As you know, the gorgeous house and garden building kits we supply for our clients are manufactured in Finland, land of a thousand lakes, and home to the Santa Claus Village in Lapland, which is where Santa Claus lives (the rest of the world is just wrong when they say he lives elsewhere!). We thought we’d …
There’s been a bit of an eco-buzz since COP26 took place in Glasgow, and the publishing of the government’s Net Zero Strategy emphasising ‘Build Back Greener’. Headline news includes a target to move away from gas towards using electricity for heating, and minimising the amount of energy used to heat houses by building better insulated …
Financing your self-build has always been one of the challenging things about building your own home. Now there’s a new option that will make self-build possible even for those without a big deposit. The details of the Government’s eagerly-awaited Help to Build Equity Loan Scheme have finally been released. Applications should go live this Winter. …
Some of our readers may be aware that MP Richard Bacon, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Self-Build, Custom and Community Housebuilding and Place-Making
If you take a stroll around the lifestyle sites on the Internet at the moment, you’ll likely find most of them talking about something called a ‘Shoffice’.
Thinking of building an eco-friendly self build house that’s completely off grid?
Well, here’s some help to identify the things you need to think about, and some possible pitfalls to avoid.
Lighting – the very thing we all use to extend the day after daylight ends, but rarely give thought to when planning a home project. Done well, the results can transform the interior, your health and your well being. We asked our friends at Secret Lighting (www.secretlighting.co.uk) for some top tips for your garden retreat …
Office and Therapy – Why Lighting Makes Such a Difference in your new Garden Building Read More »
Here at Scandinavian Homes HQ, we’ve been seeing some gorgeous pictures on social media, taken by people who are furloughed or working from home during Coronavirus lockdown in the UK, and we thought we’d like to showcase some of them. So we put out a call on our various social media platforms, asking people to …
With more and more of us having to work from home during the crisis, it’s quickly going to be obvious to both employees and employers that there are advantages and disadvantages to this way of working. On the upside, the coffee’s always on! On the downside, now your neighbour’s teenagers are at home rather than …
At Scandinavian Homes, we look at building houses in a different way. We’re not a mass market housebuilder, throwing up dozens of homes on a site with little care what happens to them once we’ve sold them. We’re not an out-of-the-catalogue wooden box builder either. We’re a small family business and friendly team, and our …
