A Beautiful, Earthy Stockholm Home with Old World Charm | Smart is Beauty

God morgon (good morning!), I'm stopping by today to share a wonderful apartment in Stockholm with you. Despite the usual architecture - high ceilings, wonderfully large windows etc, this one hits a little differently the others I have shown recently thanks to it's dark wood floor - which is unusual in a Scandinavian home! 

The decor has a wonderful old-world charm about it - especially in the kitchen, where a dark wood floor combines with traditional style cabinets and plenty of wall hung pots and pans giving it a cosy feel. 

Note the blue-grey theme throughout the home - seen on the cabinets, skirting boards, door frames and shelves - creating a beautiful, cohesive feel. A closer inspection will also reveal an old wardrobe transformed into bookshelves, a lovely gallery of photos that goes up and around a door as well as some pretty Kilim rugs which add a sense of warmth.

Let's take a look around. 

Beautiful!

I was actually chatting to an interior design friend the other day about re-painting my house with some subtle new colours, and maybe also the door frames. She was enthusiastic but also told me to exercise a little caution: 'you can get tired of colour quite quickly'. For this reason, I'll need to choose VERY carefully and select colours that a) we love and b) aren't too 'in your face' - preferably earthy nature tones. And also, I'm thinking of painting just the areas that are easy to repaint - like walls! But we'll see.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you have a favourite accent colour in your home? 

And is there anything about this charming home that stood out to you? 

I'm looking forward to reading and responding to comments over a coffee this weekend - it's one of my favourite moments.

But before we all head off, would you like to see a couple of other Scandinavian city apartments ? Here are some from the archive to fall in love with all over again: 

A charming blend of old and new in a Stockholm home

A Copenhagen family home full of books and other treasures

A stunning Norwegian home in many shades of blue

I hope you have enjoyed the tours this week. Have a fabulous couple of days! 

See you Monday!

Niki

Photography Copparstad, styling Andersson for Historiska Hem - found via Nordroom with thanks. 

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