Style guide
Japandi – where Scandinavian meets Japanese
Fewer objects, longer lifespans and materials that are allowed to age visibly. How to create a Japandi room that lasts.
Inspiration · Archive Vol. 04
Rooms, quietly
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Explore rooms, styles, colours and materials. Read guides and features, and find the ideas, people and details behind the interiors.
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Colour & materials
Beige without going flat
One of Sweden's most common interior colours is also one of the hardest to get right. Three levels of lightness are enough to create depth.
Style guide
Scandinavian interiors – light comes first
Light, wood and function before decoration. What actually makes a room feel Scandinavian.
Styles & trends
Explore styles
Editorial guides to the styles shaping Swedish homes today.
Style guide
Japandi – where Scandinavian meets Japanese
Fewer objects, longer lifespans and materials that are allowed to age visibly. How to create a Japandi room that lasts.
Style guide
Scandinavian interiors – light comes first
Light, wood and function before decoration. What actually makes a room feel Scandinavian.
Style guide
New Nordic – darker, warmer Nordic interiors
Muted colours, dark wood and pronounced materials. The Nordic tradition with depth instead of brightness.
Style guide
Turn-of-the-century interiors – when architecture leads
Stucco, panelled doors and herringbone parquet already do the work. The rest is about not competing with them.
Style guide
Eclectic interiors – rooms built over time
Inherited pieces, finds and new purchases in the same room. What holds it together is rarely the style — it is the palette.
Style guide
Minimalist interiors – order before quantity
Minimalism is rarely about owning little. It is about choosing what is allowed to remain visible.
Colour & materials
Explore colour and materials
Browse by the colours and materials studios and creators have tagged in their own interiors.
Colour & materials
Beige without going flat
One of Sweden's most common interior colours is also one of the hardest to get right. Three levels of lightness are enough to create depth.
Colour & materials
Decorating with dark brown
Brown brings warmth where black brings severity. How to use it across large surfaces without weighing down the room.
Colour & materials
Dark oak – warmth with character
Visible grain, a hard-wearing surface and enough weight to anchor a room without making it dark. How to combine dark oak.
Colour & materials
Natural stone & travertine
Travertine, limestone and marble belong to the same family but behave very differently. How to choose the right one.
Colour & materials
Stainless steel in the home
Durable, honest and finished with a soft matt sheen that ages well. How to avoid the professional-kitchen look.
Colour & materials
Linen & natural textiles
Textiles soften sound, filter light and make a room feel finished. Linen, wool and bouclé in practice.
Guides & advice
Real problems, real solutions
What actually makes a difference in the room — from bare surfaces and clashing woods to beige that feels flat.
Prestaged fixes
Why does the room feel wrong? 7 common reasons
The furniture works beautifully on its own, yet the room still feels unfinished. Seven recurring reasons — and what to do about them.
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How to make a bare room feel more inviting
Without filling it with things. Textiles, light and materials do more for the atmosphere than extra furniture.
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How to mix wood species without clashing
Oak, walnut and an inherited teak piece in the same room. Undertone, quantity and contrast decide whether it works.
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How to make every room feel part of the same home
Cohesion comes from a few things that repeat — not from making every room look the same.
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Longer reads about homes and rooms
Where we go deeper, cite our sources and separate tradition, research and Prestaged's own take.
In depth
Feng shui without the mysticism
A bed with a solid wall behind it. An entrance that feels open rather than blocked. Furniture that leaves natural routes through the room. Balance between light and dark, hard and soft, open and sheltered.
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Have algorithms made our homes look more alike?
Open Pinterest, Instagram or TikTok and start saving interiors you like. After a while, something strange happens. The feed gets better. The sofas feel more right. The kitchens more right. The lamps, colours and materials move closer to what you would choose yourself.
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The Dock in Södertälje – a design feature on light, materials and atmosphere
The Dock in Södertälje is more than a new waterfront hotel. It is an environment where an international hotel sensibility meets Scandinavian restraint, and where the interior works deliberately with light, texture, colour and clearly styled spaces. For Prestaged, it is above all the interplay between the view, materials and details that makes the place worth a closer look.
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