The Power of Scandinavian Design: Embracing Simplicity and Beauty

As we explored the world of Scandinavian design, it became clear that there's more to this aesthetic than meets the eye. What sets Scandinavians apart is their approach to decorating with everyday items, transforming functional pieces into beautiful works of art.

This intentional approach to decorating is rooted in a utilitarian mindset. Instead of buying decorative items and then displaying them only occasionally, Scandinavians opt for practical solutions that double as decorative elements. For example, if they need to buy olive oil, it might as well come in a pretty bottle. Similarly, serving pieces like bowls and kettles are designed with both functionality and beauty in mind.

The result is an intentional design approach that prioritizes thoughtfulness and consideration. When Scandinavians purchase items, they consider how they can be used and displayed daily, rather than saving them for special occasions or storing them away altogether. This approach not only reduces clutter but also creates a more cohesive and beautiful living space.

One fascinating example of this philosophy is the way Scandinavians decorate with their everyday items. A friend who's a photographer shared that he uses his photography lights in his living room as lamps, and also employs them for shoots. Similarly, friends have displayed their bicycles on walls or hung them from ceilings, rather than stashing them away.

This approach to decorating is not limited to visual elements alone; it also extends to the way Scandinavians interact with and care for their belongings. Clothes are often displayed as decorations, reflecting a culture that values simplicity and elegance. When we asked our mom about this practice, she revealed that she never realized why her friend was doing this until she saw how beautiful the clothes looked on display.

This intentional approach to decorating is rooted in Scandinavian design's core principles: functionality, minimalism, and an emphasis on quality over quantity. By embracing these values, Scandinavians create a space that feels thoughtful, considered, and beautifully curated.

In many ways, this approach can be seen as revolutionary, challenging our traditional notions of what constitutes decorative elements and how we interact with the things we own. By decorating with everyday items, Scandinavians are creating a culture that values experience over material possessions and prioritizes simplicity and elegance above all else.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enour final parting tip or takeaway for sure from Scandinavians is totally forgot celebrate the everyday yes okay why don't you start it why don't you do number five hey guys welcome back to the house of Valentina I'm Valentina and my husband Jackie running us and that's because it is one of the best weeks ever it is Scandinavian week yay so people ask all the time I'm gonna ask it and you give me the answer of all the places you flip what is your favorite place Oh everywhere is is really special wrong give a name exactly exactly barely even talked without like tearing up like I I loved living there so much that people would they'd say why do you love it so much and I'm like because it's like heaven on earth it really is like I don't have to wait to die and go to heaven because I have found it on earth I mean the Danes are supposedly the happiest people on the planet yes because when we first landed there they serve hot dogs and chocolate milk in the airport why would you be a horse fan magazine racks full of the coolest magazines on the planet I mean I still have these magazines look you've got cool pretty recipes and really awesome rooms in here I mean oh my gosh and we live there for six years just so you know so to kind of put some perspective on yeah and and the crazy thing is is that at the end of six years we weren't like okay we're ready for somewhere else it was like oh yeah it was the hardest thing ever to leave it was there peace we Mort can talk way more dude sorry still are it's a very sensitive subject reason that we are so about this is because we fell in love with Scandinavia and we love Scandinavian design we love to get navy and food we are probably the world's biggest fans of Scandinavia I don't know how you could possibly be a bigger fan so I hope you enjoyed French week because now that's gone and now we're going to talk about the subject that is definitely closest to our hearts it's the place that it really did it's still hard there are so many things that you should definitely include in your home that are various Canadian but we're gonna try to and narrow it down just a little bit today just 600 no 5 5 3 2 5 500 500 yeah that yeah we're gonna do 5 ok this is impossible it's like taking the Encyclopedia and same two sentences so we're gonna try let's go five things that you can still get five things you should definitely steal from the Scandinavian okay never one definitely absolutely blend really modern clean lines with something very rustic they nail this style over and over and if you're not really sure what that means um look at our kitchen yes you these rooms where there is this great amazing combination of modern and rustic we've talked about a little bit before but in Denmark they take it up a level they really really know how to use like flat front cabinets and put a really warm handmade vase sitting next to it they really understand how an inn even the rustic base I think a lot of times even the items that do have a rustic patina to them things that feel warm and earthy there's still something modern about those two they really know how to to mix those things together things that may be smooth but then something rough with it but they they just nail it in a certain way the the room sometimes I'll have ornate designs like on the ceilings and everything and then they'll put a really clean line sofa with it and well the setup like Google for someone's house for coffee and they'll have their role Copenhagen mugs out sitting on a incredibly modern shiny white table marvel and then underneath that is rustic hardwood floors that aren't even like shiny yeah so it's this great combination that you get of you know classic and traditional and yet organic and rustic all at the same time yeah it's it's very cool and then what it will do is it'll make your home feel very chic but it will also keep it feeling very cozy and anytime I ask my damage friends like I really want to buy a rustic table for our breakfast room ours is very sentimental which is why we haven't switched it out but they're like oh you need a rustic element to go with your like smooth chairs yeah so quickly that's literally always their advice and I think it's cool I think I love it you're going to let us know what you guys think number two is that Scandinavians know how to really mix high and low end and when I say low and I mean like a rock that I really mean that they'll take in a really really expensive base and then they'll go and let their kids pick flowers from the garden or they'll gather up little branches from their walk yeah yeah yeah we we took so many walks in the woods when we lived in Denmark it was what everybody does yeah it's a thing that they do on the weekends is they go for their Sunday walk and they'll bring things home and put them in this base and so they're always doing that it's not just the base and the flowers it's they'll have a really expensive piece of furniture that was an investment piece for them and then they'll line up their kids rocks on it or a stick that they brought home from daycare or from school and they just it really is like a it's good news and bad news for your checkbook because some things they do go like relatively cheap or they'll go to a flea market or whatever but then other things they actually do invest in yeah and so it's neither one I think sometimes we have a tendency in designed to be polarized like either every vintage and hand-me-down yeah secondhand type stuff or everything comes straight from the designer store never been touched before and Danes do a really good job of living right in the middle so yeah they were at a big check for certain things but then other things they'll buy at a flea market or their kid will make it or they'll pick it up in the forest they I know that that we a lot of times that people know a lot about the French I was gonna say baroque haunts the flea markets but the Danish local market this is their their flea markets they love them and they have so many good ones I have so many beautiful things that I found at the Danish flea market and things are only pretty passive but do they will call your eyes out for like to get in these flea markets like they just go yeah I used to go to one and the lady they would make us line up because this was such a good oh my gosh it was this amazing flea market and people would have to line up to get in and on one week I saw this lady and she her no it wasn't her Corman it was her leg her leg had been broken and she's blowing in and some guy says I wouldn't be the first person in line it's like Black Friday at Walmart yeah it really is every time the little Marco would open yeah so people will literally run I would take hailey with me and she was little and we would have to run to move forward so we wouldn't get over eight long good times good times we couldn't help it there were such good prices and such cool things and we had so much fun and we'd come home every time we go and blow off this glass eyeball we were literally walking through like oh he would go because there are so many people and they were crammed in and they just they love their flea markets so yeah so I think that that's something that we just really I I can't help if I see a garage sale sign I have to stop it's why I like to go to Goodwill and once you have to get mail shoot runs over people just in the spirit of Denmark we will go to a different City on vacation and I will stop and go to the goodwill because I'm so sure there's going to be some cool treasure there so that's thanks to the Danes number three idea that you should absolutely be stealing from the Scandinavians is this idea that less is more I may be the Japanese are some of the other people that you would associate this with but minimalism is a really big deal in Scandinavia they really do value having less there were more things because they they believed that the things that you have in your life that they should really matter to you and that that little rock that your kid brought home that having that is more valuable than billions of dollars worth of things and spending time with your family is more important than working literally just your entire life and yeah you have a ton of stuff but you have no life so it's interesting the way that all cus they play a long gap they have a long game with a lot of things so maybe and maybe that's what happens when you ride your bicycle every day is because you can't get anywhere in a rush and they approach design in the same way so they move in a house they don't expect to have it decorated three days later yeah like it may take years to get to those spaces if they don't care and they don't care they don't mind this is the crazy thing I walked away with is they don't mind leaving a space empty yeah until they can do exactly what they want with it to skinnin avians having less it's not a sign of failure I think that that is the biggest takeaway you could ever take away from them it is that an empty space or something that isn't done isn't a sign of failure it's just this present moment and they they celebrate the moment right there the way it is one of our favorite things we so we actually learned Danish don't ask me to speak it that well now or no my past just enough yeah so not that we can speak it that well after I've been gone for four years but we actually studied Danish and one of the words that we were always the people were always trying to teach us was the word hygge and there have been so many books written on the word Huia since then and it's just like a really big buzzword and the reason why is because it's not it's a it's a it's a feeling it's not like it doesn't have an exact translation and even Danes struggle to define it and to them perfection or hygge it's it's not a faith it's the way that you feel about your space and I can't I can't sell you hookah I can sell you a book about Hooda and I can sell you a book about finding perfection in life but I can't actually sell you who that because it's not for sale it's not a thing perfection isn't found in the object it's found in the moment with the object with the people it's a party where all of your friends are together and everybody's laughing really hard and the kids are running around and it's this moment of perfection it's it's a cup of coffee that's in this beautiful cup and it's been hand aided by somebody and in Denmark and they've been doing this since the 1700s and it's this perfect moment when the cup feels good in your hand and the coffee inside smells so good and you take a drink of this and a bite of cake and it's perfection and that's what you want in your home that's what you want in all of your house is this this feeling of perfection that it's not it's not perfect in the way that the world might define it but it's perfect to you and I think that's amazing yeah and it's not it's the way that you feel in the space yeah so I you know I encourage I three people all the time like sit in the space what does it feel like what do you see what do you smell what do you listen to all those things matter that's where a real eyes in all of this is your the perfect moments inside your home or not mathematical equations they can't be designed you can literally measure every single thing perfectly and put it all together just right but in the end it's everything it's the life that you breathe into them that is going to make them perfect and I think you can bring in things that will enhance your experience like the music that you listen to what food you serve inside your space what the cozy blankets they're the all that kind of stuff that you feel good when you sit down in the furniture that is actually comfortable to sit in it's the kind of space that you want to spend time in those are always the kind of questions that I'm actually asking my clients before we ever get to okay what kind of furniture do you like again what kind of colors do you think you want it's like no let's let's talk about the essence of what you want to feel in the space yeah I mean that's what's really cool yeah you don't let you steal that one from that Dandy's yeah so the number five thing we think you should definitely take away and steal from from Scandinavian design is that make the practical beautiful yeah there's definitely this focus on that you've never seen before looking at this little magazine article and we're like oh my gosh like they have your pots and pans out and they have the mortar and pestle sitting out and the olive oil and I don't feel like we did this before I feel like before we moved to Scandinavia we had things that were decorations that were sitting out on the counter yeah and then the olive oil and the everyday things were put away and ran out yeah like we have a tendency to decorate with decorated with decor yeah and then the things that we use in life we build cabinets all throughout our house every room has cabinet and we hide everything in there yeah that's a real big - I've never thought about that before yeah we really do we so we have all these amazing items that we hide and then we buy decor that we can show off and Dames literally just they slip it on it they'll even buy the decor is practical yeah they are utilitarian and so many ways it comes with their utilitarian their minimalist and yet they want beauty all around them and so if they're going to have to buy olive oil it might as well come in a pretty bottle if they're going to have to buy a serving piece to serve salad it might as well be pretty and the bowl that it goes in should be pretty in a water kettle for your tea and toasters all these things there's an intentionality so what they do and I notice sometimes I think all that that's super expensive actually because you're not buying the decor yeah now you're actually decorating with the things you use yeah and you use it over and over and over instead of having you know this Easter decoration that comes out and then that has to be switched out with like the Valentine's and then the fourth of July and then you know it's like they're constantly here I think a lot of people in the US are constantly changing out their decorative items yeah whereas in Denmark they they don't do it like that they're just like oh no we're gonna buy something really great we're gonna have open shelving because we brought we bought pretty bowls that we eat out of everyday yeah therefore we will take the bowl down from that open shelf eat out of it and put it back up when we're done wait friends want this friend one time he's a photographer and he had photography lights in his living room now like I told him I was like this is such a cool creative idea and they said cool creative idea I use these like I use them for the lamps yeah and then I also use them for shoots and I thought oh what a cool decorating idea but for them and again they'll bring a bicycling and hanging on the wall but it's the bicycle they ride to the grocery store it really is so there's this they've just done this amazing thing that I just find fascinating I literally decorate with the things that I use that's huge does that make sense that's huge yeah like if there's anything like revolutionary about what you talked about today it's this yeah I really do I think it's amazing and it's one of those things that when you see it it just feels like magical because you're like oh my God look at their cutting board do you know I hear but they use know somebody thought it was so weird and I don't even realize I was even doing this okay I decorate with my clothes but and it never does to me that that was weird because everybody in Denmark does that they they display their clothes like their decorations and apparently my I asked my mom I was like it occurred to me the other day that I don't see other people decorating with their clothes and she's like yeah that was I realized you didn't I didn't understand why you were doing that but then I saw how pretty it looked and I was like oh I didn't think about it yeah that's why it's just one of those things like if you buy something beautiful that they decorate with their shoes they decorate with their clothes things that they surround themselves with every day like a necklace will get hung somewhere where it becomes decor because they think it's beautiful I think it's so cool yeah yeah it's goes back that thoughtfulness like there's just such a thoughtfulness and what they do when they purchase yeah that they don't need to duplicate purchase so they can hide it somewhere yeah I think that's a that's a pretty cool thing I think you can really take away from this so I hope that you enjoyed this video it's just very hard for us to be concise about Scandinavia because we're very emotionally attached to it but yeah I've got some really fun stuff planned for this week that I hope we'll be able to execute it's been a crazy busy weekend already but I'm excited because I love Scandinavia I can't wait to talk about it more and I hope that you feel that way too and and tell us what you think like are you enjoying this as it is it's something new something you've never heard of maybe we were the only ones that were clueless about Scandinavian design I don't know well thank you so much for joining us you guys know that we absolutely love it when you come by for a visit and we always look forward to it so we'll see you in the next one bye where everything is so I feel like I'm stirring on either everything is like Vint number three the things that we should be stealing from the Scandinavians is this idea that less is more it's like it's just a shadow looks like a wrinkle makes your hair look like it in the video okayour final parting tip or takeaway for sure from Scandinavians is totally forgot celebrate the everyday yes okay why don't you start it why don't you do number five hey guys welcome back to the house of Valentina I'm Valentina and my husband Jackie running us and that's because it is one of the best weeks ever it is Scandinavian week yay so people ask all the time I'm gonna ask it and you give me the answer of all the places you flip what is your favorite place Oh everywhere is is really special wrong give a name exactly exactly barely even talked without like tearing up like I I loved living there so much that people would they'd say why do you love it so much and I'm like because it's like heaven on earth it really is like I don't have to wait to die and go to heaven because I have found it on earth I mean the Danes are supposedly the happiest people on the planet yes because when we first landed there they serve hot dogs and chocolate milk in the airport why would you be a horse fan magazine racks full of the coolest magazines on the planet I mean I still have these magazines look you've got cool pretty recipes and really awesome rooms in here I mean oh my gosh and we live there for six years just so you know so to kind of put some perspective on yeah and and the crazy thing is is that at the end of six years we weren't like okay we're ready for somewhere else it was like oh yeah it was the hardest thing ever to leave it was there peace we Mort can talk way more dude sorry still are it's a very sensitive subject reason that we are so about this is because we fell in love with Scandinavia and we love Scandinavian design we love to get navy and food we are probably the world's biggest fans of Scandinavia I don't know how you could possibly be a bigger fan so I hope you enjoyed French week because now that's gone and now we're going to talk about the subject that is definitely closest to our hearts it's the place that it really did it's still hard there are so many things that you should definitely include in your home that are various Canadian but we're gonna try to and narrow it down just a little bit today just 600 no 5 5 3 2 5 500 500 yeah that yeah we're gonna do 5 ok this is impossible it's like taking the Encyclopedia and same two sentences so we're gonna try let's go five things that you can still get five things you should definitely steal from the Scandinavian okay never one definitely absolutely blend really modern clean lines with something very rustic they nail this style over and over and if you're not really sure what that means um look at our kitchen yes you these rooms where there is this great amazing combination of modern and rustic we've talked about a little bit before but in Denmark they take it up a level they really really know how to use like flat front cabinets and put a really warm handmade vase sitting next to it they really understand how an inn even the rustic base I think a lot of times even the items that do have a rustic patina to them things that feel warm and earthy there's still something modern about those two they really know how to to mix those things together things that may be smooth but then something rough with it but they they just nail it in a certain way the the room sometimes I'll have ornate designs like on the ceilings and everything and then they'll put a really clean line sofa with it and well the setup like Google for someone's house for coffee and they'll have their role Copenhagen mugs out sitting on a incredibly modern shiny white table marvel and then underneath that is rustic hardwood floors that aren't even like shiny yeah so it's this great combination that you get of you know classic and traditional and yet organic and rustic all at the same time yeah it's it's very cool and then what it will do is it'll make your home feel very chic but it will also keep it feeling very cozy and anytime I ask my damage friends like I really want to buy a rustic table for our breakfast room ours is very sentimental which is why we haven't switched it out but they're like oh you need a rustic element to go with your like smooth chairs yeah so quickly that's literally always their advice and I think it's cool I think I love it you're going to let us know what you guys think number two is that Scandinavians know how to really mix high and low end and when I say low and I mean like a rock that I really mean that they'll take in a really really expensive base and then they'll go and let their kids pick flowers from the garden or they'll gather up little branches from their walk yeah yeah yeah we we took so many walks in the woods when we lived in Denmark it was what everybody does yeah it's a thing that they do on the weekends is they go for their Sunday walk and they'll bring things home and put them in this base and so they're always doing that it's not just the base and the flowers it's they'll have a really expensive piece of furniture that was an investment piece for them and then they'll line up their kids rocks on it or a stick that they brought home from daycare or from school and they just it really is like a it's good news and bad news for your checkbook because some things they do go like relatively cheap or they'll go to a flea market or whatever but then other things they actually do invest in yeah and so it's neither one I think sometimes we have a tendency in designed to be polarized like either every vintage and hand-me-down yeah secondhand type stuff or everything comes straight from the designer store never been touched before and Danes do a really good job of living right in the middle so yeah they were at a big check for certain things but then other things they'll buy at a flea market or their kid will make it or they'll pick it up in the forest they I know that that we a lot of times that people know a lot about the French I was gonna say baroque haunts the flea markets but the Danish local market this is their their flea markets they love them and they have so many good ones I have so many beautiful things that I found at the Danish flea market and things are only pretty passive but do they will call your eyes out for like to get in these flea markets like they just go yeah I used to go to one and the lady they would make us line up because this was such a good oh my gosh it was this amazing flea market and people would have to line up to get in and on one week I saw this lady and she her no it wasn't her Corman it was her leg her leg had been broken and she's blowing in and some guy says I wouldn't be the first person in line it's like Black Friday at Walmart yeah it really is every time the little Marco would open yeah so people will literally run I would take hailey with me and she was little and we would have to run to move forward so we wouldn't get over eight long good times good times we couldn't help it there were such good prices and such cool things and we had so much fun and we'd come home every time we go and blow off this glass eyeball we were literally walking through like oh he would go because there are so many people and they were crammed in and they just they love their flea markets so yeah so I think that that's something that we just really I I can't help if I see a garage sale sign I have to stop it's why I like to go to Goodwill and once you have to get mail shoot runs over people just in the spirit of Denmark we will go to a different City on vacation and I will stop and go to the goodwill because I'm so sure there's going to be some cool treasure there so that's thanks to the Danes number three idea that you should absolutely be stealing from the Scandinavians is this idea that less is more I may be the Japanese are some of the other people that you would associate this with but minimalism is a really big deal in Scandinavia they really do value having less there were more things because they they believed that the things that you have in your life that they should really matter to you and that that little rock that your kid brought home that having that is more valuable than billions of dollars worth of things and spending time with your family is more important than working literally just your entire life and yeah you have a ton of stuff but you have no life so it's interesting the way that all cus they play a long gap they have a long game with a lot of things so maybe and maybe that's what happens when you ride your bicycle every day is because you can't get anywhere in a rush and they approach design in the same way so they move in a house they don't expect to have it decorated three days later yeah like it may take years to get to those spaces if they don't care and they don't care they don't mind this is the crazy thing I walked away with is they don't mind leaving a space empty yeah until they can do exactly what they want with it to skinnin avians having less it's not a sign of failure I think that that is the biggest takeaway you could ever take away from them it is that an empty space or something that isn't done isn't a sign of failure it's just this present moment and they they celebrate the moment right there the way it is one of our favorite things we so we actually learned Danish don't ask me to speak it that well now or no my past just enough yeah so not that we can speak it that well after I've been gone for four years but we actually studied Danish and one of the words that we were always the people were always trying to teach us was the word hygge and there have been so many books written on the word Huia since then and it's just like a really big buzzword and the reason why is because it's not it's a it's a it's a feeling it's not like it doesn't have an exact translation and even Danes struggle to define it and to them perfection or hygge it's it's not a faith it's the way that you feel about your space and I can't I can't sell you hookah I can sell you a book about Hooda and I can sell you a book about finding perfection in life but I can't actually sell you who that because it's not for sale it's not a thing perfection isn't found in the object it's found in the moment with the object with the people it's a party where all of your friends are together and everybody's laughing really hard and the kids are running around and it's this moment of perfection it's it's a cup of coffee that's in this beautiful cup and it's been hand aided by somebody and in Denmark and they've been doing this since the 1700s and it's this perfect moment when the cup feels good in your hand and the coffee inside smells so good and you take a drink of this and a bite of cake and it's perfection and that's what you want in your home that's what you want in all of your house is this this feeling of perfection that it's not it's not perfect in the way that the world might define it but it's perfect to you and I think that's amazing yeah and it's not it's the way that you feel in the space yeah so I you know I encourage I three people all the time like sit in the space what does it feel like what do you see what do you smell what do you listen to all those things matter that's where a real eyes in all of this is your the perfect moments inside your home or not mathematical equations they can't be designed you can literally measure every single thing perfectly and put it all together just right but in the end it's everything it's the life that you breathe into them that is going to make them perfect and I think you can bring in things that will enhance your experience like the music that you listen to what food you serve inside your space what the cozy blankets they're the all that kind of stuff that you feel good when you sit down in the furniture that is actually comfortable to sit in it's the kind of space that you want to spend time in those are always the kind of questions that I'm actually asking my clients before we ever get to okay what kind of furniture do you like again what kind of colors do you think you want it's like no let's let's talk about the essence of what you want to feel in the space yeah I mean that's what's really cool yeah you don't let you steal that one from that Dandy's yeah so the number five thing we think you should definitely take away and steal from from Scandinavian design is that make the practical beautiful yeah there's definitely this focus on that you've never seen before looking at this little magazine article and we're like oh my gosh like they have your pots and pans out and they have the mortar and pestle sitting out and the olive oil and I don't feel like we did this before I feel like before we moved to Scandinavia we had things that were decorations that were sitting out on the counter yeah and then the olive oil and the everyday things were put away and ran out yeah like we have a tendency to decorate with decorated with decor yeah and then the things that we use in life we build cabinets all throughout our house every room has cabinet and we hide everything in there yeah that's a real big - I've never thought about that before yeah we really do we so we have all these amazing items that we hide and then we buy decor that we can show off and Dames literally just they slip it on it they'll even buy the decor is practical yeah they are utilitarian and so many ways it comes with their utilitarian their minimalist and yet they want beauty all around them and so if they're going to have to buy olive oil it might as well come in a pretty bottle if they're going to have to buy a serving piece to serve salad it might as well be pretty and the bowl that it goes in should be pretty in a water kettle for your tea and toasters all these things there's an intentionality so what they do and I notice sometimes I think all that that's super expensive actually because you're not buying the decor yeah now you're actually decorating with the things you use yeah and you use it over and over and over instead of having you know this Easter decoration that comes out and then that has to be switched out with like the Valentine's and then the fourth of July and then you know it's like they're constantly here I think a lot of people in the US are constantly changing out their decorative items yeah whereas in Denmark they they don't do it like that they're just like oh no we're gonna buy something really great we're gonna have open shelving because we brought we bought pretty bowls that we eat out of everyday yeah therefore we will take the bowl down from that open shelf eat out of it and put it back up when we're done wait friends want this friend one time he's a photographer and he had photography lights in his living room now like I told him I was like this is such a cool creative idea and they said cool creative idea I use these like I use them for the lamps yeah and then I also use them for shoots and I thought oh what a cool decorating idea but for them and again they'll bring a bicycling and hanging on the wall but it's the bicycle they ride to the grocery store it really is so there's this they've just done this amazing thing that I just find fascinating I literally decorate with the things that I use that's huge does that make sense that's huge yeah like if there's anything like revolutionary about what you talked about today it's this yeah I really do I think it's amazing and it's one of those things that when you see it it just feels like magical because you're like oh my God look at their cutting board do you know I hear but they use know somebody thought it was so weird and I don't even realize I was even doing this okay I decorate with my clothes but and it never does to me that that was weird because everybody in Denmark does that they they display their clothes like their decorations and apparently my I asked my mom I was like it occurred to me the other day that I don't see other people decorating with their clothes and she's like yeah that was I realized you didn't I didn't understand why you were doing that but then I saw how pretty it looked and I was like oh I didn't think about it yeah that's why it's just one of those things like if you buy something beautiful that they decorate with their shoes they decorate with their clothes things that they surround themselves with every day like a necklace will get hung somewhere where it becomes decor because they think it's beautiful I think it's so cool yeah yeah it's goes back that thoughtfulness like there's just such a thoughtfulness and what they do when they purchase yeah that they don't need to duplicate purchase so they can hide it somewhere yeah I think that's a that's a pretty cool thing I think you can really take away from this so I hope that you enjoyed this video it's just very hard for us to be concise about Scandinavia because we're very emotionally attached to it but yeah I've got some really fun stuff planned for this week that I hope we'll be able to execute it's been a crazy busy weekend already but I'm excited because I love Scandinavia I can't wait to talk about it more and I hope that you feel that way too and and tell us what you think like are you enjoying this as it is it's something new something you've never heard of maybe we were the only ones that were clueless about Scandinavian design I don't know well thank you so much for joining us you guys know that we absolutely love it when you come by for a visit and we always look forward to it so we'll see you in the next one bye where everything is so I feel like I'm stirring on either everything is like Vint number three the things that we should be stealing from the Scandinavians is this idea that less is more it's like it's just a shadow looks like a wrinkle makes your hair look like it in the video okay\n"