23 Best Scandinavian Home Decor Ideas To Get Inspired By
This post is all about the best Scandinavian home decor ideas.
Not too sure how to turn your home into Scandinavian home? This post shows you 23+ amazing Scandinavian home decor ideas that will spark your creativity.
Scandinavian home decor is all about adding natural materials, light warm woods, and neutral colors that will brighten your space.
Whether you want to decorate your bedroom, living room, dining room, or bathroom with a Scandinavian twist, read on to get tons of inspiration.
Scandinavian Home Decor
1. Scandinavian Wall Decor
Scandinavian decor is known for its minimal neutral color wall art frames. The prints are a mixture of abstract art and a very minimal style.
To keep your space looking minimal, you can simply just add one frame to your wall. You can also create a gallery wall art like the one in the photo.
You can see each wall art is very minimal with unique shapes and lines. The common theme is all the prints have light colors like beige, white, and light pink.
2. Big Fuzzy Accent Chair With Ottoman
In your living room, you can consider adding a big fuzzy accent chair with a matching fuzzy ottoman.
This combination is the perfect minimal Scandinavian piece as a reading corner or just a place to relax and wind down.
3. Dim Low Lighting Behind Couch
Not only are the furniture pieces important, but the lighting is also crucial for designing your home with Scandinavian elements.
They are known for adding dim lighting in their living room. One way to add it is with placing lamps throughout your living room. Another way to add it is by adding some dim warm lighting behind your couch.
4. Floating Wooden Cabinets For Bathroom
If you’re decorating your bathroom with a Scandi style, you can consider adding floating wooden bathroom cabinets and a white countertop.
Add a big mirror to make the space look bigger. This simple combination and colors really represents the Scandinavian look well.
5. Living Room With Different Low Chairs
One unique thing you might see in Scani homes are these low boxy chairs. It’s very common to have a few of these chairs that have completely different designs.
Having low chairs with different designs really make the space look so much more interesting and unique.
You can place these chairs in your living room near your sofa.
6. Woven Low Chair In Living Room
A specific kind of low chair that is super popular in Scani design is a woven low wooden chair. This i the perfect chair to lounge in.
It also matches the space incredibly well because it looks minimal, aesthetic, and has neutral colors.
7. Lantern Ceiling Lamp In Dining Room
For the dining room, one of the pieces that will instantly make your home Scandinavian is a circular lantern ceiling lamp.
This lamp goes incredibly well with a light wood dining table. The combination between the two create such a soft and warm atmosphere.
The black chairs are a nice contrast too.
8. Scandinavian Round Wooden Table
Speaking of dining rooms, here is another dining room idea for your Scandi home. For this one, we have a round wooden dining table with wooden chairs.
The wooden chairs have a woven texture seating which adds extra warmth the space.
Again, they have a white ceiling lamp hanging down the middle to create a warm vibe.
9. Scandinavian Low Bed
For Scandinavian bedrooms, one of the most popular designs is to choose a low bed with either a low back bed frame or no frame at all.
The low bed makes the entire bedroom look bigger and more minimal.
You can add a warm dim lamp by your bedside as well.
10. Scandinavian Bathroom With Plants
As for a Scandinavian bathroom,
11. Thin Wooden Lamp
Another lamp design that is full of Scandinavian vibes is a thin standing wooden lamp with a minimal white shade.
Place this simple lamp in your living room, dining room, or even bedroom to add some extra dim lighting to the space.
12. Unique Pattern Rugs
If you’re into more colorful Scandinavian designs, you’ll love this. You can add a black and white checkered rug underneath your breakfast table or dining table.
This rug instantly adds whimsical and playful vibes to the space. It looks even better when you pair it with other whimsical decor pieces like the blue swiggle wall decor piece on the left side of the photo.
13. Wooden Oval Dining Table
Having more furniture pieces with rounded corners in your home is such a Scandinavian interior style and it just makes the space look so much warmer.
One area to apply rounded corners to the dining area. You can get yourself an oval table and also add some rounded wooden chairs around the table.
14. Swiggle Lamp
If you can’t tell by now, lighting is super important in a Scandinavian home. So another lighting idea is to get a table lamp with black swiggle and a lamp shade.
Make sure the light bulb shines a dim yellow warm light to really set the mood.
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15. Scandinavian Small Workspace
If you limited space in your home but want a Scandi inspired workspace, try this out. You can add a floating wooden table on your wall and also a floating shelf a few feet above it
Add some decor pieces to the floating shelf and also a desk chair and there you have it!
16. White Kitchen With Wooden Floating Countertop
Most Scandinavian kitchens are incredibly simple. It’s usually a combination of white and light wood. For this kitchen, we have white cabinets, black handles, and a wooden countertop.
They also added a wooden floating shelves and very aesthetically pleasing kitchen items like the SMEG kettle and white coffee machine.
17. Rattan Ceiling Lamp
Here is another dining area design to try in your home. In this design, they added a rattan ceiling lamp above the dining table to create a boho style.
This combined with the white chairs and white kitchen really make this interior style look Scandi as well.
18. Dark Brown Rattan Dining Chairs
If you want to go for a more mature Scandinavian look, try getting a set of dark wood rattan chairs as your dining chairs. This can be paired with a dark cherry wood rectangular dining table.
These kinds of rattan chairs are incredibly popular in Scandinavian design.
19. Light Airy Green Plant
Another aspect of Scandi design is the adding florals or greenery into the space while also making ti look light and airy.
For example, this green plant in a black vase is the perfect piece to brighten up the kitchen and bring nature inside the home.
20. Colorful Throw For Living Room
A popular vibrant color to add into a Scandinavian home is the cobalt blue color.
You can add this blue color to your couch throws or wall art prints. It’s an amazing color to pair with more neutral colors on your couch or walls.
21. Bubble Sofa
Bubble couches are insanely popular Scandinavian design and anyone who loves unique and neutral pieces will love them.
Usually, these pieces come as a sectional so you can buy just one piece as a big accent chair or a few to piece together and make a whole couch.
22. Black Rattan Dining Chairs
If you’re not a fan of brown rattan chairs, try black ones instead! This can create a more modern vibe in your dining room space.
You can buy a few of these and also mix and match it with other chairs to create an interesting contrast.
23. All White Kitchen
An all-white kitchen is something you see very often in Scandinavian design. The key to making this kitchen look amazing is to keep it clean.
That means having minimal items on the countertop and hiding everything within the closed cabinets.
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