Often, when you take a step in a new direction in one room, it has a knock-on effect on the next room – and before you know it you’re re-doing the entire place! Have you noticed that too?! When my friend (and interior designer) , renovated , she was thrilled with the results and wanted to continue the look through to her sitting room. Her and husband Kasper, didn’t want to invest a huge amount since it’s fairly newly renovated, but still wanted to find a simple way to inject similar colours (sand, grey etc) and natural materials such as linen to give their living space a cohesive look. Since they already had a Karlstad sofa and were very happy with it, – who make beautiful design covers for IKEA furniture – was the ideal solution to bring more linen into the space. Here’s the low down…
You might already be familiar with (I’ve been a partner of theirs for a while and am a huge fan having used their design covers in my and ). But, just in case you’re not – the Swedish brand makes the most beautiful design covers for IKEA sofas and armchairs as well as cushions, curtains and bedroom fabrics (and have over 150 fabrics to choose from – I’m not kidding!). Such an awesome way to make the most of what you already have and give it a whole new lease of life!
Gen chose a cover in which has a craaaazily soft ‘peach-skin’ finish. It’s also really durable and machine washable making it ideal for saucepan lids (for the non-British out there, that’s cockney rhyming slang for ”kids’!). Side-note: Gen’s little girl Olivia is as cute as a button, but even the most angelic of children can leave a fingerprint or too!
Gen was keen for the area to feel cosy, personal and warm. She opted for a sandy wall colour (chosen to match her bedroom) as well as warm natural materials in the form of light wood, soft linen and rattan, with the slightest hint of black and grey (post to follow tomorrow with the complete run down on the furniture, wall colours and light fittings!).
…be still my beating heart!
The combination of natural textures (which include soft linens, cotton, wood, rattan and paper) and muted, earthy tones have such a calming, cosy effect – which was especially important since it’s quite a large open plan room (the is on the other side of the room).
Isn’t it beautiful?! I seriously could have stayed all evening, perhaps the week (like a true surf coucher!). However, we weren’t quite finished with the shoot…
As I mentioned, one of the beauties of Bemz is that you can easily update your furniture. I have a spare linen cover for my sitting room sofa so that if something gets spilled (a regular occurrence in our house – bah!), we can whisk off the covers and throw them in the machine.
As a reserve (and an update as the mood takes her!), Gen went for the . Here it is: same room, same setting:
Aaaaaa, such a lovely space. She’s managed to achieve that illusive super calm, yet super cosy balance!
Which look do you prefer?
Could you imagine hanging out here watching one too many Netflix series too?
If you’d like to achieve a similar look (even if you don’t have an old IKEA sofa or armchair knocking about, you can always pick one up second hand online!) you can find more details . Oh and are offering free shipping exclusively to My Scandinavian Home readers until the end of July with code freeshipmsh (right in time for the mid-season sale too – yay!).
Have a lovely day!
Niki
Photography Niki Brantmark / My Scandinavian Home. Interior Design .
This post is brought to you in collaboration with Bemz, however all words are my own and I only ever work with brands I love and think you will too. Thank you for supporting the businesses that make My Scandinavian Home possible.
Often, when you take a step in a new direction in one room, it has a knock-on effect on the next room – and before you know it you’re re-doing the entire place! Have you noticed that too?! When my friend (and interior designer) , renovated , she was thrilled with the results and wanted to continue the look through to her sitting room. Her and husband Kasper, didn’t want to invest a huge amount since it’s fairly newly renovated, but still wanted to find a simple way to inject similar colours (sand, grey etc) and natural materials such as linen to give their living space a cohesive look. Since they already had a Karlstad sofa and were very happy with it, – who make beautiful design covers for IKEA furniture – was the ideal solution to bring more linen into the space. Here’s the low down…
You might already be familiar with (I’ve been a partner of theirs for a while and am a huge fan having used their design covers in my and ). But, just in case you’re not – the Swedish brand makes the most beautiful design covers for IKEA sofas and armchairs as well as cushions, curtains and bedroom fabrics (and have over 150 fabrics to choose from – I’m not kidding!). Such an awesome way to make the most of what you already have and give it a whole new lease of life!
Gen chose a cover in which has a craaaazily soft ‘peach-skin’ finish. It’s also really durable and machine washable making it ideal for saucepan lids (for the non-British out there, that’s cockney rhyming slang for ”kids’!). Side-note: Gen’s little girl Olivia is as cute as a button, but even the most angelic of children can leave a fingerprint or too!
Gen was keen for the area to feel cosy, personal and warm. She opted for a sandy wall colour (chosen to match her bedroom) as well as warm natural materials in the form of light wood, soft linen and rattan, with the slightest hint of black and grey (post to follow tomorrow with the complete run down on the furniture, wall colours and light fittings!).
…be still my beating heart!
The combination of natural textures (which include soft linens, cotton, wood, rattan and paper) and muted, earthy tones have such a calming, cosy effect – which was especially important since it’s quite a large open plan room (the is on the other side of the room).
Isn’t it beautiful?! I seriously could have stayed all evening, perhaps the week (like a true surf coucher!). However, we weren’t quite finished with the shoot…
As I mentioned, one of the beauties of Bemz is that you can easily update your furniture. I have a spare linen cover for my sitting room sofa so that if something gets spilled (a regular occurrence in our house – bah!), we can whisk off the covers and throw them in the machine.
As a reserve (and an update as the mood takes her!), Gen went for the . Here it is: same room, same setting:
Aaaaaa, such a lovely space. She’s managed to achieve that illusive super calm, yet super cosy balance!
Which look do you prefer?
Could you imagine hanging out here watching one too many Netflix series too?
If you’d like to achieve a similar look (even if you don’t have an old IKEA sofa or armchair knocking about, you can always pick one up second hand online!) you can find more details . Oh and are offering free shipping exclusively to My Scandinavian Home readers until the end of July with code freeshipmsh (right in time for the mid-season sale too – yay!).
Have a lovely day!
Niki
Photography Niki Brantmark / My Scandinavian Home. Interior Design .
This post is brought to you in collaboration with Bemz, however all words are my own and I only ever work with brands I love and think you will too. Thank you for supporting the businesses that make My Scandinavian Home possible.
