Ikea's good art

Everyone knows that designing a house and making it feel like a home takes many long and exhausting months, if not years.  So when I realized that I would only have two months to plan, design, execute, anticipate the smallest details and to think about what we might be needing in the future, I know that in order to not go insanely crazy, I had to rely on things that were not too expensive and too valuable but still good looking.  I don't know much about Sao Paulo yet, but I know that things tend to cost three times more.  So where did I go to for basic things? right!  Ikea.  I was planning to buy things such as a mattress for our little one, a foot step for his sink  and so on.  Imagine my surprise when walking around I found very good looking prints!  God, was I glad, there are an awful lot of empty walls in this house that will need to be filled. We got the top one by Deborah Azzopardi for Lucas's room, of which I will only tell you that it will have a bunch of stripes.  Yeah!

 The top is a motif by Amelia Lancaster.  Bellow, Ikea's selection of Matisse motifs.   We also got one or two of those.

Frederique Mechiche: One Bathroom Four Ways

Frederic Mechiche's bathroom in Paris has been featured in Elle Decor UK Interiors and most recently in Elle Decor US December issue.  And, no wonder why, with some changes and addition here and there this bathroom can transform into different personalities.  The grisaille wallpaper and the black and white checkered floor set the stage for the amazing copper, deep bathtub to be the focal point.  That's until Andy Warhol pop art comes in.  Of course my favorite of all the settings is exactly that one, where neoclassical architecture meets Pop Art.  My kind of thing.  Enjoy!

Frederic changed the art in each of the shots covering a niche above the tub.

Here, I'm a little bit scared to now what's inside that serious box in the niche.  

In this last shot featured in Elle Decor US he got rid of the niche and replaced the tub for a thinner one, in order to incorporate a marble column and an Urn with Greek key handles.  I also don't want to know what's in it.

Across from the bathtub, are the sinks with Empire looking cabinets.