My latest DIY project with the Scrapwood wallpaper

I have wallpapered twice in my whole life. 

Mostly, because the task has always seemed more daunting and difficult that it really is and I tend to paint walls in my home in white or Farrow & Ball grey paint anyway. 

However, since we added the Scrapwood wallpaper collection by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek to BODIE and FOU, I have been dying to do a feature wall with either the PHE-2 design or the PHE-3 in our holiday home in France. So last month, after spending a week on the boat doing nothing, I started a bit of DIY the second week.

The last time, I wallpapered our bedroom, it was with this lovely wallpaper (which we no longer carry) and while I managed to do a fairly good job for a first time, I was hugely disappointed that the glue stained the wallpaper.

There was no chance, this would happen with the Scrapwood wallpaper because the quality was way better and there are really two things that did for me:

First, you don't need a pasting table because you just have to apply the paste on the wall (which is a lot easier) and there is no repeat pattern (pure bliss!) so wallpapering our wall was a breeze. 

I think I did the wall in about 2/3 hours. My mum and I just measured each lay on the big Ikea table we have in the lounge, I then applied the paste on the wall, then the paper, leaving 1 cm down to the bottom to cut when everything was dried and that was it. The tricky thing was cutting around the sockets and wire but that's not difficult.

I'm really pleased with the outcome. It has completely changed the look of the room, making it looking fresher and wider. I hope you like it...

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Holidays snaps from the Bay of Arcachon

We had a lovely time in our holidays home in France near the Bay of Arcachon. We went to the beach...

Had some ice-creams and new strippy t-shirts...

Stayed on the boat for a week...

Climbed trees...

Picked up trees...

Climbed walls...and then admired the sunset...

Had a laugh...and more ice-creams....

Played in tree house....and painted the walls inside in white....

And I even managed to do some DIY here (more of this later), caught up with some friends and made some new ones who stayed in this house

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Glamping at Eweleaze Farm

Last Wednesday, armed with our gumboots, our new Bell tent* from Boutique Camping*,our mugs and plates, off we went to spend 5 wonderful days at Eweleaze Farm in Dorset. We...was 4 couples (Swedish/English, American/English, Italian/New-Zealander and French/New-Zealander), 9 kids under 6 and 2 dogs...Needless to say that despite the weather, it was amazing...

Eweleaze Farm is an organic farm that opens its surrounding fields to the public in August only. As much as I hate traditional camping where everyone has a specific slot allocated which means that your tent is 1 meter away from the next (at least it's like this in France), there you're free to put your tent wherever you want. It's also incredibly well organized! At the farm, you can buy pretty much everything from burgers, milk, organic sausages & burgers, stuff for the tent your forgot to bring, bags of wood, hay bells, etc. They also have stone oven baked pizzas in the evening (although quite pricey £4.50 for the size of the pizza...we passed) but the burgers & sausages were a treat! They also have solar-power showers and eco-friendly toilets.

The kids had a ball...Being able to walk down to the farm all by themselves and spent hours holding guinea pigs, chicks, a friendly rat (yeah kind of cute until you focused on the long tail..beurkk!), goats, poneys, puppies made them feel very grown-up. We also tried a few good pubs around, went crabbing** (major hit with the kids), and in the evening had Italian anti-pasti, French wines, kiwi lamb, mashmallows around the fire and a fantastic time!

*Ours was 5m dia..Stunning design but quite heavy although it won't stop us from getting a smaller one for our house in France) **all were released afterwards

(C) Top photo by Jeana Sohn. Silver mini sac

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My home in France {The Kitchen}

Despite all the photoshoots (here and here and there), I've never managed to have a shot that was showing the three pendant lights by Kathleen Hills I hung in the kitchen of our holidays home....until my brother took this photo.
So from left to right, you can see the Star pendant light, the Cone pendant light and the Large pendant light.
The Screen poster on the release figures of Trainspotting is from my days working at Universal Pictures International and the Kitchen units are from our Swedish friends.

Malgre tous les photoshoots (ici et ici et la), je n'ai jamais pu avoir une photo de la cuisine montrant les trois suspensions de Kathleen Hills que j'avais accroche dans la cuisine de notre maison de vacances....jusqu'a ce que mon frere prene cette photo.

Donc de gauche a droite, vous pouvez voir la Star pendant light, la Cone pendant light et la Large pendant light.

Le poster Screen poster avec les ventes du film Trainspotting est un souvenir de ma vie anterieur chez Universal Pictures International et les unites de cuisine viennent de chez nos amis suedois.

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