A Historic Lakeside Summer House in the Stockholm Archipelago
On a peaceful lakeside plot in the Stockholm archipelago stands a beautiful 19th-century summer house with a wonderful, lush garden. Old charm has been well-preserved indoors and outdoors throughout the decades, and turns this home into a Swedish countryside idyll.
The house stands on a wonderful plot filled with greenery, a vegetable garden, and its own swimming jetty. Petrol-powered boats are not allowed on the lake, so this home lets you immerse yourself in nature where you can listen to the birds and enjoy the lake in a peaceful manner.
Much of the interior spaces have been left untouched over the decades, and you can imagine children running in and out during the summer months to swim in the lake or play in the garden.
The ground floor has a circular layout, meaning all the rooms are connected. There is a double living space where one room is now used as a dining room with green wallpaper and a traditional Swedish fireplace.
The old site-built kitchen is pretty much what you expect from an old country kitchen. Wooden floorboards are paired with terracotta tiles, tongue and groove paneling can be seen on the walls and ceiling, and a rustic wooden table sits in the center of the space.
Charming green tiles are used as the kitchen backsplash.
A wooden staircase leads you to the first floor, where you enter a spacious landing area, which is furnished with a sofa under the window overlooking the garden and the lake.
There are three double bedrooms on the first floor, all with charming historic wallpapers.
The garden is a peaceful oasis linked by a gravel path from the parking lot to the lake-facing front. This part of the house stands on a raised grey stone foundation, adding grandeur.
Old flower beds line the path, filled with traditional plants such as boxwood, peonies, irises, daylilies, imperial crowns, mallows, and heritage roses. In spring, bulbs bloom in abundance, and pearl hyacinths carpet the ground in blue.
On the east side, a smaller bed holds red elderberry, lilies, boxwood, lavender, and herbs, while a rectangular bed outside the kitchen features boxwood, lavender, and dahlias.
The pergola is framed by peonies, roses, autumn anemones, and colorful columbines. Along the stone steps to the glass veranda, more flowers thrive, and old apple trees and rows of currants yield rich harvests.
Lilacs form a near-arbor at the front, and the entrance is flanked by two century-old pear trees. Wildflowers, comfrey, and blue fireweed feed the bees, while daisies and other meadow flowers bloom until midsummer on the slope down to the private bathing jetty.
The house was listed at Historiska Hem – styling by Lindholm