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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).