Ambiente 14

A few weeks ago I had the awesome opportunity to work at the Ambiente Fair 2014 in Frankfurt to my old boss Akiko! Ambiente focuses on consumer goods around the themes of Dining, Giving and Living meaning a loooot of home design and tiny luxury items. I was in heaven!

getting inspiration for Exhibition Stand Design

The curtainwalls are actually really long candles of the Company!

I made the most of my free pass and scrolled daily through the loveliest unaffordabilities whenever I had toilet breaks the chance. The Frankfurt Fair is gigantic so even tho I spent over an hour before and after my shift no-matter-how-tired walking around the different sections I could not manage more than a half of it!

Working with Akiko and her other colleagues was fun and the hours flew by really quickly.  I was happy to notice myself more confident and socially talented than at the Early Bird two years ago. To top that the International flair made me very happy of my language skills in German, English and Japanese and I even got to use Finnish a few times!

Some companys really put their heart and money into getting new customers. I for sure was impressed by it all. Might this be Bloomingville?

House Doctor for sure made me drool and I wish they could have sold some of their items after the fair...
Not that I left all empty handed tho! Some of the exhibitors DID agree to part with their sample items after the fair with some really student-friendly prices! I'll shoot some of my shoppings soon enough to show where my hard-earned money actually went into haha.

Winter Nest

Okay here we go welcome to my Crib in Darmstadt! I try to vary my interiors or textiles according to the season. For example green and yellow in the spring, blue and turquoise in the summer and finally orange and red through autumn and winter.

Like often enough repeated my room is only 13m² small big but has just the right size and price for my taste. It's located close enough to the city Center but is on a quiet street with really good connections to the tram, various grocery stores and to my University. I share a flat with 2 other people, both of them unique and nice. For this room, a shared bathroom, kitchen, tiny hall, balcony and a basement room I pay altogether 220 euros per month. Including water, heating and Internet.

I almost always manage to snatch the week old flowers from work before they're thrown away! Lately I've also spent more time on decorating my walls with posters, photos, postcards and prints.. By the way do you still remember these posts 1, 2 and how my room looked like before?

Coming Up

Hello Dearies,
it's been awhile and it will be awhile as I am trying to save what is left of my 5th Semester of Architecture studies. Topping repetitive days in the Arbeitsraum
-a working space in the University- the winter in Darmstadt has been
gray, rainy and gloomy with no end. I am trying to keep my head high but the cracking of my spirits is audible.

In order to keep things rolling, I am continuing my battle against the Darkness with tiny lovely things sprinkled into my timetable. Things like decorating my  
Hermit Hole into a Stress-free Safety Zone.

I'm off to Uni now but am determined to make a Picture post of my 13m² room until the end of this day so stay tuned! I hope you're all alright no matter where you are.

Cheers,
E

Living Room

I just finished the last hand-ins for my University this year. I am all worn out and I haven't had the time to set myself into the Christmas mood at all. Such a shame cos I really enjoy the feeling of waiting for that mysterious day (that changed into just an ordinary day ever since I was 13 I suppose)!

This year I'm spending the holiday with my mister's family in Hamburg but I thought it'd be nice to show some of the wintery outfit of my mother's cottage in Finland. I heard from an Italian exchange student once that Finnish people are crazy when it comes to lighting and lamps in a room. Looking at my mom's interior deco I cannot help but smile in agreement. More is more!

I reckon I won't be posting a thing while in Hamburg so I'd like to wish you all
a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014!

Sweater Weather

Autumn has something very contradictory in it. Warm colours and cold days.

Pictures from Moon to Moon

Assemble Ensemble

Get ready for some dreadful chaos in these BEFORE shots of my crib in Darmstadt. My Tallerhalf came over this weekend for a second match of IKEA Battles. Until now I have been living more or less in a constant mess and in and out of paper boxes.

Okay it wasn't as bad everywhere. We just had to pile up most of the stuff on the other side of my 13,5 square meters in order to have some play room.

Tadaa! Here it is, the first part of my own storaging space in Dicktown Darmstadt! I wish to take some really nifty After-shots of the room as well in the near future. Wish you all a chilled beginning of the week!

Rag Rug

One weekend some time ago I planned to jump on the train from Marburg and go shopping for clothing in Frankfurt. Well what-do-you-know I got lazy and decided to take a look at the tiny design shops in the Oberstadt of Marburg.

I bumbed quite accidentally to this Magical Carpet made out of recycled Cotton shreds and I tell you it was LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. I just knew that this piece of warmth and colour was meant for me to find and wonder why I even bothered to look at the price tag since even the size matched. I have a soft spot for interior design I suppose.

Guess how I squeaked out of delight to notice that my long-lost-rug had only 39 euros on it! I had been ready to live on porridge for 2 months for this! The shop is called Lille Hus and the brand Nordal.

In the end this textile never ended up on the floor as I already have a tiny persian fleamarket jewel covering my parquet. I placed it on a parade-spot on my bed to play the role of a day bedspread. The softness and lightness of the material allow it.