Swedish Town House Home Decoration Ideas

24 August

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Swedish Town House

Posted by Kaitlyn Sadlier in Home Design Guide

You don’t always have to own a big house to create a spacious feeling. It is always fascinating to see how architects are able to create something really cool with limited space. Just like designers, they are also problem solvers and have to work within boundaries. The house in this post is built on a 75 square meter small site.

Swedish Town House by Elding Oscarson

A 75 meter small site isn’t a lot to play with, and the site is narrow too. Swedish architect firm Elding Oscarson solved these problems beautifully. This town house is found in Landskrona, Sweden. I love the layering of modern and traditional architecture. The new house respects the old by not copying it or getting in the way of it. Old and new can coexist. It takes clarity to achieve that. The town house has three thin slabs that are projected into the open volume, softly dividing its functions. The continuous interior space is opening up to the street, to an intimate garden, and to the sky. I’ve asked Jonas Elding two questions about it:

Was it easy to get a permit for this project? Because the house is so different from what is there already.

It was not so difficult to get a permit, because the city architect was very open minded and devoted to his work, and really tried to understand what we were trying to do.

What where the main criteria that had to be considered when starting the project?

We wanted to create a roomy and bright feeling despite the narrow and only 75 square meter small site.

Elding Oscarson

Elding Oscarson is a young office run by Johan Oscarson and Jonas Elding. They have an office in Stockholm, covering both Swedish and international architecture, from museums to private houses, interiors, furniture and product design.