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Tina Frey Designs Urban Garden Collection + giveaway!

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 23 April 2015

Tina Frey Designs just launched a new collection called the Urban Garden Collection. Known for her smooth homeware designs in resin, this new collection is all about the outdoors and includes different plant pots, bowls, champagne buckets and even swings!

Each item is designed and hand sculpted by Tina Frey in San Francisco. Sculpting starts with an idea that is cohesive with the rest of the collection. When the clay design is completed, hand-made molds are created for each object. The molds are used to cast each item individually by hand in small batches by color. Slight color variations between batches contribute to the beauty and uniqueness of each piece. After the pieces are cast and removed from the mold, they are hand sanded. They are truly made with care. The shapes are inspired by organic forms in nature and objects found in travels around the world. The colors are inspired by delicious translucent popsicles, candies, and jelly beans.

The items from Tina Frey’s Urban Garden collection fit in all kinds of urban jungles: whether you prefer a black & white Scandi style, or pops of bright colors, these planters and bowls will bring a nice and chic handmade touch to your home. Of course we had a go and styled a hanging planter and a large bowl ourselves. These super smooth resin beauties became a swinging planter for Igor’s Munich abode and a mini succulent garden in Judith’s French home:

The Hanging Square Vessel 15 is perfect for any kind of small or medium plant, like the Pothos plant Igor used here, or some Ivy vines or Senecio rowleyanus. The Large Square Bowl can be used for small plants that don’t need a lot of depth like succulents and small cacti. Or you can use it as a fruit or salad bowl!

In line with the upcoming April Edition of Urban Jungle Bloggers: “Offer a plant to a friend”, we are giving away two items from Tina Frey Designs! You can win a Hanging Square Vessel 15 in white (value 100$) on Happy Interior Blog and a Large Square Bowl in white (value 85$) on JOELIX.com. Simply leave a comment there with your favorite item from the Tina Frey Designs store for a chance to win one of these hand sculpted beauties:

This giveaway was open worldwide from Monday, April 20th until Sunday, April 26th, on JOELIX.com and Happy Interior Blog and is now closed. The winner of the hanging planter is Nikola an the winner of the large bowl is Maria. Thank you all for playing!

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Planty Product

Granit + Green

Post author By Igor Josifovic
Post date 17 April 2015

Granit is a very popular and well-known home decor store in Sweden. Recently they have made their first move out of their native Scandinavian habitat and opened the first store out of Sweden in Cologne, Germany. And we Urban Jungle Bloggers could not NOT notice the fantastic range of products for green loving folks!

Here are just a few of our Urban Jungle Bloggers favorites. So if you are lucky enough to find yourself in Stockholm or Cologne, don’t miss the chance to get one of those goodies for your own urban jungle. For the rest of us, let’s imagine those goodies in our home and let’s hope that Granit opens more stores across Europe.

Photography via Granit

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Tags Garden Accessories, Granit, Green Accessories, Hanging Planters, Plant Pots, Planters, urban gardening, Urban Jungle

Book review Giveaway

Shed Decor Book Review + Giveaway

Post author By Igor Josifovic
Post date 9 April 2015
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As Urban Jungle Bloggers few of us will have a proper garden shed. But we can dream of one, right? Many of us have creative corners at home, workplaces where we get new ideas, where we style and decorate. The new book ‘Shed Decor’ by Sally Coulthard is another title you should add to your interior loving (and plant loving) library – no matter whether you have a garden shed or not.

The book’s subtitle reads: How to decorate and furnish your favorite garden room. Some of you might be lucky enough to have a garden room, others will dream of a garden room when reading this book (if you don’t dream of one already). The book gives inspiration and ideas how to decorate and furnish outdoor rooms and garden sheds to create beautiful and useable living or work spaces.

The book is structured in two parts – the first showcases various shed decor styles while the second deals with shed decor basics. Each style section is accompanied by an ‘Essentials’ section with shopping tips to easily recreate the style in your own shed and case studies to give you a real-life idea. The shed decor basics part features all elements of interior styling spanning from fabrics, flooring, walls, furniture and more.

If you like to get more inspiration and extend your interior design library, you can simply win a copy of ‘Shed Decor’ here on Urban Jungle Bloggers. All you have to do is leave a comment under this blog post until April 16, 2015. The giveaway is open worldwide. This giveaway has closed now and the winner has been contacted by email. Thank you everybody for joining in!

Shed Decor by Sally Coulthard, published by Jacqui Small

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Tags Book Review, Decorate, Garden Room, giveaway, Shed Decor, Win

Planty Inspiration

Our videos for the IKEA Go Green campaign

Post author By Igor Josifovic
Post date 3 April 2015

A few weeks ago we announced our collaboration with IKEA Germany for their current IKEA Go Green campaign and we teamed up with them to show you their brand new range of products for real Urban Jungle Bloggers in our homes. We have shared the stories HERE.

Currently you can also see our stylings and statements on the IKEA Germany website including our videos that we shot in both Munich and Paris. Take a look and we hope you’ll feel inspired to live with even more greens! See the campaign HERE.

We also run a styling challenge on Instagram where you are more than invited to join in! All you have to do is share a picture of your plant(s) with any kind of IKEA product (this could be a Billy shelf, a table, a vase, a planter, up to you) and tag your image with the following hashtags: #IKEAgogreen #IKEAmachgrün #urbanjunglebloggers. All images uploaded until April 5th 2015 will be in the draw for three amazing packages with goodies from IKEA’s new outdoor collection. Join in! We are looking forward to all your green inspiration on Instagram!
This challenge is now closed. The 3 BIG winners are: Line Stützer, Lucy Ketchin and Antonia Oßwald! Congratulations!

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Planty Inspiration

Easter stylings with plants by Urban Jungle Bloggers

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 22 March 2015

Daffodil bulbs, hyacinths, snowdrops, catkin twigs and Lilies of the Valley – yes spring is here and in only two weeks it’s Easter! Last year’s Hello Spring, Hello Easter topic was so inspiring that we wanted to highlight them today. We hope that the ideas from our Blogger’s community will give you some extra inspiration to join us next Thursday for the 17th Edition of Urban Jungle Bloggers… or to dress your Easter table with plants and decorate your Easter home with greens (and eggs!).

The two images above are by Nic and Barbara, they both added funky hairdos to their Meyer-Lavigne vases and egg cups.

Jillian folded dozens of Easter origami bunnies to spice up her greens and Lauren decided to give her home office a Citrus Spring Cleaning with fresh grapefruit and plants.

Ilaria’s table top styling had a very feminine palette with pastel shades and her Story Hotel mug from Stockholm and Igor set up his brunch table with yellow, blue, grey and green accents for a more masculine look.

Judith used egg shells as temporary planters for her succulents and cacti while Ana turned a bowl by Crate & Barrel into an Easter bowl with succulents and pebbles.

Elena went back to her childhood and styled a green vignette with strawberry plants and wooden eggs and Christina dressed her table in Scandi style to have cake with her daughter.

Or what about pink? Giova styled a corner of her home with pink accessories, plants, succulents and delicious Cadbury eggs and Julia used neon strings for a happy hanging planter with a String of Pearls plant.

Louise created egg-shaped terrariums with tiny little plants as giveaway for her Easter brunch guests and Lou made colorful mini egg planters with cress to hang in her Magnolia branches.

Anuschka chose a beautiful Tillandsia for her Spring styling and added some vintage flower postcards for an eclectic mix. And what’s Easter without a bunny? We loved Valérie‘s cute rabbit Juju that hopped around her green table styling (and nibbled on the Ivy!).

We hope you feel inspired by these blogger stylings and wish you some sunny days ahead to get creative and style up the Easter season with your favorite plants. See you back here on Thursday for more green Easter styling ideas! If you want to join us, you can find all the information right here.

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Tags blogger styling, easter styling, green plants styling for easter, spring plants