Take an apartment with glorious architectural details, throw in some amazing graphic tile floors and place it in the heart of Barcelona and I’ll be wishing it were mine. This beauty is the work of Luzio (more work seen here and here).  

Flow Works, based in Amsterdam, overhauls homes and makes them functional and beautiful. I love that they aren’t all about slapping drywall over crumbling brick and support beams. Old mixed with new is how they roll. 

I found another apartment for sale on Lagerlings that I had to share. This one is spunky and fun in a fairly small footprint (63 m²). It consists of basically 2 rooms – a combined kitchen/dining room/living room and a bedroom. Some photography framed and hung along with a gallery wall add some drama to the walls and the floor to ceiling shelving in the dining room is a great storage solution and also adds some architectural interest to the space. A glamorous bedroom with stripes, satin curtains and faux fur round off the drama. (And I’m guessing the homeowner found a really awesome sale on Kartell Bourgie lamps).

This is what happens when I try to delay starting the painting of 22 door panels (the last of the mahogany crap varnish) – I decide blog research is more important and I come across this absolute beauty of an apartment in for sale in Östermalm, Stockholm via Lagerlings. 247m² of classic and modern goodness with a plethora of plants as the icing on the cake. This home speaks to me on so many levels. I am in love and going to dream about this all weekend (while I melt – Ottawa is supposed to be around 40C! Jo isn’t the only one experiencing abnormally high temperatures.)

This post is for the folks who have commented lately that we’ve been too many posting been-there-done-that, white houses lately. This house has accents of turquoise/mint green in almost every room and I absolutely love it. Fresh and fun and paired with some red and black it is HOT. Thank you Nest Architects for showing us how to do colour.