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kindred spirits

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Danielle| 1 Comment

Holly from Decor8 and Ez from Creature Comforts colaborated in a new project called Kindrid. A few days ago their website was launched showcasing desktop wallpapers from artists and designers and printable paper designs created exclusively for Kindred. You can sign up for a free member account, login and participate in a fun forum where you can interact with us and make new friends, download the complimentary artist wallpapers, and more. What a great intiative girls!

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ready made design competition

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Danielle| 1 Comment

If you love design and good ideas, then take part in this great design competition organised by Das Rote Paket! The task: Create and build a “ready made light”! Your lamp should be made of prefabricated parts. It doesn’t matter if it is a floor lamp, pendant or chandelier provided that the costs for all parts do not exceed 40 Euros. And it should be possible for others to replicate the lamp.

The price: Of course you’ll get fame and reputation among the internet community, but it is also fun and makes you feel good to be a lamp designer! If that is not enough, you might be the happy winner of an extraordinary, original sausage rug WURSTTEPPICH, a Das rote Paket shopping voucher or at least a little surprise … Click here for more information. Get your creative juices flowing! The deadline is 30th of April 2009. The best designs will be showed here on the style files of course!

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rare groove orchestra

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Danielle| 1 Comment

I normally don’t talk about music here on the style files but I want to make an exception for my boyfriend’s new CD. His Hammond Funk band, the Rare Groove Orchestra, was founded in 2003 and they now have their very funky their second album out! If you like funky, booty shaking party music then you might want to listen to their album here. If you like what you hear, you can buy the album here on iTunes (€9.99) or here if you would like to order a hard copy (€15 incl. world-wide shipping).

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renovation update

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Danielle| 5 Comments

We are still in middle of renovating our house. I have good days (when I can see how gorgeous the end result will be) and bad days (when it is getting too much..). Luckily we have had the worst. Just a few more weeks to go! Here some images of our living room / kitchen. This living space once was a stable for cows!

Our kitchen arrived today but is not finished yet. The shelves had the wrong size and the composite kitchen top was not ready yet. But I’m being patient!

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our little village

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Danielle| 14 Comments

Today I would like to show you more of the village that we recently moved to. The village is very small with only 70 houses and 300 people. There are no shops or restaurants but Amsterdam is just 15 minutes away.

These photos were taken last week when there was still ice. It was the first time in 12 years that we were able to skate on the lakes.

It is estimated that one million people were ice-skating last week (there are 16 million people living in The Netherlands).

This is the view from our back-yard (and from our living room).

(images taken by me)

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happy thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Danielle| 2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving to all US readers! This beautiful photo is from Sweet Paul.

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i need help!

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Danielle| 6 Comments

I need help with two issues and I hope you can help! Firstly, this blog has been hacked. There seem to be a lot of spam in the source code. Does anybody know how to get rid of this annoying spam?

The second thing I want to ask you is if you know somebody who is an expert on Zencart (shopping cart software). I have some changes for Le Souk’s website which I can not do myself. I am looking for someone who can help me with this (and doesn’t charge a ridiculous rate). I tried to find someone here in The Netherlands but unfortunately Zencart is not very well known here. I can be reached at danielle@style-files.com. Your help is very much appreciated!

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i’m back!

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Danielle| 6 Comments

I’m back! It has been very quiet from my part for the last couple of days. As I was not able to access the admin part of the style files I could not publish any posts. To my big relief this problem has been solved now!

I hope you all have had a great weekend. My weekend was exhausting… As you might know we recently bought a new house. We will be moving in December but I had to move out of my apartment before October 1st. So I, and three truck loads of stuff, moved into Ivar’s small apartment where we will be living (it will be more like camping) for the next two months before moving to our new home. This is how Ivar’s apartment used to look like and here you can see how it looks now. We will be organising all my stuff in the course of the week but at the moment I feel like one of those people that is obsessed with collecting stuff..

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meet & greet in amsterdam

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Danielle| 5 Comments

Holly from decor8 has organised a bloggers and readers meet & greet in Amsterdam this Friday (5th September). I will be there as well and you are very welcome to join us at De Kroon on Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam at 20:00 (8 PM). We will be having drinks and perhaps something to eat while we all get to know each other. More information about De Kroon can be found here. Little cards will be on our tables that say “decor8 meet & greet” so you will know who and where we are. Let me or Holly know if you are planning to join us!

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mungo & maud: dog & cat outfitters

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Danielle| 1 Comment

Also our beloved pets deserve stylish things! Mungo & Maud opened its first store in the heart of London in May 2005. Husband and wife team Michael and Nicola Sacher founded the edgy new concept in dog and cat stores with the aim of sourcing and creating elegant, well-designed accessories to complement a contemporary home. Their design approach is stylish, considered and with a timeless quality.

Their products are minimalist yet tactile with a strong use of natural materials such as cotton, wool, leather and linen. They range from hand-stitched leather collars and leads to hand-thrown feeding bowls, canvas beds and organic treats made to Mungo & Maud’s own recipe. Their products are available from selected retailers both in the UK and overseas but also from their webstore. Click here to browse through their collection!