Jugendstil tiles

Yesterday when I visited the secondhand real estate material store, I couldn't resist to not buy at lease a piece of those tiles. So I bought 10 small pieces of their collection. See above pictures.

They are Jugendstil or Art nouveau tiles. They are made around at the end of 18th to begin 19th century.
What I am gonna do with those tiles, I don't know yet but I really love them. There are so many possibilities that you can do with those tiles. I will let you know what it will be.

Enjoy the pictures.

100 years old tiles, antique tile, tegel antik

Today I visited the secondhand real estate material store. It looked like that they are more specialized in tiles. There were old tiles every where. I went crazy... they were so beautiful.
The tiles were from around 18th to 19th century. I have taken a couple of pictures to show you all on this blog. Today it is a bit a rainy day that is why the tiles are dirty. The tiles are lying on the ground outdoor as example.

The funny of it is, those tiles are similar as the tiles are also found and made in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In Indonesia those kind of tiles are famous as "tegel kunci" or kunci tile. The tiles are named after a famous tile factory that wa founded by 2 dutch people in 1920.
The factory is still open till today although it has been taken over by other family and the name of the factory has been changed to Kunci. They are still producing the same motifs and also still using the hand made methods as one century ago. Quiet amazing ha!!!

So enjoy the pictures.

Doors

Local, Traditional meets Simplicity

I love this style dearly, its very basic and stylist. It shows that you appreciate nature, effort, human, quality and fairness. Love it very much.

Traditional luxury

Relaxation in the veranda

There is beauty inside

Old house and living room

Traditional meets simplicity

Antique timbul tiles

A riad in Marrakech

A small piece land of my family

I never have thought that I would buy a piece of land in another city than where I was born. Unexpected I bought it from my mom. The reason of this was to save my small euro save money from the possibly upcoming euro crisis.

The land is in Yogyakarta, a very traditional city on java, the city where my mother and her ancestors were born and grown up. The city is the most touristic city on the island Java.
As the land is a piece of the family heritage it has been divided amount the family. The land that I have bought from my mom is only 130m2. It's situated in a city centre.

I am planning to built a small guest house on this small land. The guest house must be characterful.
Since I have bought this land I have been searching for a lot of ideas how my guest house will be. I don't put any boundary for cultural idea's for my guest house.

Before I have bought this land I have never interested in it, my mother had offer me once a couple years ago but I thought what should I do with that now we are leaving abroad. It could give you more worries because no one could take care of that land.

So funny how the way goes, how the mind can change. It's life... nothing is static... :)

If you want built something on a land then you should have a good look of this piece of land, so I am starting with searching a cheap ticket to fly to the destination. Bummer..... a very good ticket's deal has been closed so now hoping another good deal will come along again.