Augustigården

Once there let´s just stay in Sweden for a while.
This cottage has plenty of room for a whole family. 4 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a study, a large kithen/diningroom and a livingroom. The garden is microscopical, so there´ll be no arguing about who´s turn it is to mowe the lawn. the lot is 15x20.
I have included a few CC-item to which you´ll find the links below the first pic. But as the 11+ Mb turns out to be too much for the Exchange, I´ll be back with a no CC version later. Only in my personal opinion hardly as nice. But you can judge for yourself.
Her is Augustigården with CC:

Augustigården
CC: Paintings and Lean lamp by b5studiohttp://b5studio.blogspot.com/
Souris wall-hanging plant by http://www.khanysims.be/conversions3-1.php
Cushionsets 1-3-4-5 by Awesims
SY ceiling lamp  by D3VV/TSR
Pax Uggdal Bedroom rug by  riccinumbers/TSR

Back to Sweden: Majgården

I needed a house for a single sim with a horse, so I had to make a new one, and before I knew it I was back in Sweden!
Majgården is lovely little spot.  1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 living/diningroom and 1 kitchen. An old stable with box for 1 horse. The tiny garden is cozy but could certainly profit from a caring hand.

Majgården
CC: Upper kitchen curtain: MZ_Cafe Valance by Missyzim/TSR

Kosamo

This is the last swedish house for now. It´s a small country house and holds 2 bedrooms, 1 open kitchen/diningroom and a small tv-room and bathroom under the roof. That´s it. Except of course the fact that the small garden also contains a few vegetables to supply the housekeeping money.

Kosamo

Aronstorp

And another yellow, swedish "stuga", only this one is for the more wealthy sims.

Aronstorp
 CC-free except for: Lily Dining Rug by Angela/TSR and Cazarupt/TSR for: dark slate with white trim                    

The main building of the large farm Aronstorp is the only building left after the last farmer died and the land was sold off. But what a building! Carefully restablished for a new family to fill out with life and laughter. Ground floor: hall, 1 bathroom, study, kitchen with dining facilities and livingroom. 2. floor: hall, 2 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms. 3. floor: master bedroom, nursery and large bathroom. Lovely garden with cosy corners for everybody.

Morkullan

Well, I´m not entirely done with Sweden yet. They have yellow houses there too, you know, and the picture I would like to paint of my swedish community wouldn´t be right if I didn´t submit some of the yellows as well.
So here´s a tiny  swedish cottage. 2 bedrooms, kitchen/livingroom, 1bathroom. Small decorated garden. A lovely little place for the young family of 4.

I´m really struggleing to get these photos nice and describing, but it´s really difficult. And I don´t make things easier with all the small rooms I build, I guess. Or maybe that is just a bad excuse :-)
You´ll have to bear with me, I suppose. Maybe I´ll improve.

Kolvasstorp gamla skolan

I have been wondering why some lots are very popular and others not when you "shop" in the Sims 3 Exchange. Maybe it is because of the names they get. Kolvasstorp gamla skolan means something like: Scirpus Croft Old School!
And this is indeed an old swedish school renovated and converted to residence just like I have seen it several times in real life.

Kolvasstorp gamla skolan

The house holds: Ground floor: hall, livingroom, diningroom, tv-room/study, kitchen, and the former pantry altered to bathroom. 1.floor: large landing with possibilities, here used as a cosy family room, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. Beds for 5 + a baby. Lovely garden with fruit trees and vegetables. Old barn with room for 1 horse, hayloft and a boxroom organized for the children to play in. Lot-size: 35x25

Tomtebo

Tomtebo was my entry to a challenge given in my danish favorite site: Sims 3 Byggeforum
The conditions was to build a micro-lot, sized to fit either the bistro-lot or the spa-ditto in Sunset Valley. I.e. the lot-size could be at most 21x22 tiles. The house was to be inhabited by a family of 5: parents, teenagedaughter and a couple of young twin boys. And the costs could be max. 21.500 for everything, house, furniture and garden. Store-items were allowed but no CC.
I was actually quite satisfied with my entry but of course it was only my one shot among a lot of very interesting entries from all the competitors. I don´t think the winner has been announced yet, but last time I had a look, I was not number 1, though, but that´s ok. With the cost-limit of course there is still a lot to be done at the lot, when the inhabitants have earned enough :)

Tomtebo

Swedish low budget cottage, slightly modernized but room for further renovation. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, livingroom with open kitchen. Small garden for playing and relxation. price: 21.488     

Krösabacka

Here is a tiny cottage for a single person, an old grandmother probably.
Krösabacka holds a single bedroom, a living/diningroom, a kitchen and a small privy in the backyard.

In the garden you´ll find a few fruit-trees and som vegetables as well.

Krösabacka

Björklund

You don´t need a palace to hold a big family.
Björklund is inspired by my own family´s  summer cottage although it wasn´t possible to build quite as small as it really was.
We certainly didn´t have a bathroom inside or even water or outlet. All water was fetched in buckets from the well. It was ice-cold and sligthly brown from the high level of iron and it tasted so amazingly clean. The calciumlevel in the water was very low so it was almost impossible to get rid of soap and shampoo.
In the kitchen was an old iron stove with an enormous kettle on it always filled with hot water for cooking and cleaning.
In the livingroom of this version you´ll find a pretty tiled stove made by Lisen. It is very typical for the swedish cottages but definately not for a rather simple place like Björklund, which would have been inhabited by a smallholder with his family; they would have had an iron stove.
For toilet there would have been a small privy next to the barn.
But enough talking, let me take you to Sweden once again to visit Björklund:

Björklund

Björklund is build on a 20x20 lot
2-3 bedrooms, kitchen, living/diningroom, 1 bathroom

Lilla Hjärtansfröjd

Most of my childhood holidays I spend in Sweden and ever since I have been in love with that fantastic country, the beautiful nature, the language and not the least the architecture of the old countryside houses and farms.
I´m sure you all know Pippi and Emil from Lönneberga, Astrid Lindgren´s wonderful stories and inspired by that I have made a serie of swedish countryside houses and farms.
Lilla Hjärtansfröjd was the first:

Lilla Hjärtansfröjd



3 bedrooms and a nursery, 2½ bathrooms, 1  kitchen with pentry/laundry, diningroom, livingroom.
In the barn you´ll find 3 horseboxes and a hayloft
The farm also rooms a workshop and a vegetablegarden.
Lot-size: 50x50
and the price......bopbopbop....134.000 aprox.