Inside Beata Heuman's fairytale Swedish farmhouse | Living with Style

foreign and this is how I live with style [Music] I'm an interior designer and product designer based in London but I grew up in the south of Sweden in the countryside here on the farm we now have a house here that I use with my family on holidays the house itself is from the latest 1700s from previous tenants want to do more modern kitchens I think my dad agreed to putting some IKEA cabinets along the bottom and took out the original cupboards which really bothered me and then sort of tried to reinstate the bottom bit to look more like the top bit um this is kind of funky style as it's called in Swedish where you actually see a bit of a frame of the joinery around each store my parents house is right next door and my sister's house is opposite so in a way the house is quite exposed and people are coming in all the time one really nice piece in this kitchen is this amazing coffee machine that's been imported from Italy that my father gave us as a Christmas present that really I think it's just because he wants to come in and have nice coffee with us which he does a lot I mean in general I I don't like ripping things out I like to keep what's here and all the finishes were really lovely the floors in the rest of the house were installed in the 60s and I've actually decided to keep them but just here in the kitchen I wanted to brighten things up a little bit um and the reason why I went for this checkered pattern is because in the bathroom that's opposite that you see through the door we also have a checkered floor so it's kind of against the floor that we installed in the bathroom when I grew up there was a family living here that had a son who's my age in my class called James O'Connor so I have all these memories sitting here in the kitchen um with him eating and the table itself is actually stuffing ice but a lot of time Trucking down it's called verival and it was decided designed by the Swedish design Prince I really I really like this kind of pattern on top of it in particular in the room and it's quite retro and a little Scandinavian 1950s Style so let's go through to the dining room so this is the dining room in a way I've been quite restrained throughout the house in terms of wall colors and I think I felt the house could really take something a lot of like depths and drama I worked with the British company the guano to create this wallpaper which has been hand painted um completely episode for this room I was in love doing big breakfasts in here I've quite big Bakers I do cinnamon buns and I do little pancakes for the children I asked my mother who's very into gardening to write me a long list of all her favorite flowers and that's basically what's been depicted here flowering and all at once which of course they did the reality but it's the kind of seeing a maternal summer in here which is lovely this is snow drops that grow around here and that actually also inspired the pendant that I have in this room which is our snow drop rice and fall this here is the Caucasian Wing knot which actually my parents planted on the occasion of our wedding for us we got married here on the farm we had a big crayfish party up in one of the Barns and like a big party afterwards this was just kind of boxed out step which we thought had something to do with the cooker on the other side and then we stripped the walls back we actually found this opening and realized that there had been a fireplace behind here we then added these tiles which is actually something I had left over from a project and they're all hand painted in England uh you know depicting different animals sea creatures and and stuff like that kind of made it look like an old-fashioned Swedish kakaloon and this was this kind of concrete painted white and then my parents surprised me with having a specialist painted doing this in detail around the edge which um quite sweet let's go through to the living room I designed the sofa for the space I was watching the crown and it was a really beautiful sofa fabric there which I thought was from this company and I contacted them and it actually was above the doors um I put this to mirrors that sit opposite each other which is also part of our collection we developed this special mirror glass which is it's sort of silvered hand drawn glass which basically means that their reflection is kind of a bit broken which just gives this quite sort of poetic dream like atmosphere to the room I grew up here on the farm in a way it was like relatively isolating and I had three siblings but I spent quite a lot of time on my own so I did a you know I had to kind of entertain myself I did a lot of reading a lot of drawing and a lot of playing here which I think really has formed the basis of my kind of creative and my creativity I was always thinking up stories and going into sort of different worlds in my imagination and I think that's really affected how I work now actually and it's been really special being able to bring my little girls here now and sort of showing that to them too and seeing them you know running around in the forests around the same tree so I know so well it's really special um they're kind of one of the best things about being here I think in terms of colors for the house for the woodwork I've used sort of gray green and gray color throughout um but actually in this specific room only I wanted this kind of quite bright red Rusty colored for The Woodworking here as a contrast and you also have the more kind of buttery walls and a sky blue ceiling we actually mix all the paints here on the farm and this is all linseed oil paint for the woodwork and I didn't actually realize but um at the time when I decided on this color but it's pretty similar to what's used on all the woodwork on the external windows for the houses outside it's kind of a quite neat connection so now we're going into the bedroom and the main thing here is probably this bed I'd assigned the fabric Willow for this specific room I kind of wanted to feel like sleeping in a Big Sugar Bowl lately the girls are playing a lot under the bed so they have like a whole little Den for themselves under there and they spend a lot of time there but I what I really wanted to show you was the bathroom what's quite sort of special about this space and actually the whole house is that you get this stronger sight lines through the house so you know from the kitchen and the central hallway you look straight up into this bathroom and I often keep the door open because I like seeing sort of the windows on the other side so I wanted this room to look quite decorated and as it's you know not necessarily very bathroom-like which is why I decided to put this wallpaper up which is one of our designs it's called Florentine flowers I also really love this towel rail which my father made with bang who works here on the farm I'm just using copper pipes and these uh brass supports my little addition are the brass lion pour feed at the bottom this big picture above the door gives a similar effect that's what we have in the living room with the mirrors and it sort of draws the eye up and the picture itself is from Naples uh early 1800s I think and I got it from a sale of a house that I designed 20 years ago when I worked for Nikki Haslam's foreign you know that kind of connects all the rooms and it's also where the staircase going upstairs goes from the walls are completely covered in my husband's Uncle Matty's drawings there were like loads of books like this that he did he painted it's like so beautifully and delicately I really love that he could sort of be a part of this house to thank you Uncle Matty this is just a big basket of walnuts there's loads of them on the farm and there's like five more baskets just like this and it's filled all the way down and like there's more to come so I'm not sure what we're going to do with them all but yeah we sort of eat them and cook with them and do different things also quite like it as a just as a you know object and an interior anyway let's go obsess this is my old doll's house which I had when I was a little girl which my father made for me he even sent off the red paint from the windows so that these windows could be painted in the same color um and I just spent hours and hours playing with this and doing it art and rearranging and making things I mean this is the sweetest Swedish stove that I I mean it's not very well executed but I made it out of a new roll made a little sort of napkin rings taking like bits off Biro pens and making the internet looking ring and yeah I had they said even some like old like Swedish Christmas buns that I baked like 35 years ago or whatever still going strong I'm very excited about doing it up I think I need some wallpaper I just install this flooring here looking a lot better so yeah I'm quite excited about this project this is Alma it's four and a half and then this is girly who's six do you guys like coming here I've made a solution for girl and armor for the room and above it it's a painting by my older sister ever which is called sisters and she hasn't said that it's of the two of us but I kind of feel like it looks a little bit like me and her or in my head at us anyway so I thought it was kind of perfect to put in girl in Alma's bedroom the wallpaper in this room is also something I designed and it's made by degone and it's actually hand embroidered it's kind of sticks out a little bit it's almost like you can pick the flowers off the the paper I really thought about the scale of it I wanted it to be a little bit bigger than what you might expect almost as if it was sort of in a doll's house and the scale is a bit off and not quite right which I think kind of instills that sense of childlike fonder which I'm always quite interested in I guess for this room I I kind of thought about everything I wanted when I was a little girl also were heavily inspired by Mary Poppins and the banks children's bedroom that kind of I know it's a perfect idea of a child's bedroom which is what I tried to recreate here hope you've enjoyed this tour and don't forget to subscribe to the Sunday time Style YouTube channel Ada thank you

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Published: Fri Sep 22 2023