Checked pillows in brown at a table with small plates with fruit and berries.

Dream storage of 80 m2

When the square metres felt too small but the desire to move was lacking, stylist and interior designer Caroline Richter chose a smarter way - to build in storage that makes every room bigger. With Elfa’s customised solutions, the family gets space for both everyday life and dreams.

Photo Lina Arvidsson

Caroline stands in the hallway in front of a wardrobe with sliding doors from Elfa.

Meet Caroline

Caroline is a stylish interior designer with a sense of colour, shape and smart storage, and has created a home full of personality.

Name: Caroline Richter
Age: 46 years old
Home: In Malmö
Profession: Interior designer and stylist. Founder and co-owner of the creative agency Lokal54

The family sits together on a staircase.

Fredrik, Estrid, Caroline and Bill.

Storage became the key to staying

Caroline and Fredrik live with their children Bill and Estrid in a charming 80-square-metre terraced house. A few years ago, they actually felt like they had grown out of the house. But the area is perfect, the children have their friends here and everyday life flows.

Instead of moving, the family decided to make a total change to their home with storage as the key.

For us, good storage is about more than order. It’s about freeing up space for what’s important," says Caroline.

The hall became the starting point

The small hall used to have a standard wardrobe that did not make optimal use of the space. With Elfa’s sliding door wardrobe - customised from wall to wall and floor to ceiling - they got a new place and a more stylish impression. The fact that the doors are painted in the same colour as the wall provides an almost invisible and elegant solution.

Hallway with walls and radiators in burgundy and a wardrobe from Elfa with the Vista sliding doors.

The old radiator was replaced with a vertical one, which gave more heat and space for smarter storage in the hallway.

Green cabinet with a flower vase, a scented candle and a pair of sunglasses on top.

Hallway with burgundy walls and hooks where outerwear and bags hang.

Opposite the sliding doors is an open solution for jackets and bags used every day.

We love our area. With Elfa, we were able to organise our things instead of packing moving boxes.

Caroline Richter

Caroline stands in a kitchen with beige walls and a dining table with a vase with white flowers.

Colour, shape and details keep the home together from hallway to kitchen. There’s a warm, personal style that makes every room cohesive and inviting.

Light blue small plate filled with cherries.

A mirror above a sofa where a window and a glass cabinet can be seen in the mirror image.

Soft colours, mirrors and green details connect the living room with the rest of the home.

Caroline beds a bed in a bedroom with beige walls, where the Elfa wardrobe has the Vista sliding doors in the same colour.

When storage makes your home grow

On the upper floor, Caroline and Fredrik’s walk-in closet was transformed into her daughter Estrid’s room and instead they built a new wardrobe in the bedroom, as cleverly planned and painted in the same tone as the walls.

The result is a home that grows with the family without the need to move.