A year in the Cotswolds

A year in the Cotswolds

My rustic Nordic summer cottage -project

Story of our little red cottage and a mountain of sawdust.

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shnordic - Susanna Hawkins
Aug 05, 2025
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Nearly ten years ago, we bought a little red cottage in South West Finland - one of those small red wooden houses that seem to belong more to memory than to the present. The sort of place that appears in a postcard or a 1960s home magazine, usually with a woodpile outside, floral curtains inside, and a grandfather eating herring in the kitchen corner.

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