Flowers in the living room. Watercolour from the album "Our house"

Living room most other rooms featured in the watercolors of the Larsson. Due to the large window, the room is filled with light. It seems that in this room always summer. According to the memoirs of Larsson, it was a favorite place of the whole family: here were going to talk, fool around and just sit next to each other. Here is all about hospitality and comfort. And such a bright room will easily survive the long winter, typical for the Swedish phenomenon.

Today, this design is called "typical Swedish", and at that time it was very unusual: simple, light furniture, wooden chairs and floors, colored mats, pictures in light frames, light walls. The picture Carl Larsson blue tones echoed in the upholstery of the chairs, the bedspread on the sofa and dress the girls. This is also typical for what we today call the Swedish style: the colors of sea and sky bring the freshness of white and cream are the main colors.

In setting sufficient, but not excessive amount of cute details details. Fresh flowers, a lot. This room, like all the others in the "House in the sun" intended for life, in order that it ran the children to feel at home while reigned throughout the space. There is no perfect order, this is not about a pretty picture, but about living life. At the window the eldest daughter Suzanne Larsanov watering flowers in pots. On the table thrown balls and spokes. Maybe she was knitting a minute ago. The clothing of the characters, by the way, also fits into the overall style. Light fabric, simple cuts, the clothes are for life, not for pictures.

Of the chest evokes memories of the last visit to IKEA, out the window bursts into a rumble of a summer day, and the room itself seems quiet, but no one was fooled – not for long.

Author: Alain Esaulova