Converted Stables Choke A Dramatic Abode Amount Of Contrast Inwards Norway

It's Fri friends - JAAAAA! To twine upwards the calendar week I'm leading us all over to the dark side (mwah ha ha) on a virtual journeying to an incredible maisonette inward Oslo. Formerly a stables, the 2 flooring flush is owned yesteryear Nina (blogger behind Note to Self), her beau Jørgen, infant man child Gustav, in addition to cutest pup Ipa. When Nina's non sewing or working equally a graphic designer, the yoke are transforming the infinite (often on a minimum budget) into a dramatic household unit of measurement domicile sum of contrast in addition to delicious, warm, dark grey, chocolate in addition to beige accents. Enjoy the tour!

The maisonette has an upside downward layout amongst the entry, bath in addition to bedchamber on the solid pose down flooring in addition to an open-plan kitchen, sitting room in addition to dining surface area on the upper level. I idea we'd offset amongst the cosiest zone of all - the sitting room!

The sitting room wall has been painted inward NCS due south 7002B which makes a wonderful contrast to the oak floors, plastered brick walls in addition to a fluffy 70's means shaggy carpeting (from Layered). And merely how cosy does that velour Madison sofa look? The Blind No5 impress is yesteryear Danish creative soul Kristina Krogh (available here).

It's incredible what a departure vintage forest adds to a monochrome space. Pick upwards similar  Thonet-style bistro chairs here (gah! So beautiful!). Nina never quite got on amongst the master copy brickwork in addition to thus they decided to plaster over it.

"The plastering gave merely the right, tactile texture the flush needed. And the colouring was perfect too, thus at that spot was no demand to pigment it."

Where would a Scandinavian kitchen live without a natural linen tablecloth?! So pretty (and it looks amend un-ironed too). It's nearing lunchtime hither in addition to I'm form of drooling over the cheese too!

All hale the Bollo chair yesteryear Norwegian designer Andreas Engesvik (I've got my oculus on the pink one). 

Since the yoke are currently renovating a solid elsewhere correct right away (their hereafter home), they didn't desire to invest besides much coin on the apartment. Even so, they withal managed to transform the kitchen from this...

 To this...

...on a express budget!

 To seat the novel await they plastered the walls in addition to painted them inward NCS due south 7002B, spray painted the cabinets inward NSC due south 8002B, replaced the thick laminate counter top, kitchen taps, sink (all HTH), added Borghamn handles from IKEA in addition to spray painted the switches, sockets in addition to cables. 

Quite incredible, in addition to thus inspiring to know what y'all tin displace practise on a express budget, don't y'all think?!

When the yoke moved inward the stairs were a varnished yellowish colour...

They painstakingly sanded them downward earlier washing them amongst white pigmentation, in addition to and thus painted the walls in addition to doors the same colouring equally the sitting room. They also added the same oak floor. 

What an incredible transformation, don't y'all think?! I've been wondering what to practise amongst my stairs (which are also tinged amongst an sometime yellowish varnish) in addition to right away I may convey works life the answer - I merely demand to brace myself for the run (and warn Per!)!

Nina saved a charge on a designer wearing apparel rails yesteryear creating 1 from a 12 mm copper pipe, which she bent into shape using a wrench, lightly sand papered in addition to and thus sprayed matt black! So clever! More information on her spider web log here. 

The dark tones are also carried through to the bedchamber which give the room a wonderful cocoon similar experience - in addition to no dubiousness feels blissfully dark at night, fifty-fifty nether the Norwegian midnight sun!

Another Scandinavian must - natural stonewashed linen bedding (it's that ironing affair again! Source similar here) - the unbleached stuff looks peculiarly lovely against the dark grayness walls!

And this petty chap feels correct at home!

Thank y'all thus much for inviting us into your beautiful domicile Nina, Jørgen, Gustav in addition to Ipa! I for one, powerfulness live tempted into over to the dark side inward my ain domicile afterwards all. Anyone else feeling inspired too?!

See to a greater extent than of Nina's domicile renovations, creations in addition to recipes over on her fabulous spider web log Note to Self equally good equally on her instagram feed.

I can't resist leaving y'all amongst a few other links to bask over the weekend too:

f you're looking for to a greater extent than domicile tours on the dark side receive a cosy cocoon-like Swedish home (also featured here) in addition to dramatic dark-green in addition to grayness inward a Swedish home - actually, practise y'all know what? I'm merely going to become ahead in addition to give y'all the link to the entire 'dark colours' archive! Way easier!

And right away for 1 of my favourites. Conversions. Don't y'all dear it when a domicile has history (like the stables inward today's post)?! See everything from converted garages, warehouses, schools, shops in addition to fifty-fifty a bar here!

Wishing y'all all a wonderful weekend!

Niki

PS This weekend I'm writing a guide to Malmö inward which I'm hoping to encompass off a charge of the things I missed inward my previous Malmö guide (and unopen to of the novel places that convey popped upwards too) I'm thus looking frontwards to my staycation! Look out for the guide soon.

All photography  © Nina / Note to Self