The owners of this house lived in a city apartment for a long time, but moving closer to nature was always their dream. When they decided to buy a house, the family initially hoped to build the house themselves, but they just could not find a plot of suitable size. As a result, they found…
Josephine and her husband went to view this house in the south of Sweden just to ask the price – the couple had long dreamed of their own cottage in nature, but at that time they did not plan to buy. The old wooden house from the 1930s so impressed the young family with its…
If here in Ukraine the most common type of countryside weekend housing is a dacha, then in the US this niche is occupied by farmhouses. And this charming cottage an hour’s drive from New York is a prime example of such living. The white shingle facade with shutters and porch looks as American as possible…
This cottage breaks all the stereotypes about country homes in Sweden – it is not at all like those traditional red or white wooden houses that we posted so much about here on the blog. The house is built like a barn with a pitched roof, open spaces and elongated floor plans. The decor is…
When Alexander and Jette were looking for a country home in the suburbs of Copenhagen, they had in mind the traditional yellow house of the last century, which is the majority here. But when the couple came across an old cottage with a pink facade and blue windows, they didn’t hesitate for a minute, because…
Ophelia literally screamed with delight when she first visited this 19th-century farm in southern Sweden, which was for sale. She had long dreamed of a house with history outside the city, and this one fit perfectly into her idea of a cozy country nest. Then there was a long, but such a pleasant process of…
Even though this cottage, an hour’s drive north of Stockholm, was built in the 1940s, its exterior looks quite modern – the owner of the house is a builder by profession and personally managed the renovation process. But in the interiors, we can already see echoes of the past and vintage details, although the base…
Alex and Ulrika talk with special feelings about their country cottage near Helsingborg. And the point is not even that it is located 100 meters from the sea and the beach, its main advantage is the unique history and character of the interiors. This one-story brick building used to be a village church, hence the…
Lina and Fredrik were so keen to buy this country house in southern Sweden that they placed the highest bid at an auction held by the previous owners. But the cottage is really unique – it is an old blacksmith’s house from the mid-19th century with one floor with daubed walls, not wooden, like most…
Today we have a quintessentially Scandinavian cottage – this is what real winter looks like in the Swedish countryside. There is a lot of snow everywhere, a familiar red facade with white windows, a beautiful porch – the house is already very attractive from the street. But the inside is no less beautiful: the interiors…
