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Swedish Style Decorating
Swedish Home Decor Style
Anything pale, light, airy, and lustrous is popular with Swedish style decors. Since pale walls, floors, and furnishings reflect the natural light, interiors decorated with this style are cheerful, calm, and warm even on the darkest winter days.
- Walls, floors, accessories, and furniture are painted or stained in pale tones of white, cream, soft yellow, pale pink, soft green, and dove gray. These surfaces are accented with gold and red.
- After white, blue is the color most often used in Swedish style interiors. The tone reflects or emits the feeling of a clear, fresh day and coordinates easily with the other colors of the Swedish color palette.
- Against the clean white ground, accents of red look fun and bold in Swedish interiors. The color is found in wallpaper, fabrics, stripes, and floral prints.
- Simple woven, textured white fabrics of linen or cotton are common. Textures, stripes, checks, and plaids add more color.
- Patterns used in Swedish decorating are usually color on a white ground. Small floral prints have lots of white ground, too. Stripes, checks, and plaids are almost always white and one other color.
Swedish-Style Furniture
Straight lines and gentle curves combine in Swedish-style furniture.
- Simple light-stained wood or padded headboards are common on beds in Swedish style interiors. Canopy beds are popular and use yards of white fabric mounted on a coronet or hanging from poles or rings on the ceiling. It's common to find a bed tucked into a small cove and trundle beds and day beds are often seen.
- Extra seating is provided by benches of simple, delicate design. Padded cushions and bolsters soften the look.
- Wooden frames and delicate, carved legs are found on a typical Swedish-style sofa.
- Upholstery is simple on seat cushions and back pillows.
- Light-colored hard and soft woods are used for case goods and flooring. Birch, white pine, beech, and alder are readily available and common. Woods are often bleached or painted or stained with white or pale paints.
- Most wooden furniture is painted in white, cream, soft gray, and other delicate, light colors. Stencils are added for color.
- Fluted, delicate legs, carved table borders and mirrors, and beaded edging are common on furniture.
Special Touches
Swedish interiors often include interesting, yet simple, architectural details. Leaded glass windows, high ceilings, wall moldings, hardwood flooring, and traditional Swedish tile stoves are often seen.
- To reflect what little natural light there is, mirrors are found in almost any room. Pairs of wall sconces, either electric or with candles, and simple oval mirrors with delicately carved frames are popular.
- Crystal or painted iron chandeliers, wall sconces, and simple table lamps provide lighting.
- Swags of ribbons, wreath shapes, hearts, sheaves of wheat, and scrolling designs are typical in Swedish interiors. Diamond, circle, and oval shapes are seen often.
- Accessories are kept at a minimum, allowing the open space and light to take center stage. Avoid clutter. Simple straw wreaths, candles, tableware, painted stylized wooden horses, and straw goats are common.
- Simple wreaths hung from ribbons in front of windows or on shelves add informal elegance to rooms decorated in the Swedish style. Wreaths are particularly popular, and the shape provides wall decor and interest to furniture, hardware, and light fixtures.
- White or pale-colored paint and simple wallpaper are common. Narrow moldings, tonal sponge-painting, hand stencils, and small-motif wallpaper are the designs of choice for Swedish interiors.
- Flooring is usually light in color, achieved with pickled or bleached wood, pale paints, or softly stenciled motifs. Low-contrast stripes or geometric shapes are painted on floors with soft colors. Patterns on rugs are achieved with simple woven stripes or open florals.
- Hand stencils are found on walls, doors, and furniture. Colors are delicate with low contrast.
- Fresh flowers are the primary accessory for decorating Swedish interiors. Their simple shapes and delicate colors bring color and freshness to any room. Vases of clear glass or soft, plain white or cream create a beautiful contrast with colorful flowers.
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