Family’s self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳

Channel: Kirsten Dirksen

When Roja Brimalm and Johan Holmstedt set out to build a home for their family on the windswept plains of rural Sweden, they weren’t builders or architects — Johan is a mechanic and Roja a chef — but they had a vision: to create a self-sustaining bubble of life that could thrive even in the bitter cold of a Scandinavian winter. What they built is a modern-day naturhus, a home inside a greenhouse, inspired by Swedish architect Bengt Warne’s 1970s vision of biodynamic living. Their 400-square-meter glass structure now protects a timber home, gardens, and a complex water recycling system — all built mostly by the couple themselves. On the outside, it’s surrounded by open farmland. On the inside, it feels like spring. Even on a blustery March morning, bumblebees buzz through fruit trees, and R

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