Welcome to our "torp"

This is worth a visit - Among others:

In the area where our cottage is located, there are generally a long way to major market towns and cultural sights.

On the other hand, there are good opportunities to use nature and experience the tranquility.

We can highly recommend visiting the many small local sights (called Eco-museums), which are found in large numbers in the Ätradalen. Look in the link "Eco museums in Ätradalen".

Nature is probably the biggest attraction in the area. There are many large lakes and forests. Even though we are in southern Sweden, Svenljunga municipality is the most sparsely populated municipality in this part of the country. However, it is not so deserted that you can drive in the woods, completely without encountering human settlements.

Finally, there is only 25 km to the shopping mecca GEKÅS in Ullared. If you are in need of a little power shopping.

In the slightly larger periphery, a visit to one of the coastal market towns such as Falkenberg or Varberg will be a good day program. Varberg in particular has a number of cozy restaurants along the coast.

Perhaps you will be tempted by a visit to High Chaparel, which is a true Western town populated with both cowboys, Indians, and good common western citizens. The smell of dusty streets, sweaty horses and smoke from gunpowder are not far away in High Chaparel.

If you are into nature, both Hornborgasjön with its crane dance and Storemosssan kulturum, located in a raised bog of 10 km in diameter, are worth a drive. The latter also has some spectacular hiking trails beyond the bog.

Get more inspiration through the links down this page !!!

Pictures from the house

A short description of the house.

The House has 124 sqm living space, and a conservatory of about 20 sqm.

The house are electrified, and heated with a combination of heat-pump and electric radiators. There is water from our own well in the bath and kitchen.

The lower floor has a spacious entrance with washing machine. An hallway gives access to bathroom with toilet, and kitchen, as well as stairs to the upper floor. 

The upper floor consists of a large common room with 2 single beds. A minor double bedroom, a children's room with a bunk bed, and passage to the large double bedroom.

There is a fully equipped kitchen with both electric stove and a wood stove. These include a coffee machine, kettle, kombined fridge & freezer and microwave. There is dining space for 4 in the kitchen.

The dining room is located in the crack of the house. Here are a real porcelain tiled stove that is only to be used in the wintertime. From here is the exit to the conservatory.

As we renovated the dining room, we found newspaper clippings from 1912, where the house is built by the wood shoemaker Birger Svensson and family. The dining room itself is set in logs of approx. 25x15 cm, and has previously been a cabin elsewhere in the County. 

The cozy living room is newly renovated, and has a raw timber wall on one side. Here there are sofas for our guests, as well as a good chair to read in. From here there is access to the front of the house.

The conservatory makes the access to the garden space of the house. This is where we find the guest's of the house, in the summer. With cozy barred windows, free access to the terrace and lawn, it is the place you automatically gather during the day.

In the cozy garden there is of course a large barbecue, and a centrally located campfire site, as well as some small secret paths down between the trees.

A shelter in the back of the garden, gives the possibility to enjoy the night outside, or perhaps a small nap during daytime. Sleeping bags and mats are not included though.

A wiev off the House interior.

Within a distance of 8 km from the cottage, are two excellent lakes with good bathing spots:

"Vita sjø" lake are a shallow lake, and thus good for the little ones. There are a small sandy beach. It is also best suited if you want to go on a picnic.

Map to Vita sjö

"Kalv sø" lake is a good bathing place for most ages, but quite well known by the locals. There are sunny rocks and a sandy beach, and excellent swimming conditions.

Map to Kalv sjö

We even have a canoe for the use of Our visitors. It's located at the end of Storsjøen, in a distance of about 3 km. See directions.

Directions to find the Canoe.

Follow the gravel road 3 km past the Croft "Åsebo".

The first road on the right then has a boom on, and the second road on the right hand leads down to the canoe.

The Canoe are either a grey aluminium Canoe, or an red and white Canoe with black tape in the dividing line.
Both bears a marking with www.vildmarksbassen.dk

The distance are about 3,5 km from the house.

NB: The key to the chain are in the grey box on the shed. You will find the code in the cabins information sheet. Please remember paddles and life jackets.

The position of the Canoe are 57.22061  12.91755 on Google maps.

A Cottage equals eternal restoration.

Since we took over on the oldest cottage in the spring of 2008, the crofts have been undergoing a renovation to suit the needs of the family - no luxury, but lots of "originality". 

Later, in 2016, we bougt the lower croft. The house described here.

The first winter was spent improving all the shortcomings of craftmanship in the croft. My skills as a carpenter were put to the test, and we had to do carpentry work, caulking gun, and painting equipment. 50 cartridges acrylic joint disappeared for cracks, crevices, and mouse protection.

Next, I had to look at the Electricity plant. An exciting renovation where old equipment was preserved whenever it was safe. At the same time, the renovation meant a better balance of consumption in the house's installations.

In the spring 2017 the garden had a number of small secret trails laid out through the primeval forest. It makes you want to go on an adventure, and we see that the children among our guests are quickly on an "expedition".

In 2017, the dining room was next in line. Behind several layers of wallpaper, the most beautiful beam walls revealed themselves, and we could now put panels loosely on the lower part of the walls so that the air could circulate and remove old moisture. On the innermost layer, we found a 1912 newspaper clip about tuberculosis. Through that, we got to date the construction of the room. It got better than just good.

In the winter of 2019, we started renowating the living room. The wall facing the dining room appeared in the raw beams, and the last wall was in good enough condition so we could paint and wallpaper the 3 other walls.

The cardboard on the ceiling also had to be taken down, and grouted with acrylic sealant between the rough-hewn boards so that painting could take place. We reached the finish line, only slightly challenged by Covid. It can clearly be felt, that it is no longer freezing footcold in the room during wintertime.

The summer of 2020 took place in the shadow of Covid. Fewer rentals meant that we had the opportunity to start building an shelter in the garden. Here we could reuse the old floorboards from the living room. Most of the timber comes from leftovers at other projects, so it has been a kind of a recycling of old materials.

Winter 2022 the kitchen floor was painted, and in 2023 the ceiling of the bedrooms were grouted ved acrylic sealant and the master bedroom were painted.

The Winter of 2024 we had to paint the floors in the entrance hall, and the rooms upstairs. An old brick base for a wood-burning stove, has been removed by the chimney in the corner room of the attic.

We'll probably not get bored up here for the next few years... New projects comes in a flow...