I have worked in the real estate world for a long time and when working with rental properties and homes, the question often arises when and how to renovate your kitchen. Tenants can then choose certain doors and certain handles. In the early 2000s, the small selection was something that made me think of caravan interiors from the 80s. Regardless of whether you lived in a turn-of-the-century apartment with three-meter ceilings, a retro apartment with slanted upper cabinets or a 70s apartment, those kitchen doors and handles would be replaced with a few poorly chosen alternatives. Yes, I of course understood the management's approach to being able to handle a large-scale operation of thousands of apartments, but in practice it still meant that high-quality kitchen doors and fittings were torn out and replaced with painted or veneered MDF doors of poorer quality and a short lifespan. Not to mention the aesthetic...
Time caught up and it became easier to get a slightly larger selection. But ever since then, fittings - knobs and drawer handles, have been the single most important interior design detail to change a kitchen in my opinion. When I built a new kitchen at the old Bergsmansgården, many people got in touch and wondered where to buy the kitchen knobs. It took a few years but now the Swedish-made knob "Bergsmansgården" in Swedish FSC-labeled wood is available in the webshop. And more models are coming... /Johanna