Showing posts with label Wooden buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wooden buildings. Show all posts

Jan 19, 2016

Winter over the old houses at Hornbergsgården in Skärplinge

Today the busscompany UL once again made me have to wait out in the cold due to delays! I had to spend one extra hour between busses in the village of Skärplinge, Norduppland-Sweden!

I took the oportunity to visit the beautiful Hornbergsgården, also called Skärplinge Gammelgård where they have a great collection of old houses from the area.
The area is closed for the season, but still beautiful in all the snow.

The Russians burned down everything they could here 1719, not many homes or houses survived, but they have one unsual house from Fälandsbo that survived the Russians. It's from 1647 and have once been a house on stilts to protect against wild animals like wolfs.
There is so many beautiful things to see here, so enjoy:

It's hard to imagine the summer festivities here, National day celebrations and all the music gatherings, but I really enjoyed todays visit as well.


I'm ending with my photo from a Swedish National Day celebration here, Per

Oct 13, 2015

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!