Come along on the wild ride that was our design process for our would-be new house.
Listen to “Ep. 21: Designing a Real Farm House” on Spreaker.
We went from asking for a Dutch Colonial on a walk-out basement to a Swedish Country House on a crawlspace.
If you’re not familiar with the Swedish Country House style, here are a few examples:
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Swedish artist Carl Larsson and his family lived in such a house in Sundborn. The house is still there, and can be toured. It also features prominently in his artwork.
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This is a Swedish Tile stove. Not ours, which is still in pieces. But one with a similar basic structure – rectangular base with columnar chimney.
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You can see photos of our tile stove, as it lay at the salvage yard, and some of the tiles cleaned up over on my blog.
Elevations for the house:
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