A Light Turn-of-the-Century Apartment with a Cheerful Color Palette

Let’s take a tour of an almost 130-year-old apartment in Stockholm that is decorated in a cheerful color palette. The 65-square-meter apartment with two bedrooms has light filled rooms and an open floor plan.

A couple of years ago the apartment was renovated, adding a fresh color palette of blue, green, and warm yellow tones and uncovering the original wooden floorboards that add historic character to the apartment. In the kitchen, a new wooden floor was laid to match with the original boards.

light blue living room wooden table with wooden floor
open plan living room light blue walls

There is only one window in the living room, but the room feels very light thanks to the beautiful light blue shade on the walls which pair so well with the original wooden floor.

light blue walls living room with wooden dining table and bookshelves

The living room is spacious with space for a large dining table in front of the window and bookshelves on the wall.

light blue living room bookshelves
open living room light blue walls midcentury table

The apartment has a semi-open floor plan, thanks to combining these two rooms natural light flows into the living space from three windows.

open plan living space wooden floorboards
open kitchen with green walls

Even though the kitchen is small, there is plenty of storage space thanks to the double layer of upper cabinets that make the most of the high ceilings.

open kitchen
light blue sitting room
hall wooden floorboards yellow wall
bedroom golden yellow walls

The master bedroom has walls painted in a warm beige shade with yellow undertones. The overall color scheme of the home is continued in this room with the blue cushions and green curtains.

muted yellow bedroom walls
sunny courtyard balcony

The main bedroom gives access to a sunny and spacious courtyard balcony with room for a table and a lounge sofa.

coutyard balcony with table and bench
serene bedroom blue bedding
bedroom detail wooden floor
svenskt tenn clover wallpaper nursery
childrens bedroom green clover wallpaper

The second bedroom is a charming room with a slanted wall and built-in shelves in the niche by the desk. The walls are decorated in the green Svenskt Tenn Clover wallpaper.

desk and built in shelves kids bedroom
kids bedroom with svenskt tenn wallpaper
warm yellow hallway with wooden floor A Light Turn-of-the-Century Apartment with a Cheerful Color Palette

The hallway is a warm and inviting welcome to the apartment with walls painted in a deep yellow shade.

yellow hallway

photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem.