How To Incorporate The Swedish Lifestyle Concept Of Lagom Into Your Home

How To Bring Lagom Into Your Home?

If you’re looking for a way to organize your home in a practical way and turn it into a more comfortable and warmer place to live in, incorporating the Swedish lifestyle concept of Lagom into it is the right choice for you. 

Lagom, which translates into English as ‘not too much and not too little,’ or ‘just right,’ can be incorporated into many spheres of life, including your home and interiors. The Lagom design style trend has been present in Scandinavia for years, but it has recently grown in popularity in different countries around the world. More and more people are incorporating this interior design into their homes, and there’s a good reason for that. The Lagom interior design trend encourages you to use a specific material, fabric and furnishing to organize and decorate your space without spending a lot of money and over-cluttering your home.

So, if you want to know more about how you can live the Lagom lifestyle, continue reading this article because, in what follows, we’ve presented 10 tips on how to incorporate the Lagom interior design trend into your home. (1)

1. Paint Your Walls White Or Light Grey

These natural and muted tones make the space look brighter and allow for other items to be more noticeable. In addition, these two colors can turn your home into a relaxing space where you can rest and recharge after a long day of work.

If you’re not a fan of white or grey walls, you can paint your walls with other colors, but make sure you avoid loud or brash colors and patterns.(2)

2. Introduce Nature To Your Home

A typical Swedish home is furnished with many natural materials, such as wood, wool, stone, leather, and felt. Putting cotton rugs on the floors or a wooden coffee table in your living room or draping sheepskin throws over your dining room chairs will add warmth to your home. 

In addition to furnishing your home with natural materials, you can collect plants, pine cones, sticks, shells, pebbles, or anything else that you can find on the pavement, in the woods, or on the beach and put them on a shelf or windowsill in your home. Bringing nature indoors will brighten up dark corners in your home and make it look cozy, and create a calm, serene feel.

In addition, keeping plants in your home can help purify the air, absorb toxins, and decrease stress levels. Plants that don’t require a lot of maintenance and can survive anything include the following:

• Spider plant
• Snake plant
• Rubber tree plant
• Aloe vera plant
• Madagascar dragon tree
• Fiddle-leaf fig tree

3. Declutter Your Home

Not only does a cluttered space contribute to stress and anxiety, but it also hinders creativity and makes it hard to relax.

What’s characteristic about Swedes when it comes to their homes is that having a lot of things and hoarding is a no-no.

The Lagom lifestyle is all about moderation, so if you want to achieve a simple lagom way of life, you need to declutter your home. In what follows, we’ve presented 4 signs that show you need to declutter your home.

• You have a lot of things you no longer use or need.
• You wish you had a spare room where you could store your clutter.
• The thought of friends and family visiting you makes you feel overwhelmed and stressed since you have a lot of clutter to clear away first.
• It takes you longer to find something you are looking for.

How To Declutter Your Home

• Make a declutter to-do list.
• Declutter one room at a time each day.
• Spend 15-20 minutes decluttering spaces in your home.
• Organize stuff into three boxes: throw away, keep, and donate.
• Fill a box or basket with things you no longer use or need.
• Throw away one thing for everything you buy.
• Get rid of clothes that no longer fit or you don’t want to wear.
• Limit the area where clutter can build up. For instance, once the folder you keep documents in gets full, go through your documents and throw away those you no longer need. (3)

4. Make Sustainable Choices

In addition to being adept at furnishing their homes in a practical, simple, and affordable way, Swedes are very skilled at upcycling and recycling.

All you need is a little bit of imagination and creativity to bring old or damaged items you’ve loved dearly back to life and appreciate their beauty again. For instance, you can transform old teapots into herb planters and store them in your kitchen. Or you can transform light bulbs into beautiful vases that you can fill with water and flowers and hang in the window. To do this, you’ll need to remove the metal tab at the bottom of the bulb, break the glass that surrounds the filament and inside the base of the light bulb, and cut the twine. And why not turn old mason jars into cool and unique toothbrush holders?

5. Set Single Items Apart

In a typical Swedish home, single items are set apart so that they can have breathing space and be easily noticed. Having space in between single items in your home also allows you to admire each item’s purpose or beauty. It also prevents you from over-cluttering your home.

6. Use Rugs Instead Of Carpets

Swedes tend to perceive carpets as unhygienic, which is why Trasmatta, which translates as rag rug, can be commonly found in most Swedish homes. Rag rugs are made from old clothes, bedsheets, or towels that are woven together using a loom.

7. Furnish Your Home In The Lagom Way

Swedes are highly adept at creating the ideal balance of vintage and modern. If you step inside a Swedish home, chances are you’ll find a few designer pieces, but you’ll also discover many secondhand and vintage items. Swedes simply love blending old pieces with new and modern ones. Doing this makes their homes way cozier and unique.

8. Create One Central Point

The most important thing you need to remember when furnishing your home the Lagom way is not to overcomplicate it. Instead of focusing on creating a few key elements, focus on creating one central point in a room. In this way, you’ll add simplicity to your home and make it look more modern.

Some items that you can choose to be a room’s focal point include a sofa, wall painting, coffee table, or even a rug.

9. Decorate The Space With Candles

Candles are an inseparable part of the décor in a typical Swedish home. Besides adding ambiance to a room, they make the space look warmer and cozy.

Decorate your home with candles by putting them on a shelf, in the center of a table, or in dark corners to brighten them up. However, make sure you don’t place too many candles on your shelves. You don’t want to have a pile of candles – remember, Lagom décor and lifestyle are all about balance and moderation. (4)

10. Focus On Practical Furniture

The Lagom design style trend encourages a practical and timeless interior. So, choose furniture that’s functional, appropriate to the size of the space, and suits your lifestyle. Choosing this type of furniture rather than one that’s impractical will make you embrace and adore this way of living.