Innholdsfortegnelse for 6th issue 2021 i Jeanne d'Arc Living English Edition

Not one day goes by without me "working". If I’m not writing texts, I come up with new ideas for the magazine or I’m implementing them. I think of ideas for new designs or find inspiration by just driving around, watching interior design programs or surfing the internet. I just can’t help it. I love it! It’s hard for me to describe what’s happening. It doesn’t feel like work. On the contrary. Being creative adds so much energy and joy to my life – it’s indescribable. I just feel very lucky that creativity has become part of my work life as well. I feel very privileged. Still, I felt just the same before I became self-employed. Do you recognize this feeling? To me, being creative has always been pure therapy.…

The loft area of the old mill house, Kærby Mølle, located on our land, had never been used ever since the mill stopped running, and that was a great shame. The place features so much history and the room offers a marvelous view of the lake and the creek. That’s why we decided to start using the loft. The fine, old mill elements still existed and we wanted to preserve them. The same was true for all the beautiful, old beams. We wanted to create a rustic impression so we placed wooden panels on top of the insulation and created a vaulted ceiling. We used standard pinewood boards and patinated them with wax in various colors from Vintage Paint. Just a small tip: we patinated them before installing them! Between…

This bedroom is our guest bedroom at Kærby Mølle. It’s been furnished with a mixture of old metal cupboards, which are great for storage, French treasures and modern textiles. If you combine various colors and structures with, let’s say, old cushions with embroideries and some with flowers, you achieve an informal and relaxed expression. It’s almost kind of bohemian. The bast shades are a left-over from the 80s which have become trendy again and the same goes for the colors orange, yellow and brown, dried flowers and lots of natural materials. Don’t be afraid to mix whatever colors and things you like because that just adds personality and a cozy feel to your home.…

Here, we’ve decorated some decoration cardboard boxes which you can buy in most DIY stores. We started by painting them a couple of times with Vintage Paint until they were completely covered. Once the paint is dry, you can then add your décor transfer motif. Cut out your motif and measure the place where you’d like it to be. Continue by removing the "backing" on the motif and place it on the box. "Rub" the motif onto the box using the included stick until you’re sure that it’s stuck to the box. Now you can remove the top layer of paper on the motif and then your box has been decorated. You can add a layer of varnish or Antique Wax to the box if you want. Have fun!…

ALL RECIPES SERVE 4. STEWED AMARANTH WITH APPLES 6 small apples1 orange2 tbsp maple syrup1 tbsp cold-pressed coconut oilMelted cinnamon STEWED AMARANTH 1½ cup amaranth seeds (soaked in water for at least 8 hours)3 cups fresh, unsweetened almond milk2 tbsp maple syrup1 tsp vanilla powderA pinch of sea saltCoconut flakesPistachios (unsalted and crushed) Heat up the oven to 390°F (200°C). Cut the apples in half. Mix orange juice with syrup and coconut oil. Place the apples on a baking tray and brush them with the orange/maple syrup mixture. Sprinkle cinnamon on top and bake the apples for 20-25 minutes until they turn golden. Pour soaked amaranth seeds, nut milk, vanilla and a pinch of sea salt into a saucepan. Bring the mixture to the boil and let it simmer for…

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You can find wild heather everywhere on the Danish moor. Blossoming heather is incredibly beautiful – especially in late summer. And when you go for a walk in the area, you notice the special smell of heather. You can buy all kinds of heather plants if you’d like to have some in your garden or perhaps in pots by your front door. You can also use heather for making wreaths or just place it in a pot in the living room. Heather is great for drying.…

Hydrangea is a wonderful flower. Most garden and terrace owners love it and it’s a very thankful flower. It blossoms at various times of the year from early spring but it’s definitely most beautiful during late summer or autumn when the incredible, subdued colors are at their height. Hydrangea blossoms for a very long time and if you make sure to buy a good sort, they’re also great for drying. During spring and summer, white and pastel colored hydrangea dominate the garden centers but these ones aren’t suitable for drying. Growing hydrangea in a pot in the garden works very well and I recommend that you try out the sort called Magical Hydrangea because it blossoms for a very long time in a pot and it changes its colors over…

We’re visiting Jacob and Trine Langebæk in their wonderful home from 1921, located north of Copenhagen. The couple has been living here for 25 years. One of the things that they fell for when seeing the house for the first time was the location close to a big park, open forests and the sea. When they took over the place, it hadn’t been renovated for 50 years so they repaired everything, including electricity and plumping, and they almost had to start from scratch to create a house with enough space for four people. The first floor is an open space with small, cozy nooks and just one separate room. The cellar features all three bedrooms, a walk-in-closet and a bathroom. The wooden floors have been painted gray and along with…

Emma decided to try out her idea and started making bouquets which she exhibited in pots and urns whenever she participated in antiques fairs in England. She contacted a flower decorator, whom she liked, and started hosting as many seminars and workshops as possible. Whenever she had some spare time, she bought flowers and practiced her flower arranging skills all day long. She posted pictures of all her creations online and started getting more and more messages from people who wanted to buy her flower arrangements. At some point, she had to choose between antiques and flowers and obviously, the flowers won the race, Emma explains. She still buys antiques but now she keeps them! She’s inspired by all kinds of things, including old furniture and paintings. When she’s driving,…

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It’s easy to make a bouquet using summer flowers from the garden. Of course, you can choose the flowers yourself. I used some of my most wonderful favorites. Dahlia is perfect for bouquets because the compact shape creates a great contrast to the airy and fine Chinese meadow-rue with its small, pure flowers. Umbel flowers fill up the bouquet and come in all shapes and colors. Eucalyptus has a beautiful, gray-silver color that fits so nicely to all other colors. Use miscanthus to add a bit of volume at the top of your bouquet. You can use the spiral technique to tie your bouquet. The stems shouldn’t be crisscrossing each other but must be parallel to each other. As the bouquet gets bigger, the spiral is created. You might want…

Here in Mette’s and Jens’ bedroom, you’ve got the perfect countryside style. They recently furnished the top floor of their house and created lots of rooms so this room has actually just been renovated. The couple is great at renovating in a way that preserves the original style. Panel walls, white-painted wooden flooring and muntin windows create the impression that you’ve just entered a beach hotel from the middle of the 1900s. The wall has been painted with a subdued green color and panel walls have been added. Jens has also installed a nice, old window in the wall towards the hallway to add natural light to the hallway and more atmosphere to the bedroom. The rest of the interior design is very simple. The room offers everything that’s needed…

On the other hand, this bedroom is pure "worn and white" as we know it – and very romantic. The white, peeling metal bed is incredibly beautiful. If you’d like to create the perfect style, chalky white, old cotton bedding and lots of cushions are a must – preferably with fine bobbin lace insertions. You’ll also need lots of lace, both as lace curtains and as a bedstead canopy. Feel free to mix and match whatever you can find. Here, we’ve used a mixture of new lace curtains from an interior design store with fine, old ones with embroideries and bobbin lace. Mixing them is just fine. Add new and old knitted bedspreads and ceramic jugs with flowers inside. Right now, you can choose between lots of different ones –…

Silvia Gloor is an impassioned woman who, amongst other things, works for Jeanne d´Arc Living and assists our customers in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and southern Germany. She’s had a big passion for interior design throughout most of her life and especially as of the age of 17. Each year, Silvia traveled to USA with her parents to visit her sister and here she came across the English magazine "Victoria" which was full of beautiful, old house and interior design tips. At home, the family changed the interior design every week. Still, Silvia decided to study law – something completely different than her passion. She met her husband, Stephan, in USA and they settled down in Switzerland where Silvia came across the antiques and second-hand stores. What a fantastic experience! She’d never…

This is Christine’s fairy tale lavender world! We’re visiting Christine Murphy who’s got a special passion for lavender. She remembers growing up in a home where lavender was used for all kinds of things but it wasn’t until later in life that she realized just how marvelous this herb really is. She started out by making a small lavender area in the garden, adding more and more plants each year, and finally, she had enough plants to be able to make bundles of lavender and scent bags. Christine loves being creative and making all kinds of things with lavender. She’s become an expert at tying French "Bouteilles" which are great for a wardrobe or a coat rack. When she visited a lavender field in Provence for the first time, she…

If I’d like to make my family really happy, I prepare a "pot fried chicken" because that’s truly Danish summer food. It is, however, quite a lot of work, so I’ve come up with an easier version that tastes just as good, using chicken fillets. Whenever the weather allows, the food is served outside underneath the old pergola with the hop. That’s true Danish summer at its best. The recipes serve 4. Enjoy! MUSH ROOM SOUP WITH A LID 1 tray of fresh mushrooms1 chicken broth cube3 cups (700 ml) waterOilFlourSalt and pepper3 fl oz (1 dl) creamA sheet of puff pastry Clean and slice the mushrooms. Fry them well in oil along with salt and pepper. Sprinkle flour on top and add water, broth and cream. Allow the mixture…

Kristen McClarty makes the most beautiful, small pieces of art on textiles using plants that she’s found on the slopes of Cape Town Table Mountain. Kristen McClarty’s ecological print works follow the current trend of simplicity, sustainability and authenticity. She’s taken the long road because she never went to art college or design college. Instead, she had what you’d call a solid and good upbringing in one of South Africa’s country districts, KwaZulu-Natal, and here she was taught the most basic skills such as sewing and identifying all the plants and trees that were growing so plentiful around her. This isn’t only about design but just as much about science – precision, chemistry and biology. Through her pieces of art, Kristen feels that she can document her time and place…

Carla and her husband, Jan, live in a house from 1923 in Boskoop in Holland. They bought the house in 2016 and renovated the entire place. Carla loves the rustic countryside style with dark furniture, raw wood and rustic, old jugs. She softens the style by using nice, soft textiles and lots of marvelous flea market finds. She is particularly fond of her TV cupboard which Jan built out of two old doors from India. The doors are sliding doors and when they’re closed, this piece of furniture doesn’t look like a TV cup board at all. Carla works as a sales person, advisor and purchaser at a furniture store in Zoeterwoude. She turned her hobby into her job 18 years ago and loves surrounding herself with beautiful things. She’s…

A small tip, when you take photos of items or rooms, is to include edges/rims/end pieces. This could be a corner of the room that you’re taking pictures of and it’s also even more important to include the edge of a piece of furniture. It might sound a bit crazy but this adds both lines and depth to your picture and it provides more space – or rather, air – to the object so that you create some kind of frame. On the large picture of the table, a big part of the atmosphere is created by the beautiful and worn table, and that’s why it’s important to include it in the picture. We included one of the corners and then it doesn’t matter that the rest of the table…

For the pictures featuring the big window, Emma decided not to remove focus from the window because it frames the nature so beautifully. Instead, she wanted to increase the effect by using seasonal flora in her creations. The naked twigs and the beautiful shades of brown are mirrored in the impressive decorations. Late summer flowers are used in both the bridal bouquet, the table decorations and the huge golden decoration. This is the most beautiful autumn wedding that you can imagine. No matter which wedding Emma has been asked to plan – because she’s also a wedding planner – she focuses on natural materials and wild arrangements. Her bouquets and decorations are never traditional. She loves letting the flowers speak to her and she lets their natural shape tell her…

When furnishing your bedroom, it’s very important that you do so in a way that makes you feel at home. Going to bed and waking up in a room that feels cozy to you is bound to make you sleep better. On the following pages, we’ll give you lots of inspiration and ideas on how to furnish a room with various styles. The first room is in the home of our Dutch photographer, Sanne Boer, who’ll show you how styling alone makes such a big difference in a room. Sanne tells us that when she and her husband bought this house in December 2019, they went from a house of 1,130 ft2 to one measuring 2,800 ft2 (105 m2 to 260 m2). The new house featured no less than 2…

Mette has furnished the most wonderful guestroom in one of the other farm rooms. The backdrop is the same as in the bedroom, featuring white wooden flooring, beautiful old-style frames and a window in the wall facing the hallway. Here, she’s gone all in with bits and bobs in a more romantic style. The room has only been furnished with antiques and recycled items. The small cupboard has been painted and adorned with flowery wallpaper on the door. A new mattress has been added to the bed but other than that, it’s original and full of wonderful linen and cotton textiles. An old, French garden table has been added to the room as a small makeup table. On top is a small, old item with a practical drawer for makeup…

The bedroom belonging to Grethe and Lars Emmich Marburger offers plenty of space. The couple fell in love with the house in 2015 and bought it straight away. Grethe immediately knew that in this place, she’d be able to make all her dreams come true and luckily, Lars also likes her ideas and enjoys implementing them. The bedroom has a vaulted ceiling that adds an incredible sense of space. The room has been furnished with lots of genuine brocante treasures – Grethe’s big passion. Amongst other things, she bought an old sofa and removed the upholstery, leaving the sofa raw and only adorned with a few pieces of lace and some cushions. In the corner is an old fireplace with the perfect color and lots of patina. Next to the…

Jesse and Jamie Friedberg are a duet in perfect harmony. They live and work together, they’re twins and they’re also each other’s best friend. They started their career by creating memorable meals for selected and picky customers. The two young women live in an old house in Cape Town – a historical, classical house located below Table Mountain, with a long garden path leading up to a fantastic entrance door. "We dropped out of university to open a coffee house instead," Jesse explains. "The lectures were way too boring," Jamie adds. "Although people warned us that making a living with a coffee house isn’t easy, it was our dream coming true." The Friedberg girls quickly became well-known as the creators of delicious and carefully prepared breakfasts and lunches, served by…

Inge has been living with her family in Andijk, Holland, in a detached house from 1925 since 2015. When they bought the house, it was very dilapidated. Throughout the years, it had been used for many different purposes, including anything from a gas station to a bike store. Along with her brother, who’s an entrepreneur, and her dad, Inge and Bart renovated for an entire year. They wanted to keep as many of the original elements as possible and everything else was brought back to the original state, if possible. Amongst other things, they managed to recreate the original look of the wooden beams and ceilings and they reused the old wooden flooring in several places. Inge and Bart have created much of the interior design themselves, including the kitchen.…

Dried flowers last for a very long time and they’re still trendy. They make up a sustainable alternative to fresh bouquets, they last long and you can easily dry them yourself. Perhaps you’ve got some flowers in the garden already and if not, you can probably find a field of flowers where you can pick some flowers to bring home. You can combine dried flowers with flowers and seed heads from the forest or the roadside. Jane Wittrock is well-known for her beautiful cutting flower garden and she dries lots of different flowers from her garden. In this article, she tells us which flowers are particularly suitable for drying and how to do it. Obviously, Jane grows all her flowers without the use of colorants and pesticides. She tells us…

After visiting a confectionery where I saw some decorated cakes in the showcase window, I got the idea of making these cute flower cakes. The cakes in this confectionery were made on cake dummies which are polystyrene cakes that you can decorate just like a real cake but they’ll last a long time so that they can be used as a decoration item in the showcase window. I was allowed to buy a couple of unused polystyrene dummies for my flower experiment. The flower cake looks really cute if you place it on a nice, old dish and use it as a decoration item in your kitchen or in the living room. You can also create a complete cake table and then use it as a decoration item. WHAT YOU…

Our handyman Ole was visiting some friends who were renovating an old barn. The wood that they were going to get rid of had a fantastic, natural patina and colors in shades of gray, green and silver. The wood was carefully removed and brought back to Ole’s workshop. It was brittle and actually unusable but Ole had an idea on how to put it to use. In a few articles, he’ll show you what he did. If you ’ ve got some left-over wood from previous projects lying around, you can easily use them for a small project like this one: a cell phone holder. What you need: Some left-over wood, a stapler, staples. Saw and cutting box, stanley knife, square, protractor, and pencil. Perhaps an electric docking saw. Greaseproof…

A wedding is something very special and that’s what wedding artist Emma Cox has specialized in: underlining this special event through her absolutely fantastic bridal bouquets and wedding decorations. Funnily enough, her trip through the world of flowers began through French antiques because Emma studied design at university and fell in love with French arts from the 1800s. She’s always been fond of sandstone pots, French chinaware, beautiful, old iron urns and the early, magnificent oil paintings with flowery motifs. Many of the things that she found in France were sold to florists and she always used to look longingly at the florists combining these beautiful, old antiques with flowers.…

The last wedding is more colorful with lots of beautiful flowers in shade of claret, rose, pink and brown, combined with all the shades of white. The beautiful wedding table has been laid in an untraditional way directly onto the raw planks, creating a fantastic contrast to the fine service with the golden rim, the beautiful old flatware and the light crystal glasses. If you’d like to see more of Emma’s work and find out how she makes her bouquets, you can visit her on Instagram where you’ll also find her short videos. She still offers workshops and seminars. www.emmacoxfloristry.com The special and magical thing about flowers is that you can combine various color shades and still achieve a beautiful result.…