What Makes a Home a Hytte?

What Makes a Home a Hytte?

There comes a time in every home project when you’ll need to fill out all the little pieces in between. Your floors are in, the hot water is running, the last of the blue tape is gone and big furniture has started to arrive, but still, it doesn’t feel complete. For when that time comes, here’s our guide to the essential goods...

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How to: Kids' Room Wall Decals

How to: Kids' Room Wall Decals

Wall decals are a great solution for adding some character to a space like a nursery or kids' room. The selection you can find online is wide and at a reasonable price. Decals are simple to apply with some basic tools you probably already have in your home. You can create pretty whatever you imagine, and it’s easy enough to simply scrape off when you want a clean slate. 

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Livingroom decorated with home goods from Danish brand OYOY Living Design

Brand Spotlight: OYOY Living Design

For me, it was love at first sight when it comes to OYOY Living Design. This Danish brand, founded in 2012 by Lotte Fynboe, brings a playful yet refined approach to home goods design, for both adults and children alike, and was a natural choice for Blue House Goods.

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Hem Wall Hooks

7 Stylish Wooden Wall Hooks for the Scandinavian Home

Like most Scandinavians, I am of the firm opinion that your home is not, in fact, fully furnished until there is an ample number of wall hooks for easy storage throughout your home. From your entryway to your bathroom to crappy command hooks on the inside of every closet door, hooks are legit THE most useful furnishing in your home. 

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Blue House with small back deck nestled in wooded area of the Catskills

How the Blue House Began

I don’t think either David or I had any clue how much building the Catskills Blue House would come to change our lives. At the time we were a young and carefree couple living in Brooklyn, working 60 hours a week, and just dreaming of building ourselves a little escape. Easy right? That all changed fairly quickly. The week we went into escrow? That was the same week I let David know he was going to be a father. 

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