All Pretty Things

inspiration wednesday week 17

 

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{Elle Decoration}

change of closet

Most of us go through some clothes change right when spring starts. Time to get rid of all that winter-looking wool!

However, only a few of us do that same thing for our homes. But really, we all should! In winter, your home should be warm and cozy, but when spring comes, you should feel fresh and energized! Even at home. After a good spring cleaning, I usually change things around at home, clean blankets and replace cushion covers welcoming spring into our home. I found some products at Zara Home that will help you get the spring look immediately! It is only six products, but trust me. Just by changing a couple of things, you will get a fresh and new feeling.

 

If you would like the change to be more dramatic, or you don't know where to start, you can always contact me at info@andreaibargutxi.com and I can help you style your home for the new season!

inspiration wednesday 05

 

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{via Emmas Designblogg}

inspiration wednesday week 48

 

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 {Decorista Daydreams via Pinterest}

inspiration wednesday week 47

 

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 {via The World of Interiors}

 

wedding gifts

My husband's parents are super nice and not only did they help us with the wedding costs, but they also gave us the starting pieces of our new cutlery. It's Pott's 25 and I love it. We got it from Vivian Hann, one of my favorite stores in Amsterdam. It's very exquisite and the eye for detail in the store is impressive.

 

I will take us a while to get all the pieces, but it's one of these things you buy with no rush and thinking that it's for 'forever'.

Have a lovely weekend!

inspiration wednesday week 43

 

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{These Things Take Time, via Kathryn Grady's Pinterest}

 

I would love to have the Muuto Rest Sofa Pouf in our living-room.

 

inspiration wednesday week 41

 

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 {Marie Claire Maison}

inspiration wednesday week 40

 

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{New London Style}

it's been a long road

Hello!

Today is a special day for me. I have just launched my new website! It took me some time to get the energy and time to do it but I am glad it's up and running! Please visit it at andreaibargutxi(dot)com. Or just click on any of the images below. They are a selection of the ones on the web, showing my work.

 

Wish me luck with my career!

xoxo

inspiration wednesday week 37

 

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{Bulthaup Leefruimtes, 2007 edition}

latest acquisition at home

 

Hella Jongerius' B-series vase. One day I'd like to own all the series!

 

Loving...

 

...Strut Medium Table in watermelon color.

{via So Haute}

inspiration wednesday week 34

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{via Emma's Design Blog}

wedding gift

Last week my sister was here and she brought our wedding gift along. We got an Eames House Bird!!! We love it and it will always be with us, as originally intended. ;)

 Thank you Li!

I don't like our bathroom

I don't like our bathroom. It's small and old and as much as I clean it, it never gets that super clean look. I've been thinking of ways of redecorating so it looks more 'loved&taken care of'. I've been considering painting the walls dark. Our tiles are not as pretty as the ones in the image below, but I still think it could work. The issue then would be light I guess. I need to think some more.

{Lauren Bradshaw's apartment, via Design Sponge}

inspiration wednesday week 31

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{The World of Interiors}

inspiration wednesday week 28

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{via A Merry Mishap}

inspiration wednesday week 21

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{Firmship, by Studio Job. Via Frame}

inspiration wednesday week 19

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{Lee Broom, via Frame}

sneak peek: wedding location

Lobby of Hotel Maria Cristina, our wedding location.

inspiration wednesday week 15

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{via AD}

inspiration wednesday week 11

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{via Frame}

inspiration wednesday week 10

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{source: unknown, where did i get this from??}

the wedding ifs

..if I had a barn, I'd marry like this.

 

 

{image via Snippet&Ink}

Iriarte Jauregia & wedding location madness

Hello readers.

As you know, I am immersed in wedding planning with less than 100 days to go for the big day! I haven't spoken much about the whole process here. Partly because I didn't want this space to become a wedding blog, partly because it was a bit stressful and partly because well, I am lazy. :)

But I thought I'd share something with you. In the very beginning, before I even got engaged, I dreamt about getting married in Iriarte Jauregia. It's such such such a beautiful place. Decorated with such taste and in the middle of the mountains... a truly dreamy place. It's a hotel, but they are so flexible and nice that you can basically use the space as you wish for your whole wedding weekend.

We eventually decided not to get married here though. There were several reasons: it was just a bit too far for our guests and it was a bit too expensive for us. On top of that, we had to build a tent outside the main house, and let me tell you, tents in the Basque Country are not like the ones you see in american blogs. They are ugly. And making them pretty, well...that costs a fortune. So we decided it wasn't for us.

I do sometimes still think of it. Style wise it would have been perfect for us and the idea of having a weekend and not a day is also a nice idea. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled about our wedding location, but dreams are hard to forget sometimes. I am sure we'll go one day though. And if you are around, you should too!

 

More or wedding location madness to follow.

 

Have a nice day!

 

 

 

inspiration wednesday week 06

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{via Elle Decoration}

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{via New London Style}

inspiration wednesday week 49

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{via Billet}

inspiration wednesday week 45

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{Rewrite Desk, Gamfratesi, via Frame}

Loving...

..Lounger for BD by Jaime Hayon.

 

 

))

...there are objects that put a smile on my face. {via Moustache}

 

{Slastic, Ana Mir + Emili Padros}

{Coat rack. Lacquered steel, elastic, steel wire, color pencils. Leaves marks on the wall when using.}

 

Loving...

While doing some research for school I went to check Louise Campbell's work and I just had to share it with you. It's so inspiring! Not only she creates really beautiful pieces, but I find her concepts very interesting too. It's not over-thought, it's a bit literal so there's some degree of fantasy and it's intelligent. Here are some of my favorites, but check her website, it's worth a visit!

 

{Cammeo storage units}

 

{‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ at Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand}

 

{Honesty chair}

unstoppable?

Maybe! Eight days to start school and I feel the urge to leave every other project finished and ready. And so I have a couple of new things to show you.

Have a look at this below...

Yes, you guessed it. I have another blog. Well, it's not really a blog. It's my online portfolio. It will one day evolve into a website, but for now it will linked to APT. Here is the link: andrea ibargutxi styling

I've also been changing my study room and it's almost ready. Here's a peek to how it looks now. I will show you the other side of the room once it's ready, together with the before and after pictures.

That's all for now! I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I sure will.

Some styling

I have decided to show some of my first year's stuff here at All Pretty Things. One exercise I really enjoyed was food styling & photography. These pictures were taken at school with food we brought from home. My food doesn't make any sense, I know, but I think that's why I like it ;)

Next year, so we've been told, we will be doing some real food styling. I can't wait!

 

 

Question

How did I manage to totally miss the RÖRBERG  collection at Ikea?

I am afraid that although I need a new sofa, this won't do it for us. A pity, 'cause I really love it! But it's so low, and my sofa is just next to the radiator. We would burn our ears! And I'm not even taking into account the fact that our curtains are floor lenght...yeah, not meant for me. 

 

 

 

Maybe I can have the chair in my studio, I was looking for a thinking chair anyway...

Loving...

...summer candles.

Dream jobs, future, etc.

Last Monday I had to present my last two projects at school. I have no grades yet, but from what I can guess, it went fine. Which basically means I passed and that I am now on summer holiday. Except it's not really like when I was a University student, cause now I still have to work during the summer.

I have not spoken much about my course here, but now that the first year is behind, I feel I can talk a little of how it went. Studying again was a hard decision for me. Last year I left my job and jumped into this unknown phase in my life because I needed to know what I wanted to do with my life. See, when I was a teenager I wanted to be an actress (yeah, ha ha, I know). My cousin, very practical person herself, was decided to study medicine (which she did eventually) and one day asked me what I wanted to become when I grew older. I said: 'I want to study drama'. To which she answered that maybe that was not the best choice cause it was so hard to find a job being an actress. I answered: 'maybe, but you need to do your job 40 hours a week, and I want to spend that time doing something I like'. I never studied drama of course, but I always maintained that same philosophy about work. But life being life, I ended up with a boring job. So in a way, the decision of doing some studies I liked was sort of natural, but at the same time, I felt I was giving up many things too, many other projects on a more personal level like buying a house, a wedding, children even. All this created a bit of anxiety I must admit. But it also pushed me further.

When my course started I was so nervous!! Because I needed to succeed. All that hard decision making had to pay off! Well, it did. I think that for the first time, I am proud to belong to a proffession (not finished yet with studies, but still). I studied English at Univeristy and I really love linguistics, but I never felt I belonged in that world. And now I feel like a fish in the water. Granted, I need to know and learn and practice soooo much more, but the feeling is there. And you cannot imagine how happy I am! 

All the above make me consider many things, the future, what job I'd like, this blog's future...everything. And I am not sure what is going to happen really, but it doesn't matter, i'm on the right track, finally.

Woah, long post. Right. So now I keep fantasizing about what I want to do after I finish school, what I want to work on as a stylist. While I was searching for inspiration last week I ran into Mash. Their work has that fantasy element I am always looking for in my own projects, but at the same time it's simplifying and it's ingenious. Choosing favourites to post was hard, you better go check their website and check it all!

 Mash is now high on my fantasy jobs list ;)

That feeling, that feeling.

Ah. That feeling of clicking through blogs and webpages and loosing track of where you started. I love it. From time to time I get nervous as I click. It happens when I see something I truly really like. Or when I see something and I think it's so clever. Or when I think: 'I should have thought of that!'. Envy, funny feeling.

And that is precisely what happened when I clicked on Blue Pool Road, a sponsor at {frolic} and saw these marvellous birthday cards. It's so clever! Clever ideas are always simple, I find. Sometimes when I'm thinking of a concept for a styling project and it gets tangled in all different thinking processes I need to remind myself of how clever simplicity is. This cards will now be part of that visual image of clever simplicity.

I can only dream of one day creating such beauties, but who knows, right? right?

i.heart.work

I would certainly heart working if my working space had this wonderful Bertjan Pot table and accessories. It so simple and clever! I have just read that it was actually created as a dining table but since many people had bought it as an office table, that they have now created accessories (forArco) that turn it into this superb office desk.

I wish I had it in my office; I also wish I had an office. hehe.

Loving...

...KLAS ERNFLO's work. Everything I've seen in his website is so beautiful, fresh, graphic, new...perfect! I get this feeling of wanting to own his work at home but also secrectly wanting to be him!

You know me...

I like going back to places I liked. Today I visited many webpages in search of inspiration. And I visited Tas-ka again too.

I could not resist telling you that these items are my my mental wish-list. Here they are.

And how is your day?

 

Virtual (rather fantasy) shopping

If I had the money right now, I would like to buy all these for my home. I am dreaming about H&M opening a 'Home Store' and hiring me as visual merchandiser, for instance...just an idea ;-)

{All via H&M Home}

Dining room

I realize I didn't show our new dining room yet. New in the sense that we now have a dressoir instead of an Ikea bookshelf and that we finally have light above our dining table. 

Time ago I wrote this post about how we found this wonderful William Watting dining table. Love at first sight. I still love it. If I had to pick one single element to be saved from a fire or something it would be this table (and my computer..and my clothes..oh! and my jewelry). At the time, our budget was over but since we needed some space to put all our books and aaaaaall my magazines, we bought an Ikea bookshelf. Functional and white, good enough.

But some time later we started searching for a sideboard. And then, just like magic, the lovely woman at Destijds Design (where we got our table) told us that she had a William Watting sideboard, not in perfect state, but good enough and for an incredible good price. No second thoughts, we bought it!

Indeed, it was true that the state is not the best, we still need to fix the locks and we had to sand and wax it all when we got it, but we are very happy to have it!

    

Once we had all this, it was time to make our lamp. Yes, I  made it myself! And it's extremely simple, but I'm still proud. It basically consists of a porcelain fitting, 'iron' cable and a big bulb. I wanted a see-through big bulb but it was impossible to get, so we settled for the white glass ones. Now I think it was best this way anyway.

Have a good weekend!! xx

Thursday

I keep thinking today it's Tuesday; where does time go? somewhere between homework and organizing trips days passed by without me realizing...

Within that lost time, I found some Etsy items that draw a smile on my Tuesday Thursday.

Pony, by donkeypony

Good morning valentine, by jodii

 

Blue Copco Dutch Oven by Michael Lax, TheWhiteMole

Wee bud vases by mudpuppy

Mod Plaid Oval Ottoman by Flipstudio

Whishlisting

Phaidon Design Classics

Hello there!

Yesterday I had my first 'exam' at school. I think it went ok, although I was not absolutely satisfied. Whether I'll ever be it's another story.

My life lately has been a big homework. Work, homework,sleep. I need to learn to make decisions faster and to work more efficiently. This is only the beginning and I have no time already! I suppose there is a learning process in learning as well?

Enough of that. Let me show you pretty things. Like the ones I bought from Tas-ka at the Woonbeurs. I love Tas-ka, I know I said it already, but still.

This is all for now. I'll be posting more these days since I have no school next week. Talk to you soon!

Inside Design Amsterdam 2008

Inside Design Amsterdam. These are some pictures I took on Sunday at the Lloyd Hotel. Absolutely worth going.

Loving...

...MAGNO Wooden Radio (small and big) by Singgih Kartono.

 {seen at Areaware}