The Danish Summerhouse

02/06/2024

Creative guests from Australia via the UK. Left the house super clean, left us creative gifts but most importantly left us a bag of Haribo wine gums. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Just got a booking from France. Seems this year we have global reach.🌍🌲🔥🌊

If you are interested in staying check the link in bio.

20/05/2024

Finally managed to put up the bird boxes we’ve been repairing. Let’s see if we get some tenants. Might be too late in the season, but keeping fingers crossed for some avian action! 🪶🪺🐦‍⬛

21/04/2024

Coffee break. Beautiful Danish spring day today. Doing some general tidying up, discovering some interesting burrowing under the deck, spotting spring flowers, and removing pine cones from the gutters. Always working. Thankful for the opportunity to be here on a day like this . 🌲🔥🌊

04/04/2024

Squirrel ate my boots! We’ve been clearing the shed and getting the house ready for guests. Went to fetch my trusty duck boots, bought in New Jersey over 20 years ago.

I thought they felt a bit heavy. Discovered one of our woodland friends has not only enjoyed snacking on the interior but also that they are ideal storage receptacles for acorns.

If you would like to visit and help track down the culprit, just let us know. 🐿️ 🌲🔥🌊

14/01/2024

Today, Denmark has a new king. H.M. Queen Margrethe II abdicates and leaves the throne to her son, HRH Crown Prince Frederik. It’s a big day for Denmark. 🇩🇰

The Royal family’s hunting lodge at Trend Skov is just across the road from the summerhouse. It’s hidden deep in the woods and provides an escape from a busy public life. The lodge has been the royal family’s private residence since the time of Christian X. It’s a simple, low, angular log house built by Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid with funds they received as a public gift on the occasion of their wedding on 24 May 1935.

They purchased the hunting lodge and part of the 431-hectare forest. It’s just a few kilometres from Bjørnsholm Bay, on the Limfjord, from where the Trend River winds into the North Jutland countryside. Frederik IX often used the house in connection with hunting and as a refuge for the family during the holidays.

If you visit us at the summerhouse, you might see a royal deer wandering through our woods or, if you are lucky, a royal family member on the way to the beach at Trend. 👑🌲🔥🌊

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08/07/2023

Always love adding new books to the bookshelf. This summer there’s a new inside plus a couple of paperbacks from (not for the vegetarians who follow us). Weather has been all over the place this week but today it is outstanding. 🌲🔥🌊

22/05/2023

Some tidying up, bike maintenance and generally enjoying the beautiful Vesthimmerland weather over the weekend.

05/04/2023

Leaf print from last weekend. We’ve been cleaning the deck. It can get slippery in the winter with so many trees around the house. The cleaning machine has done it’s work. All good now. Just in time for guests this week and some spring weather. ☀️🌲🔥🌊

12/03/2023

Hello. We’ve been hibernating. Both on social and in real life.

It’s been cold, dark and wet, but now the days are getting longer, and the weather is getting warm… er except this week, we encountered some late winter snow. ❄️

We’re tidying up for spring. Guests booked in for Easter and early June through in Denmark. If you are interested in booking the house, you can find out more through the link in bio.
We would love to see you! 🌲🔥🌊

09/01/2023

Interesting article in Finans on the hockey stick growth plans of Landfolk. Alongside the lovely photo of the founders, there's also, further down the page, a beautiful shot of The Danish Summerhouse, taken by Kit Ulrichsen Bøhnke, Director of photography at Landfolk.

We're looking forward to welcoming more guests who discover the house through the platform.

Find out more and book here: https://landfolk.com/l/9896f7d1. 🌲🔥🌊

Read the article here: https://finans.dk/erhverv/ECE14795780/i-en-skov-af-platforme-forsoeger-landfolk-at-skille-sig-ud-foerste-regnskab-viser-forventet-millionunderskud/

29/10/2022

Evening. 🌲🔥🌊

26/09/2022

Rosemary. We try and keep some growing around the house. It’s top of our list of herbs for use on the fire or bbq. Managing to keep this plant alive in an old watering can that burst when the water we left in it froze last winter. ❄️🌲🔥🌊

17/08/2022

The fire edit:🔥 We've just upgraded our fireplace cooking gear to include a new cast iron ft6 Petromax Dutch Oven with flat feet. It's big enough to cook your favourite chilli for about 4-8 people, and you can use the lid as a frying pan or shallow dish - pan-fried Løgstør mussels, anyone?
The new addition sits alongside our fire bridge and frying pans. With enamel mugs and jugs from Falcon Enamelware and the brilliantly named "Perkomax" percolator supplying tea and coffee, we think we have you set up for a successful cookout. 🍳Also, there are some excellent books in the house for some outdoor cooking recipe inspiration.📚

Come and visit; we would love to see what you can create.🌲🔥🌊

28/07/2022

Deck sweep. Change over day. Fortunate to have wonderful people to stay who respect the house and make it easy to prepare for new guests. Visitors from the Netherlands arrived today; they’re leaving on the 6th. The week after is free if you are interested. 😀🌲🔥🌊

27/07/2022

Earlier this year, a large format package dropped on the deck at the house. We discovered through The Stack podcast from Monocle, hosted by the wonderful . Large format, beautiful photographs, and for the German readers amongst you, some illuminating text. They’re on the dresser in the downstairs bedroom if you’re interested. One for the cold water kite surfers who come to visit nearby Trend beach. 🏄🌊🌲🔥

04/06/2022

Guest ready. If the good weather continues the sun loungers will be out soon. It’s the time of the year for the short walk to the beach for a morning swim. 🌊🔥🌲☀️

25/05/2022

The local squirrels provided this afternoon’s entertainment.
We mostly see the red/brown varieties around the house, but very occasionally, you might get lucky and see a black one.

After a quick bit of research, it seems black and red squirrels are the same species, but the red coat genes are stronger than the black coat genes. Once the red colour becomes dominant in an area, the black-coated squirrels can disappear over relatively few generations.

Enough squirrel info for today...

25/05/2022

Rain this morning. At the house to prepare for the annual workday on our road. It's Kristi himmelfartsdag (Ascension Day, Festo Ascencio or Ascencio Domini) tomorrow, and a national holiday in Denmark.
The neighbours meet up, have some coffee, a few morning rolls and a little snaps to get the ball rolling. Then we fix the road, cut down some overhanging branches, tidy up the grass verges. Then lunch.
We're hosting this year. Hoping for a long table on the deck, but with the changeable weather, it's probably going to be 15 inside.
Let's see.

23/05/2022

Some beautiful cabins gathered together for this article in The Guardian by Gemma Bowes. Particularly enjoyed seeing Løvtag from Destination Himmerland included in the collection.🌲🔥🌊

From Scandinavian rustic-luxe to floating eco-cabins in the south of France, we pick cosy and stylish hideaways in forests and lakeland

18/05/2022

At some stage in the near future we’re going to have to replace the roof. But, right now, there’s something beautiful about the texture on the panels.

17/05/2022

The weekend project. My Dad used to have this old storage box in the garage for years. For some reason, it was packed with old demijohns that came from the days when he used to make cider with our next-door neighbour.🍎 Fun times 😀 It's been sitting getting wet at the back of the summerhouse since we shipped it to Denmark. I decided to paint it, add some wheels and use it as a mobile storage and serving unit for the deck. Got 15 people coming next week. Hopefully, it will get some use. 🌲🔥🌊

17/05/2022

Hej! If you have just started following us, or have been with us for a while, here's some info about the Danish Summerhouse.

We bought No.23 in 2016, looking for a place where we could put busy lives on hold and spend more time together as a family. The wooden house is built on an old plantation and is a 5-minute cycle ride from the beach at Ertebølle.

The house sleeps 5 in two bedrooms; there's a large open living/dining/kitchen area with an 80m2 deck outside. We also have a camping shelter and fire pit a short distance from the house in 5,500m2 of mixed woodland. There are foxes, deer, plenty of squirrels and some serious birdlife.

We aim for a feeling of well-considered simplicity. It means good quality equipment and fittings that encourage guests to get closer to nature and the outdoors. We're constantly refining and improving the house and contents, building on the feedback we receive from our guests.

We would love to have you come visit. You can find booking information through the link in our bio. Thanks for reading :-)


We are Trine and Jonathan. Trine from Denmark and Jonathan from England. We met in London, and 8 years and three children later, we moved to Denmark.

14/05/2022

Early morning light play from the first floor bedroom.

02/05/2022

The morning view. The dawn chorus is strong this week.🪺🌲🔥🌊
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29/04/2022

We started a newsletter.📮 It's been on the agenda for a while, but it was time to stop talking about it and do it. Once a month, we'll send out our 'Notes from the Red House.'

It's got local news and links to the area around the house in Vesthimmerland, places to go when you visit us in Northern Jutland. There's info about the house, what you will find when you get here, and what we plan for the future.

We'll also feature a product, brand, or experience that we love. Sometimes Danish, sometimes British (reflecting our heritage) 🇩🇰🇬🇧, occasionally from further afield. Always something that makes us go, 'that's nice, that is.'

If you want to give it a try, you can sign up through the link in our bio. If it's not for you, it's easy to unsubscribe.

We hope to see you soon. 👋🌲🔥🌊
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