A nod to Scandinavian Design

I have been meaning to post the photos of a little project that was completed a while back.  This is our room that is our nod to Scandinavian design and features our collected pieces of mid century furniture. It is a space that has been repurposed. We added some  windows that came from a salvage yard to let in more light and moved the position of the door.  It is now the home of our new "library". It is a quiet calm place to spend time reading and relaxing and was supposed to be 'animal free'
although one of our cats has taken a liking to the quiet space so her age brings privilege.

We deliberately chose a mostly neutral scheme, off-white walls and ceiling, black, white and grey fabrics and let the natural timbers of the furniture be the feature. We then searched for some appropriate wall lights and their colour inspired the selection of the carpet.

A corner of our Library showing the Barcelona chair and Eileen Grey side table.

We included a small Parker dining table bought many years ago when this furniture was out of fashion. The dining chairs are Danish as is the sewing table under the window. The bookshelves teak and wire are "String".

A Danish Rosewood secrétaire holds books on language

A longer view showing the bay window that is a lovely place to sit and read.

We settled on "beluga" lights designed by Marc Sadler. They feature beautiful blue coloured glass shades, this became our contrast colour and informed our carpet selection. The four foot long teak sideboard is also by Parker. We paid $50 for it as somebody had painted it black. We stripped it back and re-oiled it as its as good as new.