Kalliristi

01/06/2026

New month, new season, new beginnings! ❤️🖌️🎨

31/05/2026

Sometimes things fall effortlessly into a fortuitous frame. 🩷

29/05/2026

When my parents built this house about 45 years ago, they fully embraced the folklore-rustic aesthetic they felt suited a mountain home. They loved burgundies and yellows, traditional folk motifs, embroidered textiles, and walls that told stories.

(In another post I’ll show you my mother’s framed embroideries. In this photo, you can spot one of the six embroidered cushions that still decorate this room.)

After they died, the house remained untouched for years—everything exactly where they had left it. My father’s reading glasses still rest on a shelf next to the freezer, where he kept them so he could read his laminated inventory of frozen food. (Yes. I KNOW.)

And for years, I was afraid to change anything. Even though the house belonged to me, it didn’t feel like mine. Their presence was everywhere—in every room, in every embroidered cushion, in every doily covering everything but the toilet seat!

It felt somehow wrong to disturb it. Not only because changing things felt like erasing part of them, but because their ownership cast such a long shadow that I almost believed I had no right to challenge it with my own taste.

Renovating this house feels like a delicate dance between my love for clean, simple Scandinavian interiors and my parents’ love for tradition and folklore. How do I make this space my own while still honouring their presence—and their original claim to it? What do I keep, and what do I let go of? How do I allow their presence to remain without letting it overwhelm me or make me sad?

I don’t have the answers yet!

So I take it room by room, corner by corner— sorting through their presence in my mind as I rearrange their presence in the house. You can follow my progress as I post about it every week :)

--In this photo, you can see one small step: I changed the wall colour to a soft green to bring warmth into the room, and toned down the orange of the sofa bed with an easy wood effect.

27/05/2026

Pale blue, buttery yellow, dark burgundy and salmon pink in perfectly distressed harmony 😍

25/05/2026

24/05/2026

The first brush stroke on this old pine door was an act of defiance.
I half expected my dad's ghost to emerge from his old office two meters down the hall to wave his finger at me for ruining perfectly beautiful wood.

And honestly, I never intended to touch the doors. I had planned to leave them exactly as they were: a tribute to my dad’s craftsmanship, with all their orange pine-ness and knotty charm.

At first I told myself, I’ll just paint the frame to match the wall. And that was fine.

But then something clicked.

This is my house now. And life’s too short to pretend I like this awful orange wood. 😁

I dipped my brush into the paint and covered the first panel. Then the next. And the next.

I do not care for waving fingers or inherited rules about what must remain untouched. I dipped my brush into the paint and covered the first panel. Then the next. And the next.

Before I knew it, the whole door was green.

And absolutely beautiful! 🎨🖌🥰

#χρώμακιμωλίας

22/05/2026

"Goodbye, yellow brick road."
A random sprinkle of petals should be enough to arrest your step.
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20/04/2026

😽 Ποτέ δεν τρελαινόμουν για γάτες, ή σκύλους, ή κατοικίδια γενικότερα. Δε μεγάλωσα με ζώα.

🐈 Αλλά τις γάτες δεν τις νοιάζει αυτό. Απλώς διαλέγουν ποιος θα τις φροντίζει και άπαξ και το αποφασίσουν κατσικώνονται μέχρι να τις υιοθετήσεις.

Και μετά έχεις μόνιμα κάποιον να σου διαλύει τις γλάστρες, να σου γεμίζει τρίχες τα μαξιλάρια του μπαλκονιού, να γκρινιάζει έξω από τη μπαλκονόπορτα μέχρι να τον ταϊσεις και, κάπου κάπου, να σου δίνει και λίγη τρυφερότητα, γιατί είναι έξυπνα τα γατιά, και καταλαβαίνουν πότε είσαι έτοιμος να τους κυνηγήσεις με το ψεκαστήρι γιατί σου διέλυσαν το παχύφυτο - τυχαία ιστορία, καμία σχέση με την πραγματικότητα 😁

🌤️ Καλημέρα, καλή εβδομάδα!

18/04/2026

"I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love" 💛🧡🖌

#χρώμακιμωλίας Re·design with Prima Vintage Paint

15/04/2026

🖌🖌 Τι είναι το Heavy Dry Brush;
Είναι η τεχνική του στεγνού πινέλου αλλά με χοντρό πινέλο, σε μεγαλύτερη επιφάνεια, και πιο εκτεταμένη κάλυψη!

Δείτε το ΔΩΡΕΑΝ βίντεο στο YouTube, ή, αν θέλετε πιο αναλυτικές οδηγίες, εγγραφείτε στο online μάθημά μου στη σελίδα μου εδώ: www.kalliristi.com/kalliristilessons

https://youtu.be/sNdKgyop9lw?si=yCdzYpuG5-EwAdCB

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