Accessory organization in a girl's room

I wanted to find or create a place where I can store my daughter's accessories - her clips, her grips, her ponies, her sunglasses and her all sorts of jewellery. 

It was last year when I saw a cage form jewellery holder in the Pottery Barn Kids catalogue and I knew that this was what I wanted. Luckily, I didn't have to order it from US because I have found the same product at Maisons du Monde, here in Luxembourg. It had creamy white colour with a bird on it. I bought it immediately.

I hang all the jewellery on the hooks. Moreover, I could also hang the billions of clips on, as I put them into little organza bags separated them by colours.  

Christmas decoration on mantelpiece 2.

I redecorated the mantelpiece. As Saint Nicholas/Saint Nicolas/Mikulás has already visited us during the night of 5th December and as he has already filled our stockings with presents,  I decided to put the stockings away. Anyway, the mantelpiece was a little bit crowded like that. Don’t mistake me, there’s nothing wrong with that if there are no other Christmas decorations in the living room. But now we have Advent wreath and the Christmas tree is coming soon, so I thought it quite exaggerated which was around the fireplace.  

It was like this:

Later, it was like this:

And now, it's like that:

Fake fireplace

It’s two years now that we moved to our new apartment in Luxembourg. We have been living here since 2004 and at the beginning (for many years) we have been just tenants here, in Luxembourg. But I (more than my husband) longed to be  an owner. I longed to have our own flat where I can do whatever I want. And here we are, in our own property.

When we bought this flat, it had a fake plaster fireplace installed in the living room. We had plenty plans about the flat and in this plans the fireplace didn’t play any role. Moreover, it was just an obstacle.

When we moved in

But until our plans was not developped well we started to use the fireplace. I put some decoration on the mantel, and I asked my husband to fix the antique mirror above it and I placed a hand-woven basket under for the magazines.

And one morning in December when I took my child to school, she mentioned me that how great it was that on the roof of our new house there were chimneys. I told her yes, that’s true, but where we lived before there were chimneys on the roof too. And she replied immediately: “Yes, but here we got a fireplace as well! And you know mum, when Santa visits us, he will plop right into the magazines!” 

When I organized a birthday party for Eszter

In that very moment I decided to safe the fake fireplace. And by now I became fond of this piece. I recognized what an ideal place it is to decorate. Sometimes this is the only tidy place where there are no toys or other inappropriate objects in the living room. This is an island of the peace, a home altar :-)

Autumn decoration in 2011

I enjoy decorating it from season to season. And I discovered many home decoration stores, which sold fake fireplaces in many designs and in many materials (wood, plaster, etc.). If the illusion of a fireplace is enough for you, you just have to go to a home decorating store and buy one. And you don't need a flue. Here I would like to show you some options.

Maison du Monde Atelier

Maison du Monde Newport

Orac

Wall-mounted pencil holder

I tell you frankly, that I got this idea from the IKEA but I didn't like their design in this case. Anyway, their conception is space saving and practical. You can see this in the IKEA 2012 catalogue for example. And I wanted to use this but in another form. 

Photo from the IKEA catalogue

So I have been looking for a wall-mounted pot holder at least for three pots in one. It was not easy. I couldn't find it in Cannes (France) during our holiday. When we returned I was searching on the internet and in the shops simultaneously. Of course, I found more on Ebay but the sellers didn't want them to ship here. At the end when I almost quit I turned into the Robin du Lac, a home decoration store and there was it, my dream pot holder from cast iron.

Esschert Design

Now there was only one problem with this, it was dark brown, which doesn't suit to a girl's room, which supposed to be light and delicate. Thus I planned to paint it over cream colour. It's perfect, isn't it? But maybe... I will change the pots later.

My other blogpost on this subject:

The desk area

The desk area

This year my daughter, Eszter started the school. Hence I had to transform her room because of the new demands. We got rid of the little IKEA Leksvik children’s table and the IKEA Diktad chest of drawers with bookshelves (ex-changing table). We bought a nice desk in their place.

The room got a new colour. I painted white colours over the original colour of all the remaining furniture: the new desk, the bookcase and the bed (the latter I will tell more in an other blogpost).

The new desk what I found in one of my favourite home decorating and furniture stores, in the Maison du Monde, I had to alter profoundly. Since the desk was made for boys. It had a khaki colour and it was decorated with lots of blue stars and numbers. I would like to note here, that I had information of the stars and the numbers only and not the khaki colour because on the website picture of Maison du Monde the desk seemed ivory. And moreover, it had a keyboard tray too what I had to remove.

The desk on the picture of Maison du Monde

But to tell the truth, despite of all, it was the most perfect one of all the desks (for form and for size) what I saw. So, instead of being indignant I painted cream colour over it.

We were thinking a lot about the office chairs but in the end we chose the Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair. Because it was important that Eszter reaches the desk comfortably and she can properly support her feet on the footrest. Only in this position we can expect a good job from her. We thought about a desk with adjustable legs, so we looked the Flexa and other companies offers but I didn’t like any of them. For us the adjustable chair was a better idea.