workspace wednesday

In case you didn't notice yet, i love having a home workspace. It just feels luxurious.

So nice to have a spot where I can hang inspirational photos, art and prints.

Browse my endless piles of design and interior magazines and besides when i’m in my atelier I’m getting things done!

The advantage is that now everything has a place and I can finally find my stuff.
Since I have 'moved in' in what used to be Pippa's room, the rest of the house is considerably tidier, even though things keep popping up in the rest of the house anyway.

I stopped a while ago making recycled wooden stools with crochet covers, which I started making in 2007. This explains the name WOODWOOLSTOOL. Well, the wool-part will stick for a while and the weird name remains unchanged.

After many years (and countless stools) I was ready for something new. Organizing and preparing the workshops in Marrakech also meant that I did not have time for it anymore.

Obviously I keep making things, I could not do otherwise. I get a lot of energy and simply love to create something new.

I recently made covers with Moroccan wool for some vintage steel stools. I instantly fell in love with the 'Carribean blue' frame and design, however the brown plastic seat, could use a makeover.

One of the stools is available in my Etsy shop, as well as the reversible herringbone-chevron pillow.

Now I'm back to work and wish you all a pleasant Wednesday!

summer finds

Summer finds.

Some new items in da house. Souvenirs for our 'casa'.

On the wall, next to the new library table*, a colorful crab and lobster creel, seems almost like crochet, don't you think?

On the other wall a poster from the art book Nus Vestidos (Not So Nude). we found in the most beautiful bookshop Ler Devagar at the LX Factory in Lisbon.
The drawing was made with only a blue, green and red Bic cristal ballpoint.

The drawing is inspired on La Grande Odalisque, the painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres from 1814 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
We also bought the small art book Nus Vestidos with a collection of drawings of thirteen well-known masterpieces.

* on the desk in the living room, the art-, interior and 'green' books and interior magazines are piled up now. Since I hardly ever work at my desk in the living room, but at the kitchen table.

publication vt wonen

photography by Holly Marder

You can find our home in the newest issue of VT Wonen Binnenkijken and also have a [peek inside] on their website.
Earlier this year Holly Marder came over to Dordrecht to shoot a home tour at our place.

Our home is featured in VT Wonen Home Tour issue december 2015.

"The world in one house. The house of Ingrid and Henk is not easy to fit in one category. Moroccan rugs and accessories, old and vintage tables stand next to souvenirs from France and design classics."

publication sweet living magazin - froh & munter

Housetour shot by Holly Marder of Avenuelifstyle.
Publication in German interior magazine Sweet Living Magazin, issue 4 - 2015.

Froh & munter - happy & cheerful.

'Wir bringen von überall, wo wir waren etwas mit, verrät Ingrid. Kein Urlaub oder Kurztrip ohne Interieur im Handgepack.' - 'We bring something with us, from wherever we were, reveals Ingrid. No holidays or short trip without interior in hand luggage.

cover star

What a cool cover publication on Ireland's best-selling interior magazine House and Home!

Cover Star

'Ingrid Jansen is the Dutch designer whose sitting room graces the cover of this issue of House and Home. Inspired to create a cover for a seat she fashioned with legs of scrap wood, her blog WOODWOOLSTOOL (woodwoolstool.blogspot.com) was born in 2009 and just proves that crochet has been having a major revival. Beautiful photography and interesting DIY ideas are bursting at this blog seams. By now, extremely talented in the art of crochet, her wool covered stools, along with a selection of rugs and throws are available on her Etsy shop WOODWOOLSTOOL etsy.com/shop/woodwoolstool'

Would you like to win an issue of the House and Home magazine?

Please tell me your favorite interior magazine and I will pick a winner of this give away next Sunday!

publication home & garden

Recently I was contacted by creative editor Mirjam Roskamp for a portrait in the renewed Home & Garden magazine.

Chief editor Makkie Mulder has made a beautiful fresh magazine with her team. As she puts it; 'a fresh Home & Garden. Thicker, different paper, richer filled. A treat for all your senses.'

The portrait is about my work as a 'flower girl' at Villa Augustus and together with Saskia de Valk (Vlinder & Vogel) and Anton van Duijn (Bloomon), we were interviewed by Liddie Austin and photographed by Tjitske van Leeuwen.

The renewed Home & Garden is a verdurous magazine packed with lots of 'green' inspiration. Love it!

hold on to the wood

When we moved here 12 years ago, we replaced our boring banister by a tree trunk from the woods.

After all these years we still walk the stairway along the wood!

This idea is now published in the Dutch interior magazine Ariadne at Home issue April 2015.

the dots

○ The Dots Post and in the background the colored dots on the wall.

○ A part of the lemon rug, hanging on the wall in our living.

○ My favorite mirror in the house, it's getting prettier every day...

○ The Dots (bonus magazine) at the back of the April/May issue of Elle Decoration NL.
(with a report of the beautiful home [urban oasis] of my friend Anke in Marrakech - from page 144)

'dutch' editions de paris

'dutch' editions de paris, originally uploaded by wood & wool stool.

Nederland, mijn interieur (Netherlands, my interior) is the newest edition of the Japanese interior book Editions de Paris.

The book contains twelve 'handmade' interiors in the Netherlands, including ours and some interior design shops and fine places.

The Japanese texts are indecipherable for me, but the photos and layout are a feast for the eyes and do compensate entirely, thanks to the creators Masami, Miho and Naomi.

post from lithuania

publication geros idejos, originally uploaded by wood & wool stool.

Today there was an envelope in the mail from Lithuania. My work has been published in the creative interior magazine Geros Idejos. Some months ago the editor Giedré asked me whether she could publish my work. In the list of unreadable publications it's a nice and colorful addition. Something to be proud of.

But what made me really proud today was Minne's report in the newspaper. Minne has applied as a freelance reporter and yesterday, his first assignment from the AD sports editor, was to report a football match. The funny thing is, he still has his other job and had to deliver his own news in his paper round this morning.

I've never had so much fun reading a football report.

impressed

impressed, originally uploaded by wood & wool stool.

During our first joint garden sale, Yvonne and I have exchanged quite a lot of stuff (we're like little children), including a red plastic plate rack. I still haven't found a suitable place in my kitchen and tried if it could serve perhaps as a magazine rack.

I grabbed the stack interior magazines, where my work was featured in and created a wood & wool stool publication rack.