The tiny house “Undantaget”, the exception, is placed in our garden, next to our mini estate “Bäcktorpet” built in 1782. Newly renovated, it has all you need for a great and relaxing getaway in Stockholm (just 20 minutes by bus to Slussen/down town). 1 room with loft, fully functional kitchen and toilet. 1Gbit (fast) internet via fibre, 6 minutes walk to the nearest bus stop. Close to grocery stores and shopping centers. Close to a peaceful forest and a swimming-friendly lake (Glasbrukssjön) The space Built in 1941, completely renovated from the ground up with kept charm. Here, you live calmly and peacefully. The tiny house is a traditional Swedish cottage. It’s located in our plot. We live next door in the main building, a few meters away (see pictures of the backyard). The tiny house is part of the property -Bäcktorpet- a beautiful mini estate originally built in 1782 and which gave the street Bäcktorpsvägen in -Lilla Björknäs neighborhood - its name. Here are some details about this beautiful oasis: - The tiny house is tastefully furnished and modernized (from the ground up) with electricity, hot water, AC (air conditioning/heat pump). - The tiny house is completely independent (with most of the common amenities you need to live well and feel good) - With own private gate, patio/porch in front and a private deck to the south where you can drink your morning coffee/tea - The charming porch overlooks the main beautiful garden with apple and pear trees, gooseberry bushes, black / red currant bushes and wild flowers. - 1Gb / s (fast!) free WiFi hotspot throughout the house and garden - Door equipped with Yale Doorman smart lock - integrated with Verisure 24h alarm system. - No keys needed - you can unlock / enter the house with a 6-digit personal code! LOUNGE / Living room - High ceiling (~ 3 meters) - Living room with beautiful, cozy fireplace, a comfortable lounge sofa - 48-inch 4K Internet-enabled TV so you can access Netflix / Amazon Prime / Apple TV / Other streaming accounts THE LOFT / bedroom - A cozy loft with a new and very comfortable -King size- (180x200) mattress bed (The loft is conveniently reached by a built-in sturdy ladder on the wall in the lounge) THE KITCHEN: - New custom built kitchen made by traditional Swedish “Allmoge” craftsmen - New purpose-built massive and beautiful granite worktop - New classic porcelain sink -Butler- - New classic kitchen faucet in brass - Everything you need for cooking: including induction hobs, pots, pans, serving dishes, plates, trays and more. - Spacious fridge with small freezer - Microwave oven - Portable traditional oven - Enough forks / spoons / knives / plates for two + guests - Coffee machine including coffee filter - Electric hand mixer (for cooking, milkshakes, ice cream, etc.) - Outdoor barbecue on the patio is available to borrow Toilet en suite + separate external shower cabin - Toilet en suite with well-lit mirror and old antique French porcelain sink - Extra separate external cabin with another toilet with shower and well-lit mirror and standard sink. WASHROOM A washing machine with built-in dryer and program for quick or eco wash GARDEN - The tiny house is placed in our beautiful, serene garden with its own sun deck/patio (sun from the south in the morning), completely private and fenced patio, lounge chairs included. PARKING - Free parking is available in front of our garage - up to 3 cars - Carport with built-in EV charging station (22kw 32A) - extra fees applies Guest access Full access to the tiny house with it’s own deck overlooking our garden Other things to note Our tiny house is quintessentially Swedish and has a lot of history. Here’s an English translation of an essay about our mini estate ‘Bäcktorpet’ by Carl-Oscar Östling, Boo Hembygdsförening (Saltsjö-Boo Local History Society) Bäcktorpet was a croft under Stora Björknäs (Great Björknäs). It is uncertain whether Bäcktorpet was ever a day labor farm. It was probably simply a residence for one of the Stora Björknäs farm's workers. When the crofter's widow is mentioned in the church records at the turn of the century is it with the title "statkarlsänka" (Editor’s note: Widow of a farmworker. Farmworkers work for a much bigger farm that may or may not be owned by an actual farmer), not torparänka (Editor’s note: Widow of a crofter. Crofters (Swedish torpare, Finnish torppari) are in Finland and Sweden the peasants whose principal means of subsistence derived from the cultivation of some small part, held in tenancy, of an estate. The crofter paid the bulk of his rent by putting in days work on the parent farm). The croft was founded in the early 1870s and was then called Henriksdal, probably after builder Carl Henrik Hallström who owned Stora Björknäs (Great Björknäs) Estate 1873-1888. The cottage, which still stands and is a holiday home, is located on Bäcktorpsvägen in the easternmost part of the Björknäs area. You can almost consider the croft as a pendant to the Koldalen croft on Tollare's land just a few hundred meters away. The border between the properties was in the stream that used to flow from Porsmossen down towards Glasbrukssjön and which is diluted with water from Hvitmossen above Koldalen. The valley, Sjöängen, through which the stream flowed, was cultivated at this time. On maps from the middle of the 19th century, there is nothing to indicate cultivation etc. However, Henriksdal was in place a few years before Koldalen. The only crofter who lived in Henriksdal/Bäcktorpet was Anders Isaksson Bäck, born in 1828 in Älmeboda in southern Småland. His wife Maria Charlotta Jonsson was nine years younger and came from Eksjö. She had previously been a maid at Stora Björknäs, before she married Bäck in 1874. He had come from Småland the year before and the newlyweds probably moved into Henriksdal after the wedding. The man died in 1888 but the widow was for many years written at the croft. As late as 1910, she was still written there, but was then stated to be living at the farm. It was Anders Isaksson Bäck who gave the croft the second name: Bäcktorpet. After the widow moved out, it was officially called Henriksdal again. But the name Bäcktorp(et) seems to have had greater impact. The croft is located at the edge of the forest on a small ledge above a patch of Sjöängen (could the patch have been called Granängen, because a road at the edge of the forest was named Granängsvägen?). The cottage is said to have been moved to the site according to word of mouth and this is probably true, as the timber appears to be considerably older than from the 1870s. The year 1782 is engraved in three places within the property: on a timber beam above the front door, on an old lock in the earthen cellar and on a carved metal sign on the roof top. The cottage is a single cabin with an entrance on the north long side to a small vestibule (hallway), from where a staircase leads up to an upper floor/loft that was also used as extra rooms. The former kitchen (the larger room) is now a chamber (bedroom), while the small former chamber inside the hall is the kitchen. From the vestibule you now enter the kitchen and from there to the chamber, but previously the entrance from the vestibule went directly into what was then the kitchen (current chamber). Behind the chamber is another room, probably added in 1924. From this room there is a separate exit to the east side of the building. The original fireplace wall was demolished several decades ago. In its place is now a richly decorated tiled stove from a property on Dalagatan in downtown Stockholm (Editor’s Note: the tile stove was allegedly placed there in the sixties). In the far corner of the plot (which is now no larger than 1,000 m2 due to subdivisions, (Editor’s Note: Subdivisions of larger plots in this area was very common in late sixties/early seventies) lies an earthen cellar with the entrance deep down in a cemented valley. A large part of the plot has been filled in and the basement entrance hardly looked like it does today from the beginning. An archaic lock with the year 1782 is in the cellar door. In the basement there is now a 70 meter deep, drilled well. The croft was bought free from Stora Björknäs in 1919 by August Karlsson. The seller was then Rörstrands AB, which owned Stora Björknäs. A Lundberg, who owned the croft after Karlsson, repaired and rebuilt the cottage in 1954, The current owner (1984) is the widow Astrid Brogren, whose husband bought the property in 1955. It is used as a holiday home.