Take away at Bakkerswinkel

The interior of the take away shop of the Bakkerswinkel in Amsterdam (Warmoestraat) is as cosy as the other shops. The counter is made of scrapwood designed by Piet Hein Eek, what I still like after all these years. I like the open raw wooden cupboards they painted i a high gloss grey hue, great (last picture)! Love their pies a lot, especially the cheese cake and carrot cake mmmmmmmm.

Photography by Rosa van den Kerkhof

Today I ♥

This autumn Heal's is celebrating scandinavian design. They used a lot of the lovely products of Ferm living to decorate this room. Makes me happy!

Source Ferm Living Blog

Let's make a pitstop in La Belgique

Recently I designed a shop of a petrol station, our concept was to make it a family kitchen. I will show you the drawings later. This weekend I was reorganizing a lot of magazines and articles when I found an article about this petrol station in Belgium, called Roodstop. It opened years ago and was definitely ahead of it's time. It is still very different from the average and it looks inviting to me. Of course I love the concrete flooring and industrial style. They serve Illy coffee and pepper soup, need I say more?

 

Photography Kristien Daem

Southern comfort

During my search for a nice hotel in Antwerp for a weekend trip I found Hotel Julien. What a great place to stay with all these design classics in a classic environment. Love the patio with the black steel window frames like I used in my design (see my post) for our apartment in our design contest of Kavel 12 (you can still vote for us here)

(source Hotel Julien & Vitra)

Colour hunting

I was immediately fascinated by the subtitle of the book "How colour influences what we buy, make and feel" and this sentece of the advertisment at framemag.com "This book takes us on a colourful journey, hunting out and broadening our horizons into the immense potential of colour. With an appreciation of every nuance, tone, tint and shade, the possibilities are truly infinite." 
I can really recommend this book, it's true inspiration! The book contains beautiful quotes from great artists, a lot of beautiful pictures and interviews with well known professionals like Claudy Jongstra, Piet Oudolf and Scholten & Baijings. Fore more info check this link

 Pictures from the book Colour hunting

source framemag.com

My new home office

In Septembre I will start my own freelance business in interior design and I'm very busy with my business plan and stuff like that. Very exciting! In the beginning I will work from home so I have to create a bigger space where I can work and store my stuff. I would like to create a big floating worktable, something like the picture in my mood board, but unfortunately that's not possible because of the fireplace as you can see at the picture of my home office as it is at the moment. I will solve this problem by using a drawer from IKEA at one side, that will support the table top.

Moodboard for my new home office

(source danellebourgeois.com, Ahrend.com, picture via Reform, Ikea.com, picture via hus&hem)

My home office at the moment

Photography Rosa van den Kerkhof

A day at the beach

Photography by Rosa van den Kerkhof

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source Apartmenttherapy

A walk trough Amsterdam

I just walked to the Vlaamsch Broodhuys, my favourite bakery, during my lunch break to get nice bread for a picnic with my friends this evening. It's finally sunny and it's so beautiful outside. I feel very lucky to live in this area (Jordaan) It completely cheered me up, can you imagine?

© Rosa van den Kerkhof

Vote for our design

Recently my boyfriend and I joined a design contest here in Amsterdam. The assignment was to design an apartment with the intention of actually buying or renting it later. So we designed our dream apartment with a studio that we can afford at this point in our life. If you like you can help us by voting here and click on the most right star. Thank you very much and I'll keep you posted.

Here you can see the design & story below (in dutch)

© Dirk van den Wijngaard & Rosa van den Kerkhof

Today I ♥

I like this interior especially because of the leather sofa combined with the light grey turquoise wall.

photography by Simon Watson