Beata's Swedish Home
This 18th century house in the South of Sweden is on the farm where Beata grew up. Doing it up for her family to use on holidays provided an opportunity for Beata to reconnect with her Swedish roots.
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The funkis style cupboards in the kitchen are 1930s and Beata added simple joinery to match where needed. The little toaster shelf was made bespoke. Lots of vintage items bought at auction in Sweden are dotted throughout such as the 1940s mirror above the door, the vintage basket and the Czech clock.
The funkis style cupboards in the kitchen are 1930s and Beata added simple joinery to match where needed. The little toaster shelf was made bespoke. Lots of vintage items bought at auction in Sweden are dotted throughout such as the 1940s mirror above the door, the vintage basket and the Czech clock.
The funkis style cupboards in the kitchen are 1930s and Beata added simple joinery to match where needed. The little toaster shelf was made bespoke. Lots of vintage items bought at auction in Sweden are dotted throughout such as the 1940s mirror above the door, the vintage basket and the Czech clock.
The kitchen table is a Swedish classic 'Virrvarr' by the design prince Sigvard Bernadotte. The pelmet was made using part of an antique table cloth, as were the café curtains.
The walls in the dining room (below) were covered in a panoramic wallpaper designed by Beata in collaboration with De Gournay just for this room. It depicts the local flora and fauna of the farm. There are plum trees, apple trees, linden and elderflower. Snake head's fritillary, wild poppies, sweet briar roses and spring anemones blossoming all at once in a scene of eternal summer.
''Your home needs to be a fold for your past, present and future' wrote Beata in her book Every Room Should Sing. 'It should be a combination of all the things that make you'. This Swedish cottage is just that: a portal to her childhood fantasies; an expression of her creativity and a house in which her children will grow and, no doubt, conjure up their own imaginative worlds and adventures.''Emily Tobin, The World of Interiors (Jan 2023).
The walls of the inner hallway (left) are completely covered in botanical drawings by Beata's husband's great uncle, taken from a sketch book from the 1970s. The little downstairs loo (below) is finished in simple white tiles and the artwork is a murder mystery story by New York based artist Andie Dinkin.
The walls of the inner hallway (left) are completely covered in botanical drawings by Beata's husband's great uncle, taken from a sketch book from the 1970s. The little downstairs loo (below) is finished in simple white tiles and the artwork is a murder mystery story by New York based artist Andie Dinkin.
The walls of the inner hallway (left) are completely covered in botanical drawings by Beata's husband's great uncle, taken from a sketch book from the 1970s. The little downstairs loo (below) is finished in simple white tiles and the artwork is a murder mystery story by New York based artist Andie Dinkin.
A bespoke shelf softens the corner of the living room below. The artist of the large paintings is a family friend of the Heumans: Marianne Stalin who lived on the farm when Beata was a child. The Frame Sofa and the New Wave Country Sofa were first made for this space and are now part of the Shoppa collection.
''Her [Heuman's] childhood was forged in this idyllic rural setting, and it's proven a wellspring of the imagination ever since.''Emily Tobin, The World of Interiors (Jan 2023).
The walls in the living room are painted a soft yellow, the ceiling a pale sky blue and all the woodwork is in a rich, deep linseed oil paint mixed on the farm. Above each door is a stripy, round mirror from the Shoppa collection and the sheer buttery fabric used for the curtains is from our Plains range. Looking through the room you see to the main bedroom beyond.
''The rooms she [Heuman] makes for herself and her clients are bold, bright and delightfully offbeat.''Emily Tobin, The World of Interiors (Jan 2023).
The room above used to be a little study but was turned into a bathroom to work as an en-suite to the main bedroom. The house has strong sight lines and the door to the bathroom is often kept open to benefit from the light in this corner room. This informed the decision to cover the walls in a wallpaper (Florentine Flowers) and add antiques and vintage pieces that didn't feel overly bathroomy.
The guest room upstairs is covered in a classic Swedish wallpaper and a handwoven sheer from Hälsingland used for the curtains. The low ceilings and beams were painted in a duck-egg blue and rusty red linseed oil paint.
Beata worked with De Gournay to design the bespoke wallpaper with hand-embroidered clusters of flowers for the girls bedroom, inspired by a Georgian fragment. The cast iron beds are from The Cornish Bed Company, one of the last manufacturers in England still making beds in the traditional, Victorian manner.
Beata worked with De Gournay to design the bespoke wallpaper with hand-embroidered clusters of flowers for the girls bedroom, inspired by a Georgian fragment. The cast iron beds are from The Cornish Bed Company, one of the last manufacturers in England still making beds in the traditional, Victorian manner.
Beata worked with De Gournay to design the bespoke wallpaper with hand-embroidered clusters of flowers for the girls bedroom, inspired by a Georgian fragment. The cast iron beds are from The Cornish Bed Company, one of the last manufacturers in England still making beds in the traditional, Victorian manner.
Photography: Beata Heuman. Completed 2023. Skåne, Sweden.