An old country house with a garden in the center of Gothenburg has become an island of peace and quiet for Swedish designer, artist and stylist Elin Lannsier. Just look at this charming house where she spends her summer!

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When Elin Lannsier is asked who she is by profession, she always finds it difficult to answer. Different things can be written on her business cards: a ceramic artist, a designer, a fashion designer (right now Elin is developing her collection of clothes for the Swedish Ellos), a stylist who collaborates with leading interior magazines. And she also runs her personal blog on the Swedish ELLE website, where we met her.

It turned out that Elin Lannsier and her boyfriend Victor have their own secret place where they like to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. This is a small green plot in Slotzkogskolonin, in the Majorn district of Gothenburg. He appeared like this. A hundred years ago in Sweden, people began to come to the cities en masse. They lacked fresh food, fruits and vegetables, and the Swedish state decided to allocate household plots near the city to residents of large cities. Today it is not so easy to get them, but Elin and Victor were lucky: ten years ago they could hardly find such an option in Gothenburg. The land is rented out, but the house and outbuildings on it belong to them.

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Now this place is unrecognizable! When Elin and Victor first got here, the garden was completely overgrown, the windows of the house were not visible because of the bushes. The new owners saved three apple trees (they regularly bear fruit every autumn) and tried to save all the flowers that they could recognize as not weeds. “I still regret that the thistle got under the distribution, but do not judge strictly, then I was quite a beginner and did not know anything about gardening!”, laughs Elin.

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Today there is everything for a comfortable stay in nature: a newly renovated summer house, a barn converted into a guest room, and a blooming garden. The cottage used to have four small rooms, Elin and Victor made alterations, and now the house has a full kitchen, a dining area with a large wooden table where you can gather a large company, and a living room.

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“We wanted to be able to gather a lot of friends here,” the owners say. — So we demolished the extra walls, removed the attic, built a small porch and made a large room. We spent not so much money as time, but we are very happy with what turned out in the end. A real oasis in the city is just a dream!”

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