Loghouse in Denmark

In 2020 we built a house in Denmark, close to Legoland. Appropriately our house was made from wooden logs that you stack together, not too dissimilar from plastic blocks that you stack together.

These photos are far from perfect. Made with a phone, we forgot to bring our camera, sorry about that.

This was nog a small house. We built it for a Dutch family that emigrated to Denmark some twenty years ago. They saw our Eric & Flo and they wanted someting like the Eric & Flo, but a little bigger. Twice as big actually, and in an L-shape. No problem.

The longer side of the L has the main house with living room, kitchen, bedrooms etcetera, whereas the shorter side of the L has an office and a guest house. Most rooms have big sliding windows on the South that give access to a terrace.

The original Eric & Flo was very well insulated, but the Danes wanted more insulation. Fourty centimeters in the roof (only ten years ago a ridiculous amount of insulation) is the Danish norm today. And also the Lithuanian norm by the way. We think you can heat this house with a candle.

The outside has 20mm larch planks. No impregnation or any kind of preservation, just larch straight from the forest. No maintenance required, will last for 60 years (after which you just replace it with fresh larch), and it will turn grey. The roof we finished with Ruukki sheets. Simple, durable, and it fits the design very well.

When we made these photos the garden was not ready yet. We could have photoshopped a garden around the house but we decided it was too much work, we are busy building houses. Maybe we come back next year for more photos when all is green.

And after every project we have some left-over wood. Not much though this time, considering that we brought in six trucks with materials for this house.