Our white home - a brand new apartment

Writer: Helena Bergström

What about the painting of the apartment? We worked really hard all weekend, but now we're done! Every wall and every ceiling - everything is white. Yesterday the estate agent and the photographer were here and took new pictures. Now we'll see if this more neutral look goes down better with the buyers ...

We have repainted

As you may know, we are in the process of selling our apartment. We are taking one step at a time towards the long journey we plan to make next year. The first step is to sell our apartment and move to something smaller and simpler.

Unfortunately, our apartment was probably a bit for special. I've loved the warm, soft colours, but not enough people have come to the viewings and, according to the estate agent, people want ”bright and fresh”. So now we're painting over all the colours and marbling - everything will be white. It's a bit sad, but we've had eight fantastic years here and now new adventures await!

A lot of work

Peter has been painting late at night. In the early mornings we have got up and continued. Our flat is no picnic to paint. There are skirting boards, mouldings and stucco everywhere. No straight walls to quickly roll over in other words...

Then it can be more work than you originally thought. For example, when we painted the walls white, it turned out that the windows, which we thought were white, were not so white. So now we have to paint them too... White everywhere!

From colour to white ...

We have painted walls, stucco, ceilings and windows. We have also washed curtains and bedspreads, polished crystal lamps and replaced yellowed candles with new white ones ... There are some details left, but the apartment will soon be ready for viewing. Now it has become ”bright and fresh” as the broker wants! Here you can see some details.

If you are wondering, we can tell you that it is Peter who put up all the stucco and mouldings. The chairs we inherited from my grandmother and the mirrors we bought at auction. Do you want to see what the apartment looked like before we repainted?

The kitchen and dining room

In the kitchen we used to have large so-called "mirrors" covered with beautiful dark blue fabric. Now we have torn these down and made these parts of the walls white and smooth. We have also changed from dark blue curtains to white curtains with light-coloured borders.

Living room

In the living room we had a stunning lion yellow ceiling with gold coloured stucco, and equally lion yellow walls. We loved it, but we understand that it may not be a taste that suits everyone. Now both walls and ceiling are white. The stucco on the ceiling is still there, and the walls have been levelled.

The bedroom

The bedroom was also previously in a yellow colour. We kept the yellow curtains and the gold-coloured mirrors, but the walls are now white.

Little bedroom / Billie's room

In Billie's room, Peter had painted the walls as if they were marbled stones. Fantastic! Painting over was a bit sad, but I'm sure this will suit more people. Now the walls are white, with large simple mirrors.