"Love me tender" by Annick mertens
At the castle of Alden Biesen, floral designer Annick Mertens from "Onverbloemd" was asked to decorate one a living room in the theme of Music.
Annick who loves colourfulness and the 50 & 60 chose the song "Love me Tender" from Elvis Presley. She decided to rebuild a living room back to those days with nostalgic object. She collected a lot stuff, Old transistor radios, singles, coffee cups, flower vases etc... The whole place had to radiate Love & cosiness.
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Annick has a flower shop called "Onverbloemd" where cosiness, creativity and flowers come in the first place.
So secondly the flowers to use in the room were very important to her. She loves garden roses (even grows some herself) but fot this creation she was happily surprised by beautiful garden roses and special roses from Ecuador from Van Der Deijl Roses and Princess roses.
They were right up here ally, big heads super quality and some with a nostalgic fragrance!
After setting up the room with dotted wallpaper and adding the trinkets from the 50's.. she started to create the structure for the flowers.
First she took a sewer pipe from 2 metres long and diameter of 50 cm en cut it in half.
Than she took Poligonium which was dried for 1 year and cut in in small pieces. It’s color reminded her of a recorder (fluit) form the same time. The pieces were than glued on the sewer pipe to totally cover it. In between the edges she places moss.
Thereafter she created four pillers from Smithers Oasis Cake forms (22cm) placed on top of each other on a bucket. The bucket was also covered with moss and neatly trimmed. In the oasis she placed rolled Gallax leaves. Now the structure was ready add the colourful roses from Van Der Deijl Roses and Princess roses.
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She decided to rebuild a living room back to those days with nostalgic object. She collected a lot stuff, Old transistor radios, singles, coffee cups, flower vases etc... The whole place had to radiate Love & cosiness.
First she took a sewer pipe from 2 metres long and diameter of 50 cm en cut it in half.
Than she took Poligonium which was dried for 1 year and cut in in small pieces. It’s color reminded her of a recorder (fluit) form the same time. The pieces were than glued on the sewer pipe to totally cover it. In between the edges she places moss
Than she took Poligonium which was dried for 1 year and cut in in small pieces. It’s color reminded her of a recorder (fluit) form the same time. The pieces were than glued on the sewer pipe to totally cover it. In between the edges she places moss
First she took a sewer pipe from 2 metres long and diameter of 50 cm en cut it in half.
Than she took Poligonium which was dried for 1 year and cut in in small pieces. It’s color reminded her of a recorder (fluit) form the same time. The pieces were than glued on the sewer pipe to totally cover it. In between the edges she places moss
First she took a sewer pipe from 2 metres long and diameter of 50 cm en cut it in half.
Than she took Poligonium which was dried for 1 year and cut in in small pieces. It’s color reminded her of a recorder (fluit) form the same time. The pieces were than glued on the sewer pipe to totally cover it. In between the edges she places moss
Thereafter she created four pillers from Smithers Oasis Cake forms (22cm) placed on top of each other on a bucket. The bucket was also covered with moss and neatly trimmed. In the oasis she placed rolled Gallax leaves. Now the structure was ready add the colourful roses from Van Der Deijl Roses and Princess roses.
Thereafter she created four pillers from Smithers Oasis Cake forms (22cm) placed on top of each other on a bucket. The bucket was also covered with moss and neatly trimmed. In the oasis she placed rolled Gallax leaves. Now the structure was ready add the colourful roses from Van Der Deijl Roses and Princess roses.
Thereafter she created four pillers from Smithers Oasis Cake forms (22cm) placed on top of each other on a bucket. The bucket was also covered with moss and neatly trimmed. In the oasis she placed rolled Gallax leaves. Now the structure was ready add the colourful roses from Van Der Deijl Roses and Princess roses.
