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Changing rooms: an ever-evolving apartment in Denmark
This home is designed to be rearranged when the mood suits its creative inhabitants
From early childhood, Sif Steendahl Grandorf always knew that someday she would make a living from designing and making furniture – and it all started with cardboard and tape.
Grandorf grew up in a commune on a large farm in Denmark where the adults were always busy building or fixing something. The farm’s old workshop doors were permanently open, as was the basement, which was filled with hundreds of paint pots in all colours. Grandorf spent many hours building model landscapes and cities, but it didn’t take long for the cardboard and tape to be replaced with wood and screws.
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