The former editor of People magazine left sunny Los Angeles with her husband and three children for a quiet Swedish town and first started decorating the interior of her new home.
A three-bedroom house in coastal Karlshamn with an area of about three hundred and sixty square meters did not seem spacious enough to Ulrike Vilborg, but she was completely satisfied with its condition and layout.
For help in decorating matters, on the advice of a friend, Ulrika turned to a design consultant who works under the supervision of the famous Catherine Ireland. Katherine specializes in home textiles and her team is made up of real pros when it comes to fabrics and textures. And although what happened in the end only vaguely resembles Ireland’s signature style, the textiles in this interior were truly masterfully chosen.
To create the atmosphere of a country house at its best, we relied on pale walls, textured textiles and natural materials. The interior content turned out to be multicultural: American furniture , Belgian and French fabrics, cans of English Farrow & Ball paint – all this was loaded into sea containers and sent from Los Angeles to Sweden.
The important thing is that this interior was not assembled from catalogues, it was tailored to the house, adjusted to the needs of its inhabitants and complemented by local decor.
For example, on the advice of her consultant, Ulrika treated a large dining table in the shabby chic style with wax herself to protect it from damage – there are boys growing up in the house. The series of botanical prints in the living room were purchased by Ulrika’s husband from a local bookshop in Karlshamn. They also found a vintage school poster with turtles in one of the nurseries.
The couple immediately discarded the idea of dollhouse interiors for their children: the rooms for their four-year-old daughter and sons, five and eight years old, were decorated “for growth.” With an impeccable textile history, as throughout the house.
