This house was built in 1901 in a typical north Scanian way. You may think it's a wooden house but it is not. It's actually built with unburned clay bricks and framed using pine wood. When we bought it some 4.5 years ago it was covered with beige and dark brown aluminum plates from the 1970's. We took them down and started to reclaim the building's original features. The green color is original but repainted with locally made linseed oil paint. At the moment we are restoring the windows in the veranda as well as on the main building. It's a time consuming project but when you know you care for the building it's all worth it, and it's fun!

"This type of glass veranda became modern in the mid 1800's and every house with a hint of social ambition should have one. It's a wonderful place to sit when it rains and enjoy a nice dinner or just a coffee break. It's a light area with hand-blown glass in the windows which allows the sunlight to spread softly around the room. Traditionally you kept your geraniums here from spring to autumn. They add a nice scent to the room."

"This room became a kitchen in the 50-60's and was originally a salon or drawing room, that’s why there is a nice round fireplace with tiles in one corner. When we bought the house there were modern, dark blue, wood-imitating kitchen cabinets, dark red wallpaper and a 70's wooden ceiling with a strong fluorescent lamp. We tore everything down and built a new kitchen from scratch which suits the house better. We have hidden the refrigerator and freezer behind the cabinet doors. Because of the kitchen's northerly location in the house, we decided to paint everything white white linseed oil paint."

"When we stripped the walls from a structural and nasty modern wallpaper we found this coloring underneath. We only lowered the painted panel to lighten the room. It's quite dark because of the hideous modern door the previous owners had put in. We are going to change it to the same kind of doors which are in the porch so the original idea is brought back. The linoleum carpet on the floor was originally found in the kitchen, but it was so torn that we could only salvage a small piece of it and it was large enough to cover this floor. We painted the stairs, the parts which were made of pine, red. The rest of the stairs are a well-built oak structure and should never be painted."

"The walls are painted with egg tempera which we made ourselves with a Pompeian red pigment. This kind of paint is an old traditional paint which leaves a completely matte finish on the plastered walls. The spandrel panels are painted with linseed oil paint, also a traditional paint. The floor was originally covered with a linoleum carpet, but it was too worn-down to keep. The wooden floor was never meant to be shown but we decided to stain it and paint some stripes around it. The red stripe is the same color as the walls and the blue stripe is the same color as a part of the wall we found underneath the wallpaper. Weird, because it was hidden away in the corner and we still can't figure out if it was just a test to decide something or what it was. But we wanted to keep all influences from the house we could find so there it is, on the floor. All furniture and paintings are from different flea-markets around Sweden because we like old things with charm and patina."

"We haven't done much in this room, but we painted the floor green in a color that was originally found under the white paint on the walls. A way to get back to the original feeling but in another way."

"No one had used this room since the 50's. It was originally a kitchen in this two- family home. The ceiling was very low and created a claustrophobic feeling. We opened up the room by raising the ceiling all the way up to the ridge. We put up new paneling after we insulated the ceiling and the walls. We kept the faucet from the old kitchen and built a new front to hide the plumbing whit the help of a lid to an old chest. The bed is an old fold-out sofa that we made into a bed. We painted this room white as well because it's also facing the north. The color on the floor was inspired by a color we found on the inside of the red wardrobe door."

"This is not an ordinary walk-in closet, it's a walk-through closet! It is located between the bedroom and the upper hall. As we have the space we thought, why not turn the whole room into a closet? We stripped the ceiling from old drywall and fibre boards and painted it white. The different chest of drawers were bought at flea-markets and painted in varying colours to make it more lively. The electrical textile cables are a reconstruction of the old look from the early days of electricity and since Marcel is an electrician we found that it would be fun for him to do something that you don't see every day."

This house was built in 1901 in a typical north Scanian way. You may think it's a wooden house but it is not. It's actually built with unburned clay bricks and framed using pine wood. When we bought it some 4.5 years ago it was covered with beige and dark brown aluminum plates from the 1970's. We took them down and started to reclaim the building's original features. The green color is original but repainted with locally made linseed oil paint. At the moment we are restoring the windows in the veranda as well as on the main building. It's a time consuming project but when you know you care for the building it's all worth it, and it's fun!