This beautiful light flooded bedroom with windows on two sides of the bed (such a luxury) has such a fresh look yet is super cozy as well. The beige striped linen bedding combined with the classic floor lamp, the fabric pendant on the ceiling and the white curtains add so much texture to the area where the bed is placed.
The vintage desk stands out so nicely on the opposite side and even though this corner has a rather odd shape, it works perfectly for this purpose. The shelves on the wall are placed on different heights, which offers space for books and works well on these angled walls.
So many people are having to create a spontaneous home office now that working from home became such a common thing. You can transform an area of your dining table, place a small office table in your bedroom or you can transform a basement space like this one into a home office.
I love the way this room is transformed into a warm and inviting space with the nude pink color on the walls. A floating desk was created by mounting a custom-cut wooden plate in between the walls and voila, there you have a home office for two.
Even though I love the paint color on the wall, I’m falling back in love with the simplicity of white walls, which reflect the daylight so nicely just like in this beautiful Swedish home. Through those large windows, decorated with double-layer beige linen curtains, the crisp winter daylight comes through, reflecting off these white walls. The large standing mirror next to the window reflects the daylight throughout the space even more.
The white fabric sofa in the living room combined with the light beige area rug forms a perfect white canvas for all the beige accessories, textiles, and furniture which make the space look warm and inviting.
The white dining table combined with the wooden chairs matches the white and beige color palette and connects the living room with the rest of the apartment, which is kind of oddly shaped but seems to work out well. The kitchen and bedroom share the same angled wall, with the bedroom hidden in a nook behind a white linen curtain.
This beautiful Swedish apartment has a muted natural color palette of wood and natural textiles and green plants adding a fresh touch. The curved windows are such a great feature and the natural light coming through is reflected beautifully by the white walls and soaped wooden flooring.
In the living room, the white sofa combines nicely with the natural colored pillow cases on the sofa. The oversized coffee table really makes a statement and the small side table with the lamp beside the sofa adds a classic touch.
The all-white shaker kitchen features a wooden dining table and the green pendant light hanging above it adds a fresh touch just like the green plants do in the other rooms.
The bedroom is the only room with a wall color and the light grey bedroom shade softens out the space a lot which is enhanced even more by the dusty pink color on the bedsheets.
I introduced you to antoniolupi and their carefully designed and crafted innovations for the bathroom on the blog here before and talked about their Cristalmood innovation in particular in this blogpost. Cristalmood is an in-house creation by antoniolupi as a result of their continuous research. It’s a resin that is manually poured into moulds and sanded manually after extraction to remove all imperfections inside and out and to add brightness to the object. This manual process makes every piece unique, with slight differences in color, size and surface texture. Two sinks of the same design will never be identical.
Antoniolupi has teamed up with designer Marco Piva who created ASTRO and AURA in the Cristalmood material: two freestanding sinks with strong personality and a sculptural presence that define the hierarchy of the environment. Marco Piva wanted to interpret the Cristalmood material – which he describes as ‘almost magical’ – by charging it with emotions. He worked with the relationship between the pure geometry of the container and the soft internal shape of the basin.
The AURA freestanding sink, seen in the first three pictures is a rigorous and essential volume, softened out by the translucency of the Cristalmood material. The perfect geometrical shape looks like it has been ‘carved out’ by the force of the water, which drop by drop, generates the lowering of the AURA basin.
The ASTRO freestanding sink, which you can see in the last four pictures, has a rigorous and essential volume. The design has something of an ice cube that slowly melts and the plays of shadows created by the light define the body and the shape of the piece. The design can be combined with a freestanding tap or with a countertop tap design installed on the surface.
The shape and design of the ASTRO and AURA freestanding sinks would not have been possible without the Cristalmood innovation, which is resistant like stone yet transparent like crystal. Despite being an industrial product, it is durable over time, recyclable, restorable and resistant. ASTRO and AURA sinks are equipped with LED lighting which turns the sinks into an interesting play of shadow and light and enhances the material look of the piece. Depending on which of the 13 Cristalmood colors the design is customised in, the sink can look very different, suitable for different spaces and each color fills the space with a beautiful glow enhanced by the organic shape. The drain is on the floor and the transparent opaque body contains the drain and siphon, hiding them from the outside view.
No matter which color the ASTRO and AURA sinks are crafted in, I think the sinks will undoubtedly be an eye-catching design element in a the bathroom because of their color, clever use of LED lighting and unprecedented use of shape.
This blogpost was written in collaboration with antoniolupi , however all opinions are my own of course. If you would like to know more about the brand and their wide range of bathroom products, make sure to have a look at their website.
This beautiful light flooded apartment with white walls and light flooring is quite simple in its design, yet the beautiful carpentry stands out so nicely throughout the space.
The mint green cabinet in the living room goes along the entire wall, which makes it quite impressive. The leather handles and the white finishing on the bottom and top make it very fresh and elegant and I love that a higher version of the storage is used on the other side of the room.
In the bedroom the same style cabinetry has been used for storage and a little desk has been made out of a cabinet as well, which I think is such a nice and elegant solution.
What I love most about this Swedish home is the beautiful round dining table which seems to be the center of the apartment. The place is decorated with many simple details that make it cozy and characterful, but somehow the eye is drawn to the round wooden dining table from every angle.
The dining room has been placed in an area without any direct sunlight, which has been evened out with a big round mirror reflecting the natural light coming from different directions and a wall light on the other side of the space.
One of the basic interior design rules is that if you want to make a space look bigger, you should work with a light color palette. While true, I also think that a studio home can benefit from lots of character and personality, which can be more easily achieved with a paint color that is a few shades darker.
You can always balance out the wall color by selecting some lighter pieces of furniture and making the Scandinavian interior work in a balanced and harmonious way. And if you are in doubt, you can always go for a feature wall instead of painting the entire room. Keeping a white ceiling like in this place will make your ceilings look taller.
a living room with white floors and dark gray walls
White wood flooring can have a very clean look when combined with all-white walls (see a perfect example here), but it can easily look clinical as well. When working with painted wood floors, you can balance out the look easily by working with a darker wall color like the dark grey that was used for the living room of this small apartment.
The combination of the floor and walls is both moody and fresh somehow and give character to the space. The clean lines of the white sofa with the warm-colored area rug and the brown leather chairs work very nicely against the white floors and the grey walls, while the deep colors of the art prints stand out so nicely against this wall color as well. If you were to use light grey walls in this apartment, I would personally go for a lighter color scheme in the accessories as well to accentuate the reflection of the natural light (like in this beautiful home).
The round vintage dining table works well with the moody look in the rest of the living room and the white of the candle, vase, and pendant really stand out against the dark wall and color of the wood. That’s the advantage of dark walls, everything you place in front of it has a tendency to pop out, which is an added advantage.
Opposed to the sofa, there is a small reading corner, where picture frames are arranged in a small gallery wall which ad so much extra character and visually separates the reading area from the rest of the room. The dark gray walls form the perfect backdrop for these prints in different shades.
The kitchen living space is brightened up both by the white flooring and the white kitchen cabinet fronts so typical for a Scandinavian-style interior. Yet the walls paint balances out all the white.
a bedroom with greige walls and warm accents
The bedroom has been painted in a greige paint color, with accents of muted red adding more warmth. Both the original built-in cabinet as well as the new storage solution have all been painted in the same color as the wall, which gives this room a beautiful tone-on-tone look.
The white flooring gives the impression of more floor space throughout the apartment, which is a nice effect to achieve for anyone that lives in a small apartment. When it comes to small space living, you should always start with the room designs first: selecting the color of the wall, what’s the focal point in the interior and how can the layout work.
The bedroom and living room can are separated by a small hallway, yet you can get a glimpse from the other room when the doors are open. The gray paint of the living room and the soft grey color with warm undertones of the bedroom and living room are different from each other, yet they complement each other in a nice way as well.
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This Swedish home in a warm color palette looks so cozy and inviting. The living room contains both a sofa area and a dining table and both the pendant lamp and the olive tree are statement pieces here. The Kanso tray tables from Please wait to be seated work very nicely against the white furniture and light area rug and I love the vintage table next to the sofa as well.
A dining table was placed in front of the kitchen window, combined with a glass chandelier hanging above it for a more luxurious look and feel, which contrasts nicely with the soft oak wood of both the table and the chairs.
The bedroom has been painted in a very warm beige and both the pendant light, the bedsheets and mixture of pillow cases* match this color palette nicely.
This attic home looks cozy and inviting, but at the same time also very spacious considering it’s small surface because of the high ceilings and the amount of daylight that is coming through those large roof windows.
The small round dining table seems to have the prime spot underneath these windows and it works great in between the open plan kitchen and living area. The living space is small yet works perfectly underneath the sloped roof and when you walk past the kitchen you find a small bedroom decorated with crispy linen in beige and white tints. I love the little bench in front of the bedroom window as well, which kind of functions as a night stand in this case.
