Over 15+ years of Remodelista, we’ve rounded up our favorite French kitchens, Brooklyn kitchens, cost-conscious kitchens, chefs’ kitchens. We’ve even corralled Scandi-inspired kitchens the world over. But we’ve yet to pay homage to the Swedish kitchen.
Readers, forgive us our oversight. At long last, here are our favorite Swedish cook spaces from our archives, in city apartments and summer houses, both pale and colorful—with ideas to borrow to boot.
1. Keep it spare.
![clean lines, a restrained palette, and an attention to both function and beauty 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nordiska-kok-minimalist-kitchen-week-stockholm-5-733x916.jpg)
2. Stick to the rule of three (neutrals).
![on the matter of a simple palette: hew to two or three neutrals colors that pla 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kvacc88num-real-classic-karleby-kitchen-in-almond-1-733x489.jpg)
3. Designate a place for everything.
![the key to a well ordered, efficient kitchen: a place for everything and everyt 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kvacc88num-real-classic-karleby-kitchen-in-almond-7-733x1100.jpg)
![considered storage keeps the countertop free and clear. photograph courtesy of 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bistro-kitchen-in-ash-brown-by-Ballingslov-of-Sweden-Remodelista-5-e1459462862138-733x977.jpg)
4. Super simple components can make a kitchen.
![the swedish kitchen needn\2\17;t be fancy: consider this petite, moveabl 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/elle-decoration-sweden-kitchen.jpg)
![and a cook space in southern sweden done all in plywood, a reference to traditi 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/house-for-mother-plywood-kitchen-crate-storage-forstberg-ling-3-733x489.jpg)
5. Natural light is everything.
![in the swedish kitchen, light is as essential an ingredient as other natural ma 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/nordiska-kok-shaker-kitchen-ellen-dixdotter-jacob-holst-osterlen-denmark-2-733x550.jpg)
6. Squeeze in a place to eat.
![even the tiniest of kitchens can accommodate a snug breakfast perch. see more i 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/stockholm-apartment-historiskahem-11-733x978.jpg)
7. Consider beadboard.
![particularly in a constrained palette—as in this monotone kitchen of the 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sandra-guerrero-sweden-kitchen-week-733x489.jpg)
8. Hang a peg rail (of course).
![Kitchens of the Week Our Favorite Swedish Cook Spaces And 11 Ideas to Borrow portrait 7](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/stadshem-scandinavian-kitchen-remodelista-1-733x549-733x549.jpg)
9. Add plants (and art).
![the kitchen can be a place of display: part workhorse, part gallery. photograph 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/a-colori-kitchen-artilleriet-4-733x1053.jpg)
![glass display cabinets, also in this colori kitchen by artilleriet in sweden, p 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/a-colori-kitchen-artilleriet-7-733x977.jpg)
10. Look to Swedish storybooks.
![lest we give the impression that swedish kitchens are all shades 0f white minim 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cupboards-and-goods-carl-larsson-kitchen-1-733x412.jpg)
![the kitchen in full. 30](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cupboards-and-goods-carl-larsson-kitchen-2-733x1100.jpg)
11. Go dark.
![Kitchens of the Week Our Favorite Swedish Cook Spaces And 11 Ideas to Borrow portrait 7](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/artilleriet-studio-remodelista-4-733x489.jpg)
Browse more clean-lined kitchens from the Remodelista archives:
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- Steal This Look: A Pastel Pink Paris Kitchen, Small-Space Edition
- Kitchen of the Week: A Family Kitchen in Seattle, Budget Edition
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