Moving around.....again....

Dear readers,
                     The last few weeks we had such bad weather here in Belgium . Spring seemed to take  for ever to arrive and working in the garden was not an option... So we made ​​a virtue of necessity and took the opportunity to chance the upstairs private rooms ...again.... Since quiet some time we felt the need to extend our dining area and as you can see, we moved a little bit around with our furniture....We moved our dining room to the former sitting area and made our sitting area back in front of the fireplace(where it once was...)The former dining room became a working area. We now feel as if we have more space and feel quiet happy with the results.We also painted the inside of our dutch cabinet in a green-blue lime paint.
                    At the bay window we installed our antique chaise-longue. It's a perfect place to read a book, as we have a lot of natural light coming in there. As you can see, we also put a lot of green objects around to add an extra color touch and it works ! See for yourself in the next pictures and let me know what you think about it.

I wish you all a wonderful and very sunny weekend !

XXX

Sabine

detail in the dutch cabinet in the dining room

dutch cabinet inside 

detail in the cabinet

our new dining room

objects in the dining room

objects in the dining room

our new working area

antique desk in the working area

sitting room

objects in the sitting area

sitting area : fauteuil and stools

chaise longue in the bay window area

detail on the antique vigneron table

Belgian Interior Decorators

Belgian Interior Decorators, a group on Flickr.

Invitation to join me on my new group !
Hope you enjoy, Sabine

Weekend in Style

                                                              

Dear readers,
                    In Belgium, tomorrow almost everyone has a day off and some of us even take a short holiday until Monday, and since there's no good weather predicted, this should be the ideal opportunity to maybe visit the wonderful exposition of Antoine Watteau at Bozar in Brussels. It is really worthwhile! By the way: this weekend is the last chance to visit because Sunday is the last day of this exposition..Most of Watteau's work embraced the musical and theatrical scenes.

Antoine Watteau

Coming back home, I like to take the time to prepare a nice dinner  in my kitchen. Nothing better to enjoy a meal at a nice table....To complete the ambiance, a bit of classical music is of great importance !  (tip: the CD sold at 'Antoine Watteau-lesson in music' is super !)

Hope you all enjoy your (extended) weekend !

Sabine

XXX

silverware: indispensable...
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preparing...
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Elegant pear, pancetta and fetta salad with pomegrate dressing: maybe as a starter ??

Une baguette...

Antoine Watteau (source: wikipedia)

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finally...for dessert
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Autumn...new look

Dear readers,

I've got some worrying mails from readers who thought I would give up blogging....I know: I don't post a lot, but you have to give me some credit because I run a business as well as a family...
Meanwhile I also like to cook and enjoy to spend some quality time with my family ....so would you forgive me please ? But do not worry, your patience is rewarded....: here I am with some new pictures !

One other important reason was also that we changed our private rooms/showroom on the second floor as well, which also took a lot of time too.... everything has been repainted and provided with new curtains to create a more spacious and airy feeling. Before the color range was more in the aubergine tones which was also very nice, but now we chose slightly muted, softer colors. We also decided to create a snuggle corner in front of our fire place to where, as you can see, we moved the dutch cabinet. It is now a place to sit, read and enjoy a good glass of wine when the evenings get colder...

Hope you enjoy !

Sabine

XXX

second floor new look

 second floor before the transformations

second floor new look

second floor new look

second floor new look

second floor new look

snuggle corner in front of our fire place/work desk at the back

view over the snuggle corner from our private work desk

detail on the second floor

showroom first floor

showroom first floor