Gog morgon vännen! How was your weekend?! The official vacation calendar month has started hither inward Sweden. Swedes everywhere are rushing off to summertime cottages, mapping out route trips or precisely wondering downwardly to the nearest bathing desk inward their dressing gown for a morgon dopp (morning dip!). We're currently inward Varberg on Sweden's West coast (a chip of a surfer's spot) as well as I'm enjoying an hour's time out from my identify unit of measurement (eeek, is that mean?! I practise dearest them really, it's precisely that, yous know, schoolhouse holidays as well as all that...!). I idea I'd accept an hour, pour myself a java as well as nosotros could virtually carry ourselves to Portland Oregon as well as the dwelling trouble solid of assistant interior, prop stylist as well as interior designer Ezz Wilson, what practise ya think?! Recently featured inward Rue Magazine, Ezz's brilliant as well as airy dwelling trouble solid is delightfully sepia (cue: white alongside touches of tan, rust as well as ochre) alongside natural textures throughout. I caught upwards alongside Ezz to notice out to a greater extent than virtually it!
How would yous depict your color scheme?
You cause got some beautiful pieces inward your home, where practise yous shop?
I've constitute a lot of neat pieces through my local thrift stores, Craigslist, World Market, Urban Outfitters as well as Target. I also dearest the next ethically minded companies: Fine Life Co - a beautifully curated store inward Arizona that to a greater extent than ofttimes than non sells ethically made article of apparel but has some lovely ceramics equally good (and the store possessor Emily Benziger has a gorgeous home!), Bohemia Designs for Moroccan straw bags, stools etc as well as Bea Linen* for linen sheets.
Can yous tell us a fiddling virtually the history of the house?
The trouble solid is a 100-year-old, old farmhouse that was turned into a multi-family building, as well as hence dorsum into a house, as well as hence humbly patched as well as slap-dashed together earlier nosotros moved in. So, needless to say, the layout is somewhat wonky! So much hence that nosotros almost didn't larn the house. But it felt hence cozy as well as charming that nosotros decided to suit to the layout equally best nosotros could. But at that topographic point are days when yous notice a hidden chimney stack inward the TV room wall or a mysterious doorway outline appears inward the bedchamber wall equally the foundation settles over fourth dimension as well as the drywall cracks as well as yous shout back to yourself, "What on earth??" The size of the trouble solid is virtually 1500 foursquare feet.
Stockholm 2017 chair, Chemex java maker*, round handbasket bag*, The Scandinavian Home (so happy to spot this on Ezz's java table!).
Lots of whites, creams, as well as forest tones, but lately I'm adding some earthy colors similar terracotta, rust, warm blush as well as ochre. I shout back that's virtually equally wild equally it's gonna larn at my house!
Kitchen from IKEA.
What inspires you?
I grew upwards inward a sunny climate inward the U.S., inward a Puerto Rican family, as well as was heavily influenced past times the Mediterranean as well as Caribbean, although I didn't aid for those styles equally a kid. If yous told me that when I grew up, my trouble solid would cease upwards total of rattan as well as wicker, I in all probability would've cried! When I was 19, I moved to Sweden for virtually half dozen months, as well as I shout back that must cause got influenced my dearest for Scandinavian blueprint equally well.
For a long time, I've felt that my agency was the dearest nipper betwixt a serene Swedish minimalist as well as a bohemian, beach-loving Spaniard, fifty-fifty though I wasn't certain how to execute that combination at first. But I lastly narrowed inward on what I actually wanted this dwelling trouble solid to await as well as experience like. I demand lots of white, calm as well as railroad train clean lines inward my dwelling trouble solid to experience relaxed as well as clear-headed. Yet, I also demand enough of warmth, natural fibers as well as folky 70s vibes to larn me through the long, night winters of Portland as well as aid me experience to a greater extent than connected to my roots as well as culture.
I'm also rattling inspired past times the blueprint coming out of Byron Bay, Australia, equally good equally French magazines such equally Maison Cote Sud, Toc Toc Toc Editions as well as Milk Decoration!
I've constitute a lot of neat pieces through my local thrift stores, Craigslist, World Market, Urban Outfitters as well as Target. I also dearest the next ethically minded companies: Fine Life Co - a beautifully curated store inward Arizona that to a greater extent than ofttimes than non sells ethically made article of apparel but has some lovely ceramics equally good (and the store possessor Emily Benziger has a gorgeous home!), Bohemia Designs for Moroccan straw bags, stools etc as well as Bea Linen* for linen sheets.
Can yous recommend 3 inspiring Instagram concern human relationship 'must follows'?!
The loft infinite has been painted inward the faintest hint of pinkish which goes beautifully alongside the rust coloured cushions!
Thank yous hence much for inviting us into your lovely dwelling trouble solid Ezz!
If you'd similar to meet to a greater extent than pictures, banking concern check out Ezz's instagram feed as well as also issue 50 of Rue Magazine, for the total write-up!
And for to a greater extent than 'sepia' dwelling trouble solid inspiration today I'm loving this cosy weatherboard cottage, white as well as warm dark-brown tones inward a lovely Swedish home as well as a soothing white as well as caramel home.
I'm curious, is this your form of scheme, or practise yous demand to a greater extent than colour?
Due to the (aforementioned) vacation hither inward Sweden my blogging is going minimalist as well as I'll live stopping inward every other solar daytime instead of everyday (I promise that's OK?!).
Have a wonderful yoke of days as well as meet yous Wednesday!
Niki
Photogtaphy past times Chris Dibble for Rue magazine except pictures 4, nine as well as xiv (taken past times Ezz Wilson).