Interior Stylist Sara Sjogren

I'd like to show you the work of interior stylist Sara Sjogren, mostly contemporary lines and a great use of light and colour. Hope you enjoy my selection.



























More images in her portfolio right here.

Renovated Victorian Barn

A mix of French and Gustavian styles throughout this renovated mid-Victorian barn, which was a working farm building until it was converted in the 1980s. Recently, new owners Christina and Nigel Dickinson gave it a complete internal makeover.



















All images from Period Living.

English Cottage Ready for Christmas

A clearly feminine cottage style with all the pink and floral fabric for this home in England, all spruced up and ready for Christmas.













All images from here.

Interior Designer Jill Brinson

Today we are visiting interior desinger Jill Brinson's renovated cottage home in Atlanta. Hard to believe it is in the heart of a busy city and stands next to a 20-story apartment building. A mix of rustic, traditional and industrial styles, you will see salvaged beams, Moroccan tapestries, steel windows and doors, and lots of different textures.


The outdoor sofa and ottomans were painted gray and upholstered in taupe Sunbrella to harmonize with the stone terrace.


A nine-foot-tall steel door replaced a wood door in the entry. The floor is reclaimed French limestone.


Designer Jill Sharp Brinson and her husband, Rob, renovated the 1936 cottage's old barn beams to define the living room loft and used steel shelves to hold books.


A Moroccan tapestry hangs from the living room loft, between mirrored sconces. The antique French industrial table is one of a pair — the other one is in the entry.


Three layers of white mixed with gray, and a spray-on lacquer finish for the dining room's wall to wall hutch. Dishes are displayed behind chicken wire. Wicker chairs and industrial style table. A Moroccan necklace drapes a mirrored bottle.


A stone faux-bois dining table from France and iron gazebo from Anthropologie sit at the end of the gravel driveway. Brinson planted waves of clipped boxwood, magnolia, hydrangea, anise, and holly to screen out the 20-story building just 15 feet away.


In the kitchen, the tile top on the Martha Stewart table was replaced with Georgia marble. A 14-foot-high arched steel window and door adds drama to the room.




One doorway in the living room is framed with salvaged barn beams, the other with traditional wood trim. Floors are limed ash.


In the library, antique French shutters serve as closet doors.


Upper cabinets were not used in the kitchen so as not to block the view of the garden. The Dijon mustard-coloured slop sink was an online find. A slop sink was originally used and designed for filling and emptying scrub pails, rinsing out mops or soaking laundry. Here it is just used as an every day kitchen sink.


Library walls are upholstered in a crewel fabric from Brinson's extensive textile collection. An array of interesting items are displayed on these old Polish factory shelves.


An antique French writing table is paired with a wing chair.


No curtains required in the master bedroom: The garden screens the room from view. Brinson added steel testers, to raise the bed height, and designed adjustable clip-on reading lights.


The design of the sink base is adapted from a French draper's table Brinson saw in Provence. Faucets in Tuscan Brass complement the antique look.


The Waterworks Cambridge tub was a birthday gift from Brinson's husband. "I wanted it to feel like a trough in an old barn, with the faucet coming directly out of the wall." A mirrored cabinet hides a television.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. See you tomorrow!
All images from House Beautiful.

Cottage in Taby Village

Asa and hubby Hassan used to live in a two-room flat in Stockholm and were thrilled to move to a place surrounded by lots of trees in the quiet village of Taby. They were not too thrilled with the 100 year old house, though. Asa remembers it used to feel like a prison with very small windows and dark gloomy rooms. But the spot was perfect so they decided to take on the renovation adding windows, replacing the small ones and painting most of the walls, inside and out, in light colours.
And this is how it turned out.


Balusters and frames were painted white, the front door and side windows lavender, and the wooden steps were left unpainted.


Mostly white kitchen with open shelves displaying colourful ceramic tableware. The bare bricks of one of the walls adds a warm rustic touch.




Lavender painted front doors open directly into the bright living room.


Small dining area on a decked patio between the original house and an extension. Teak table and folding chairs. Fresh herbs are kept in a small wooden crate that hangs on the wall.

A pity there were so few pics. I'd love to see the rest of the rooms!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

All images from here.