10-564: (Redirected from Garden House ) [REDACTED] Housing portal Garden house may refer to: a summer house or small building in a garden a house built under the provision of special legislation (usu. in Scandinavia), for instance a Friggebod The Garden House , an open garden near Buckland Monachorum, Devon, UK Garden House School , in Chelsea, London, England Topics referred to by
20-640: A second home ). It can be a larger dwelling like a cottage rather than a simple shelter. Sommarhus (in Swedish : sommarstuga or lantställe ), in Norwegian hytte , is a popular holiday home or summer cottage, often near the sea or in an attractive area of the countryside. Most are timber constructions, often suitable for year-round use. Increasingly they have additions such as saunas , heating ovens , fireplaces , or attractive gardens. Increasingly, English speakers call them summerhouses. A Swedish sommarstuga
30-559: A house must use it as their primary home and spend most of their overnight stays there. Other areas of Norway are defined as "summer house areas", where it is forbidden to live permanently. This is because there are quality requirements for permanent homes that do not apply to cottages. Sweden has no ban against using summer houses all year or against using a normal house in summer only. This has made Swedish summer houses popular for Danes, Norwegians, and Germans. But in some desirable coastal areas, prices are so high that residents cannot afford
40-1050: A house, making some traditional coastal villages very silent in winter. boplikt Look for Boplikt on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Boplikt in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
50-430: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Summer house A summer house or summerhouse is a building or shelter used for relaxation in warm weather. This would often take the form of a small, roofed building on the grounds of a larger one, but could also be built in a garden or park, often designed to provide cool shady places of relaxation or retreat from
60-480: Is traditionally painted with a special red colour called falu rödfärg and has white trimmed corners, windows, and doors. Many of the Danish resorts depend on the rental of summerhouses to accommodate national and foreign tourists who can rent them, usually on a weekly basis, at prices (for a family) well below those of hotels. But Scandinavians often spend a considerable amount of time in their summerhouses which are often
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80-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Garden house . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garden_house&oldid=1245845964 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-452: The summer heat. It can also refer to a second residence, usually located in the country , that provides a cool and relaxing home to live in during the summer, such as a vacation property . Especially in the Nordic countries , sommerhus ( Danish ), sommarstuga ( Swedish ), hytte ( Norwegian ), sumarbústaður or sumarhús ( Icelandic ) or kesämökki ( Finnish ) is a summer residence (as
100-502: The venue for family reunions or simply weekends away from the office. In recent years, the popularity and, thus, the cost of summerhouses has increased appreciably, particularly in Denmark's coastal resorts. Under Danish law, owners are generally not permitted to use these houses as permanent homes; an exception is made for pensioners. In some attractive areas of Norway, there is "residence duty" (Norwegian: boplikt ), meaning that an owner of
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