The Neo Lifestyle

New items at la casa!!!

2012-01-27T21:43:00.007+01:00

This year it's not really a snow winter in Belgium. Not like last year at least, I wish it snowed a lot or well that it was already spring, then the garden is so nice. This week I was looking through my archive to look at the garden pictures. I want spring now :-), so I can go to yard sales and brocantes!!!!

But I can't complain of the things I bought this week. It seems I am in a Coral state of mind. I attracted them for the moment, everywhere I go, I found them at bargain prices :-)

Here they are, my new little baby's

BRAFA 2012

2012-01-25T21:39:00.043+01:00

Yes, what better way to say hello to 2012 then with a nice antique fair :-)

And off course here is number one, in my eyes also the only number one. Well except TEFAF off course!!

Brafa is always such a nice fair, in a nice building, with nice antiques in a nice setting.

BRAFA

My favourite was off course Axel Vervoordt and Galerie Steinitz

So enough chitchat, here is the visual material ;-) especially for the one's who couldn't come to see the fair.

Blogmeeting in Antwerp 2012

2012-01-23T15:20:00.008+01:00

Friday we had our first Blogmeeting in Antwerp.

Thanks to Greet of Belgian Pearls who organised this nice event :-)

You can read more about this event here

The place was gorgeous and the food and wine and champagne delicious, shame we had to leave in the late evening :-(

Here are some quick pictures of me before I went in the restaurant, inside Greet and her husband Jan took the pictures :-)

New Year, new bloom!!!

2012-01-19T22:32:00.009+01:00

Yes we did it again, we survived another year. What a year it has been. Well this one will even better!!!

Off course I finished last year with champagne and expensive cake. Well I like that so much that somebody could say that i do that every month :-)

What is more symbolic than new flowers blooming for a new year.

Here are some pictures of mine in my dining room. Sadly my glass vase exploded suddenly during the evening last night, so now I used a asiatic jar.

Happy weekend!!!!

Christmas tree is arrived

2011-12-18T18:09:00.009+01:00

This week my nice tree arrived. I put it up, did the lightings and the decorations and now I can enjoy it every day. I love the lights especially during the evening. It's so warm and cosy.

And off course it would be a lost week if i didn't bought something beautiful this week.

What do you think about my silver bowl and my new lamp. Ok, I need to buy a custom made lampshade, but that takes time and will not be ready before christmas :-(

New items and some who has to go :-)

2011-12-11T18:18:00.012+01:00

Yes, indeed. When some new baby's arrive some at my place have to go. Not because I don't have the room. But just because I want to live in my apartment not do some camping in between all my furniture.

So here are some new items :-)

The only thing I am really keeping is the commode, I just love it. All the rest will fly away to a new home.

Christmas decorations

2011-12-04T12:43:00.007+01:00

This week I started to do some shopping for christmas, this year I will have a huge christmas tree with a lot of nice decorations and lots of lights.

But first I started with my front door. I took me two afternoons to make them, but you see, you can make beautiful things with garbage normally :-)

What do you think???

New item 3715, 3716, ...

2011-11-23T22:15:00.010+01:00

No I don't number my new objects, I have only one life.

But here are some of my new baby's. Shells, statue's, chandeliers,...

I hope you like them?

Antica 2011

2011-11-20T16:06:00.024+01:00

Friday I went to Namur to see some nice antiques with a friend at Antica. And off course I brought you some eye candy for the people who couldn't make it ;-)

Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. But I think you can still feel the mood, and see the quality of the objects.

I don't have any space anymore almost in my apartment, so I was only aloud to take pictures with me ;-)

Candle light

2011-11-03T20:05:00.008+01:00

Sometimes I think I have been born in the wrong era, but I love everything we have now a days.

I say this because I use so many candle in one year, luckily not only cire Trudon ones otherwise i would be bankrupt.

And the best way to do candle light is a dinner. Here are some pictures from a dinner a while ago. It's mostly after the party, but you can see that we had an amazing dinner :-)

Frames, frames, frames!!!

2011-10-30T17:39:00.011+01:00

Last couple of weeks I have been adding some frames to my collection.

I know it's maybe strange, but first I buy the fitting frames for my interior and then i found something to put in them, I have time so why hurry :-)

Here are some pictures, of the work in progress!!

The way I like it

2011-10-11T21:14:00.020+02:00

Its seems all the nice things come from New York now a days. I am joking, there is quality everywhere ;-)

The proof New Orleans is also very nice. Nice article with yummy pictures, I can't have enough from them, a collection of objects collected over time. Perfect following my standards.

The New York Times

Maureen Footer

2011-10-07T17:53:00.018+02:00

Small but beautiful, I never realize how lucky we're here in Brussels. Not that I pretend property is cheap, far from that, but you can live nicely if you're original and full of idea's.

But this designer, made even an apartment we're everybody will run away when they visit it for the first time, into a stunning place to relax and enjoy time alone.

The New York Social Diary

White, white and more white

2011-10-04T07:30:00.012+02:00

Last couple of weeks I was a bit busy, but that didn't stop me buying also new things for my place. And off course putting it all together in my little place.

Here are some pictures ;-), enjoy them!!!

working=shopping

2011-09-26T22:17:00.005+02:00

If my eyes were a camera I would have 1000 pictures from last two weeks.

Working on an apartment for the moment, so I am shopping 24/24 :-)

Work in progress, but i bought some beauty's also for my little place.

Eye candy will follow when the day light is good, in the evening it's too dark

Neo guesthouse photo-shoot

2011-09-15T18:37:00.019+02:00

Hello everybody,

For the moment I am a bit busy because I am working on the interior of a friend. Some pictures will find their way to the internet, when the works are progressing :-)

But meanwhile I won a photoshoot with AirBNB

I know that the pictures are sometimes a bit strange, but the photographer tried to capture as much as possible.

Hopefully you find them nice. It's my little world.

Charlottenburg

2011-09-09T19:38:00.046+02:00

Hello, today I saw a guy on the street with a nice t-shirt from I love Berlin. So I think it's a sign to blog about the pictures I take in Berlin but didn't show you yet.

Enjoy them!!!!!

PS: sofie you're busted ;-)

New Items to my dining room

2011-09-05T17:56:00.006+02:00

I always dreamed of a white dining-room and everyday I am getting closer and closer.

Rome wasn't build in one day, but I don't get 500 years, so here is an update.

I bought those two italian style landscapes, aren't just to eat in the white frame on the white wall?

Back from Berlin

2011-08-31T20:17:00.002+02:00

Back home in my sweet home. So many things changed since a year, I realize that every time I come home after a trip.

Berlin was the first time for me, but it was really nice, nice food, nice places and nice people what do we need more. Yes nice buildings and objects ;-)

Raining again!!!

2011-08-18T18:52:00.009+02:00

Every day it rains, sometimes we have a bright warm sun for a couple of hours and then apocalypse out of the sky.

Well this evening I don't see a problem in it because I stay nicely at home to do my domestic duty's :-)

That doesn't mean that my head is thinking about beautiful things. Here are some eye candy pictures, enjoy them.

Wet summer!!!

2011-08-14T16:50:00.001+02:00

Well I can't complain I had already some nice travels, and even some nice lunches in the sun this week. But let's say that this year the plants in our gardens are very happy.

Off course this is the perfect excuse to do a lot of work in my interior.

I worked already so much this summer inside. To begin I will show you one of my new acquisitions. From the first day I was in my new apartment I knew I wanted a white dinning-room with a big patinated mirror in a white frame. Well here is my new baby :-)

What do you think about it?

DIY at Rue de naples

2011-07-18T18:10:00.010+02:00

Here are some pictures why I wasn't a moment online. I worked on several projects in my apartment. I made some shelves in my living room, I still have to fill them with books. And God knows I have enough of those. For the moment I placed some objects for the time being.

I am so happy that little custom made project is finished :-)

Pierre Durand

2011-07-12T20:57:00.022+02:00

Pierre Durand, what can I say. "one of the most exquisite we have visited"

I agree with Sian Ballen and Lesley Hauge. What a wonderful apartment, I just don't get over it, there is nothing I don't like. I would love to see his other houses.

Just enjoy the eye candy!!!!

Summer time=time in the sun

2011-06-02T16:45:00.012+02:00

Hello everybody, today the weather is gorgeous so no time to sit inside. Running outside to take the sun :-)

Here is some eye candy of my place (+ new bamboo table) and a special video I found. I discovered this decorator a couple of years ago, but I never found any information about him :-s

Video

For the Record I will disappear for two weeks from now on ;-)

See you when I am back on the continent.

Update of my place

2011-05-25T20:21:00.008+02:00

I can't tell how happy I am. The only sad point is that I almost have never time to write an article.

Just back from Paris and soon I fly away to Mexico for two weeks :-)

Work, the B&B and shopping for other people absorb almost all of my time.

Oke I am not to complain, always traveling or shopping. But every evening I know why I fall asleep.

Here are some pictures for my little world.

New york New York!!!!!!

2011-05-16T20:22:00.016+02:00

He lives my dream, well one of them ( I have so many dreams). Living in such a nice apartment above an even nicer shop. Where do I have to sign to get all this :-). No honestly, that man has an incredible taste. Off course he worked hard to get all this. But as always the New York Social Diary did it well also. I just love the furniture, the Ado Chale is stunning, I love his work, luckely he's from Brussels :-)

Neo garden

2011-05-04T07:42:00.012+02:00

One of the big projects of the apartment was also to redo the garden, it was not ugly, but way to minimalistic for me. In my dining-room I have almost a whole wall of windows, so I want to enjoy my garden all year around when I am looking at it from inside. So I choose for plants who stay green even during the winter times.

Here are the results and the before pictures ;-)

I am already very happy of the result, so it will be perfect in one years time.

Accomodation in Zurich

2011-05-03T07:49:00.009+02:00

This is the last post about Zurich, it's also the post about were I stayed. My friends have always another interior style than I do. And I can honestly say that I like that. I like all styles when it's well done. In Zurich it was minimalistic all the time and it was perfect. But I know if I would stay a month for example it would not stay like that.

I bought also a nice copper bowl and a wine opener at "brockenhaus"

Zurich-blue

2011-04-29T20:09:00.009+02:00

Blue is the first color who comes up in my head when I think about Zurich. The sky is so nice here, and there is water every. The water is pure and fresh and its everywhere in the city.

Here are some examples.

Coucou from zurich

2011-04-27T19:27:00.019+02:00

No I am not dead, even if I feel in heaven :-)

I am in the city were above every luxury shop there are the offices of private banks. Zurich :-)

Wasn't much online because life is full of activity's, so I will try to calm down and write some nice articles.

Here is the first one. It's not the first time I visit Zurich, I knew already the city.

But this time it was even better as before.

Here are some pictures of the city, isn't it all wonderful? It's seems never to rain here.

New item to my b&b

2011-03-29T20:39:00.005+02:00

Ok, I have to admit every time I buy something I can have the excuse. "It's not for me, it's for the business". I feel guilty, but come on. Would you feel guilty to buy those two little baby's to your place.

They aren't yet displayed like the should be, but that will follow soon. I know myself, it's always work in progress.

Have a good weekend all!!

2011-03-25T16:52:00.003+01:00

I am off to spend a weekend. Here is a picture of some fresh flowers at home. It will be a productive weekend. So see you very soon ;-)

Fresh from NY

2011-03-24T18:54:00.013+01:00

What an apartment!!! I think there is nothing i don't like about it. Oke it's very masculine, but come one. Be honest, isn't it wonderful. It's not huge and still full of style and very nice objects like the basalt. Thanks to the new york social diary again ;-) What a nice couple and they have such a cute pug. I dream of one of my own ;-)

It's spring!!!

2011-03-21T21:13:00.008+01:00

Finally, we start to enjoy the sun. God we need it :-)

I enjoyed it a lot this weekend. The garden is almost empty and ready for the big works very soon.

Here are some pictures of my "spring".

It's not my fault I like beauty!!

2011-03-08T20:48:00.009+01:00

With this famous phrase from Valentino I start my article today. Every time I buy a new object I think about that phrase. And it's true, Ok, I have a lot of space in my apartment. But on this rhythm it will be full in one year ;-)

Luckely I sell sometimes also some object so I can buy even nicer stuff.

Here are some new items in my apartment, I will take some more pictures this week of them in the space.

White

2011-02-24T20:20:00.007+01:00

For the moment I love everything that is white, not because I am painting the ceiling of my own bedroom. Because believe me I have to push myself to get started every time. No I found a nice white porcelain statue and I decided to start a collecting to fill my white walls in my dinning room. Here is also a picture of my garden statue, that was white one day :-). It's sitting in the garden now. And some white flowers in my dining room who make the whole apartment smells :-)

Jeff Lincoln

2011-02-21T21:42:00.012+01:00

Mmmmm what a nice interior to discover today. I am working a lot at home for the moment, finishing the paint in my bedroom (finally!!!!!) Redecorating the house and starting on redesigning my garden.

But here is some eye candy to relax in my bed, and to have some sweet dreams tonight :-)

The New York Social Diary

New item to my collection

2011-02-04T21:13:00.008+01:00

Well I have done some fun things the last weeks, but I bought also wonderful objects for my home.

And it was ages ago I bought some books. And lately I book THE BOOK. Well in reality it's a box with three books. I am sure its well known to some, and if not, people do some research. You will love it ;-)

Parcours museologique revisite from Robert Polidori

James Andrew in the NYSD

2011-02-01T17:12:00.014+01:00

This morning when I woke up I was thinking to myself. "I didn't checked out the NYSD this week"

And to my surprise, its worth it. What a wonderful apartment, but do we have to say that, that man has style. We all knew that already.

BRAFA 2011

2011-01-21T07:21:00.030+01:00

Last night I went to the Collectors preview of the Brafa 2011. With Sofie a good friend of mine. Well to make my article short it was a mix between antiques, wealthy people, lots of champagne and lots of zakouskis. The proof there was much champagne is that all my pictures weren't very steady. But no panic, normally tuesday I go back to make some other pictures.

Here are some pics already, enjoy!!!

Brafa 2011 Collectors Preview

2011-01-19T18:14:00.004+01:00

What was I happy today when I collected my mail. Not because of all the bills I receive or junk mail. But I received my invitation to go to the BRAFA Collectors Preview tomorrow. I wrote already a post about it when I went to the press conference in Antwerp.

The Exhibition opens Friday, but Thursdays Princess Mathilde is opening the fair. And I will be there also :-)

Here his a picture of the nice invitation.

Thats meaning that I am gonna see wonderful things and take a lot of pictures and share them with you.

Vignette's

2011-01-17T19:39:00.009+01:00

Today it was still light when I came home. Thats the good thing about leaving winter behind.

Here are some pictures from one corner in my dining room.

With some of my new finds and some things I received :-)

Costermans by Gérald Watelet

2011-01-12T20:16:00.025+01:00

Well dear readers, today it was maybe a gray and very rainy day in Brussels. Nevertheless I moved my ass for my readers to Costermans today. "Ensemblier" Gérald who always has the chic to mix different styles "in style" worked his magic in the show rooms of antique family run business Costermans.

I know for some people it will look too modern and maybe even for my place its a bit too modern. But I like it a lot, they dare, and that needs respect.

Enjoy the pictures and the little video

Paint everywhere

2011-01-10T20:23:00.006+01:00

Just before my christmas dinner I finished the paint work in my apartment. Yes, I have to admit, that in december I didn't paint a lot. But come on, after a month and a half every day a bit, you can understand that. But like the deadline was that dinner I had to finish everything on time. And I made it myself even a bit more difficult by also designing and making my lighting. So I had to work a bit extra late ;-). But here is the result, its so practical, I can move the lights in the direction I want. Sorry for the picture with the flash, but like that you can see the real color and the detailing :-)

Happy New Year!!!

2011-01-03T17:06:00.006+01:00

To all the people I could be connected to or not :-)

Because with internet some people will know me our will follow my adventures.

But I will never have the possibility to know them.

This year I will do my best to bring some new adventures.

New Years Party was in PAris this year. But here are some pictures of my christmas dinner in my new dinning room.

Happy New Year to you all and all the best for 2011!!!!

Merry Christmas

2010-12-27T21:45:00.020+01:00

Thanks for all the nice little messages I received. And I would want to say Merry Christmas to everybody but then it will take me three weeks. So everybody who reads my blog or all the blog I read and thats a lot ;-) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I hope you all enjoyed Christmas with family and friends like I did.

And off course like we all love some eye candy, here are some pictures I took on the way from work to home friday afternoon, because I work during the holidays this year, so no holidays for me. The Royal palace of Brussels centre and the royal Warande Park all covered in snow, isn't it nice, even if it really dangerous, because I felt on my ass already once last week :-)

Why cry, it's so good at rue de Naples

2010-12-13T19:46:00.007+01:00

Yes why being sad if have something wonderful instead. I really love my new place and I will proof it. No I didn't made a dirty photo-shoot. I just mean some interior pic's to try to catch the atmosphere.

Goodbye Lemonnier :'-(

2010-12-09T21:29:00.013+01:00

Some of you will think it's stupid, but last week I had to hand over the keys of my old apartment. Off course there was all the stuff to move over to my new place. But they most important was forgot, I had to leave it to the new girl I choose. She will take care of my baby, she don't repaint the apartment, so she is keeping my design colors :-) And I even sold here some of my furniture. So some old friends will stay in the apartment, like my big old oak wardrobe stays there. Well I had some fantastic moments there, I will never forget those precious moment. I even started my blog in that bedroom.

Kisses, good bye Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier apartment :'-( I will never forget you and I am sure I am not alone.

Neo guesthouse

2010-11-23T20:10:00.014+01:00

After last week moving in the worst rainy day of the year. Here are some pictures of the apartment. It's work in progress but I am already happy of the result. In front of the chimney you can see my two "new" bedside tables :-)

What do you think?

Monday is nice for once :-)

2010-11-22T20:54:00.011+01:00

Monday normally we're not too excited because it's the first day of the week. Because we have to go to the office, because we are already planning things for the weekend. Shortly said, we would prefer that after monday comes friday. Well today we're just happy that it's monday because what all nice things we saw today.

-Saw some gorgeous apartment back on the selby.

-My blog is on a list of “Top 50 Interior Decor Blogs and Articles”.

-Read a nice article from a fantastic apartment in New York on the New York Social Diary

Brafa 2011 press conference

2010-11-20T12:04:00.015+01:00

Yesterday I had a day off from work but thats doesn't mean I had nothing to do. First I had to make a nice breakfast to my B&B guest. And after that I had to run to Antwerp to assist at the press conference of the BRAFA edition 2011. The conference started with a breakfast and sad news. The president of honour Madame Zeberg died after a cancer. She was a great lady with a wonderful shop in Antwerp behind the Cathedral.

This year the BRAFA will expose some new exhibitors and also some masterpieces from the collection of the Mayer Van Den Bergh Museum in Antwerp.

After the conference we received a tour in this wonderful museum and a walking dinner with champagne.

I am sure the edition of 2011 will be even better than last year. But I will have to wait till the end of january before it starts.

Here are some pictures of the museum.

Who said decorating was easy!!!

2010-11-02T20:47:00.008+01:00

Today I was at the office. But since my B&B is open, it seems I have two jobs :-). I think even more than two jobs. Doesn't matter, I am enjoying it. I know why i fall a sleep at night. My first guest arrived saturday and stays till the 12th of november. My place is still a building site, but it's already much better than on the pictures. Will make some more this week. But here are some from Friday so you can see the real color I used.

Stay tuned, some more will follow.

To be continued

2010-10-25T17:05:00.003+02:00

Hello Blog land, I am not a lot online these days. Well at least I have an excuse now :-)

Sorry for the bad quality pictures. I will do my best to make better one's. But here you can see that I am progressing. The apartment has to be finished saturday because I have guests coming over. It will not be totally furnished, but at least all the paint work will be done. I hope so :-s

Work Work Work!!!

2010-10-22T23:50:00.006+02:00

Its midnight and I am just out of the bathroom. Took all the paint away, even my hair was full of it. But at least I worked a lot on the new apartment today. This weekend I have to do the biggest part of all the paintwork. Here are some pictures of the action going on.

Will keep you all up to date ;-)

New project!!!!

2010-10-18T19:43:00.002+02:00

Well some posts ago I was talking about a new exciting project I will have. Well here it is, today i got the keys after work.

It need a lots of love and paintwork. But here's my new baby. The basics are wonderful, don't you agree?

Discovering new things

2010-10-14T19:39:00.018+02:00

First of all I want to thank all the people who wrote such nice comments on my last post. I am not gone give names, but they all made a smile on my face or a feeling that I wasn't alone. So thanks for this. And what better way to thank you, than posting some nice pictures.

Today were looking at some nice antiques from Abaco a nice place in Eke, Belgium

The pictures talks for them self. Enjoy them!!!!

Life is life, but blogging stays!!

2010-10-10T20:51:00.022+02:00

The reason that I wasn't online the last two weeks :-s. Is that I had some hard moments of life.

Let's say I am single again. It's maybe better like this, I like my guy too much to fight with him.

But like I don't like to cry and be sad in life. Let's start on new things. Soon you will see what I mean with "new things". More of that later on this month.

For the moment lets make my entry again in Blog-land after such a long time. Reading all those beautiful blogs helped me. They gave me all energy to pick up again.

Thank you all!!!

Pierre Bergé in Brussels is holding a wonderful sale this month, I think I would buy half of the catalogue. Luckely I don't have the room for it ;-)

Enjoy like I did!!!

Hubert de Vinols

2010-09-25T18:00:00.005+02:00

I saw already the work of that designer in The World of Interiors. Certainly some of you, will know his work. Here are some gorgeous pictures of his work. Ok, the flower paper is maybe too much even for me! But those rooms with another paper or just paint on the wall would be a perfect house for the weekends on the countryside :-). I love the way he uses furniture and paintings on the walls.

Hubert de Vinols

Enjoy the pictures and go certainly check out the video's.

Greetings from out of my bed (still with a big cold :-s)

Video 1

Video 2

New York through Berlin and then to Brussels

2010-09-23T17:20:00.009+02:00

What an exciting time we live in. For example: I am at home sick with a cold (everybody for the moment it seems). But thanks to modern technology I can read in the New York Times about a wonderful apartment in Berlin. What should we all do without internet? Read 10000 magazines I suppose, but that would be very expensive.

Here are some pictures. I think I am gonna use some for our house. We're still working on the interior design, I think it will never finish.

Back and already beautiful things everywhere

2010-09-14T21:48:00.011+02:00

One day back from Hungary and everywhere I see wonderful articles on the net and in Blog-land.

Hungary was very nice, believe me, the weather wasn't super great but that didn't stop us.

I will post some pictures about it very soon, but I am still waiting for the pictures from friends. They took the pictures for once, it was a real holiday for me :-)

At the my friends blog Tottie stuff you can see already a preview.

Lets talk about the beauty's I found yesterday evening while I was reading my email before getting to bed.

The New York Social Diary did it again. A Maximalist, mmmm I like them. This time its maybe too much, even for me. But what a taste, somebody who dares to mix like that is really somebody with guts.

Off to Budapest to relax :-)

2010-09-04T18:22:00.002+02:00

I am off to Budapest with one of mine friend-blogger-tottie from tottiestuff. We don't go alone we go with a little group, we have rented a house on the countryside. If I have access to internet I will do some posts otherwise it's for when I am back.

Ciao everybody have a nice week, I will even if the weather is bad :-)