About
A blog that ran for eight years, kept online.
Chez Larsson was a home organising, interiors and craft blog written in English from a house outside Stockholm. It published from 2008 until the end of 2016, mostly in short posts built around photographs: a drawer before and after, a shelf being built, jars screwed to the underside of a worktop.
This site keeps that work available, and publishes new writing alongside it. It is run independently and has no connection to the person who wrote the original. Nothing here is her work, and nothing here speaks for her.
New pieces carry their own dates and are marked as new. They are not part of the archive and do not pretend to be.
What that means in practice
The posts sit at the addresses they always had, and each one is about what it was always about. The text has been rewritten. The archived copies are still where they have always been; republishing them word for word would be someone else’s writing on someone else’s behalf. What is kept is the substance, the project, the method, the order things happened in, the dates, written out again.
The photographs are the original ones, recovered from the Internet Archive. They are small, because that is the size they were published at in 2009 and no larger version of them exists.
No one is named. The original was full of family, first names and a dog or two; none of that is anyone’s business now, and a restored archive has no business putting words in a real person’s mouth. Where the writing is in the first person, it is the voice of the blog, not a claim to be its author.
Accuracy
Some of these posts were recovered from incomplete captures. Where a detail could not be read from the archive it has been left out rather than guessed at. Dates are the original publication dates.
Where a post described a product, a shop or a workshop that no longer exists, the description stays in the past tense and the link is gone. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy anything today.
How the site runs
Nothing here advertises, counts you, or sets a cookie. There is no mailing list and the comment form is gone. What a page needs, it brings with it; nothing is fetched from anywhere else.