Real Homes I - Poorni, KG and Adi's house

This post has been pending for the longest time ever! I know! Without further delay presenting to you *Drumroll please* - the first home in the Real Homes series, which belongs to Poorni, KG and their son Adi.
Lets start with a tour of the house and then I will tell you about the owners :)

For me, these first two pictures sum up their home, they are the essence, the soul of their home.  These pictures are a preview of what the owners love!

Poorni is learning to play a guitar. Music, books, collectibles, eclectic stuff, mixed furniture, it all finds a place in their home and makes it warm and inviting. 

Both Poorni and KG are book lovers and yes they pick up books even if they have lots in the to-be-read list. I do that too, do you?

One of the many things I love about their home is the lived-in, casual feeling one gets as you walk in.

Those are tiny paper lights strung around the bigger hanging lamp and they look oh so pretty when lit up!

The Dhalls are a travel loving family and their trips all over the world have resulted in a lovely collection of artifacts displayed all over the house.

Ladies and Gentlemen presenting to you the Starbucks coffee mug collection :) 

This lamp was picked up from Delhi on a trip to source lights for their current house when the interiors were being done. 

Wall art picked from Purple Turtles, Indiranagar. The art is by Aarti Karwayun Chawda of ispaceart. 

Very soothing and long lasting natural fiber blinds from BlindLove, Indiranagar.

Their house has soothing colours, mostly neutrals or earthy colours like this brick wall here. 

Art and various art forms can be seen throughout the house, like the aboriginal art from Australia above. 

The blend of the traditional with the modern, you think?? Love the antique finish mirror, again from Purple Turtles. The fridge magnets are souvenirs picked from everywhere they have been. 

The love for music has passed on to Adi, who is learning to play the drums. 

Poorni is an ex IT professional. She loves to travel, read, try new things and explore the world, one bit at a time! She is also a photographer and does assignments professionally. Check her photography page here. She is the owner/creator of Beantree, which uses natural and locally sourced ingredients to produce food free from preservatives and additives. Their lovely, finger licking hummus is available in multiple stores. My personal favourite is the lemon coriander hummus. 

KG apart from his corporate world/IT career which takes him around the world more than often, loves to read and run. He is now preparing for his first 50K run. 

Let me know if you would like to know anything about the things featured in the post - what, from where, et all. I shall ask the owners and let you know. 

Happy Friday and hope you all have a lovely weekend!!

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Home Sweet Home: Kitchen Tour

Hello dear readers! :) It's been a while since my last home tour blog post and I thought it was time to share some new photos. :) I recently added some new pieces of kitchen ware and decor to our kitchen and used this opportunity to clean everything and to take new photos. ;) So here's how our kitchen currently looks like! :)
All the red and white apple kitchen textiles are handmade by me.
Before we moved into this apartment, I found this old vintage hook on DaWanda.
 I like displaying colorful cups and glasses so that they are also used as decorative elements.
This is my favorite part of out kitchen, my 50s vintage kitchen cabinet that I once found online and restored and painted myself. :)
Behind the small door, there's a small storeroom, super practical.

I love the cute apple tin cans which I recently found at Tiger, they perfectly match all the other colors and items in our kitchen. The cute blue owl egg timer is one of my favorite kitchen accessories.

I like how bright this room is and I love the high ceiling and my mama's pretty kitchen lamp.
The sink is handmade: our friends who have been living here before we moved in build its base, Flo and I then bought a wooden plate and the sink, he installed everything and I sewed the curtains.
On top of our kitchen cabinet, there's my collection of vintage tea pots, cake stands, (handmade) etageres, my picnic basket and our carafes for delicious homemade drinks.
The kitchen table has originally come from IKEA, it was a set with four brown chairs. I once painted the table turquise and replaced two of the chairs with white vintage chairs which my mother bought for us from an antique dealer .
The colorful fabric bunting and the paper flowers are handmade, too. :)
Like everywhere in our home, our kitchen is mainly white, but with lots of colorful stuff. The furniture is a mixture of vintage, second hand and IKEA and I totally love that look! :)

What do you like best about my kitchen? And what's your favorite piece in your own kitchen?
Happy day!
Lu

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Our Balcony This Summer.

Hello! :) Remember our balcony this spring after I had just started planting everything after winter or do you remember all the balcony photos from last year? :)
During the past few months, everything has been growing like crazy! One part were tiny plants which we either bought or got from my mother, the other part included flowers I have grown myself. :) I'm super proud of this pretty oasis and I always enjoy how colorful it's outside my bedroom!
Mhhh, so delicious! Back in spring, my mother has sent me six different kind of tomato plants and it was lots of fun watching them grow and comparing the taste and look of all of them. Some are tiny and red, some others are big, shaped like a pea and others are super sweet. And all of them are organic.
The cute little bird's house I got from Flo as a birthday present two years ago. :) And of course soap bubbles can't be missing!
Do you sea the white plant sideboad? I found it on the street last year just after someone had thrown it away. One person's trash is another person's treasure! :)
We have lots of different kinds of herbs like oregano, rosemary, thyme, majoram and shives. Some are homegrown, some have already been tiny organic plants when I bought them.
Tiny pops of color everywhere you look: colorful flower pots, tiny paper umbrellas, flowers, felt pinwheels and paper straws.

I love this sight so much! The pillows are handmade, here is the pillow case sewing DIY.
Do you see the sunflowers? They were all grown by me with tiny sunflower seeds, eeeks!

Oh, how much I love this place! Those photos have already been taken more than a month ago (I just didn't find the time to blog them, yet), so in the meantime, the sunflowers and other plants have even been growing bigger! :)
Do you have an own oasis, too? :)
Lu

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Bits and Pieces of our Home.

Hello! :) Today I've got some tiny bits and pieces of my home for you. :) Since I often change details and add some new pops of color, our home - especially my room - is changing constantly and there's always something pretty to look at, but see yourself! :)
A part of my jewellery collection including earrings, bracelets, rings and brooches.
One of the cutest handmade gifts I ever got: Anja made me a clothes pin with a kissing Flo and Lu, awww! :*
Home sweet home. My craft corner seen from the mirror and a sweating Mogli, poor guy!
Eeeeks, how cute is this? Dalmatian washi tape! Of course I had to buy it!! :) And as you might probably know, I love colors and here's my tiny collection of colorful (vintage) summer scarves.
On my sewing table: ribbons and zippers.
My pretty new book case laying on my bed, c/o Frau Fadenschein, one of my current blog sponsors. She invited me to choose a book cover with my favorite kind of fabric and then she sent me this pretty customized one. :) Perfect to hide an ugly book cover (I'm currently reading an educational book with an orange cover and strange typography), makes it look so pretty! If you want a 'book friend' yourself, just check out her DaWanda Shop, I bet she'd be happy to sew your dream case. :)
A wall in Flo's room / the living room with the cutest video game poster ever.
On our kitchen cabinet, my vintage tea pots and etageres.

I love our colorful kitchen! The bunting and the pompoms are handmade and my favorite thing is the kitchen table I once painted turquoise.
Is your home so colorful, too? :) What are your favorite details at home?
Happy day!
Lu

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