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Posts tagged “Sweden”

Henrick's Black & White Swedish Cottage
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Name: Henrick Location: Orust, Sweden I have a cottage on the island Orust in Sweden. Built about 1760, and restored in 2004. The style is New England, with the base in black, white, glass and stai...

A Small Swedish Bedroom

This apartment bedroom in Göteborg, Sweden might be small but it's just brimming with inspiration. If you have a compact bedroom and you're looking for solutions, take heed:...

White Townhouse by Elding Oscarson
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The narrow lot in Landskrona, Sweden stood empty for years — until the architecture firm Elding Oscarson was commissioned to design a home for a couple. The simple white facade uses the scale ...

The Swedish Shakti Mat

Ever longed to lay on a bed of nails but thought — if it only came in orange? Well Santa came early because the Shakti Mat combines the ancient art of acupuncture with modern Swedish design fo...

Filippa's Scandinavian Family Home
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Name: Filippa Location: Stockholm, Sweden Our small house is direct by the waterside, everywhere in the house you can see nature and the sea. Scandinava is dark most of the year therefore we Scand...

Slow Deco: Design to Last
Skona Hem

Swedish design magazine Skona Hem has transferred the ideas of the Slow Food movement to nesting and coined the term Slow Deco — a healthy mix of old and new design classics mixed with Scandin...

Vertical Garden: Trellis House in Sweden

This triangular home from architects Tham & Videgard Hansson has a trellis facade surrounding the entire building — we can't wait to see what it looks like with plants and flowers!...

Swedish Floating Gardens

We've never seen floating gardens before, but we stumbled upon the Landskrona, Sweden Garden Guild contest. Every August, contestants build little garden environments on a raft. And while you might...

Outdoor Shed Made From Windows

This DIY project from Sweden belongs in our earlier Stylish Shed Roundup — Heike’s Outdoor Hideaway was featured on Ohdeedoh (via DesignSponge) late last week and it's a great example of cre...

Swedish Design Contest

click thumbnails for larger pics For the past five weeks, Swedish design blogger and Apartment Therapy reader, Pethra has been designing different rooms for her entry into a design competition for Sw...

Swedish Bedrooms: A White Out

click thumbnails for larger pics Swedish design blogger and Apartment Therapy reader, Pethra let us know about her entry into a design competition for Swedish TV-Channel 5. So far they've designed an...

Nautical Bohemian: A Swedish Cabin

click thumbnails for larger pics Last week we spotted these images of the summer cabin of designer Carouschka Streijiffert taken by photograph Martin Löf on Oh Joy. We haven't been able to stop ...

A Compromise of Swedish Style
sköna hem 3.9.09

click thumbnails for larger pics The design in this Stockholm apartment is the result of compromise between husband and wife. Katja is always on the hunt for beautiful things while Bengt prefers a mo...

House Call: Malo's "Egna Hem"
Stockholm, Sweden

click thumbnails for larger pics Name: Malo Location: just outside Stockholm, Sweden I live with my husband and three children in a small house built in 1932. My house is situated just outside Stock...

Zesty: Light & Stackable Chair by o4i

This just in. We got this chair from the design firm and thought it was particularly attractive and practical. Stacking chairs are RARELY this attractive. The Zesty Chair a brand new, all-plywood c...

AT Survey: How Do You Pronounce IKEA?

We always thought there was one way to say the vaunted word: IKEA, but recently we've been hearing a few different versions. Our first reaction was to laugh privately and write these people off as ju...