would love to find night tables like the one in the first picture. Thoughts. Also, the others to me don't really say Scandinavian design - they are all white so seem simple but not really Scandinavian design at all, maybe the last one a bit too.

I very much doubt that you would find the first one in Scandinavia, except in some forgotten cabins in the mountains.

To most os us living here, wood panelling is something that just screams old-fashioned and totally out of style - except then in the cabins.

I do agree that the white + wood is a really nice combination for the bedroom though. I guess we have IKEA to thank for most of our "scandinacian style", without them the style would probably have been quite different.

My Finnish Gramma had beautifully, brightly painted floors with white walls and colorful quilts & wool area rugs--and bare light bulbs with pull strings hanging from them. The bedrooms were named by the color of their floors. The raspberry room, the blue room, the green room. So lovely!

The first photo is very typical Scandinavian log cabin interior look-a-like. The wall looks like it is not paneling but actual logs. These cabins are usually by the lakes and sea, not many "mountains" in Scandinavia. The white bedrooms were not so great examples of Scandinavian design.

I like the 4th and parts of the 5th -- the frame of that bed would drive me insane -- I'd keep hitting body parts on it; it is just too awkward.

While I really like white in bedrooms (I love white bedding, and have a think for much of the Matteo Home collection), but I also want my bedroom to be sexy. And while a bare stripped-down aesthetic can be sexy during a hot summer, it just doesn't do it for me the rest of the year.

That final picture for example, is *not* sexy because hitting body parts on the bed frame is uncomfortable, which is the antithesis of sexy. Also, the rooms needs something warm and textural underfoot (maybe a sheepskin rug). A single dangling overhead light may be a current design trend, but it sure wouldn't give me feel-good vibes if I had to live with it.

The only image that comes even close to being sexy is the 4th, because of the contrasts and stimulating ideas, but I keep thinking that if Ilse Crawford had designed it, it would be perfect.

oops! I have a "thing" for the Matteo Home collections!

All white rooms + cold weather = depression

I like looking at the first one, but am not sure I'd like living with it -- it sort of looks like the inside of a sauna.

thanks, Evergirl. i was wondering if these were 'actual' scandinavian rooms or someone's idea of what a scandinavian room would look like. you answered that quite nicely ; )