Home tour | A stunning new-build in Skåne

Today I’m taking you back to the southern Swedish county of Skåne (the setting for my recent travel adventures) for a look around a newly built house that’s just come up for sale with Fantastic Frank.

Covering 142sqm, this single-storey, cabin-style home is a wonderful example of interior design and architecture working in perfect harmony with each other. The exterior is beautiful yet understated, with wooden cladding whose lines cleverly continue into the deck beneath and the roof tiles above. The low profile ensures the house sits well among the surrounding trees, and rustic bamboo seating by Tine K Home provides plenty of scope for socialising and relaxing.

The cabin feel continues inside, where a long, open-plan living space stretches right across one side of the house. Oak is used on the walls, ceiling, kitchen cabinets and furniture to create a minimalist yet warm effect. So much of the same material could overwhelm many spaces, but here it works well thanks to the concrete floor, sleek black wood-burner and grey terrazzo splashbacks, which break up the solid blocks of wood. There’s also lots of natural light thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows, which connect the space to the garden and ensure a seamless indoor-outdoor flow.

The other side of the building encompasses three bedrooms, a bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe. They’re decorated in the same colours and materials as the rest of the house, but here they’re offset with crisp white walls. My favourite feature is the wooden panelling behind the master bed, whose vertical lines echo the exterior cladding as well as the Secto Design pendant light and the grooved base of the Asplund ‘Palais Royal’ dining table in the main living area. It works brilliantly with the black VIPP wall lamps and the soft linens, and provides a focal point in an otherwise understated space. I also love the tall, narrow windows, which are strategically placed to provide glimpses of natural greenery outside, and the dark Italian tiles used in the bathroom.

If I was ever going to build my own Scandinavian hideaway from scratch, this is pretty much how I’d do it! In fact I wouldn’t mind lounging on that deck with a cool drink right now…

For more Nordic new-build inspiration, take a look at this minimalist lakeside house in Norway, and this contemporary coastal hideaway near Copenhagen.

Photography by Mike Karlsson Lundgren for Fantastic Frank