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STORY COURTESY OF HOUSE OF PICTURES, HOUSEOFPICTURES.COM.LISA’S OUTFIT BY CARIN RODEBJER, RODEBJER.COM
With original plank floors and
walls adorned with art and
decorative wallpaper, this
one-of-a-kind Swedish home
is a print-lover’s dream
WORDS SOFIA THÖREWIK PHOTOGRAPHY MADELEINE SÖDER
Who lives here: Lisa Bengtsson,
a fabric, wallpaper and homewares
designer; her partner Niklas
Hammar, who works in sales; and
their three children, twin sons Elliot
and Jack, 8, and daughter Betty, 3.
Style of home: A three-bedroom
house, built in 1900, in the town
of Spånga, Sweden, on the northern
outskirts of Stockholm.
Lisa and Niklas bought the
house in October 2012 and
carried out the renovation in stages
over the following four years.
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