Alvhem
While catching up at Black Eiffel this morning, I fell in love with these images and the whole idea of Alvhem.
According to darling Rachel: "Alvehm is a site where you can find Swedish homes for sale with lovely styled interiors like those pictured here. It is a truly unique brokerage concept where they convey housing as a entire lifestyle using photographers and an art director to help sell your space." Isn't that a wonderful idea? I want one.
I know they say homes sell/show better when they have furniture, and if homes looked like the Alvhem variety, than I can see why. (But in reality, since most homes are not professionally styled, when house hunting, I much prefer to see a space completely empty — so that I can project my visions on it like a blank canvas.)
via Purple Area
Labels: home
posted by Gabrielle of Design Mom at Wednesday, March 04, 2009
6 Comments:
Very inspiring! I could look at that site all day long. Amazing what good design can do for a space.
Thanks for the link love!
we've been house hunting. i thought that i liked going to see the empty houses for the same reason you said. but after two weekends of viewing, it was overwhelmingly the houses with the owners still living there that felt like they could be our new home. the feelings of warmth were amazing. some of these houses had the exact same floorplan.
one of them in particular, and we close near the end of march. it's our first - and a long time coming! :)
Good design can definitely help to sell a house. Unfortunately, most homes have too much of the owners stacks in them to let a buyer see themselves in the space. Love the clean & homey look. Thanks for posting.
I love the picture with the bookshelf under the window seat. I want a comfy, tranquil place like that in my house for book reading or thought pondering!
hello. a little note from sweden. when we moved from san francisco to sweden a few years ago, and started hunting for a flat, i was overwhelmed that we were walking through flats still inhabited. and while you still come across the empty, vacant flats here and now, most of them are very styled in stockholm. the agents even offer home styling as a part of the package here. it's a country full of design enthusiasts! thanks for passing on a good link!
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