Getting settled to new home

Ooops, it has been over a month since the last post. I do have good reasons though. Moving, interior designing, decorating... House warming party last weekend, please notice the dish shaped like Finland. How convenient is that! The old movie posters were a gift from a friend, they look perfect in the kitchen.

The flat is still very much in a process. Here are some glimpses of our home, enjoy the colorfulness!

How to spend your Sunday properly

I'd like to share and present the guidelines for a perfect Sunday. Not sure if I can repeat it myself following the instructions, but being a one-off maybe makes it even better.

Start with going to Dzban beach (the muddy pond I referred already in earlier posts) and take a nap under the birch. Do not mind the bugs biting your pale skin. Notice that slight hangover, aquired the day before, makes the heat and every sensation even more intense. Eat some liquorice to get your blood pressure up.

When revived enough, have luncheon at Grazing Daysi veg(an/ggie?) restaurant across the pond. The place is just too good to be true, like a spanish hacienda. The interior was ultracool from handwritten menus to lampshades made from aluminium and pallet tables, views and everything. I had salad with kohlrabi, strawberry-orange lemonade and spelt pancake. Lunch companion had beans (sorry, can't remember more precisely), watermelon-mint lemonade, pancake and tulsi tea. Google tulsi.

Only negative things I can come up with was that I didn't see a dog meandering around at the establisment. There should be a dog!

After lunch relocate your towel to the other side of the pond, the one you need to pay. Take another nap. Swim, eat liquorice, nap, count the clouds... Repeat this until it starts to rain sometime in the afternoon. Retreat just before the thunderstorm. Lie doggo in the metro tunnels until the rain ceases. Go home, be happy.

Raw food and forest at Krymska street

Yesterday conquered the hip ulice Krymska. Raw food at Plevel was good and filling enough for me (the carnivore had to have some fast food later in the evening). Only problem with raw food is my nut allergy as nuts are widely used. At Plevel they omitted the nuts from my dish, but there was only one dish I could have as the others had nuts too fundamentally as basic ingredient. All in all the raw food menu was short, there was also interesting vegan menu which can be tried some other time.

After pizza, spaghetti made of zucchini, apple strudel and weird potato drink that tasted like army or coffee being stored over winter at moist summer cottage, we mooched along Krymska to V Lese (=in the forest) which was a very comfy bar indeed. They have gigs at the basement and the ambience is really cozy. On the way home we found several pieces of furniture from the street, some of them designer stuff, so it was a very productive evening!

Kitchen shots

How luxurious it feels to have a kitchen curtain! Never you mind it is an IKEA sheet on the wall, still it swings gently in the evening breeze. As for today's confession, apparently I'm not very handy screwing things and installing curtain rods. My thumb gets hurt, I get sweaty, angry, thirsty and make a lot of unnecessary holes in the wall.

The Kitchen is eventually going to be an Industrial one. Chrome, black, gray, white, glass, metal and a hint of turquoise (refuse to call it mint green) like on the lower photo. It is going to be Über-cool, you just wait and see.

Tomorrow I'm becoming truly böurgeöis, I'm going to have a roller blind. And cake, not as they are of any consequence.

Welcome to my boudoir

This is the beginning of interior design pics. Until now there hasn't been much to depict, unless empty rooms, temporary solutions and cardboard boxes are hip for someone. Some progress, finally.

The canopy a.k.a mosquito net above the bed is something I've dreamt of since little girl, and mostly only when being a little girl. But now that the canopy is here, it looks relevant to the atmosphere of the flat. It can serve as gazebo, too. Or retreat spot, or invisibility cloak. Of course it could provide some shelter from mosquitos as well. Not that there are any.

As a bonus, I reveal a sentence I've never said but always wanted to say, preferably in a posh british upperclass accent: Darling, shall we have the afternoon tea at gazebo? Now I'm half through making it real.

Mám otevreno - Olemme avoinna -gallerioiden ilta | We're open -gallery night at P7

Praha 7 on artsy! 18 taidegalleriaa osallistui eiliseen Olemme avoinna – tapahtumaan, kaikki pitivät ovensa avoimina ainakin iltakymppiin. Kävin katsomassa 9 (!) eli puolet, osassa vain piipahdin tsekkaamassa enemmänkin fasiliteetteja ja tiloja kuin itse töitä. Eikä kaikki ollut niin järin kiinnostavaakaan.

Kiva taiteen, kultturin ja designin keskittymä on siinnyt Vltavskan metroaseman kupeessa olevaan ORCO-rakennukseen kulttuurikeskuksen yhteyteen. Entiseen vähän räjähtäneeseen toimistohalliin on syntynyt jos jonkinlaista näyttelyätilaa ja pienyritystä. Rakennus on purkulistalla parin vuoden sisällä, joten valitettavasti gallerioiden toiminta ei ole pysyvää, ainakaan tuolla paikalla. Pliis, pliis eihän tilalle ole oikeasti tulossa havainnekuvan rakennuksia.

 

B1-galleriassa näytteillä oli huonekalu- ja valaisindesignia ja myytävänä kaikkea kivaa ja ei edes niin kovin kallista. Jospa hankkisikin kaikki huonekalut uniikkeina kappaleina?

On ihanaa tietää asuvansa kaupunginosassa jossa kihisee ja sykkii kulttuuri. Suorastaan lohdullista! Kotimatkalla vielä rähjäisen talon seinään kiinnitetyissä liitutauluissa syvällisiä ja arkipäiväisempiä sloganeita.

 

Prague 7 is really artsy! Spent a diligent evening visiting 9 galleries out of 18 that kept their doors open till late on a galley evening. Some weird stuff, boring stuff, some very nice stuff and some ideas for doing stuff myself. Especially I liked the young designers exhibition, furniture, lamps and interesting things to buy on a

reasonable price.

It's so cool to know that there's art, culture and design blooming in my neighborhood. On may way home spotted some slogans on a chalkboard attached to very run down house wall.

EUR kuormalavat | Pallets

Sisustussuunnittelun toteuttaminen on viivästynyt, mutta ideoita kerään koko ajan. Viikko sitten kävin puutarha- ja huonekalumessuilla Prahassa. 85% esillä olevista esineistä ei kolahtanut lainkaan, aiheutti naurunpyrskähdyksiä tai inhon väristyksiä, mutta oli siellä kivojakin asioita esillä. Nyt Bolognassa aion käyttää vapaapäiväni ikkunaostoksia tehden ja sisustusliikkeiden valikoimaa selaillen. Alla kuvia kuormalavoista ennen ja jälkeen, se kun nyt vaan on niin trendikäs materiaali.

Gathering ideas. Pallet photos before/after from Prague interior design fair and Bologna, Italy. Pallets just are so now.  

Interior design

Downshiftausyritykseni on opettanut minulle seuraavaa: joogamatolla nukkumisen jälkeen peruspatja tuntuu niin hyvältä että melkein itkettää. Tuoli on aivan aliarvostettu kodin esine, myös paikka tai taso johon laskea esineitä on hyvin kätevä. Toki minulla on neliökaupalla lattiaa johon laskea esineitä, mutta se ei tunnu samalta. Tuoliosastolla on luvassa parannus, viikonlopuksi DIY-puuhaa näiden roskalavalta löydettyjen jakkaroiden kanssa.

Ja enpä olisi vielä joku aika sitten uskonut lisääväni tageihin sisustuksen!

Definitely have learned something during these past days of downshifting. After sleeping on a yoga mat a basic mattrass feels SO luxurious. Also chairs, the handy and conveient pieces of furniture are much too underrated. Ode to chairs! Not that I'm chairless anymore. These two found stools are waiting for sandpaper, glue and paint.