An Idyllic 18th Century Cottage with a Charming Garden

This idyllic 18th-century red cottage, located on a hill in the middle of a residential area in Spånga, used to be the old gardener’s cottage at Sundby Gård (an old farmhouse). The charming house was completely renovated, adding modern conveniences while also preserving its authentic charm.

The historic house is decorated in a harmonious palette of ochre, gray, and green with period wallpapers in some rooms of the house. Thanks to the house’s high location, there is a wonderful view of the treetops and rooftops from the windows, and the garden surrounding the house features climbing roses, hollyhocks, lilacs, and fruit trees.

The ground floor is divided into two areas. On one side, there is an open-plan kitchen and dining room and the other side houses a small sitting room, a bedroom, and a home office.

The ground floor living room is centered around an open fireplace, creating a cozy ambiance in the winter and evening.

The walls are decorated with the “Nocturne” wallpaper from Boråstapeter.

Just off the living room lies the home office that is also used as a dressing room. The wooden desk is placed under the large window flanked by built-in wardrobes. Four more double bedrooms line the other wall. The walls are decorated in the “Nästgårds” wallpaper from Gysinge.

The open-plan kitchen and dining room is the heart of the home. Cabinets with white mirror doors from Järfälla Kök are fitted around the divider wall. A classic Falcon stove sits in the center.

The white cabinets are paired with a porcelain sink, brass fittings, a marble countertop, and white tongue-and-groove paneling. A display shelf with storage hooks has been fitted above the workspace.

Fine glassware, tablecloths, and more are stored in a large, custom-built serving cabinet with barred glass doors.

The open-plan kitchen and dining room has windows in three directions, flooding the room with light and giving glimpses of the garden.

Glass doors open toward a terrace with a swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen, and a dining table for long summer dinners.

The ground floor also features a bedroom painted in Jotun’s Minerals Revive in a soothing ochre-yellow shade that adds a lot of warmth to the space.

The ground floor also has a bathroom with a freestanding bath and a small utility room.

The staircase leads you to the first floor where you enter a large second sitting room with pitched ceilings and exposed wooden beams that give the room a lot of character.

Four large skylights in two directions flood the room with light, enhanced by the white-painted ceiling paneling.

The living room on the first floor is flanked by two double bedrooms. This hall with floating white-painted Ivar cabinets leads to one of the rooms. The non-paneled walls are decorated with the “Nocturne” wallpaper from Boråstapeter.

One of the rooms is decorated with a warm-toned harlequin wallpaper.

The other double bedroom features lots of wardrobe space behind gray curtains.

Ochre-colored doors open toward a welcoming hall in the form of a glass veranda bathed in light. This room is the perfect border between indoors and outdoors and features six built-in wardrobes and a seating area with built-in benches.

styling by Gärde and photography by Larsson for Historiska Hem.