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September 24th, 2009
before & after: karolina’s home

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today’s second before & after comes from d*s reader karolina strandberg of sweden. she’s been taking on the renovation of her beautiful home in the woods and i’m loving every bit of it. oh man, to live among all those beautiful trees in a bright white house like that. thanks for sharing, karolina!

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39 comments
Judith said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:05 am

Wow, this transformation is incredible! I am a firm believer that changing to gorgeous windows can absolutely make a renovation, and this proves it!
Great work, Karolina!

stephanie said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:09 am

LOVE IT! great job!!

Marlene said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:10 am

Beautiful!

sunescd said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:15 am

if only there were more pictures. stunning

Lynn said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:15 am

YOWZA.

michelle said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:16 am

the exterior was cute before but it’s gorgeous now.

Willa said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:17 am

Amazing! I am very jealous of your house.

juliette said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:18 am

such a great before and after! love the additions to the exterior of the house as well, really adds character!

Julianna said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:19 am

Love it! Especially the laundry room.

Sara said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:23 am

WOW I’m not normally a fan of white walls, but the overdone white surfaces in this house is TOTALLY working. I love it!

September 24th, 2009 - 11:24 am

great before & afters!

MelO said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:26 am

I want that laundry room! The whole house is just lovely!

Naomi said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:27 am

Wow, beautiful.
Hard work paid off here!
Love that utility/laundry room.

September 24th, 2009 - 11:29 am

Wow, so much hard work went into this house but it definitely payed off in the end, its really gorgeous. I love the simplicity of everything

Alix said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:33 am

The laundry room is STUNNING!

I love that Swedish design turns expectations on its head — in such a cold climate you’d expect dark color, heavy furniture and tons of fabric. Instead, Swedes do everything they can to increase the amount of light, and the feeling of lightness, in the home. Gorgeous!!!

September 24th, 2009 - 11:34 am

Incredible. The laundry room is so inviting. I’d be washing something every day. Enchanting place and great transformation!

Camolai said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:35 am

Stunning, stunning, stunning!! Great job Karolina; you can definitely see all the hard work you put into it and it looks gorgeous! Congrats on your beautiful home. :)

E.J. said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:43 am

I realize d*s has no control over this, but it would be ever so much more helpful if after photos were taken from precisely the same perspective as before photos. Particularly when most of the photos are absent captions.

September 24th, 2009 - 11:48 am

This is GORGEOUS! I love the sparseness of the design, and the use of focal points. I really like the lamp and bonsai detail in the dining room photo.

Charis said:
September 24th, 2009 - 12:10 pm

That white table is my DREAM table. I have been looking for one just like it for years!

Connie said:
September 24th, 2009 - 12:29 pm

Beautiful! We are remodeling our house and it is taking forever! Love love love the windows!

Wendy said:
September 24th, 2009 - 12:47 pm

This is beautiful, but, good Lord, that’s a lot of white! I particularly like the exterior, and I might possibly kill someone for that laundry room!

julia said:
September 24th, 2009 - 2:54 pm

From my point of view, it’s not really a before/after, since the rooms, the walls, pretty much everything has been destroyed or re-done. It’s a transformation, not a “give it a better look with some paint”. But I admire the result.

grace said:
September 24th, 2009 - 3:00 pm

julia

“before & after” applies to a broad range of projcts- including renovation. our goal is merely to show something in its previous state and new, improved state.

if we stuck to a definition of “give it a better look with some paint” the readers would KILL ME. i constantly hear “i’m sick of things being painted” so i try to include as many great reno or upcycling projects as possible that aren’t about paint or fabric ;)

grace

September 24th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

amazing reno. can’t believe i’m sayin this, but i even love your laundry room. great work! enjoy

Noortje said:
September 24th, 2009 - 4:01 pm

WOOOOWWWW love the house,
i wanna live there!!

September 24th, 2009 - 4:01 pm

any clue where the wallpaper from the first picture came from? I love that light pinstripe.

Sally said:
September 24th, 2009 - 11:12 pm

I love the addition of the front porch and new windows. What a beautiful job!

Megan said:
September 25th, 2009 - 2:06 am

What a great transformation. It looks so easy in the photos but i bet there were lots of swedish swear words said during the process. At least thats what happens when i reno.

mnm said:
September 25th, 2009 - 6:11 am

love it! we’re renovating now, too, with lots of white – i hope it turns out as beautifully as this!

September 25th, 2009 - 10:41 am

I love the outside of this house! What a great job!

September 25th, 2009 - 10:54 am

AMAZING! Love what they did to the exterior!

Abigail said:
September 27th, 2009 - 12:41 pm

Now THAT is a before and after! Well done.

Kajsa said:
September 27th, 2009 - 4:23 pm

WOW!
I feel this is one post I will go back to, again and again… This is so in key of what I hope to do someday. Find something so sad, and make it so wonderful. Alive!

Kajsa said:
September 27th, 2009 - 4:34 pm

Follow-up on my previous comment.
Was missing a link to Karolina herself, but som googling gave me: http://itsahouse.blogspot.com
It’s in swedish, but the pictures alone are worth it if you don’t know the language! :)

I’m soo going through the whole back-blog over there!

Anna said:
September 27th, 2009 - 9:09 pm

I LOVE that laundry room. I’m just now getting better at keeping up with the laundry in my house, but laundry would be so much more awesome in that room!

Tiffany said:
September 28th, 2009 - 5:20 am

The once plain facade has been transformed into a wonderful, classical home! Great work!

Suzanne said:
September 28th, 2009 - 7:28 pm

That is some serious vision. I love it.

Signe said:
October 24th, 2009 - 2:09 pm

I just love what they’re doing to this house! I’m only 17 but this makes me wanna be 30 and have a house like this right now. I can’t wait until I come back to Sweden and can go visit them, I’m so curious to see it live.

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