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Every plank, panel and moulding is made by Marita and Per

”When the piles of timber were at their largest point, we had to do as marathon runners and concentrate on one log at a time,” says Marita Lindgren. Marita and Per sawed around 70 cubic metres of timber using their Logosol Sawmill and then built their dream house.

Per and Marita Lindgren are townies and did not originally own any forest. The couple has four grown-up children and an old dream of building a house after their own ideas. When a property in the village where Per spent the summers of his childhood became for sale, the dreams began to take shape.

A M7 Sawmill and a two-cutter planer/moulder was bought from Logosol. Shortly thereafter, the storm Gudrun came, which felled large parts of forest in the north of Sweden, and suddenly there was more timber than they could take care of.

When everything was sawn up, it was about 70 cubic metres of timber. At the same time they started to build their house. Last summer, the dwelling house was built. It is a two-storied house of 190 square metres, and it is built in the same style as the old buildings in the village.
But why would two townies start sawing, planing, moulding and building themselves, when there are ready-made houses that they can buy? Well, this house becomes exactly as the Lindgren family wants it, down to the last detail. But the feeling of wholeness is just as important.
”To people of today milk is just a carton in the grocery store. We seldom think of the whole. If you are sawing the timber yourself, you are taking part of the entire process from fresh-cut timber to beautiful boards,” says Per.

The first time he read Fresh Cut he nearly burst with laughter when people in the magazine described the act of sawing timber as almost a spiritual experience. Now he is not laughing anymore.
”It may sound silly, but you can actually get a relationship with a plank.”
The building project has now come so far that the Lindgren couple has sold their house in the town in order to move to the house of their dreams in the country.