breipatroon restjes spencer

Nieuw seizoen, nieuw breipatroon!

Van restjes garen van voorgaande brei- en haakprojecten, maakte ik eerder deze maand een gebreide spencer. Het leuke is dat je op deze manier de kleine restjes opgebruikt en dat er hierdoor een heel verrassend effect ontstaat. Alles kan!

Inmiddels heb ik er een breipatroon van gemaakt in het Nederlands. De Engelse vertaling volgt binnenkort.

Heb je zin om ook een spencer te breien met ongebruikt garen? Je kunt het breipatroon (met eenvoudig te volgen beschrijving en veel foto's) downloaden in mijn ESTY SHOP of bestellen via een e-mail naar info@woodwoolstool.com

ever-changing interior

Noverber 2023

Same furniture, different setup.

The 'oversized' plants needed more space & daylight. Previously this year, We adopted a 'sad Strelitzia' from Minne. The plant completely recovered in our backyard this summer and had grown to a large size. Now that it's getting colder the houseplant has to go inside. The 'green invasion' called for change.

So we moved my desk in front of the window and 'borrowed' an old table from another corner to create a cozy nook with the tulip chairs.

Everything has been reused, nothing new, but a completely different vibe. We are more than satisfied with the new autumn/winter living room. And luckily we both like moving things around.

a fresh summer suite

In March 2020 we moved from our cosy attic room to Minne's old room.

We made a paneled wall and painted it Moroccan pink and it turned out gorgeous.
After a few years some of the wooden parts of the wall came loose and then (preferably) fell down at night. First we glued the parts back to the wall with mounting kit or double-sided adhesive tape. But over time, we had to fix so many panels and it didn't look so smooth anymore and after our holidays we decided to tear it down completely.

I smoothed the walls and painted it white a few times, Well the result was neat but boring, so we were looking for a cool bed head, but couldn't really find something suitable. Finally we decided to get the blue & white wooden beach house panels from the attic again. Nonetheless the fresly painted white walls in the room needed more to make it fresh and cozy again.

Different bedside tables with a bit more body? So we shopped in our own stock and with tables from the garden and studio we both got ourselves a 'new' bedside table.

Solely with a big pot of good paint, a new poster and a new bedside lamp, we turned our room into a fresh summer suite!

february favorites

February favorites 2023

New table lamp made from a vintage glass bottle and a 30 year old lampshade.

Brunch under bloem at the kitchen table with a colorfully set table.

Sun is coming out more and more often...

vintage furniture on sale

For sale on Marktplaats.

A green wooden Scandinavian chair and a Rohe rattan chair.

Two vintage chairs that we no longer use, however are very worthwhile to be reused.

sunglasses archive

With the purchase of two new sunglasses this season, my 'mini sunglasses suitcase' was completely packed and they didn't fit in anymore.

A vintage rotatable spectacle rack would be a good solution for the expanding collection, so I went looking for it, yet without result.

Then suddenly I realized that we still have a vintage postcard rack in the attic, I found 3 of them in a bulky waste container years ago.

The frames fit exactly into the 'landscape postcard' side of the rack. I love these creative solutions, re-using what you already have.

13 sunglasses, it may seem like a lot, however collected over the years. A new one every year, sometimes two ;-) and prescription sunglasses have been added.

Summer ain't over yet!

the prototype

The very first wood & wool stool dressed up in a new summer outfit.

This stool I made years ago and it is not for sale, it's the prototype of the wood & wool stool, made with a piece of driftwood I once found on the beach in Greece.

The bright blue is my favorite blue, actually it's the same as our bedhead, made from two beach cabin doors.

Love to re-use old pieces of wood!