A Swedish Maisonette with Period Features and Modern Solutions

In a beautiful late 19th century building in the popular Södermalm area in Stockholm lies this renovated maisonette apartment with period features and contemporary site built solutions.

During the apartment’s renovation work a couple of years ago, the home got a new floor plan with a spacious new kitchen and bathroom on the top floor and the living room and three bedrooms on the lower floor.

You enter the home on the top floor where you’ll find the new kitchen and dining space. This area has been opened up to create one big social room.

The kitchen interior consists of a built-in Boman kitchen with fronts in a light gray-green color and worktops with Silestone “Snowy Ibiza” edging.

The window seat with colorful Hay cushions provide plenty of seating space, so you can socialize while cooking. It also creates and extra seating spot for the dining table, if needed.

You reach the lower floor via a spiral staircase. The staircase is said to originally come from Långholmen prison, where it was left over during a renovation after the prison closed in 1975.

The modest sized living room features the original high skirting boards.

The two biggest bedrooms are on either side of the living room. The master bedroom also features original high skirting boards paired with an oak parquet floor. The shelf above the bed adds plenty of bedside storage space.

This maisonette used to be two separate aparments, and you can see this in this extra hallway with a proper front door. The space is now used as a guest bedroom with a custom plywood loft bed with storage space and a desk.

In the spacious hall, the walls are painted in a gray-green color and the floor has an original whitewashed wooden floor. The walls are adorned with Muuto ‘The Dots’ knobs for hanging space.

styling by Lindholm and photography by Borgelin for Historiska Hem