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This is what I have done with our place, down with wallpaper, paneling, dark paints and on with a pure white paint, everything looks so much bigger and brighter and shows off not only the artwork and the furniture but also the architecture much, much better.

I really love colour, but the walls will probably always stay white.

Looks like an Arflex Marenco.
www.arflex.it

Like these a lot and have been wanting an armchair for a few years now!

In the past 12-13 years my wife and I have lived in 6 countries and 11 different homes, not counting corporate rentals and hotels in which we've stayed in for several months over the years. We finally bought a house around 4 months ago and it now looks as we need to rent it out as we are relocating again for a while.

I guess that 50% off what you paid is the minimum you have to take off unless it is a highly sought after piece. We have a ridiculously expensive sofa ourselves, but even if we cut a very good deal on it (35% of retail) we would still not expect to get more than maybe half what we paid for it if we sold it, and it is still in 99.9% perfect condition. For some strange reason, would we have bought a classic armchair like an Egg, Womb or Eames lounger, we could probably have sold it for at least 70% of the retail, if not more, of the new price without any greater difficulties.

As said above, test the outlet before touching any wires, even if the power is switched of at the fusebox, in older houses you can never be sure of what idiot has tampered with the electricity! This is talking out of own experience living in a house with over half a century old electrics.

Ashbadger: The rocker looks like an Eero Aarnio Rocker: http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/keinu-rocking-chair-p-1710.html?language=&country=

Just be careful with the candles, birch bark is one of the best materials for tinder there is, it burns even when wet.

Looks like bad copies of Alvar Aalto's kids furniture by Artek. Sure the price for artek's furniture is in an other league.

I would probably have gone for a set of three rod hairpin table legs in stainless from www.ianmaclean.com/ with a black table top to match the chairs.

Wonderful house tour, thank you! Aalto is one of my all time favourites.