As director of The Age Small Homes Service, Boyd wrote a weekly article for The Age. For this article, published in February 1951, Boyd reflects on his recent visit to Sweden and the general state of Swedish design. In a section titled “The Truth about Sweden”, he quotes an unnamed Swedish architect who calls the country’s architecture “Artistically backward”. Acknowledging this, Boyd notes that most of the country’s new buildings are architecturally unremarkable but functional and well-built, highlighting the “Simple honesty in structure and detail observed everywhere” in the Swedish town of Borås.

 In the second part of his column, titled “The Future ‘Style’ for our Home?” Boyd the key elements of Nordic interior design: “extreme lightness and precision of details and finishes, greater use of wood, and the decorative contrast of wood with other ‘natural’ materials.” He also notes the growing popularity of Scandinavian design overseas, including in Melbourne, and muses that its success as a style depends largely on the skill of the designer.