Color scheme during the 1900´s
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Color scheme during the 1900´s
It is around the turn of the century that the new style Art nouveau is introduced in Sweden. The homes get airy and bright thanks to bigger and taller windows, windows in groups and a much brighter color scheme. The style is the first of it´s kind with a completely new aesthetic based on nature's organic softness!
Interior
Rooms
Contrary to previous decades when there was a clear distinction between different types of rooms now people start looking at their homes as a coherent, well-thought-out whole. The Art Nouveau aesthetic becomes extremely popular in wallpaper designs, long and narrow lines are combined with plant motifs with a upward direction. The color schemes are green, yellow and brick red, often with a light base. It is common that the wallpaper is finished off with a decorative border where the wall and ceiling meets. Like all eras, a few older styles runs parallel among with the new, which means that some apartments are still provided with more traditional wallpaper patterns, especially popular are tapestry wallpapers with prints.
Woodwork
The walls of the Dining room and Drawing rooms are still provided with panelling in different heights, but they are painted in a lighter color scheme, usually in off-white or light gray. Wide sliding doors open up between the Lounge and Dining room and the carpentry is painted in bright colors inspired by the folk tradition. The doors are usually painted in an off-white color, but for the dining room they are often made of oak or grain-painted.
Flooring
During 1900-1910´s parquet floors of oak in different patterns are dominating in the fancier rooms while floors boards of pine with linoleum carpets on top is more common everywhere else. Increasingly, entire floors of linoleum carpets are installed in bright colors. They are either printed with elaborate patterns and then varnished or in one color with simpler patterns that are more durable.