SaltLand castle Villa

Room descriptions

This is both a vacant summer house by the sea and a grand residence. Here, life is like a summer day with your shirt off and the curtains breathing in the wind. Flip-flops always ready for the warm season. But the sea and beach are beautiful all year round in the right clothes, in the right company.

The house in general
The house was built in 2005 with PEAB as the general contractor. The house has four floors where the basement is completely hidden under the basement level. The walls and floors are cast in place in concrete, which also includes the spiral staircase that takes off between three of the floors with a wide torque. You can also take an elevator between the four floors, which can be good for those of you who want to be able to enjoy the entire house for a long time to come. The house has a water-based heating system that is powered by a number of heat pumps, heat exchangers and electric heaters. The house also has an air conditioning system, a pool room, a cinema room, a central vacuum cleaner and a lot of other small and luxury items. The house's "technical equipment" is almost completely collected underground in the basement level in open accessible solutions.

The hall
The hall immediately makes a grand impression with an open ridge on the second floor, which should mean a good bit over six meters of ceiling height. The hall is also open right through the house so that you can be greeted by a straight sunset at certain times of the year. The open fireplace is nice to be greeted by the rest of the year. The staircase is cast in place in concrete with wide steps. The railing with ornate wrought iron foliage was designed specifically for Villa Leuhusen, and also appears in the railings of the many French balconies. Throughout the staircase, including the stairs, there is travertine on the floor, which brings to mind the cool floors of the Mediterranean, although here there is underfloor heating underneath of course. No door but a solid and sturdy double door in blackened oak, and with an iron crossbar - like a castle.  

The kitchen
The kitchen is modern, open, large. An open volume that takes up the entire depth of the house. Light from three directions, and high balcony doors to the sea. Double passage out to the hall. A kitchen entrance from the southern gable is also available with a utility room that comes in handy with children and dogs in the household. The kitchen itself was built on site and delivered from Kvänum in Västergötland. Solid doors and drawers in painted ash. Limestone bench all the way from wall to wall. A pantry and wine cooler are also to be discovered. The 80-width oven and the stove have both gas and induction, if you are having trouble deciding. The wooden floor is glued to the concrete for a solid and silent feeling, like in a public building. The type of wood is called Merbau, very similar to mahogany in structure and color.

The living room
This room also has double passages to the hall, which gives nice sight lines through almost the entire length of the house. Open the fireplace with the same stucco as in the hall, and is heated with gas. Notice the stylized skirting boards – modern and old-fashioned at the same time. Different to the eye, but no frills, just like the brickwork, super simple but with a little extra height. The bookcase is built in place in cassettes to sync with the window section facing the yard. Light finds its way in through a number of shelves, but not all of them. The bookcase is built on wheels if someone wants to move it. The doors are in solid wood with four equally sized mirrors. The door handles from England are in raw brass and already have a nice patina. The same solid glued parquet here as in the kitchen.

The bedrooms
The family bedroom is located one floor up and now we are starting to approach the roof. The three rooms are connected by a hallway that shows off a lot of sloping ceilings without in any way reducing the ceiling height, quite the opposite. From the east, the dormers provide nice light. Here and there are entrances to the house's cat attics, which in this context feels like a petty term, when they are as big as a lion's mouth and have full standing height, which facilitates all storage. The house's large bedroom is located to the south with its own dressing room, its own balcony and bathroom "en suite", as it is called in French. On the other side of the hall, seen from the side, are two bedrooms and a bathroom. Both rooms have doors out onto the balcony. The nice parquet continues upstairs, slightly lighter here because it has not been oiled as often.

Study/guest room
The house has three rooms ready as guest rooms or study rooms, two on the entrance floor and one down the stairs in the basement. Adjacent to two of these are private bathrooms, so that those who want to use them can take care of themselves in that part of the house. These rooms also have the fine parquet or parquet in combination with a softening carpet. Fine limestone is in the windows where there are no high doors to the French balcony. The doors are the same throughout the house and door handles from England in raw brass that have already aged with dignity.

Bathroom/toilets
The house has toilets and bathrooms exactly where you need them, wherever you are in the house. Toilets in the hall both upstairs and downstairs, but not showers everywhere in absurdum just because there is space. However, all bedrooms have their own bathrooms that assist in each part of the house. The large bedroom upstairs with bathroom en suite in the southern end of the house. The house also has a pleasant pool room with sauna, which of course is also a room to care for body and soul.

Pool room
This is a facility that could just as easily be found in a better hotel anywhere in the world. Large, bright and built with comfortable materials. The pool has two different depths, and you can dive under the glass and step up into the visible sauna. Or you can walk over the bridge. Fully equipped kitchen and bar where everything is built in solid teak to be consistently comfortable for a long time to come. Even in winter, it almost feels like the pool is outdoors because you have a number of double doors out onto the house's terrace. In summer, all of these can be open at the gable end and large and small can run wind and wave. Then the feeling is more outside than inside. The same type of terrace doors here that we have encountered in the rest of the house, but here the inside is in teak. The floor has the same structure as in the hall of the house upstairs, but in a slightly darker shade here.

Cellar
You are now two floors below the entrance level of the house. The elevator of course goes all the way down and the stairs from the basement level are wide. Down here you will find the house's various hobby rooms, which go by the name of "the bus factory" where projects and activities can both make noise and move freely. Soft tile floors if you want to do something that scrapes, scrapes and splashes. The current owner has had both a small music studio and a gym down here, which has not disturbed the rest of the house. In the basement you will find most of the things that concern the maintenance and control of the house. The pool's treatment plant is clear and accessible. The same applies to the house's heating and ventilation system, which can be easily managed by a layman if the next owner is interested. However, you will find the house's sound, IT and security systems upstairs. The house has, among other things, a receiver for satellite communication.

Security system
Here you can feel safe both when you are at home and away. The house has an intuitive and easy-to-understand security system that includes cameras both inside and outside and several relevant alarm points. The two gates are security-rated where you drive the cars in. The guesthouse can be used and monitored either separately or integrated, which is most convenient from time to time. A system that can be completely controlled – with different permissions – via mobile phone wherever you are, on the beach a hundred meters away or on another beach a thousand miles away. So no problem letting, for example, craftsmen into certain parts of the house or on the grounds when you are away.