About 5 days after writing up the post about the home of Carl and Karin Larrson, I ran across some photos I had torn out of a Victoria magazine about Lylla Hyttnas.  It figures I’d find these after I shared my post with you!  Although images of  Carl’s paintings of his home can be found fairly easily, photos of the interiors are more scarce.  So I had to post a few additional shots of this amazing century-old+  family home.  I just can’t get enough of these interiors, and I hope you enjoy them, too!

In the early 1900’s in Sweden heavy, dark furnishings and velvet curtains were the way to go.  Carl was a declared enemy of  “gaudy rubbish and tinseled knickknacks.”  He believed strong colors were needed  “to counter the deep green of our pine forests and our cold white snow.”

Carl found the drawing room’s 1754 tiled stove in a local village and crowned it with a spray of painted flowers.  Every room has a similar tiled stove.

Carl painted his wife’s image on the door in his workshop and wrote, “On the sliding door, I painted my idol.”  Gotta love a man like that!

And he painted these roses over the door as a gift for her birthday.

Carl once said, “A home is not some lifeless object, but is alive and like all living things it must change from moment to moment.”   And his well-loved home continues to live on.

All Photos scanned from Victoria magazine.