All posts with tag:summer cottage

The most interesting and beautiful homes are usually those that can tell their own unique story. And if this story goes back to the beginning of the last century, then it is doubly interesting. This traditional cottage in the suburbs of Goteborg is a historical heritage of the region because workers of the local factory…

The owners of this Swedish cottage, Sandra and Daniel, adore white – their house is perfectly white on the outside, but inside it is also the main color of decoration. The family built the house from scratch, so they made it 100% the way they had long dreamed of. Although based on the traditional exterior…

Scandinavian country or summer cottage is a very distinctive and incredibly charming direction in Scandinavian design. These charming wooden houses seem to be lost in time, and many of them are really over 100 years old. In appearance, as well as in the interiors, their owners try to change almost nothing, only repair and update,…

The Swedes have their own design code for summer cottages: these are usually wooden houses of red (sometimes yellow) color with white windows and a gable roof. Shapes and sizes may differ, but the color and finishing material for the facade is always the same. Thanks to this unified tradition, their villages always look so…

Most likely, this old village church in Sweden would have had to be demolished if not for Josephine and Ilias, who bought it a few years ago to turn it into their summer residence. Until recently, the building was practically falling apart, but the new owners did not destroy it, on the contrary, they decided…

The Scandinavians in their country cottages try to keep the cozy atmosphere of past times as long as possible and are in no hurry to update their interiors much, even if more and more scuffs appear in them. Today we have just such a rural home in Sweden, where time seems to have stopped. An…

After living in Stockholm for several years, Emily and Fredrik decided they wanted to go back to their roots in the province of Dalarna where they grew up. The search was not quick: it took almost a year before the couple found their dream home – a traditional cottage with a yellow exterior, 3-meter ceilings…

And although this old Swedish cottage is pretty well worn by time, its owners, Brita and Kalle, showed a rather bold and cheerful approach to its design. They simply decided to give the rooms a colorful and cheerful character by choosing a separate color scheme for each interior. All this riot of colors, superimposed on…

Married couple Sophie and Jacob were not yet 40 when they decided to move to the suburbs of Goteborg in search of an ideally quiet place for a tranquil life. The opportunity to grow vegetables in their own garden seemed more attractive to them than the prospect of living in a city apartment, albeit with…