From my house to yours
I grew up in a red-painted house in Uppsala where nothing piled up by the door and the dishes dried inside a cupboard. Here is every one of those fixes, room by room, each with the American version and what it costs.
On the left, what my American friends tell me. On the right, what we do about it at home. Each one is a chapter in the book.
The book follows the house the way you walk into it: from the front door to the linen cupboard, then the routines that keep it all calm. Tap a room to see its chapters. Each room has its Swedish name and how to say it.
A video can only show a fix for a few seconds. The book stops and explains it: how it works, the drawing, the American version, what you need and what it costs.
Real comments from my YouTube channel, quoted word for word.
Some of you asked, and you were right to. The book comes with 60 Swedish home words, each spelled the way it sounds. Here are six.
Döstädning is something my mother and grandmother did all their lives: calmly sorting through your things while it is still easy, so your family is never left with the job. The workbook is the calm, step-by-step way to do it at your own pace.
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Get both books · $52Most of these ideas began as somebody's answer to a cold, wet climate and a small house. Many of you already do half of them. The book gives you the rest, the version that fits your house, and the cost before you start.
Linnea Holm · Uppsala
I grew up in a red-painted family house in Uppsala. My mother and my grandmother ran it the old Swedish way: shoes off at the door, a drying cabinet in the laundry room, a place for every single thing, a deep clean every spring, and döstädning, the calm habit of sorting through your things while you still can.
I studied, I married, I have two children, and today I run a busy family home of my own. It is not a museum. There are school bags and wet mittens and a husband who keeps receipts. I still do everything the way I was taught, because it simply works.
I started making videos after American friends kept asking me the same three things: why my home feels so calm, why my laundry dries so fast, and why I own so little but never seem to be missing anything. Nobody in my family ever wrote any of it down. So I did, room by room, and I found the American version of every fix, because a Swedish answer is no use if it does not fit your house.
“A calm house is not a bigger house or a richer house. It is a house where everything has a place, and the place is easy.”
| The Swedish Home Method: 45 fixes, room by room, each with its American version and cost | $47 |
| The Friday Tidy: my 20-minute weekly reset, as a card to print | $9 |
| Build-it plans: dish-drying cabinet, entry drop zone, linen cupboard system, with drawings and shopping lists | $19 |
| How to Say It: 60 Swedish home words, spelled the way they sound | $7 |
| Free updates for life | $10 |
| Total value | $92 |
| You pay today | $37 |
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No contractor. Most of the 45 fixes are about where things go and when, not about building. The three that need building, the dish cabinet, the drop zone and the linen cupboard, come with drawings and a shopping list, and I tell you plainly when a fix needs a drill.
That is why I wrote it. Every fix comes with the American version. There is a chapter on keeping a house cool in the South, and nothing in the book needs a floor drain or a wall-hung toilet.
Yes. Most fixes move things, not walls: the drop zone, the sheet sets, the baskets, the Friday Tidy. For the cabinet conversion I tell you to ask your landlord first.
You click the button and pay through Gumroad's checkout, the same kind big stores use. The book comes to your email within a minute or so. You open it on your phone, tablet or computer, and you can print any page. Nothing is shipped and there is no account to make.
Of course. Gumroad's checkout lets you send it as a gift, or you can forward the email to them.
The gentle, everyday version is in the main book, one drawer a week. The full step-by-step way, with a box for every room and the talk with your children and spouse, is the companion workbook. You can add it with both books.
No. One payment, the book is yours, and the updates are free for life.
Read it within 30 days. If it is not for you, email me and you get a full refund.
45 small Swedish fixes, the American version of each, and what it costs. Start with the front door this weekend.
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Nobody in my family ever wrote it down. So I did. Now it is yours. ❦ Linnea
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