8 Ways Scandinavia Impressed Us This Year  Scandinavia was
consistently inspiring in 2011.  After looking back on a year of
Shelter posts, we realized that our obsession with Scandinavia
was embarrassingly obvious.  This year saw a steady stream of
sustainable innovation, progressive thought, and great design
coming out of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and their not-officially-
Scandinavian-but-Scandinavian-in-our-hearts cousins, Finland and
Iceland.  Here’s a list of eight things that set our hearts
a-flutter about Scandinavia this year.  They know how to strike
the perfect balance between indoors and outdoors. Rooms at the
Juvet Landscape Hotel nurture a relationship with nature, while
remaining minimalist and sophisticated.   They can pull off a
girly microbrewery. The Mikkeller pub in Copenhagen underwent a
feminine design transformation at the hands of Femmes
Regionales. The result was delightful.  They make rest stops not
so scary. Norway’s government-sponsored a National Tourist
Routes program engaging archi