rustic swedish dining

[cimorene]

I've been told the main difference between Swedish and Finnish farm cottage style is the colours. Swedish cottage style is bright-coloured and the default wood and wall colour is white; for Finns, it's natural wood and dark brown, and in the case of Wax's mom's cottage at Ängisbacka for example, if they don't have natural dark wood, sometimes they'll just paint perfectly good surfaces glossy dark brown. (Seriously, it's so gross.) Most of the rustic decor seen in this magazine and others like it is more colourful than this - one of the feature houses in the Jan issue, and with some of the nicest pictures!, belongs to a woman who's nutty about white decorating. There are several more pages of her all-white craziness, but the diningroom here, I think, is especially beautiful.

Does it mean I'm middle aged (for the record, I'm just 26) that I prefer interior design magazines to fashion magazines? Although actually, it's more that the internet is a more forward-thinking venue for fashion news perhaps. Anyway: Lantliv is my favourite magazine (although in some senses I prefer the urban modernist bright coloured Finnish aesthetic of Deko, Lantliv has a lot more pictures and uh, I can actually read the articles).

Comments

[viggorlijah.livejournal.com]

That is pretty much what my dining room at the new flat will look like, come hell or high water. We're going to be on the 37th floor, with big windows and everything I can will be white or stripped down pale wood and lots and lots of light. Our bedroom is moving towards there and it's so much calmer and more restful than lots of colours ever could.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

I prefer interior design to fashion magazines because fashion magazines are designed and organized in order to systematically destroy the self-esteem of women only to promise them that, with proper application of products and services, they might be worth something.

Interior design magazines promise order and peace and beauty but, at most, are critiquing my organization skills or my color sense, and my having a successfully gorgeous bedroom is never presented as a precondition to being a valuable human being.

So no--not so much middle age as sanity-watching.

Also, I adore those all-white interiors.

[thesewordselope.livejournal.com]

Something about all white and pale wood decor like that makes me think exclusively of old farmhouses. Or that house in Practical Magic. I absolutely adore the effect.

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you notice that Emilie Autumn is coming to Finland in April? Thought you might be interested.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yes I did! I'm definitely planning to go. Wish she wouldn't keep doing all-ages shows though. I hate teenies.