Elisabeth dunker fine — a quick note to anchor this piece for readers.
Elisabeth dunker fine: Quick notes
Elisabeth Dunker refers to herself as an “artist mixing art, craft, and interiors” and a “female health nerd.” In other words, she’s a cyclone of activity. While earning her masters from HDK, the School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden, she started a blog “very intuitively, almost as a sketchbook in public.” That was almost 20 years ago, and Fine Little Day, Elisabeth’s “simple snapshots of life, nature, and the beauty in everyday moment,” has since evolved into an acclaimed Gothenburg design studio that produces elevated everyday goods for the home.
The offerings range from artists’ prints and posters to boldly patterned textiles and bentwood trays. There’s also a Fine Little Day ideas book, which begins: “I like things that are sprawling, mismatched, and fragmentary.” Elisabeth is the brand’s lead designer, creative director, and voice, while her art school friend Ulrika Engberg “steers the boat.” Their motto is “creating, discovering, and spreading the word about art, design, and eco-friendly products since 2007.”
Elisabeth lives with her husband, Dennis Dunker, a highly specialized physician (he’s a neurointerventionalist), in an apartment in Gothenburg that they settled in eight years ago after their daughter and son were grown. It’s a two-bedroom with enough space for the family to gather, two grandchildren now included. But since it’s a rental, “a lot of it isn’t what we would have chosen,” Elisabeth tells us. “Still, we couldn’t tear out things that work, so instead, we made small changes and learned to live with the rest.” Join us for a look at how Elisabeth did far more than just settle.
Photography by Elisabeth Dunker, courtesy of Fine Little Day (@finelittleday).
Above: The apartment is in a turn-of-the-19th-century building with two apartments per floor. The landlord appears to be very permissive, perhaps because he knows and trusts Elisabeth’s work. Elisabeth, in turn, invested strategically in the space because she and Dennis plan to stay a while. In the shared hallway, she removed the existing “plastic flooring” to reveal the original wooden floorboards.
“We painted the hall floor ourselves even though our carpenter advised against it,” she confesses. “He said it would look dirty and he was right. In hindsight, I wish we had simply kept the raw wooden floor underneath.” The train-style coat rack is vintage.
Above: Their 1960s Swedish settee came with its velvet upholstery. The Fine Little Day Simply Lifting linen wall hanging over the mirror is Elisabeth’s tribute to the benefits of weight training (on her Instagram, @elisabethdunkerr, she often shares her fitness routines for other “hormone cliff divers”). 
Above: The living room came with its herringbone floor and Elisabeth added the William Morris wallpaper and a Hay Rice Paper Light. The Mags sectional sofa is also from Hay (in velvet because “it’s durable and ages beautifully”) and the Berry Rain wool rug is by artist Evelina Kroon for Layered.
Dennis bikes to work at a nearby hospital year-round and Elisabeth bikes to an outdoor gym.
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Above: A self-portrait by Elisabeth with her beloved Boston terrier, Ulla. She and Dennis, she says, are “deeply into music—we are omnivorous listeners.” They had a carpenter build their plywood cubes, which function as “both storage and tables.” The speaker is the MiniPod from Scandyna.
