At home with Ines and Tomas in Seaside
2 rooms on the second floor of a 1920s block, with a view of the water from the sofa if you sit up straight. They had 1 piece of ours in 2023. 3 years later they have 4.
By June Whitlock2 min read
Home tour / Apartment / Coastal
The first piece was the Olsen armchair, bought the month they moved in. It is still the one everyone sits in, and it is where this visit started, because Ines would not let us photograph the room until the throw was straight.
The room that faces the sea
The living room is small and the window is big, so everything in it faces the window. The Olsen sits at an angle to it, on a walnut frame that has gone a shade darker in the sun. Ines says it is the first thing she bought that was not flat-pack, and that it changed how she bought everything after it.
I stopped buying things I would be fine throwing out. If I would not carry it to the next flat, I did not want it.
A bookcase as a wall
The Ivo bookcase stands at a right angle to the window and divides the room without closing it: books on 1 side, the sofa on the other. It is full. Tomas reads everything twice and keeps all of it, and the shelves have taken on the slight bow of a bookcase that is doing its job.
The daybed under the window
The Ines daybed, which Ines insists is not named after her, is where the view is. By day it is a window seat for 2; when a friend stays it is their bed. It is the piece they would buy first if they moved tomorrow, because it does the most for the least floor.
What they would change
The Lune table lamp sits on a stack of books rather than a table, because the table they wanted did not fit, and they decided they liked it. They would add a dining table if the room had the width for one. It does not, so dinner is on the daybed with plates on knees, and they would not trade the window for it.
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