I’m completely in love with Frederiksbjerg’s neighborhood vibe! Even though it’s in the city center, it’s mostly silent except for church bells and birds. Denmark’s biggest farmers market happens twice a week a couple of streets away, there’s a flea market every other Sunday, and my grocery store has wine tastings on Fridays and Saturdays—and free coffee… Continue Reading
My Latest Thrift Shopping Finds
Awesome thrift shopping finds are one of my all-time favorite things! My favorites are charity-run thrift shops where you decide to pop in spur of the moment and happen to come across the most perfectly patinated thrift shopping finds for ridiculous prices, like this poncho, change purse, work bag, shoes, ’60s electric curlers, vintage camera, vintage vanity… Continue Reading
My new (vintage) apartment!
As a college student in an old New England mill town, I spent much of the 90s living in converted Victorian mansions well past their prime. Since then, I’ve property-lusted after places like Charlize Theron’s eclectic Victorian apartment in Sweet November, Anne Hathaway’s bohemian studio in Love and Other Drugs, and Amelie’s timeworn Montmartre flat…. Continue Reading
Danish Mid Century Modern: Small Space Living Storage Solutions
Closet space has been one of my biggest homemaking challenges in Denmark since day one. I actually blogged about this exactly 26 days after picking up the keys to my first Danish apartment. Many Aarhus city centre apartments come with storage space under the roof, but my current building traded its space a few years ago to finance a new roof and… Continue Reading
Before & After: Hallway to Small Space Living Dining Room
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably already seen this vintage 1960s ceiling lamp. I found it in a dusty corner of a junk shop, and it inspired the design of my small space living dining room. A Reclaimed 1960s Ceiling Lamp It was filthy, cracked, and in need of a new cord, but I… Continue Reading
An Urban Backyard Homestead
I’ve been focusing our search on big, impressive places, but a little borderline derelict, hadn’t been renovated in fifty years bungalow in need of more TLC than I could give it got me thinking in a new direction. Before I moved to Denmark, I’d dreamed of expanding my garden and turning my suburban Connecticut lawn into… Continue Reading
Hunting My Real Estate Dream: A Big Aarhus City Apartment
A big Aarhus city apartment only comes on the market once in a blue moon. A typical Aarhus city apartment has one to three rooms. You can find some four and five room apartments, but six or seven rooms is practically unheard of. So, imagine my glee when this seven room apartment came on the market in the… Continue Reading
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