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Window Dressing

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When I moved into my new home I had thought out the way I wanted each room to look in quite a lot of detail. I know what colors I wanted the walls to be, what I wanted the floors to look like and where I wanted to place my furniture.

There were a few rooms though where I had no idea what kind of curtains I wanted to put up. One of these rooms was the bedroom. For several weeks, I slept with bin bags covering the windows to keep the excess light out in the morning.
The came up with a solution after a visit to the Van Gogh museum. I really like art and paintings, especially impressionists and one of my favorite paintings is “The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer”.
I could have bought a poster, or a replica, but I decided to get the painting printed on a roller blind.
As my bedroom has three windows I also needed something to cover the other two windows and I decided to go with “Cliff walk at Pourville” from Monet and “Girl at a Window” from Dali.

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In the kitchen and the guest room I decided to go with photo’s instead of paintings. I really like the result as the images come to live with the light behind them. I chose to use blinds that do not black out the light completely. Of course, that is an acquired taste, especially for the bedroom, but it would also look good on blackout blinds.


I ordered mine on a Dutch website Nikkel-Art.nl. The roller blinds are a lot cheaper than a regular curtain, so if I ever get tired of them I can always order new ones with different images on them.

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About five years ago, I did a 30-day abs challenge. I was somehow able to stay motivated, and it worked like a charm; after 30 days, I had great abs and a flat stomach. It made me feel very good about myself.

For the past couple of months, I have been thinking about doing it again, but I have not been able to find the motivation to really get into it. I have irritable bowel syndrome and that demotivated me in two ways:

The likeliness of a several days of stomach ache and the risk that I would only be able to see my pretty, tight belly in the morning crushed my motivation for 30 days of investing time and sore muscles. And doing leg raises, I really don’t like leg raises.

It’s funny how these things go though. On the bank holiday on Thursday the weather was great and I went to the beach with a friend. It was a lovely day and we had drinks and lunch at a beach club.
At the same beach club a group of young ladies was hanging around, drinking cocktails. They were wearing bikinis and they had beautiful flat bellies, not unlike what mine looked like after doing 30 days of abs. Not crazy muscular, but just right.

They were at least 15 years younger, but they made me realize that I want my belly to look like that again. They were the inspiration that I needed to get serious about getting my abs back again. So for the next 30 days I will be going to bed just a little bit later, as I will be doing abs 😊

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If you are tired of your old tiles, or you bought a house and you don’t share the previous owners’ taste in tiles, there is a non-intrusive, quick and not too expensive solution.

You can print any image that you do like on aluminium. You could print multiple the same images, but you of course also create a collection of different images that appeal to you.

When I moved into my new house, I didn’t fancy the red flowery tiles in the toilet, but I also didn’t feel like spending a lot of time and money on the toilet to start with.

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I looked for images and quotes that I liked on the internet and had several different ones printed at the size of the tiles.  To complete the playful look I opted for a toilet seat with sneaker print.
A quick and easy update with a big impact!

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