Results of the year: top 10 best foreign interiors 2022

We have compiled for you a hit list of the most popular foreign houses and apartments of the past year according to the readers of ELLE DECORATION

The designer has been doing repairs in her house for 10 years — that's what she got

When interior designer Juliet O'Carroll and her husband bought the house, they soon realized that they could not afford its full restoration. We decided to make repairs in stages, but in the end the process dragged on for ten years! That_'s what she ended up with.Apartment for a family with two children in Sweden_

The owners of this cozy apartment in Sweden — a married couple with two preschool children — wanted to live in the center of Stockholm. Parents work in the creative field and like to have dinner in a good restaurant in the evening, and they wanted to spend time with their children in exceptionally well-appointed places. This summer, the family finally looked for a two-room apartment with an area of 87 square meters in a historic building built in 1920 in the city center and decorated it to their taste. Look what they got.Photo

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The designer built a house of 9 m2

Designer Robin Falk loves experimentation. An example of this is his project, recently built in the forests of Finland. We are talking about a full-fledged house with an area of only nine square meters! Do you want to see what's inside? Read the article at the link.A Victorian-style house with a bright interior

This elegant snow-white house is located on a quiet street in North Islington (a suburb of London), in the conservation area of Tollington Park. It was built at the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria at the turn of the epochs, so it carries a unique combination of features of two architectural styles at once — Victorian and Georgian. It is believed that it was built by the British architects Alexander Dick Gough (Alexander Dick Gough) and Robert Lewis Roumieu (Robert Lewis Roumieu) between 1837 and 1848, who authored several villas with gardens in the nearby Tollington Park. More details are here.Apartment of an interior blogger in Berlin

Artist and art director Alexandra Eliza came to Berlin from Austria eight years ago to study photography. At that time, she was not going to stay in Germany for a long time — she liked to travel. But during a trip to Tokyo a couple of years ago, she suddenly realized that she really misses Berlin very much and would like to settle in it for a long time. She designed her Berlin apartment herself, describing the process in detail in her social networks. Today, her public has more than 25.5 thousand subscribers. Let's take a closer look at the interiors of her "insta" house.Photo

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Designers' apartment in Copenhagen without white walls

The interiors of this Danish apartment break stereotypes about Scandinavian style — no white walls and light stucco! Its owners Mia and Klaus Brandt-Jacobsen painted the walls and ceilings in dark shades, emphasizing the details and creating an artistic atmosphere. You can view the entire project in detail by following the link.The bright apartment of fashion designer Karin Rodebier in Stockholm

The apartment of fashion designer Karin Rodebjers is located in a house from 1898, where the charm of the turn of the century has been preserved — large windows, high ceilings, historical stucco. Karin was inspired by the soft light pouring into the rooms through the large windows, and chose for the interiors a "Scandinavian" palette with light, restrained colors — from white and beige to calm gray and shades of wood. More details are here.The apartment in Paris has been closed for 70 years — that's what was inside!

It's hard to believe that this amazing story actually happened, and did not come to us from the pages of novels. This is a story about a woman who carefully guarded her secret all her life — even from her closest relatives — and gave it away only after her death. Read about this story in our special material.The family gave up a big house for a tiny apartment with a history

Before the pandemic, the family of Robert and Christina Elms lived in a large Georgian-style mansion on a quiet, wide street planted with poplars and maples. They have lived here for almost 26 years and did not even think about moving, but the pandemic "seclusion" radically changed their lives. Robert has always had a dream to live in the Barbican, a modernist quarter that is considered a monument of brutalist architecture. All the material is on the link.The bright home of a photo collector in Massachusetts

The owner of this house in Provincetown, an entrepreneur and a collector of photographs, has been looking for a new home for several years. For him, the proximity to the city center and beaches was important, as well as the opportunity to receive guests and arrange a barbecue in the courtyard. As a result, he found a suitable option in a quiet area, with a view of the pasture, but there was one big "but": the house of the mid-1990s was in desperate need of repair. For help, the owner turned to the Evolve Residential studio. What they did, see here.Photo

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