Ina & Matt: a Dutch design team

This one below is actually a birth announcement. Click the photo to see it larger.

I do enjoy seeing what designers from other countries come up with because they start from such a different vantage point than my own. I was introduced to the work of Dutch design group Ina & Matt on this lovely blog.  They are Ina Meijer and Matthijs van Cruijsen, architects and designers who have created and designed everything from barns in the country to restaurant concepts to corporate events and birth announcements.  Their style is relaxed, primitive/country and colorful. Check out some of the spaces they've designed on their site to see more.

Shots from the home of stylist Anouk Kramer, her husband and 3 children near Amsterdam. I wish they had taken more photos of this home. Seems an interesting example of an interior that looks as if one is living in the past. I don't see anything that really looks like it was made in the past 50 years...I love looking at a home and not being able to immediately peg the decade. (From Milk Magazine August 2008. Photography by Bonnita Postma)