Ina & Matt
I talked about a mood board that I loved made by Dutch design duo Ina & Matt last year but was reminded of them and their work today from the lovely Ink+Wit blog. Ina & Matt are such a creative team, they create beautiful things that cover such a broad range from architecture to ad campaigns — I love some of their barn renovations, especially the kitchen spaces because all I think about lately is the kitchen since I’m currently working on mine. We won’t have a sink or cabinetry until November 10th! Thank goodness we will be in Morocco for 10 days and in Turkey for a week between now and then… These kitchens below are so enticing to me, now more than ever before…
The simplicity and warm, yet minimalistic approach above is soooo captivating, but equally stunning are the colorful arrangements of things below, don’t you think?
And this is when you combine color with a natural palette…
Dots of inspiration… This photo makes me happy, I want to sit on the floor and move these bits around to spell something or create my initials. :) We adults can be so boring, what every happened to playing on the floor anyway? This past week I sat on the floors so often cutting out fabric and measuring things on my mat – and it felt good to “play” like that.
This French kitchen below is great. One thing I want from Morocco is to eat something that was cooked in a tagine (I’ve never had food prepared like this before) and then, secondly, if I liked it — t buy a gorgeous creamy white or shiny black one for my home and cook foods using it in the future. This French kitchen has one sitting on the counter, do you see it? Have you ever eaten foods prepared in a tagine? I hope to learn a lot about Morocco when I am there soon… There is so much Moroccan influence in fashion and interiors, but to experience it all within its natural setting shall be quite an honor for me.
I loved looking at this flower photo above and then looking down to the office photo below… It is a lovely arrangement of things – first from nature, second from made made objects.
If I lived here I would definitely skate around to do my household tasks and to simply go from room to room during the day. Weeeee! I’d be bear hugging those beams a lot though, I love to skate but I fall quite a lot but with beams like that to grab onto I think could manage.
Back to my kitchen, so far I have a big Smeg cooker (90 cm wide — big for EU standards — I love it) but still no cabinetry or counters, not even a sink, so my home life is a bit chaotic now to say the least but in a weird way, it’s sort of fun to be floating around in my expectation bubble — it’s fun to be in anticipation, to be expecting, waiting — and so I’m waiting and having fun along the way because once it’s done, it’s done and so I’m trying to enjoy the process… But still, I do miss a kitchen sink (so much!).
(images: ina & matt)
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October 11th, 2010 at 6:36pm
love those first 2 kitchens- I would love the chance to remake my kitchen. We are redoing another house so I get to play a bit but it’s still nothing like redoing your own- lucky you.
We went to Morocco several years back and I brought back a tangine as well. I use it all the time and cook lot’s of Moroccan style food- it’s so yummy and easy. Moroccan Cafe is an easy, great cookbook to try.
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October 11th, 2010 at 7:06pm
Oh wow – I love it all. So many ideas to steal – thanks for posting! I am sooo into that rustic, creamy look.
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October 11th, 2010 at 7:45pm
I love the clean simple lines! These are the kind of homes I picture my white pottery in when I create them.
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October 11th, 2010 at 8:02pm
I love how you still allow comments here at your home … Thanks 4 this and more! Enjoy … enjoy … enjoy, your new home.
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October 11th, 2010 at 8:28pm
What lovely rooms! I LOVE the ceiling on that first kitchen!
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October 11th, 2010 at 8:29pm
ooo, that red and white carpet is great, too!
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October 11th, 2010 at 8:49pm
I love natural palettes with pops of color… so lovely. Thanks Holly!
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October 11th, 2010 at 10:32pm
Oh, yes those kitchens are gorgeous! I love food prepared in a tagine and its really easy to make! I love to cook vegetables in there something like carrots, beetroots or whatever you have plus onions, everything cut in not too small slices, then you add tomatoes, a mixture of freshly grounded thyme, cumin, black cumin, chili and sea salt and after that slices of organic lemons and a really good dose of olive oil. The tagine is also first greased with olive oil and then you put the vegetables in there and put the rest on it as I described it without mixturing it! That looks so pretty when you open the tagine and it smells wonderful! I have to buy a new tagine as mine has recently fallen down and a white one would be really beautiful!
October 11th, 2010 at 11:03pm
Gorgeous images. I can’t decide which is my favorite kitchen, the second photo or the one with the tagine on the counter. If I could combine the first with the table and chairs in the second, it would be perfection. Yes, I have eaten food cooked in a tagine. There is a French restaurant in an old house near here that has a tagine dish on the menu. It was delicious.
October 12th, 2010 at 12:18am
These images are beautiful! I too am in the midst of kitchen chaos – I have a stove, fridge freezer and a sink but that’s it – no units, no work surface, a fireplace shaped hole in the wall and rewiring in the progress…..one day soon I hope to have a kitchen!
October 12th, 2010 at 1:44am
Tagine cooking is so tasty and wonderful. I had the best tagine meals in Morocco and also in Granada, Spain. You know that show where the tall Aussie chef accosts people in grocery stores and takes them home to cook together? I think his name is Curtis? Well, he used a tagine once…looked absolutely mouthwatering and super easy. I’ve given them as wedding presents, but don’t have one yet!
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October 12th, 2010 at 2:27am
You will certainly have no trouble eating food cooked from a tagine. It is simple and delicious. I visited Morocco in 2007 and then discovered Maryams blog so I am quite excited that you are going to visit there.
I bought back a couple of tagines to Australia which was no mean feat and there are ones you buy that are for cooking in and others that are more for serving. I also often cook moroccan style in my slow cooker but then serve in the tagine and with all my moroccan tidbits and then mint tea afterwards..it transports you back…I love that.
Ps I also love your blog but this is the first time I have commented..shy I guess.
October 12th, 2010 at 3:19am
Stunning kitchens! bookmarking this post for when we have our own place :) even though my hubby will be the own designing it and deciding what he wants!
are you having picnics in your new apartment…? I alway love that “entre deux” when you move in a new place and don’t have all your furnitures… but I should say I have never experienced not having a sink… sigh…
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October 12th, 2010 at 4:52am
I freakin’ love this post. I would totally skate in that space, too ;)
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October 12th, 2010 at 5:17am
I adore those beams. What texture and character the have. Yum! Yes, skating would be fun in that room. :)
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October 12th, 2010 at 6:20am
You really could have a fun skating party in that place with the fantastic posts! Lucky girl you. You have a smeg. Sigh. one day I will too ;)
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October 12th, 2010 at 1:29pm
I lived in Morocco for many years, and we would have tajine everyday if we could, there are so many yummy variations. One thing to look out for is that the colored tajines in Morocco are mostly for show or serving food in, not for cooking in. Anyway, any Moroccan would tell you that the best taste comes from cooking in an unglazed tajine, seasoned with time, over a charcoal fire. Do watch out for glazings as you have to careful with lead. I always cook in an unglazed tajine with a diffuser on my gas stove.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:43pm
Wow I love all of these images! They’re aesthetic is right up my alley. Love!
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October 13th, 2010 at 1:32pm
Love them! Thanks for the shout out! ; ) xxoo
October 14th, 2010 at 4:47pm
I love the view down the office–it looks like a doll house! I would totally roller skate in the space too–with knee pads, of course!
xo
Emily :)
October 14th, 2010 at 4:48pm
I’m just practicing to see if my blog link comes up now…:)
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October 15th, 2010 at 1:25pm
I love tagine meals! There are a lot of Morroccan-descent people in Brussels where I live so lots of great places to get great Morroccan food! And my husband and I are finally going there for a week’s holiday at the beginning of November – so I’ll be following your adventures closely. Have fun!
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October 24th, 2010 at 6:00am
I can empathise as we don’t have a kitchen at the moment either! And ours doesn’t go in until December. Hehe. It’s amazing how quickly we adapt to not having the little luxuries – but like you, I can’t wait to have a proper sink and cooktop back! Can’t wait to see what you do with yours x