A Charming Bedroom with a Romantic Touch

I love this bedroom which is apparently an old farmhouse makeover. Not imitated but real old wooden beams - unpainted!- give this room a very romantic feel without the typical flowery embellishments and things like that.

I also like the original painting on the wall which may have been someone else's heirloom and adds the same feeling as the aged beams overhead. Hanging it without frame perfectly fits into the setting in this room, keeping everything as simple as possible. It looks as if you could find exactly the same landscape outside of the window.

In order to add some more cheery feeling to this room I would suggest an alternative to the original painting such as this one, an acrylic work from the Reminiscences series. The series portrays the aged leftovers of planted walls and windows of the old Olympic student village in Munich short before they were demolished.

 original image source and with courtesy of 

http://www.livingetc.com

Below is the photo with the original painting:

This acrylic painting is called Blue Door and was painted on cotton.

"Blue Door"
(from the Reminiscences series)

26" x 18", acrylic

©Petra Voegtle

If you like to know more about the series and its paintings including other room examples  check this link.

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A cosy Girl's Bedroom in Pink and a Red Door

This is a bedroom for girls but why not adding a piece of fine art - just to fuel a bit the phantasies - not the worst purpose of fine art . "What is behind the door"? Isn't this a question we are all asking when we see a closed door? Well - ready to make up a story around this... At least the originators of these doors and walls the painting has been inspired by are also still kids - more or less - students from University of Munich and their village.

image source House Beautiful

Unfortunately I did not receive permission to show you how this lovely room looks like with the painting which I fully understand. In my own world I would have placed the painting below between the 2 sconces. But I think you have enough imagination for seeing this possibility.

"Red Door"
(from the Reminiscences series)
26" x 18", acrylic
©Petra Voegtle

If you would like to know more about this painting Red Door please see this link. If you would like to see more paintings of this series please see here.

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LUCKY HOUSE: Mother Nature's Art

When I cycled through Munich these days on the hunt for the most beautiful blossoms and blooms I passed this house and immediately stopped, looked at this lovely cherry tree and thought: what a lucky house this must be with a tree such as this one in front of it...

Houses can have the most impressive or most beautiful interior with lots of precious art and decorative elements but nothing compares with the decorative jewels of Mother Nature. Everything becomes irrelevant with a view such as this:






I take this as an opportunity to refer you to my Blooms and Blossoms blog, which is exclusively (almost) dedicated to - who would have guessed - blooms and blossoms photography.

What's so special about this you may ask. The peculiarity about this blog is that all photos shown here have been shot since early 2006, during many walks and cycling through the cities of Munich and my hometown Freiburg and countryside only. No exotic city involved, no parks, no botanical gardens, but only very "ordinary" neighbours' gardens or fields within a range of a few miles.

I must admit that I was amazed about the beauties you could find in those sometimes tiny gardens. This was only possible by walking or cycling through the narrow streets. It is not possible to discover all this by car. So if you are living in a residential area and you think there is nothing to discover you might be surprised. Just give it a try even if it does not look promising at first sight... And this applies not only to neighbours' gardens but to nearly anything.