Architects John Lassen and Joanna Tench renovate the summer home of their dreams.
When Danish architects John Lassen and Joanna Tench were looking for a summer home to renovate, they cast their eye on a thatched-roof cottage overlooking the North Sea in West Jutland. Built in 1967, it was typical of traditional homes in the arealong, narrow, and oriented along an East-West axis. "It was very simple, and it was exactly what I wanted," Lassen says. It just needed some serious work.
The architects replaced the existing orange cinder-block facade with plaster walls and Pomeranian pine wood shingles, put on a new thatched roof, and installed "stable door" windows. Nestled among pines and fruit trees, its traditional exterior belies the modern interior within.
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Douglas fir lines the walls of the entryway. A narrow striped rug adds texture to the white-painted wooden floor from Dinesen.
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Lassen designed all the furniture with the exception of a few items, like the vintage Chairman armchair by Henrik Tengler and white IKEA sofas. "To keep it simple, we only used natural colors from wood inside, with everything else being white," Lassen says.
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