Collage of a woman with a black cockatoo

Designing everyday spaces from the inside out.

Bakkehus brings together pattern design, plant lore, intuition and oracle cards, to help you create a home that feels like you.

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Hey there, I’m Heidi!

I’m a surface pattern designer and a homebody who can’t stop travelling. I love plants, animals, symbolism and reading the world around me.

Most days I’m a five-year-old with a box of crayons, papercut art and cheesy pop on repeat, until my inner grown-up wanders in with her soft spot for Art Nouveau, Danish mid-century furniture and silk scarves. My patterns take shape when the two of them sit down to play, and (mostly) agree.

Round collage of Heidi with yellow and pink flowers

How I got here

Denmark, UK, Australia

Born in Denmark, grew up in the UK, then made a home by a lake in the Snowy Mountains.

Sewing Daisies

My craft blog from 2008, where I taught myself to sew, crochet and print.

Surface design

Printing my own repeats led me to study it properly.

On the road

In 2023 we left Australia to travel. The stories are on the blog.

Portugal

Where I’m drawing now, until the suitcase calls again.

And through all of it, oracle cards. More on those below.

Where the patterns come from

Aveiro, Portugal

Art Nouveau Ginkgo Fan

Inspired by a ginkgo tree I spotted glowing in the sun after a visit to Aveiro’s Art Nouveau Museum, this fan is now ready to shine in your home.

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Close-up of a hand lifting Cute Flower Bats fabric, showing the pink bats, cream flowers and tiny sparkles on dark plum.

Bali, Hong Kong & Penang

How the bats moved in

It started in Bali, watching bats swoop down at dusk to drink from our pool. Then they followed me round Asia, carved into Chinese shrines and old homes like Penang’s Blue Mansion, where bats mean good luck. Eventually I gave them flowers and a pattern of their own: Cute Flower Bats.

Read the Blue Mansion story →

New patterns

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Your home, your personality, no big renovation needed. Start small with a cushion or a tea towel, or go all in with wallpaper, all printed to order on Spoonflower.

Making oracle cards your own

Oracle card journal pages with a collage of flowers and black cockatoos

The other thing I can’t stop doing

23 years of oracle cards

Long before the patterns, there were the cards. I’ve been shuffling them since 2003, and their symbols keep finding their way into my designs. My journals and workbooks help you build your own meanings, one card at a time.

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“Great sheets. I needed something for my oracle cards that weren’t too overwhelming in asking things to write down.”

Debi

“So thorough and great! Print out beautifully. I have multiple oracle decks, and these will be perfect to study one card at a time.”

Kristy

Notes from the blog

Writing on intuition, pattern, symbolism, travel, and everyday observation.

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Designing everyday spaces from the inside out.

Hey there, I’m Heidi!