Two rooms in the new home were “high priority” on the wall-color list: the kitchen, which you may have seen yesterday, as well as our bedroom. Most of the important rooms, like the kitchen, home office and living room are on the sunny side of the house, and are bright and get a lot of Read article…
Once the backsplash in our kitchen looked like 2021 again (see here), the pale pink-ish color had to go. While I love pink, this shade was just too pale, too grey, too pink, we were ready for something with a bit of punch. I ordered different pink samples from Blime paint, a young French brand Read article…
Maybe you believe that I was charmed by this villa because of the pink kitchen walls? Well, it may come as a surprise: but no 🙂 The old pink walls have a strange undertone and look old fashioned, so we’ll paint them soon. Worse than the wall colors was the kitchen backsplash with dark red Read article…
Here we are! Three weeks in the villa we would never buy. And it’s been good! Really good! The first days we tornado-ed around the house and changed so many little details, opened boxes, mounted furniture and made it live-able. Opening boxes with our own treasures that had been packed for months and years, felt Read article…
With this blasting Da Rona soundtrack on repeat for the past 11 months, we still managed to finally sell* and buy a new home in 2020-2021! It’s been a huge time consuming process, but we are ENFIN, finally, ready to move to our new home in the coming weeks. Our initial plan was to build Read article…
For the second time we as, Urban Jungle Bloggers, had the opportunity to work with online flower and plant shop Bergamotte to create a capsule collection of houseplants. We picked some of the most beautiful plants for the collection called Jungle Tribe, a hint to our new book Plant Tribe. The collection consists of five Read article…
When it’s hot like these past first summer heatwave days in France, you want chilled drinks… whether it’s a Dalgona coffee, a glass of ice cold water, or… a tropical mojito. On a recent photoshoot I used GreenMa’s organic teas and turned them into thés glacés! I followed the GreenMa recipe for a “mojithé”, a Read article…
High quality furniture is always a good investment. It may not always be in your budget, but you will enjoy it daily for many many years. Some of our first investment pieces, like our dining and office tables, that we bought over two decades ago, are still with us and are still in tip-top condition. Read article…
BAM! So excited that in a few days our new book “Plant Tribe, living happily ever after with plants” hits the shelves! It will be available anywhere where books are sold: at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, but also in the best book shops around the world, as well as in your favorite plant shop. Igor Read article…
Being conscious about what we buy, eat, where and how we travel, how we use fossil resources, water and electricity has been a big part of my upbringing. Yet, I never do enough. For example, in my childhood home we had a composter in our garden, but now as an adult I hardly ever compost, Read article…
