How did you lot notice the house?
"Actually, the trouble solid was inwards an expanse nosotros weren't rattling interested in, but nosotros met the estate agent out on a cross-country ski runway as well as she told us nosotros must come upwards as well as human face at a trouble solid that was coming out on the marketplace position a few days later. When nosotros were at the viewing I to a greater extent than oftentimes than non went roughly swearing!! We set inwards a bid means nether the bespeak toll (but the maximum nosotros could afford), never expecting to instruct it. So when the estate agent called to say it was ours, nosotros only couldn't believe it! The seller chose us over the higher bidder!
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Did you lot cause got a potent vision of how you lot wanted to decorate it?
After the bidding, nosotros went on honeymoon as well as I lay on a Sun lounger dreaming close the house. Built inwards the 1850, it was total of lite as well as felt cosy as well as welcoming fifty-fifty though the rooms were large. When nosotros arrived habitation nosotros got the keys which was i of the happiest days of my life!
What form of improvements cause got you lot made?
Over the lastly vi years, we've made a serial of pocket-sized as well as bigger changes. We've to a greater extent than oftentimes than non carried them out ourselves, amongst a piddling help from our parents - as well as ever on a depression budget. We didn't genuinely innovation this inwards advance - it was to a greater extent than that nosotros were careful to ensure each projection cost every bit piddling every bit possible. Often you lot don't demand to produce re-do everything to brand a large change, colouring fabric is a swell means to transform a room!
How would you lot pull your style?
I cause got quite a varied style: a piddling vintage, a piddling bohemian, nordic, fine art deco - all inwards a crazy, eclectic mix! I yet mean value that the aesthetic is fairly swedish: it's quite mutual to mix novel as well as minute manus pieces to create a cosy living space.
The wallpaper inwards Jennie's bedchamber was a flea-market find. Etsy is a swell source for vintage wallpaper.
I authorities annotation from your Elfvinggården blog as well as instagram that you're a flake of a dab manus at DIY, cause got you lot ever been creative?
I love DIY! We cause got loads of slice of furniture such every bit armchairs as well as sofas which I've pimped upwards amongst the help of novel legs. I'm ever collecting sometime pieces fifty-fifty if they're inwards demand of restoring. I experience it's inwards my blood every bit my grandmother was also a collector - I believe everything tin live given a novel lease of life!
What produce you lot love the most close your home?
It's hard to set my finger on it, I love as well as then many things close it! That it's old, the handblown drinking glass windows, the large light-filled stairway that allows infinite for my love carpenter's bench, the mature garden - everything plant together to give the trouble solid a wonderful feel!
Right straightaway we're edifice a chicken coop (we were hoping to cause got it create inwards fourth dimension for summertime but never mind!). We're also dreaming close edifice a terrace as well as greenhouse!
And finally, produce you lot cause got whatever favourite Swedish blogs you lot tin recommend?
I wishing I had to a greater extent than fourth dimension to read blogs, but Krickelin, Elsa Billgren as well as Mokkasin are some of my favourites!
Loving this hallway floor, it's as well as then striking as well as relatively slow to create!
For to a greater extent than pictures check-out Jennie's inspiring Elfvinggården blog as well as instagram where she documents her latest habitation improvements.
Is anyone else dreaming close a similar renovation projection - or uncomplicated acquiring i of these incredible 19th century Swedish manor houses? Imagine!
Just inwards representative - you lot mightiness also similar to cause got a peek at this 19th century trouble solid on Gotland, an old Swedish trouble solid amongst an outdoor oasis as well as a beautiful habitation inwards Malmö.
Have a lovely day!
Niki
PS We're yet inwards vacation vogue hither inwards Sweden (currently on the stunning Danish isle of Anholt inwards the middle of the Kattegatt sea) - I promise you lot don't hear that I volition perish on to weblog every other solar daytime during the holidays inwards gild to pass a piddling to a greater extent than fourth dimension amongst the human being as well as our crazies!I promise you're enjoying some downwardly fourth dimension too!