Christmas Decorating on a Budget: Beautiful Ideas That Cost Almost Nothing
Last Christmas, I spent exactly €23 on decorations. The house was featured in Glorian Koti magazine that same month. Here's the secret: nature does most of the work.
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Last Christmas, I spent exactly €23 on decorations. The house was featured in Glorian Koti magazine that same month. Here's the secret: nature does most of the work.
I'm not perfect. I still buy things I don't need sometimes. But these twelve small shifts in how I run my home have genuinely reduced our waste — and our bills.
Our kitchen looked straight out of 2003 — in the worst way. I spent €800 total on the makeover, and honestly three of those changes made 90% of the difference.
I painted my bedroom wall five different shades of white before getting it right. Nordic light is beautiful but brutally honest — here's how to work with it.
My grandmother's oak cabinet sits right next to a HAY side table, and honestly? It's the best pairing in my entire apartment.
I saved for eleven months to buy the Oluce Atollo. Three years later, I still look at it every single morning and think: worth every cent.
Living in 15 square meters taught me more about design than any magazine ever could. Here's exactly what worked — and the expensive mistakes I'd skip next time.
September in Helsinki. The light shifts from that endless summer gold to something softer, more amber. And every year, like clockwork, I get the itch to rearrange everything.
After a decade of obsessing over Nordic interiors (and making plenty of mistakes along the way), here are the ten design principles that actually transformed my Helsinki apartment.
When I told my husband I wanted concrete walls in our TV room, he thought I meant actual concrete. Thankfully, this paint technique gives you the look without demolishing anything.
Three Billy bookcases, some trim pieces, and a weekend of mild swearing — that's all it took to create the built-in library wall I'd been dreaming about for years.
Month one: enthusiasm. Month three: mysterious smell. Month twelve: actual usable compost and a strange sense of pride. Here's everything between.
In Finland, we wait all year for those precious warm months. So when terrace season finally arrives, every square centimeter needs to earn its place.
I used to kill everything I planted. Turns out I wasn't bad at gardening — I was just choosing the wrong plants for the wrong containers in Finnish weather.