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    PARADISE REGAINED

    Aug 26, 2021 3 minutes
    Words Nicky Adams
    Photographs Anne Nyblaeus/A Design Features

    Although it had been in the family since 1968, Sofia Gestblom saw this handsome Swedish suburban home with new eyes when she and her husband bought it from her parents-in-law 50 years later.

    ‘We had lived for several years in California but decided the time was right to come home to Sweden,’ explains Sofia. ‘Before we went abroad, we had a house in Stockholm but I had always loved my husband’s childhood home in the city of Uppsala, which is

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