er fremdeles en av mine yndlingsaker som jeg aldri blir lei av å se på.

I just love shooting flowers. The beauty about them stuns me. This is a shoot we did a few years ago. It is still one of my favourite features and I never get tired of looking at it.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Kråkvik/D´Orazio