DIY, home improvement, and furniture retail in Scandinavia - statistics & facts
The Scandinavian home aesthetic is appreciated and replicated not only in its home region, but also in the whole world. In recent years, the Danish and Norwegian word “hygge” (which can be roughly translated as coziness) and the philosophy attached to it have attracted a lot of interest and inspired many home improvement projects also outside that region. It is then perhaps unsurprising that the theme carries some weight for Scandinavian people themselves.
Retail sales of hardware, paints, and glass in specialized stores in Norway reached roughly 32.7 billion Norwegian kroner in 2020, a country where there were, as of 2020, 8,655 inhabitants per home improvement store. Sweden, which had the lowest number of inhabitants per home improvement store among the Nordics, also had one of the lowest shares of households that outsourced home improvement in Europe, as less than half of the households outsourced their projects.
Retail sales of hardware, paints, and glass in specialized stores in Norway reached roughly 32.7 billion Norwegian kroner in 2020, a country where there were, as of 2020, 8,655 inhabitants per home improvement store. Sweden, which had the lowest number of inhabitants per home improvement store among the Nordics, also had one of the lowest shares of households that outsourced home improvement in Europe, as less than half of the households outsourced their projects.
