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Scandinavian notes welcome visitors to the beautiful home just outside London where Lykke from Denmark lives with her husband and their three children. The house has undergone an extensive renovation. The project lasted 18 months, of which the family spent 10 months staying in the guest cottage. Lykke acted as project manager throughout, coordinating the process with the workers and the architect.
Country house with an international feel The key objectives in the renovation of this distinctive country house were to preserve and revive the property, which dates from 1851. Originally, the country house served as a stable with a hayloft; the residential sections were added later.
In 2009, futurist and consultant Matthias Horx and his wife, author and trend consultant Oona Horx- Strathern, began construction of their home on a 4,500 m2 lot outside Vienna. The couple has now moved into their innovative house together with their two children.
The Swedish architecture studio In Praise of Shadows has created a very special kayak house with a structure build in Dinesen HeartOak and Douglas.
Today, the house appears as new, but in fact it is a renovated older bungalow. The renovation fulfilled the family’s dreams of an open house with plenty of light and space. The original house had an impractical distribution of space with small, narrow rooms. Therefore, the family contacted architect Nikolaj Rahbek Ernst, who analysed the possibilities of the house and proposed a plan to breathe new life into the 560 m2.
In the late 1990s Kirstin was in need of two things: a flat and a new car. While dreaming of an old Porsche 356, she had looked at in a car showroom in Parson’s Green she discovered an interesting building in the neighbourhood called the Piper Building. A studio flat was for sale there, and it was love at first sight. The Porsche remained a dream, but she got the flat.
Holiday house in the Finnish nature In a scenic setting overlooking a lake and encircled by birch trees, a family of seven has built their holiday cottage. The family wanted a place where they could be one with nature, both summer and winter. When they found this scenic site on Päijänne, Finland’s second- largest lake, they were able to make the dream come true.
Fourteen years ago, a businessman and his wife fell in love with the beautiful scenery surrounding an equally impressive manor house in Jutland. It only took the couple half an hour to make up their minds to buy the estate, which they now use as their home away from home. Their permanent home is located just outside of Copenhagen.
Pavilion House is set in the scenic and characteristic landscape of eastern England, near a farm in Suffolk. The Danish firm Norm Architects designed this single-storey house in an elegant construction of vertical timber, glass and a touch of steel. Humility is a key quality of the building’s architecture, which lets beauty of the rural surroundings take centre stage and flow freely through the interior of the house.
