30/06/2024
This has always been one of my favourite summer spaces. It's from our second ever issue, Vol 2 Summer, and it's the Danish allotment home of Tine.
Ask most Danes to describe a typical allotment or garden house (and there are over 60,000 such spaces in Denmark) and chances are you’d hear ‘small’, ‘idyllic’, ‘made of wood’, with a ‘veranda, a white picket fence and peonies aroumd the door’. “Our house looked like that once,” says Tine, talking of the modern, black timber-clad allotment home, bought in 2013, that she shares with her husband Theis. “But we got so fed up of the constant repairs that we decided to knock it down and build something new… and somewhere that just worked."
It's a great story, and Tine's style is just lovely – so calm and relaxed.
Still on the subject of allotment homes, we've the opposite in our Simply Scandi Retreats (out now), belonging to Sara. It's full of colour and pattern – why not order a copy to see more? Head to simplyscandi.com.
Photography & styling: Tia Borgsmidt/House of Pictures.