Our wardrobe and its knobs

While waiting for Mattias to update the world about our bathroom-saga, I took my time to photograph our almost completed masterpiece.
Everything takes ages to get done (among a pile of items on incredibly long todo list, there is the head of a 21 months little young girl that keeps her daddy quite occupied) so, I decided to not wait for the final touch but take it as it is.

Simple as it is, we chose to go to IKEA and buy our wardrobe, after exploring several options.
What would fit a jugend villa, our modern needs and the available wall?
If we wanted to be genuinely jugend-freak we should have been going for a classical wardrobe.

A jugend wardrobe

For how beautiful this is, this would have been very impractical.

But the PAX system is actually great. It can be design to match one's own wishes and it comes in many variants.
Luckily for us, there was a set of doors (PAX Birkeland) that was "old-style" looking and we went for that.

Our double wardorbe, with PAX Birkeland doors

We bought two of them, one for the lord and one for the lady of the house and we customized the interior to have a couple of shelves, some wood drawer, a clothes rail and a tie rack (which we mainly use for belts).

Mattias' side of the wardrobe

We went out of the IKEA box when it came to the knobs/handles. I didn't like any option available at IKEA and I ended up wanting to match that enormous white surface with the turquoise background wall.
After some browsing, I found exactly what I wanted on a Tradera (Ebay.se)'s shop.

Handpainted knobs

The only thing missing is cutting out the screw of the knobs! I guess that will take a couple of years to get fixed :-)

Unfortunately, my pictures are never as appealing as all the blogs I always visit. Can somebody give me a tip on how to make this fancier although I just have a compact digital camera?

Did I say that...

I love Alphonse Mucha?
Maybe I should emphasize it (and apologize for the horrendous pictures quality, my bad).

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From the past

Still browsing through Emmi Bergkvist book "Gamla Åkarp och hur var det förr", it is possible to find some other nice old postcards of Åkarp where Villa Bellevue is present.

My goal 2013 is to be able to find all the possible postcards and frame them.

A postcard, I believe, from around 1930

This must have been 1910 or close by

Bathroom extreme makeover: Day 2, 3, 4 & 5

Tearing down a wall to reveal the stem pipes and to build a niche for the bathtube.

Interesting "corridor" behind the wall.

Finally! Starting to put new pipes in plastic.

No more cast-iron pipes that might leak.

Connecting the warm and cold water to the stem pipes. The warm water stem pipe was a copper pipe from the 70s that we could keep. The cold water stem pipe was a steel pipe that we will change when we rebuild the kitchen in a couple of years.

The connection box, which will be hidden behind a really sexy hatch in grey metall. So jugend (not).

It's getting more concrete now (!). The concrete was mixed with styrofoam to decrease the weight.

Bathroom extreme makeover: Day 1.

Bathroom accessories and tiles removed

Removing concrete, revealing pipes

Sewing of the past

Ideal, for a person like me, that has the craft of an hippo!
Found at the online flea market for a ridiculous price, this is a beautiful model of Husqvarna sewing machine from possibly the early 1900 century.

The sewing machine, placed in our "library/studio" 

Detail of the decorations. Maybe some jugend line?

The sewing machine, in all its beauty!

B&B Villa Bellevue

At the moment, we can't offer the full service that we wish we could, but let's say that we are opening our bed&breakfast slowly ;-) So, if you wanna be our guest, these days, you will most likely end up sleeping in our guestroom.

The guestroom, with a jugend lamp from Mattias' mother's family

A queen-size bed, a wardrobe whose inner walls are painted in a lovely yellow color (...), heat and the draft from a broken balcony door. And a dangerous antique wardrobe, that if opened might fall over you.

The "evil" wardrobe (sorry for the quality of the pic)

But one can still admire some old detail of the house, which we should try to fix properly: this ventilation opening lacks a chain and should be polished from paint.

The ventilation opening, with clearly written "Patent Örnen"

Said so, this room is of course very welcoming and we are looking forward to have you as guests ;-)