Now it's a houseboat for us, and here we try to mix a bit of a rustic boat feel with modern furnishings in black and silver. It's a sharp contrast to how we decorated our previous apartment. You may remember that we decorated in a turn-of-the-century style: antique furniture and lots of stucco.
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ShareWhy did we choose this style?
Choosing that style was a natural choice when we created our first home together. Peter was interested in marbling and stucco. I liked old furniture and inherited a lot of nice furniture from my grandmother, which she bought at auction.
Stuccoes and "mirrors"
We put stucco on all the ceilings, and ceiling roses in several rooms. We also built high plinths and put up 'mirrors', i.e. mouldings to frame the walls. In the kitchen we covered the mirrors with fabric, as Peter had been inspired to do so by the castles he had visited. Not a single room was white, but we painted in colours like beige and lion yellow.
An ordinary 1940s flat
The apartment is an ordinary 1940s apartment on the ground floor of a residential building in the Sundbyberg. It's not very big either, although it may look that way in some of the estate agents' wide-angle photos. When we were selling, we had to paint over all the colours so that everything was white. Swedes want white walls. But the stucco had to stay!
If you also like stucco, take a look at Stucco & mould. They can help you renovate existing stucco and perhaps add new ones.
Read more: Working hard - renovating apartments and houseboats
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Alexandra says:
Cool. 🙂
05 March 2014 - 9:13
Mr Steve says:
An "ordinary" 1940s apartment. Pretty far from "ordinary" if you ask me.
05 March 2014 - 10:12
Ditte says:
I think that apartment was really cool and different. What work you put in there too. But now in the houseboat, it's fun to find something else and an outlet for your creativity that you absolutely get. I think you have so many clever, stylish and practical ideas. Fun to follow what it will be.
05 March 2014 - 11:30
BP says:
In other words, you lived in a castle. You are so talented. The amount of work you put in - painting a marbled wall with a brush - is incredible!
05 March 2014 - 13:40
ActiveDays says:
But OJ! Impressive!
05 March 2014 - 14:22
admin says:
Steve, haha, yes, I think I mean that it was completely normal before we started "processing" it...
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Ditte, yes, it's actually really fun to have embarked on something completely new!
BP, Peter is amazingly good at marbling, I must say!
05 March 2014 - 19:21
Maria's Memoirs says:
So cool and invested! 🙂 I must admit that I had also chosen white walls, or at least a lighter shade. I might have gotten those colours in fabrics and other details instead 🙂 Because I MUST have colour in my home!
15 May 2016 - 21:01