NEW STORAGE

So what you do with  a messy storage like this... in the small room, when I opened the wardrobe the doors took all the space at the end of the bed. So to get rid of this messy and not so nice looking storage... I started by taking of the doors...

...We also got a garage now were we can store all the paint pots and skiing equipment...

              ...and it became like this after taking of all the shelving as well...

After few hours of painting, stencilling, cutting some shelves in half, getting storage boxes and setting up all, the wardrobe looks like this and the room feels bigger...

UNIKKO BY MARIMEKKO

Because my panel curtains have that Marimekko's Unikko flower pattern, I wanted  to have similar pattern on my window. I had few transparent plastic sheets so I copied 3 flowers of the curtain on to the sheet and I made a second sheet with different flowers, so that my window could have at least 6 different flower patterns. Here is a sample of my one stencil that I have used. I wanted to keep the flowers middle part free from paint. To keep a piece of plastic in the middle I had to cut my stencil in the way that the flower petals were cutted in 3 different parts, thats why there is a small differences with the stencil flowers and the original Marimekko Unikko Flowers.

PAINTING ON THE WINDOW

Ok I must say this wasn't the safest way to climb up so high, I had a higher ladder too but I could not put it up against the window, so this was my only option or rent a huge scaffolding. To paint my flowers I used normal acrylic water based wall paint and a sponge. To stick the stencil on the window I just used the masking tape, it comes easily of and don't leave sticky marks on the window. The middle part of the flower has been painted with silver metal paint. And as you can see in one of the photos when the sun shines through the window, it will give nice shades on my walls... In case you make a mistake with your paint, let it dry first and then scrape it of with the help of sharp metal scraper, same thing if one day you want to get your paint of from your window...

FLOWER POWER ON THE WINDOW

As I earlier posted some photos of my living room, I promised to show how to paint on window by using a stencil. I have done lots of stenciling. This was the first time that I did on the glass surface. Stencils are easy to find, most of the hardware and art stores sell them. When you type "stencil" on Google you can find plenty websites that have free access to download stencils and also some sites explains very well each step to take to have a good results with your stencils.

MARIMEKKO

In the living room we have very high sliding door windows and on the top of that a triangular window that brings lots a light in. I have made the panel curtains with Marimekko's Unikko fabric and with some plain black cotton fabric. The panels are 60cm wide each and to hang them up I bought the special panel curtain rails from Ikea. The rails also exist for 45cm wide panel curtains. On the triangular window I have stencilled flowers which gives a nice shadow on the wall when the sun shines through them. I will later show you how to paint the flowers on the window...