My dream home

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My first dream house was the "VILLA KUNTERBUNT" which is the house of Pippi Longstocking. When I was 4 years old I was obsessed by her, she had it all. A big house without parents, cool pets, cake for breakfast, a huge box of gold coins and good friends.

Today most inspiration for my dream home comes from The Selby, where most houses actually do have a lot in common with the Villa Kunterbunt. The site is so addictive and always creates big house-envy. But I am getting closer to my dream home, step by step. Our living situation will improve drastically next month. We are moving house and just found a fabulous BIG flat in the same fantastic old factory building. We will be sharing with a couple from Paris, très chic. And guess what? My new flatmate is a vegan baker! YAY & YUM. What does your dream home look like? And is it a long way to go?

Bridal Bouqet !?

via Little Winter Bride

I like it! And it reminds me that my new place in London still really lacks plants. Now that London's Autumn fully kicked in I spend more time inside I miss greens. And flowers. We have awesome flower markets here in London and this weekend I will go and create something wild and beautiful for our room!

livs golden skull minibar

Photo by Liv

Last sunday while wandering around Broadway Market after breakfast at l'eau a La Bouche (highly recommended!) we discoverd in a magical little furniture & antique shop full of cool little things, from issey miyake catwalk sunglasses, to the most amazing teapot set... I could have bought the whole shop (but the price tags didn't allow me to do so) At least Liv found loads of inspiration- for free!

The golden skull mini home bar arrangement really got me. The white painted wood table with a mirror table top decorated with golden paint, a shiny skull candle and a set of different antique cocktail glasses with golden rim: Perfection! I am a sucker for almost everthing golden anyway. And I wanted to share it with you because of it's weddingy festiveness. So? Who's is gonna rock something like that on their wedding?

jar junk

pictures in the collage via fallfoundations, Midwest Girl and Oh Lovely Day It's probably not the latest idea to use jars as environmental- and budget friendly wedding deco items. But I still like them. As laterns, picture frames, drink glasses...

picture showing a chandelier made from joghurt jars via homeqn.com Dave* has an obsessive jar collector. So this post is dedicated to his little obsession. He is even enjoying the process of getting the labels off and has purchased a special cleaning liquid to do that. They quite handy for all the sewing accessories in my studio!

*If you want to check out what I am up to when not designing wedding gowns or blogging about weedings: Visit our private blog journey: Liv + Dave =

coffee & home

image shows Coffee Light lamp by Bernhard Stellmacher via connox Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. And even if I am living in London now, I will NEVER switch to tea. High on caffeine, I will always create the best dresses. As much as I love grabbing my coffee to go in the morning: The most important item on my ONE-DAY-WHEN-I-AM-GROWN-UP-WISHLIST is my very own espresso maschine. (Maybe with a few packages of David Lynch Organic Espresso.)

Is there anything you always wanted for your home?

P.S: I start to ask myself when this "one day" will be. Will Liv ever settle down and start to build a nest? Will this restless feeling ever stop? And will there be someone waiting for me with a coffeemaschine?