A wooden house, painstakingly loved!

My friends Sanna and Teo´s house in Älvkarleö, Norduppland-Sweden is a stunning wood house. The groundfloor and two wings are from 1697, and the rest built 200 years later.

 I've been taking photos of it before. Now they have spent 5 months to painstakingly restoring the fasad of the main house and the 4 wings, which is a huge task.

They have themselves been scraping of all the old colourlayers by hand, and then re-painted it.

They called me last weekend and asked if I could come and take photos of the finished work, and off course I did. They have done a stunning job, and now know every single nook and cranny of their belowed house, maybe even more loved now,

Here are some photos I took for them:

 One of the wings

 At the pond in the back of the house

 The wing by the pond

East side of the house

 I'm sincerely impressed of them, the result is amazing, and I'm looking forward to come back to take photos in the winter season as well!

Thank You Sanna & Teo!

Per!

Enjoying Tierps Gammelgårds wooden buildings while waiting

Today I had a meeting in Tierp, Norduppland. I had an hour over and the weather was fantastic. I took the short walk to Gammelgården (Old farm), a festivity place for the the county, where Midsummers and National days are celebrated.

The area have a beautiful collection of wooden buildings from the county, some several hundreds year old. I love to look at wooden buildings, you often see the tracks of handcraft and that makes my fantasies going.

Who made them, often from their own forest to planks to buildings they probably where very proud off. I especially like when You really can see the remains from a ax, knife or a hammer in the wood, or the ironworks.

Here are my photos from the area, Enjoy!

Hope You enjoyed them!

On the way to my meeting did I pass another favorite, a building that always showing off autimn colours the best way possible:

Take Care and enjoy your day, Per!