If you adore box-like, red houses with an open kitchen and around 1,200 square feet of space, guess what! You're an average Swede, apparently. Swedish real estate site Hemnet and architects Tham & Videgård came up with the design by crowdsourcing user preferences for size, number of rooms and floors, using 200 million clicks on 86,000 properties. "The result is partly a mathematical translation of the statistical 1.5 floors within a cubic volume," according to the architects. The home makes the open kitchen the focal point of the house, highlighting the social importance of that room to Swedes.
It also features a terrace within the cube to provide a sunny, protected area, along with a curved wooden facade in falu red, a traditional Swedish color. So what does it all mean? The architect said the home integrates local hand-crafted building tradition, the "gingerbread" falun cottage and the "functionalist box" appreciated by Swedes. It certainly screams "Swedish home," which is only natural since it was, in effect, designed by two million of the country's citizens. And the best part? Hemnet plans to actually build it at an estimated price of around 2.8 million kronar ($415,000) putting it within reach for anyone who wants the quintessential Swedish house.
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Source: Hemnet
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