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The Design Sheppard’s book review

I’m delighted that brilliant blogger Stacey Sheppard wrote a great review about the book Home Life Around the World. Her award winning blog, The Design Sheppard, is one of the leading interior design blogs in the UK. Her blog has been appointed by Vuelio as one of the top 10 interior design blogs in the UK, every year since 2015. I’m honoured. I’m also over the moon that she so totally gets what the book is all about!

Read her review here:
https://www.thedesignsheppard.com/books/book-review-home-life-around-the-world

Slow living

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

The hectic lifestyle of modern society is fast-paced and many times stressful. As we struggle to keep on top of everything, we are often left feeling drained, overwhelmed and disconnected from the important values in life. Our basic needs today though are the same as they always have been. We still need to be seen, appreciated and to connect in a meaningful way with each other. To be emotionally close, to be cared for and care for others and to love. Is it possible to step back and create a lifestyle that has a more relaxed and leisurely pace, in able to achieve a peace of mind and happiness? Can our homes help us with this?

Several of the homes in the book Home Life Around the World reflect a lifestyle known as “slow living”. Slow living emphasizes a slower approach to aspects of everyday life and started with the slow food movement as a reaction to fast food. Well-being, simplicity, a sustainable lifestyle and consciousness are some of the qualities that define this lifestyle.

“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor.

Quietness is a quality that’s hard to find in our cities today and can be regarded as a luxury. For architect Nicolás his need of silence is very important. He is fortunate to live in the centre unit of a PH house, an architectural style of house typical for Buenos Aires, that extends horizontally and inwards toward the centre of the block. Inside his house it’s extremely quiet and there isn’t a hint of the bustling city outside.

“My home has to be a place where I can rest and relax,” he says. “There is too much information outside. But it doesn’t have to be minimal. I need plants. And I need the different areas of the house for what they offer. My home is the most important place on earth.”

“I like to be at home, to cook and to take care of the plants,” he tells me. “I enjoy being alone. And I relish silence. There is a famous saying in Italy: ‘Il dolce con niente.’ It means ‘The sweetness of doing nothing.’ Our culture now is very fast-paced and stressful. It’s all about producing, delivering and being efficient. So I like to indulge in the sweetness of doing nothing as often as I can.”

Cecilia achieves equilibrium in her life by creating visual quietness in her home. In order to unwind from her work as a photographer and her store of homeware products, a place she describes as busy and chaotic but stimulating, she needs the bare white walls of her home and few but much loved items of furniture and decoration.

“Both of them have the contrasts that I crave, chaos and calmness”, she clarifies. She loves the tactile feel of a rough tabletop or the soothing feel of the textile cover of a coffee table book. When at home she enjoys ordinary day-to-day tasks like cooking and watering plats. Tasks that make her relax and connect with herself.

“My home is a place where I nurture my soul”, she says.

A home that also reflects the slow living concept is Rosi and Martin’s off-the-grid house ‘Via Verde’ on the coast of Uruguay, close to Brazil. This house is a ‘passive house’ and they built it themselves. A passive house is a standard for energy efficiency that reduces the ecological footprint. Rosi from Argentina and Martin from Spain, met in Buenos Aires, where they both worked as journalists. After a stint in London they knew that they would return to South America one day and start a family in a natural environment. They wanted to create a sustainable project and to be able to be together as a family on a daily basis.

“On the whole it has been a massive learning curve,” Martin says about building a house without prior experience. “It’s been everything from pleasant, to intense, to exceedingly difficult.But all in all we are pleased with the end result and with the lifestyle it has allowed us to have.”

“You had an idea to live in a more sustainable way and to live off-the grid in harmony with nature. But did it also include the idea of community living?” I ask, because this is large house with many bedrooms. Rosi and Martin rent out rooms and people come from all over the world to stay in summertime.
“We wanted to live in a more sustainable and green way. But try as we might, we are also inconsistent. We can’t always accomplish what we strive for. More than anything, we wanted a place that we could share with like-minded and learn from each other, so we built the house with that in mind.”

“I had my childhood home as a role model,” says Martin. “It was a large house open to everyone. People always came and went, strangers and friends alike. Every weekend the house was filled with food, music, old friends and new acquaintances.”

“You have a house full of people now. We are ten guests staying here and you have your own family with a baby. But you don’t have a washing machine or a dishwasher. Does the green lifestyle also entail a more difficult way of living per se?”
“I was close to my grandparents when I grew up. They used to talk about the time when they were young in the early 1900s. They didn’t have any electricity or running water indoors and had to go down to the river to wash their clothes. And the waste they produced had to be reused in some way. But they always claimed that life was good. It was hard but not unbearable. It’s the same here I think. I believe to suffer a little is good. Of course I would like to have all the comforts available in the 21st century. But what I don’t want to have are the levels of consumption of the 21st century.”

These are excerpts from the book Home Life Around the World. Find out more about these and the other exciting homes in the book:

Hardcover available via Ingram Book Group retailers worldwide such as Barnes & Noble, Foyles, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Adlibris, Booktopia and Amazon.
eBook available via iBooks Store, Amazon, Kobo and Google Play.
Ebook: ISBN 978-91-984455-1-0
Kindle: ASIN B079VDPBVF
Hardcover: ISBN 978-91-984455-0-3

Copyright and photo: Anita Martinez Beijer

How to embrace autumn

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

Autumn has arrived in my part of the world and I feel my spirits lift on my walks, when I take in the beautiful scenery of leaves that are turning into every shade of red and yellow. The mornings are becoming crisp and even though the weather is mild at the moment, one has the feeling that in no time at all it’s time for wooly mittens, scarves and coats and summer is a mere memory.

How do I approach the change of the seasons? As I’ve mentioned earlier I became inspired by Wabi Sabi, when I visited the home of Elissa in New York, on my travels to explore what a home means to people*. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese philosophy that embraces the transience of life, whether nature’s changes, the different phases of human existence or the imperfections found in objects. The keyword that has worked for me is the word embrace. I do so love that word!

I found that in actively changing my thoughts about a change I don’t particularly like or look forward to, has actually helped to transform it into a quite different experience. Winter for me is a season I find especially challenging, but this previous winter actually went quite well. Why? Because I embraced it and tried to highlight it’s advantages. Winter is the perfect time to be cosy, light the candles and snuggle down in the sofa and read more books, eat hearty meals after long walks in the cold, enjoy being warm and cosy whilst looking out of the window and seeing the snow building soft mountains outside. You get the picture.

As it’s presently autumn in Sweden I have begun to make changes. Here are my best tips on how to create a cosy home in the autumn.

Bring in those earthy hues. Rust is a favourite at the moment. Pillowcases preferably in linen. The more creasy they are the better! It makes a very homely feel. New pillowcases is a great way to get an instant change at a low cost.

The best way to create that cosy feeling is to layer. The more the merrier. Pile them up! Here I have a mixture of linen, cotton and velvet.

Bring out the plaids and blankets. Change the colour depending on the season. Think about adding different textures to the room. The earthy beige of this new soft pom pom plaid made the room super cosy!

When the leaves start to fall I fill my home with pot plants to compensate the loss of greenery outside. I crave greenery around me! Plants are also a great way to improve the air indoor that tend to get very dry in the winter.

I hope this will inspire you to get really cosy at home!

* You can find the chapter about Elissa’s home and about Wabi Sabi in the book Home Life Around the World.

Colour of the year 2019

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

UK paint brand Dulux has appointed ‘Spiced Honey’ as the colour of the year 2019, as part of the brand’s industry-acclaimed ColourFutures trend forecast. Spriced Honey is a versatile shade filled with warm and inviting tones of amber and rich caramel.

“2018 was an unsettling and unpredictable time,’ says Dulux. ‘We were overwhelmed by the deluge of news, choices and demands upon our time, causing us to close up and retreat into spaces where we feel safe and cocooned. We pressed pause and took time to regroup.”

“As we move forward into 2019, we find this pause has given people time to re-energise and deal with the sense of unpredictability with positive action, optimism and purpose. If the unpredictability of last year forced people to retreat and regroup, 2019 is the time for their awakening. We are ready to ‘Let in the Light’.”

Other paint brands such as Jotun have similar shades in their new colour palette for 2019. Jotun’s RAW-Palette we find warm earth colors, neutral gray shades and burnt reddish tones.

LADY 12085 Rural

LADY Pure Color 20118 Amber Red och 12075 Soothing Beige

LADY Pure Color 20120 Organic Red

Jotun’s color palette consists of warm earth colors, neutral, gray shades and burnt reddish tones.

I interpret this colour trend as a return to a basic lifestyle and a need to connect and strengthen contact with the earthly, rustic and genuine. Back to our roots, back to our caves. Perhaps our days of cocooning aren’t over yet?

Photos courtesy: Dulux and Jotun (photo:Line Klein Studio and styling: Kråkvik & D’Orazio)

Inspiration from Formex

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

The main trend seminar at this season’s Formex, was held by one of our times greatest trend analyst Lilly Berelovich from the New York-based trend agency FS Creative. I was so excited to find that many of the influences and tendencies she shared with us, show up in the homes of my book Home Life Around the World. The slow living trend is something that many of us yearn for in the busy and fast paced life of today. The chapter Wabi Sabi in Brooklyn highlight the love of handmade craft and embrace the idea of the imperfect. Healing Spaces celebrate the patina and aged beauty of furniture that have had an earlier life. In pursuit of happiness we seek to reconnect and live a life in harmony with nature as in Living Off-the-Grid. Realising the importance of silence in the chapter A peaceful Haven and creating an equilibrium in life in Visual Quietness, both show us ways to keep us connected with ourselves. The chapters Consciously Minimal and Industrial living are perfect examples of how work and home life are interconnected in the freelance culture of today. The chapter Accommodating Home is about family centric life and creating a place at home to gather and inspire people. The other homes in the book are equally inspiring examples of life at home. I’m happy that my contribution with this book seems to be relevant not only in current times but also for the future.

Trend-setting UK based designer Abigail Ahern held another talk about her eclectic interior design style. She was invited by Formex as the guest creator for the main entrance show room and created a space with a feeling of a camp site in a rainforest with masses of her signature ‘faux botanicals’, she developed together with her sister Gemma, a professional florist.

Formex invited Keiji Otani, textile designer and creator behind La+h from Tokyo, as a part of celebrating 150 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Japan.

The exhibition was curated by Swedish designer and weaver Åsa Pärsson and also featured design and craft work created by Japanese artisans working in Sweden today.

Glass blower Yoko Yamano Andersson has a Master’s degree from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and works on collaborative projects with restaurants in Sweden, Japan and other countries in Europe.

Ceramic artist Masayoshi Oya studied ceramics in Japan, studied at Capellagården and also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design at the university of Gothenburg. He works primarily with practical objects and is a member of Kaolin.

And here are some of the highlights of the fair that are my favourites.

The fine art prints of plant portraits of Karl Blossfeldt is a clear favourite. Blossfeldt taught sculpture and his photo collection was used to teach his students about the patterns of nature, but after his work was exhibited in Berlin in 1926, the teacher became an artist. They are amazing don’t you think?

The sculptures of Danish Malene Bjelke I simply adored! Bjelke who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1993, creates simple but expressive figures that portray human archetypes of all ages.

And lastly the Swedish Master potter Stefan Andersson exhibited his ceramics, that get their unique character and colour variations through a special burning technique in his wood fired oven. He works closely with the three star Michelin-rated restaurant Franzén in Stockholm.
A great example of craftsmanship, the uniquely handmade, crafted to last objects that are so in tune with the current times.

Book release!

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

Book release! So happy to share this labour of love at last! Thank you all for helping me celebrate last night at Äppelvikens Bokhandel!

I’m thrilled to bits, touched and overwhelmed at the respons Home Life Around the World has received!

Here are some snapshots from the evening.

Showing my world tour that was the foundation for the book.

I enjoyed sharing the thought behind my book. These are all the wonderful people who generously opened the doors to their homes and shared their stories with me.

The author hard at work at the serious business of dedicating books. Such a delightful task!

It’s so great to have supportive friends around you!

For those of you who were unable to attend, there will be an opportunity to purchase a dedicated book signed by the author right here on Bohemialife. For yourself or perhaps as a gift? This would be a lovely house warming present. Soon to be featured.

Photocredit: Thank you friends & family!

Reviews

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

Home Life Around the World has been warmly received and I’m so grateful and happy! If you would like to grab a copy for yourself or as a gift, the book details are below. There will be an opportunity to purchase a signed and dedicated copy of the book right here on Bohemialife shortly. Watch this space! Here are some of the wonderful reviews the book has received so far. Thank you everyone who has taken the time to read and review it! Your reviews do so much to help with a book’s success.

“I enjoyed this peek into several people’s home lives, from Africa to South America. While each home had many unique and creative aspects, I found it interesting to focus on what they all had in common: access to greenery or plants, lots of light, effective use of space, and display of a few treasured items instead of holding a lot of stuff. A very soothing read.” San Fransisco Book Review

“The Home & Gardens section of Publishers Weekly, the February 12th issue, sees a shift of emphasis in this genre from aspirational eye candy to authenticity. Books giving people the confidence to create homes that tell their stories. A healthy trend to my way of thinking, and ‘Home Life Around the World’ is definitely a part of it. Not a how-to book, but one that entertains and inspires in its own way. The author has travelled the world to find the homes she presents. The result pulls you in. The homes described in eye-catching photos and perceptive texts belong to creative people based in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Their homes mirror who and what they are, rather than who or what they would rather be. Those of us who never aspired to showcase homes but let our living space take shape gradually and not necessarily as a coherent whole, will probably feel better about the result after reading this author’s foray into home life around the world.” Paul B

“‘Home Life Around the World’ is a beautiful book focused on gorgeous photographs of personal homes of a variety of different professional creatives. I had assumed this would be a coffee table-type book with large photographic spreads and minimal actual written content, but I was completely wrong. Each of the creatives is given several pages to share their story, thoughts, and reflections about their homes and what they hold. This makes for really fascinating reading. The photographs are beautiful, and really do the gorgeous homes justice. I found myself full of envy for a couple of these homes and the owners’ creative genius. I’d highly recommend this book if, like me, you love to have a nosey into the lives of others!” Laura Hainsworth

“I was delighted with this book. Not only are the photos of each home beautiful and inspiring, but the insight from the home owners adds so much more to the ‘tour.’ I loved reading the answers to what inspired each person’s interior design, what their dream home would be like, and what home means to them. These were well thought out questions that allow you to get into the minds of these inspired homeowners and often amateur interior designers. It’s in-depth and personal, yet beautiful.” Yvonne Glasgow

“This book is simply gorgeous. The author lets us into the intimate spaces and minds of various creative people around the world. And as we get to know their homes, we get to know them. Each photo essay is inspirational, giving the reader ideas about their own spaces and their own lives. The book takes you on a design journey and leaves you excited to craft your own design story.” OutlawPoet

“What a beautiful book! I really enjoyed not only the vibrant photography, but also the intimate and thoughtful interviews with each subject. As an aesthetics enthusiast, I greatly enjoyed flipping through the pages. I was able to really get a feel for each location, taking me on a virtual adventure around the world. It was great to get a sense of the design sensibilities of others. It was a fascinating view into how other people like to live and decorate and provided plenty of inspiration for both home decor and travel ideas!” Caitlin

“A beautifully photographed trip around the world, looking at different approaches and tastes in designing our homes. Not a look into the houses of the extremely privileged, but a mix of many types of creative people who have focused on making their homes special and personal. Lots of interesting viewpoints on creating individual spaces to nurture and shelter us. Definitely a book I will keep coming back to.” Brummygirl

“I adored this book. Beijer spends time with people in their homes talking with them about their homes. She asks the same questions of each person and every interview is so different. This book inspired me in so many ways. I am now inspired to do more myself in our own home. So well done – please read this book.” Jeanine

“The book is filled with beautiful photographs to accompany the text. Beijer is skilled at capturing the feel of each home in photos. From brilliant colors to the heights of urban apartment living on the 31st floor of a Hong Kong high-rise, the photos put you in the home, painting the atmosphere and enhancing the text. You can tell that the author put much love and care into creating this book. It is a lovely creation, and one I’m sure to come to again and again. I’m looking forward to Beijer’s next offering.” Kat Kennedy

Home Life Around the World is a gorgeous collection of photographs featuring houses and the stories of the people who live inside. The features that make this book stand out from other home photography collections are the personal stories within. This is filled with fascinating tidbits that turn the photos into a part memoir part history lesson. I read this book on my Kindle and was surprised to discover it is perfectly adapted for that format. While I’m sure the hardcover version is even better for viewing the bold, bright photographs, this is still quite enjoyable as an eBook. This is unique addition to any book collection and the photos are full of inspiration you can return to time and again. Rachel Kamery

“What a glorious book, not because the homes are perfect, but because they reflect the personality of the owners, they are lived in homes, homes that are comfortable and have their own quirky style. They don’t follow trends but are homes that are designed by and for the people living in them. I really like the ease, personality and comfort shown in the living of these homes.” Leyla Johnson

“It is a book that reinforces the value of life and how important it is to create a space that you can be completely you in.” Ann T

“What I particularly liked was the stories of the homeowners themselves; how their homes have become their havens and often an escape from the busy stressful lives that we tend to lead nowadays. (An international version of the Danish concept of ‘hygge’ which has become so popular now). Beautiful photographs illustrate this book – which bring to life the features of the homes that their owners have created. An inspiring and satisfying read!” Zina B

“I would recommend Home Life Around the World to anyone who likes interior decor, and who also likes hearing stories behind those beautiful photos. I see this book as a great coffee table book or a thoughtful gift to someone who is into decorating.” Vera Cady

“This is a book that you won’t finish. It lingers with you and whenever you revisit its pages, it feels like meeting old friends again – and getting new inspiration from them each time.” Stefan O

Hardcover available via Ingram Book Group retailers worldwide such as Barnes & Noble, Foyles, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Adlibris, Booktopia and Amazon.
Hardcover: ISBN 978-91-984455-0-3
eBook available via iBooks Store, Amazon, Kobo and Google Play.
eBook: ISBN 978-91-984455-1-0
Kindle format. ASIN: B079VDPBVF

Living by ear

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

Sam lives in Hong Kong, in a small studio flat on the 31st floor that has its very own private roof terrace with amazing views over the city.

But we meet in Shanghai, where he’s currently on a work assignment. Sam spends much of his time away from Hong Kong for work, but he offers to host me in his apartment when I’m in Hong Kong. I’m happy to accept and look forward to this, as it will give me an opportunity to experience his apartment myself.

We meet at a cafe in the French Concession. Sam tells me a bit about his work as a designer and consultant. When he describes what he does, he uses words like strategy, research, innovation and culture. But mostly, he says, it involves people and problem solving. He spends his days listening to the many layers of his clients. Gathering in-depth information about them and through that knowledge gaining an understanding of what they need.

His motto ‘Living by ear’, reflects this well as it parallels the expression ‘playing by ear’ and it’s obvious that he is passionate about his work.

Sam seems to have an in-depth knowledge of himself, as he has a well-defined picture of who he is and what he needs. And it’s clear that he has thought a lot about how he wants his home to work for him. He becomes just as passionate when he talks about his home as he was when he was talking about his work. This becomes evident as he describes it. The cafe table between us is soon covered with sketches of the layout and of furniture, which he swiftly draws on a legal pad.

He has had his apartment for about six months and it was the views it had from all three sides and the highly sought after outside space that made him choose it. Even though the apartment is only a modest 323 square feet it contains everything one can need. A living room with a sofa and a clever sofa table with built in extra seating, a small kitchen, a queen-size bed, a workspace, a bookcase, a keyboard piano, a small desk, storage for clothes and a bathroom.

When I look at photos of the apartment I notice that the colour scheme is very muted, almost monochrome, in soft browns and beiges.

“Can you elaborate on this?” I ask. “How would you describe your interior design style?”
“Furniture is the frame of life, not the focus,” he says. ”It shouldn’t steal your attention, only support you. So my style could best be described as contemporary and subdued. I’m also pleased how the arrangement of the furniture works as a whole. How I could use what was already there and rearrange it to suit me.”

This is an excerpt from the book Home Life Around the World and is one of the unique and personal homes I visited.

Hardcover available via Ingram Book Group retailers worldwide.
eBook available via iBooks Store, Amazon, Kobo and Google Play.
eBook: ISBN 978-91-984455-1-0
Kindle format. ASIN: B079VDPBVF
Hardcover: ISBN 978-91-984455-0-3

Copyright and photo: Anita Martinez Beijer

Happy Book Birthday!

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

It’s finally the release day for Home Life Around the World! Happy Book Birthday!

The process of making a dream come true has involved if not blood, at least sweat and toil and it has been amazing! Every step of the way has involved exploring unknown paths and at times the learning curve has been steep. But with diligence, single minded focus and sheer stubbornness I got there at the end and result is so rewarding.

What started at the end of 2014 as merely an idea, to explore what a home really means to people, actually involved selling my own home to realise funds to make the project feasible. Then followed a period of thorough research and the first tentative outreach to persons previously unknown, living on every continent. Every place I travelled to, was a place I never before have visited. Everyone I met was a stranger at first. Also, it meant getting the necessary equipment needed to complete the project. As well as acquiring the knowledge how to use these new tools. It has also meant that I have had to learn about a completely new sector of business besides writing – the book industry.

The feeling to be able to actually hold a physical copy of my very first book in my hands three and a half years later is unbelievable sweet! Of course none of this would have been possible without the fantastic people who opened the doors of their homes to a complete stranger, namely me. People who put their trust in me. All of them who I now view as friends. I thank each and every one of you for your generosity, patience and kindness from the bottom of my heart.

I also thank everyone who has been supportive during the process and everyone who has written beautiful reviews. Your reviews do so much to help with a book’s success.

If you love Home Life Around the World as much as I do, please consider helping to spread the word on social media. That would be the most wonderful birthday gift and one that I would appreciate immensely.

iBooks store, Kobo and Google Play: ISBN 978-91-984455-1-0
Amazon: ASIN B079VDPBVF
Hardcover: ISBN 978-91-984455-0-3

Photo credit: Hipster Mum on Unsplash

The cosy home in no 4

Published by Anita Martinez Beijer

A couple of floors up a steep and narrow staircase in an apartment building in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, I find the home of Eyal Cohen. The house is what the Chinese call a ‘walk-up’, a building from the 50-60s with no elevator. The first thing I see as I step inside is a bright and colourful wall made of – egg cartons. It’s a cheering and welcoming sight and a real work of art.

His apartment is fairly spacious for Hong Kong, 575 square feet* and consists of one large room, a kitchen and a bathroom. It’s furnished and decorated by himself and filled with fun and eye-catching things. One wall has an image of a large ostrich with a hat. A full-scale sheep with blue wool is standing on top of a bookshelf. Origami squirrels are playing on a tree trunk on the floor. This is a home whose owner clearly has had a lot of fun whilst decorating it and I’m eager to hear the story behind it.

“Rental apartments here in Hong Kong are usually small and furnished,” he tells me. “Since I always have lived in furnished apartments that are purely functional, I was happy to find that this one was empty. Because this meant that I could create a place that resonates more with myself. A place I could put my heart into. I loved the tiled floors with the industrial imperfect feeling. They manufactured shoes here at one time.”

“Tell me about your ideas about furnishing and decorating your home?”
“This is a large room and I wanted to have a secluded space as a bedroom and I needed storage for my clothes. I came up with the solution to create a wall with cupboards to make a bedroom on one side and have a hallway on the other side. Then I went to the market and picked up egg cartons and covered the entire back of the cupboards with them. As I love colour I painted them with acrylic paint in different hues and added lighting on the top to enhance the effect. As I wanted to somewhat obscure the bed, I positioned a bookshelf as a fourth wall and this made the bedroom semi secluded.”

“I make it up as I go along,” he says. “Take the boxes on the wall. Since I like wine, I had these empty wine boxes and I started to think what I could do with them. I like to collect small things that I call ‘cutesy-stuff’. Some of them go back to my childhood. And especially since going to Japan for many years, with all their cute and cool small things they have there, I have a collection of cutesy-stuff. So I decorated the wine boxes with these, each with it’s own story. One is about my grandparents. My granddad was obsessed with cars. Another one has my parents in it. It’s just for fun, recreating a memory of happy times.”

This is an excerpt from the book Home Life Around the World and is one of the personal homes I visited on my travels.

Release date 15th May.
Home Life Around the World is available for pre-order in iBooks store, Kobo and Google Play. ISBN 978-91-984455-1-0
The book is also available for pre-order in the Kindle format at Amazon. ASIN: B079VDPBVF
Print edition ISBN 978-91-984455-0-3