This traditional kitchen is full of countryside charm

The appeal of life beyond the city is the slowness. The simplicity. The proximity to nature. Here’s an open plan kitchen and dining area that brings the best of the countryside to life, with traditional details and a large farmhouse-style table, plus charming nooks for playing, growing and reading.

A SEKTION/MAXIMERA kitchen with an EKBACKEN worktop and two birch BEKVÄM kitchen trolleys creating a kitchen island.

A SEKTION/MAXIMERA kitchen with a white marble effect/laminate EKBACKEN worktop and a white glass-door wall cabinet.

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Open storage is key in a traditional kitchen. Celebrate your crockery and cooking utensils with glass-door kitchen cabinets and hook rails.

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Mia GustafssonInterior designer

The land of plenty

“Abundant” is a word that sums up this family kitchen well. Its worktops, walls, cabinets and drawers are all generously stocked with everything from saucepans and measuring spoons to homemade preserves. It’s the kind of kitchen where something delicious is bound to be bubbling away or baking at any time of day. On today’s menu, for instance? Freshly baked apple cake!

A freshly baked tart inside a grey HEMMABAK springform pan on top of a red HILDEGUN pot holder on a worktop.

A clear glass VARDAGEN jar with lid and some KORKEN jars with lids atop a white marble effect/laminate EKBACKEN worktop.

A SEKTION/MAXIMERA kitchen with black HULTARP rails holding pots and pans and a grey HEMMABAK springform pan on the worktop.

Kitchen utensils hanging from a black HULTARP rail against a red tiled wall.

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To go from freshly-picked fruit to freshly-baked deliciousness, here are the tools to have on hand:

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For everything and everyone

They say food is what brings people together, but the open plan layout of this kitchen and dining area certainly helps! While a meal is being prepared, the rest of the family can still be close by: playing or working at the dining table or settling for a good read in one of the room’s two comfy armchairs.

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A dining area with a grey-brown KLIMPFJÄLL dining table with pendant lamps above and a pine PERJOHAN bench with storage.

A corner of a room with a yellow STRANDMON wing chair and a grey STRANDMON children’s armchair.

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Storage where you least expect it

You don’t have to look far in this kitchen and dining area for clever ideas that make life a little easier. In this fluid space where different activities come and go, furniture with built-in storage makes the transition from one to the next a lot less time-consuming.

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A child in a dining area atop a pine PERJOHAN bench with storage leaning against a grey-brown KLIMPFJÄLL dining table.

A FLISAT children’s table and two TROFAST storage boxes with bright paints and a MÅLA 10-piece cardboard town template set.

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Two children and an adult man around a dining table with one of the children sitting on a birch GRÅVAL junior chair.

A white wall with a black/pine antique effect GULLHULT wall shelf with a black STURSK wall clock above.

Tulips in a clear glass BEGÄRLIG vase atop a wooden table with dining chairs in the background.

A wooden box holding placemats, a candle in a candlestick and a potted plant atop a grey HAUGA sideboard.

A dining area where a man sits on a beige-white MULLFJÄLLET conference chair next to a dining table, his daughter in his lap.

The great indoors

Even if you don’t have a meadow or a forest on your doorstep, you can still take a leaf out of this home’s book by adding in plants and greenery aplenty. A sunny windowsill and plant stand are happy homes for this family’s collection of pot plants and cuttings.

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