When the experienced interior architect Ina Janine Johnsen created her
very own summer retreat on the east coast of Norway after many years of
living abroad, she brought some rather foreign ideas back with her to
the Norwegian seaside. The family kept coming back to their homeland for
their summer holidays. Then, after having spent two weeks at eight
different locations during one of their trips back home, Ina realised
that the family desperately needed a place of their own. At the time,
they were living in London, and while they had just had two little ones,
they decided to take back the Norwegian summer..
Since then, they have all moved back to Oslo, and the cottage is now
being used as a second home.
Today, the wooden buildings are painted in black, but the interiors look
more like something out of a Cape Cod landscape, than a basic cabin
from the fifties. Ina has also been inspired by American modernistic
architecture while at the same time making use of the established
Scandinavian tradition of building with wood. The active hostess, who is
also a popular food blogger, has created a unique retreat which works
on all levels for her family. And next to it, there is the little guest
house of course.
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