A new atmosphere for a new school year

All the french magazines have special issues in September dedicated to kids' return to school.
A great opportunity for the magazines to present new decors and atmospheres for kids bedroom. Get inspired !
Above a huge wall decal by Mimilou and a fun rug from the trendy store for kids Balouga.

It will be fun to do homeworks with an industrial lamp from fly and a great desk from Balouga store, great to mix with a vintage school chair.

Time to have a rest in a XXL cushion...

An ecofriendly bed from Nonjetable.

A coloring atmosphere with a fun wall paper which can be colored by the kids, a desk on which you can write with chalks and a fun chair from Habitat.
With such interiors, kids won't be sad to go back to school.
Pictures: Elle, Journal de la maison

New for Fall

The New collection arrived on Comptoir d'enfance designed by all our favorite French brands: Petit Pan, Airdeje, Poisson bulle, La queue du chat...


Create a French style decor with flowers garlands, cute cushions, wall decals with magic animals and japanese characters by Poisson bulle or decorative kites by Petit Pan. Warm up your little ones with our organic and soft organic babywear.

From above you will find refined sleeping bags, canvas bucket for toys

Enjoy a 10% discount on your order with the coupon promo10 !

Home sweet home in Paris

For its September issue, the French edition of Marie-Claire magazine has a special "kids book" with pretty fashion and decorating pages.
In the fashion pages, you can discover the trends of the season (post to follow)
For the kids' interior section, the journalists visited the apartment of Valerie who lives with her three children, Rose, 18, Simon, 14, and Ella, 10 years.
In this Haussmann-style apartment near the Place de la Republique in Paris, she moves the decoration according to their age while keeping some basic principles: vintage beds, hand-made furniture and walls colors who remain in the same tone for a harmonious interior.

I love the little details such as,

the lights garland that warms Ella's teddy bears,

the hand-made storage customized by the small bazaar.

I also like her shopping ideas such as the vintage bed from the parisian shop Serendipity and the post office desk ( la redoute New Collection),

the Tolix chair and the black wardrobe painted in black to be able to write on it with chalks.
That's the children part of the apartment.

For common parts, Valerie warms the atmosphere with trays of different candles,

and gathers her little family in a countryside style dining room, which mixes harmoniously family furniture and modern lighting.


Une jolie réussite !

Before... After

I am still for ten days in Paris and I want to make lots of decorating ideas. I discovered the new section bienvenue chez Vous from the website of the French magazine Marie-Claire Maison: I got Plenty of ideas and inspirations in few clicks!
I selected some of the advice given by the team of the magazine to their readers, and easy to reproduce to restore life to your interior.
Above, to add a "night" section in the living-room and maintain a great circulation in the room, the sofa has been expanded and pressed against the wall in the longitudinal direction. Two shelves have been placed on each side. They act as bookshelves, day armrests and bedside tables by night.
The back of the sofa has been made with an extralarge frame covered by a piece of linen.
Beautiful linen from The sensitive and Nana Ki, a white lamp from IKEA and pillows by Nana Ki and " Caravane Chambre 19" add colors and a geat night and day atmosphere to the large bed, also used as a sofa during the day.




Above, the creation of a small and cozy reading area with a curtain, from the tissue "tie and die" brought from a travel, shelves for storing art books and Travel guides, a lamp "Cornette" from the French designers Tse & Tse, and a garland of light have been suspended for perfect lighting moments of reading.

Last clever design: an office in a corner of a living-room.



The new corner of the room is well organized and nicely colored. The vintage sign that was abandoned on the top of the old shelves is now hung on the wall just above the desk. Finally, a pink desk lamp pink (by Jieldé in Sentou gallery), a boiled wool rug (Muskhane) and a few cushions on the sofa (BHV)add an harmony of tones.
Shopping: 3 shops for fabrics and decoration to discover in Paris and you will travel with their ethnic inspirations:
Caravane chambre 19, 19 rue St-Nicolas, 75012 Paris
Nana Ki, 8 rue de l'Odéon, 75006 Paris
Muskhane, 3 rue Pastourelle, 75003 Paris

Summertime

The French Elle Decoration magazine offers us a beautiful summer issue with the desire to escape to the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Atlantic Ocean .. Above the beautiful terrace of an hotel in Italy who settled in an old tower of the sixteenth century.

In Corsica, a house is completely turned and opened to the sea ..

In Provence the charm of old Bastides is still operating ...

In Cape Town, South Africa, a home near the Atlantic Ocean offers a sober decor, ecological and respectful of nature: ground cement, wood, lime on the walls.
Its decoration consists essentially of small details with elements broughts by the Ocean: garlandss of shells, driftwood ...

And here some ideas to bring shadow on your deck or balcony and enjoy a cool summer...


Happy holidays!

They talk about us !

Our little shop of french items fr kids Comptoir d'enfance had two great reviews recently on two famous US blog:
Celebrity baby blog from People magazine for our Wall decals from Les invasions ephemeres
and the trendy Cool mom picks!



Enjoy their discount coupons on our boutique!

Summer holidays atmospheres

After many posts on French interiors, here's one on beautiful maritime atmospheres found on the US boutique Anthropologie and the english one Toast. I love the mix above of factory style and martitime atmospheres proposed by Anthropologie this month.

I also fall in love with these three bedrooms proposed by Toast... It makes me think of Greek islands, mediterranean sea... the perfect ambience for Summer holidays full of farniente !

Daddy cool!

The new Milk magazine issue arrived in France ... a special Father's day issue in which we can enjoy charming fashion pictures.


Also a beautiful travel through the open spaces in Texas.

Thanks to the Shopping pages I discovered two new shops in Paris for children: a new Antik Batik boutique in the Marais and le petit bazar, a green new store full of eco-friendly products.

Read also the exhibitions and travel pages to find great ideas to spend the summer in Paris with your kids.

Antik Batik, 1134 rue vieille du temple, 75003 paris
Le petit bazar, 128 avenue Emile Zola, 75015 Paris