How to furnish your home in the hygge style? A question that we ask ourselves because thanks to the furnishing suggestions looking at the rooms set up following this style you can create a warm and welcoming nest. But what is the hygge style? We asked the Danes, a people who turn out to be the happiest in the world, thanks also to the well-being they breathe at home. Hygge is a real “recipe for happiness”, that is, savoring the pleasures of life, managing for example to live in a house pervaded by a serene and comfortable atmosphere.
In Denmark, the cold lasts for many months and its inhabitants therefore spend a lot of time within the walls of their homes. This is why the Danes give importance to their homes, aiming to make them comfortable and welcoming, perfect places to relax, enjoy their privacy but also places to welcome friends.
What does hygge mean
The term hygge was born in Denmark, which it really wants to describe a condition of well-being and intimacy, implemented inside and outside the home.
To be pronounced “hughe”, with a narrow u, hygge is therefore the search for serenity as a lifestyle.
Living hygge
We have seen that hygge is a term that represents a mood, that is, the way you want to live. Live as if you were receiving a warm hug, surrounded by family or closest friends.
Living hygge it therefore corresponds to a convivial meal, relaxation on a comfortable sofa, the warmth of a lit fireplace, a cup of hot drink, a pair of slippers and a blanket.
The hygge style house
There hygge style house it is therefore the one that emanates a sweet feeling of welcome and protection.
From the colors to the fabrics, from the furnishings to the materials used for the finishes and decorations, everything revolves around the concept of “feeling good”.
Everything has a clear Nordic imprint, with the use of natural materials, soft colors and useful and comfortable furniture and accessories. In a hygge house there is wood and stone, warm woolen blankets and light linen curtains, soft lights from lanterns and candles, soft seats and rugs on which to have the pleasure of walking barefoot. All elements that must make its inhabitants happy.
The hygge decor
L’hygge decor it is made of furniture, accessories and objects capable of arousing pleasant memories.
The feeling of well-being comes from the mix of these elements, which must be used as ingredients to improve the quality of life inside the home.
Each component must be essential and functional, arranged in an orderly but not too rigorous way, in Scandinavian style but also interspersed with evocative pieces perhaps coming from the grandmother’s house.
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The hygge style armchair
Looking for one hygge style armchair? The tired man it’s a armchair with armrests in sheepskin designed by Flemming Lassen in 1935 with the aim of making those who sit there feel “as warm and safe as a polar bear cub feels in its mother’s embrace”.
A hygge accessory
An accessory that cannot be missing in a hygge home is the lantern, as the Marstrand designed by Martin Dos Santos. Made of leather and glass, it can accommodate a candle that with its soft light can be used to illuminate the relaxation area of the house.
Hygge furniture from Ikea
Also Ikea has given ample space to hygge-style furnishings as the Swedish company also fully shares the Danish lifestyle. Especially with some proposals, the blue and yellow colossus aims to bring out the feeling of well-being that must be experienced in a hygge house.
Among the hygge furnishings by Ikea there is definitely the Gronadal rocking chair made of hand-woven rattan and ash.
A hygge home can sleep even 2 Stockholm coffee tables with the top in walnut veneer and the legs in solid walnut.
But the element that best identifies one hygge house and the Ludde white sheepskin. To be placed on the seats, to be held on the ground, there is no house in the northern countries that do not have one.
