Lærke, who runs a popular Instagram account and is a sales advisor for Danish fashion brand By Malene Birger, loves to express herself artistically and visually. “Creativity is the focus point of my everyday life,” she writes. And the small apartment in Copenhagen she owns is an expression of her passion for creativity.

“The building is more than 80 years old, which brings out a lot of quirks and beautiful details in the architecture, like rosettes on the ceiling and French glass doors,” she writes. “Since I moved in two years ago, the space has seen its fair share of DIYs and renovation projects. I love that I’m able to mix the 1940s with the 2020s. I’m a firm believer that ‘old meets new’ creates the most integral connection.”

My Style: My style is a mix of Danish design classics, kitsch, colors, patterns, and shapes. By now, I don’t think that anything is too crazy or “too much” for me. I love the odd and sometimes almost “ugly” pieces, which brings out personality and makes the space completely my own.

Inspiration: I find great inspiration in colors, art, patterns, and atmospheres. I cherish the feeling a certain place or situation can contribute, so it’s completely natural for me to think in these lanes when decorating. The color scheme in my bedroom, for example, is inspired by a sunrise and the curtains in my living room evoke a rainbow.

Favorite Element: My favorite element must be my living room! It’s a multifunctional space with room for coziness, clutter, and play. I love the color scheme and the joy it brings me. The living room is a collection of shapes and patterns — a color explosion, if you will, and I always find myself happy and content looking at this space. My friend once drew parallels between my living room and Pippi Longstocking’s Villa Villekulla, a place where norms exist to be broken. That’s the greatest compliment anybody could have ever given me.

Biggest Challenge: The apartment is quite spacious for it to be just me living here, but I still had a hard time figuring out how to fit in all of my ideas and purposes in each room. I tried to overcome it by making the living room a multifunctional space. It’s a television area, dining space, and workspace all in one. I can change the layout of the space regarding the purpose, which has been very helpful!

Proudest DIY: My proudest DIY is my papier-mâché fruits. I made them from scratch, and the design process and the actual execution took me hours. I love the dimensions of them and the childish almost theatrical feeling they bring to the space. So far I’ve made a strawberry, an orange, a pea pod, two cherries, and a banana. I’ve become obsessed.

Biggest Indulgence: My “Secret Garden” rug designed by Poppy Kalas for Layered is a precious possession of mine and my biggest indulgence. The rug was on the top of my wishlist and I enjoy it every single day. It’s formed the framework for the rest of my living room — worth every single penny!

Is there something unique about your home or the way you use it? My passion is to create, therefore my home is filled with furniture, decorations, and art I’ve made myself. For instance, the giant papier-mâché fruits, the tile tables I made with my father, the mirrors in the hallway, and the gold mobile I’ve made with my mother all coexist.

What are your favorite products you have bought for your home and why? I’ve chosen everything carefully and am therefore connected to it all, since everything means something special to me. If I have to highlight something, the rainbow curtains in my living room mean a lot to me. The colors stimulate me and make me feel happy and safe. For me, it’s pure color therapy. The weather in Denmark is often gray and wet, so the idea of the rainbow curtains was to make sure I would always be guaranteed great, sunny weather in here. If it’s dark and cold outside, I can draw the curtains and suddenly I’m in a bubble of warmth, color, and energy. It’s my very own rainbow hideout.

Please describe any helpful, inspiring, brilliant, or just plain useful small space maximizing and/or organizing tips you have: I’m truly an unorganized organizer. No matter how hard I try to become one of those people where everything is labeled and easy to access when needed, I have to surrender to being a mess. If you’re a bit of a collector like me, and an unorganized one as well, I have found that hidden storage space is key. Do you have high ceilings? Then build in shelves to use in that space. Do you have lots of room under your bed? Go ahead and use the storage space under there.

What most people get wrong about using color in their home: That it has to be chaotic and tiring to the eye. It doesn’t! You can achieve just as peaceful and calm a space by using colors as you would white or beige.

What are the biggest tricks/secrets to using color in decor? Stick to a common thread: a certain color scheme, or a color you like that can be the blocker or repeater in your interior. If you wish to fill your space with lots of colors, though, forget about coherence and let the colors speak for themselves. Don’t be scared, take a leap of faith! If it turns out wrong, a re-do is always a possibility.

What’s your favorite wall paint color of all time: I have a hard time choosing, hence why all rooms in my apartment have different wall colors. But, I must say, I love the peachy wall paint color in by bedroom. It’s so warm and inviting, and feels like waking up to an embrace.

Finally, what’s your absolute best home secret or decorating advice? Jump into the crazy ideas, and be completely indifferent to what people may think about you or your decorating style. A home is personal, and the most important thing is that it creates happiness and a feeling of security for you.

• Living Room — Røverkøb “Benguela1C”
• Kitchen — Røverkøb “ Karibik1C”
• Bedroom — Røverkøb “Palermo3B”

• Tile tables — DIY with my father
• Fruit bowl — Finders Keepers
• Books and game on tile tables — Museum Palais de Tokyo
• Candle sticks — Studio Sidselspace
• Pink chair — Verner Panton
• Dining table — HAY
• Dining chairs — Nanna Ditzel
• Plastic side table — YUME CPH
• Blue/white striped vase — HAY
• Purple striped lamp — Stilleben
• Artwork, blue with black birds — Stilleben
• Door mat — HAY
• Papermache fruits — selfmade
• Mushroom stool — Made by my mother
• Magazine holder — Verner Panton
• TV furniture — Normann Copenhagen
• Artwork above TV — Finders Keepers, If walls could talk by Simone Noa Hedal
• Curtains — IKEA
• Banana candle sticks — Kitsch Kitchen
• Small lobster — HAY
• Paper flowers — DIY
• Rug — Poppy Kalas x Layered, Secret Garden, at Finders Keepers
• Couch — Sofa Company
• Couch rug — Magasin
• Pillows on couch — Nomess
• Yellow side table — HAY

• Curtains — IKEA
• Green bedsheets — Søstrene Grene
• Purple bedsheets — Magasin
• Blue striped pillow cases — HAY
• Floral bedsheets and peach pillow cases  — Scintilla Island
• Artwork — Poppy Kalas
• Flower cloud — Holly Flower Studio
• Blue and peach striped bedsheets — Hübsch interior at hyglig.com
• Bedside table — HAY

• Mirrors — DIY
• Bench — IKEA
• Fruits and artwork — DIY

• Colored cans — HAY
• Artwork — My grandfather
• Lamps — Holmegaard
• Dish Towel — Nomess

• Clothing — Odd Lemon in all pictures
• Glassware includes — Zafferano, Edition94, Kiosk48th, Shop Dora, Studio Arhøj, HAY, Julie Ebens, H&M home
• Artwork includes — YUME Copenhagen, Finders Keepers, Stilleben, Astrid Wilson, Louise Dransfeldt, Maladroit, Hein Studio, Evren Tekinoktay, Poppy Kalas

Thanks Lærke Victoria!

This submission’s responses and photos were edited for length/size and clarity.

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