I think this beautiful Swedish apartment looks so cozy and inviting. The walls are kept white, yet because of the beige linen curtains*, natural furniture and warm accents in the prints and accessories, this home looks very warm.

The vintage accessories like the standing lamp, nightstand by the bed and other small items give this home character and the use of prints adds personality. 

I love the long oval dining table with the beige linen tablecloth* in the kitchen, which fits perfectly in this narrow space. The light oak chairs fit this look like a glove and the oak wall shelf high up on the wall adds a spot for decor items without taking away space from the already narrow seating area.

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The exposed brick walls in this beautiful Swedish home are a great feature on their own and add a very warm tint to the color palette of the apartment with otherwise white walls and floors. The colors of the decor have been kept clean and simple as well, with tints of beige, grey and black for a neutral palette that fits very nicely with the warmth coming from the walls.

The black kitchen really stands out against the white floors and walls and the black dining chairs enhance this contrast even more.

Two small workspaces have been added in this home: one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen next to the window. I love how you can even see this new trend of working from home in the homes that are for sale. We really are changing up the way we work and it’s having an effect on the way we decorate our places.

Styled by Grey Deco, photographed by Anders Bergstedt for Alvhem

It’s one thing to be able to live in a place like this with these industrial styled details and large windows that let in the most beautiful daylight, it’s a whole other thing to make this space work as a home. I think this living kitchen works so nicely in this space and even though it has a very industrial look, a cozy and home-like feeling was created by the use of different materials.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Styled by Emma Fischer, photographed by Anders Bergstedt for Alvhem

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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.

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