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Aucoot teamed up with Cereal Magazine to design this extraordinary home in London. This loft with concrete flooring and mineral wall paint is light flooded and filled with carefully selected design pieces. While I love every single little corner of this well-curated home, the bedroom is definitly my favorite room. I love the dark blue walls combined with the floating wooden bed and the black wall lamps. Original Source Coco Lapine Design

Upgrading your old kitchen? Don’t throw the IKEA AKURUM kitchen cabinets away just yet. They can be turned into an ingenious loft bed with den and plenty of underloft storage. Ada repurposes the 15″ AKURUM cabinets into stairs and the 24″ ones into storage. The old closet is stripped away and the loft bed built into the nook, taking advantage of the room’s height and maximizing storage space. It turned out nothing less than impressive. Can’t find the AKURUM? This hack can be done with the IKEA SEKTION kitchen cabinets too. Elevated (loft) bed with wardrobe and a “secret room” beneath. Closet/wardrobe under the bed. AKURUM Cabinets with shelves and drawers. (4 x 24″ base cabinets) Standard cabinet drawers under each step. Comfortable bed entry with alternating steps (cut from four 15″ cabinet frames) Long landing for easy access to bed (covered with cut-to-size 15″ high cabinet doors) Full size mattress on LUROY slats (the only full size IKEA slats not requiring a central beam...

The staircase is the real eye catcher in this newly build home and I like that you can look downstairs from the bedroom. The interior is decorated with lots of fabric to add softness to this new place and I like the dining table and the large blue sofa especially. Interior styling by  Marie Ramse , photography by  Sara Medina Lind Original Source Coco Lapine Design

Now that we’re in the thick of Spring, let’s dig into a bit of gardening. Simone shares her DIY raised bed liner idea for the ASKHOLMEN wooden flower box, converting it into a raised bed instead of a plant stand. The ASKHOLMEN is pre-treated with a layer of semi-transparent wood stain. But the elements can be merciless, so keep the wooden planter looking good with the VÅRDA wood stain. Other IKEA products you can use to grow plants are the ALGOT wire baskets. They make a pretty balcony height herb garden . The SAMLA boxes can be converted into a huge yet affordable planter . And of course, the FNISS trash bins. They make cheap and handy pots for the garden. IKEA items used: Askholmen Planter and Frakta bag The Askholmen planter is a great looking planter however can’t be used without using plant in pots inside. I wanted to fill the whole planter with soil and plant. The Frakta blue bag is an almost exact fit. Make a DIY raised bed liner in 5 easy steps Cut of the handle...

I like the slight touches of color in this home decorated with otherwise neutral materials. The blue armchair really catches the eye in the hallway (the daybed there looks great as well) and the mustard throw in the bedroom stands out as well. I like the two dining areas in this home (what a luxury) which each have their own looks. via Entrance Makleri Original Source Coco Lapine Design