🌿Beautiful forests and wildlife await you with our 8 Sami seasons
✨ The northern lights are here until the end of March✨
Charming cottage of a total of 23m2 with sleeping loft in rural farm environment from the early 1900s, decorated with retro furniture in a nice atmosphere
- Wood-fired cast iron fireplace
- Simple equipped kitchen with stove & fridge
- Lapland wood fired sauna
- Towels, linens, duvet, pillows
- Outdoor toilet with separation and heating seat
🐾Pets welcome
The space
🌿THE PRICE INCLUDES:
* Small log cabin in nice farm environment with nature and wildlife just outside
* Wood-fired Lapland sauna
* Firewood is included for the cabin's fireplace and is picked up from the woodshed
* Outdoor toilet with separation and heating seat
* Drinking water in 20L stainless steel container with tap
* The cottage has electricity - Electric stove with oven, lights, power outlets
* Loft bedroom with 2 beds.
(also possible to lift down the mattresses and sleep on the floor)
* Towels, linens, covers and pillows
* Garden furniture & portable BBQ
* 250m2 fence dog yard available
* Free parking, of course
* The cottage size: 16+8 m2
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🐾Close proximity to WILDERNESS and NATURE in Nattavaaraby amazing 8 seasons
Recreation and power of nature in the forest presence with wild berries, mushrooms and healing herbs.
Nice tours for trails, gravel roads and varied nature types as well as fishing in lakes and Råne Älv
* REconnect to Nature by Revitalize - Relax - Reload *
🌿Our goal is for guests to feel the life and history of old times when they stay in the Tiny Timber Lodge.
🌿See more about our small model of self-catering, which is evolving year by year:
Cultivation of vegetables and root vegetables, Rainwater collection, covering cultivation and picking of forest berries, mushrooms and medicinal herbs
🌿We also want to show natural methods from the past and inspire energy-efficient lifestyle.
Step by step, the lifestyle develops towards sustainable self-catering according to the principles of Perma Culture and in harmony with the conditions of nature
* Outdoor food storage in wooden box during winter and uses the natural cold
* Pick up spring water from the well in the yard to the sauna
The water from the well is used for dishes and for the sauna water container.
You crank up the water yourself in bucket as you need.
Drinking water in stainless steel container with tap inside the cabin.
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* FIRE IN THE STOVES*
2. Learn the TOP-DOWN technique TO burn in the fireplace:
This means putting large logs in the bottom of the stove.
Then you build up with less wood and finish at the top with small wood chips and baskets.
You light the fire at the top and then let it burn down.
Lots of energy efficient and good fire safety in the fireplace and smoke pipes!
Above all, there is no flammable black, messy soot in the chimney (tar)
The guest should burn according to "Top-Down-Burning" in stoves and keep the RIGHT TEMPERATURE +20 degrees inside the cabin.
There are thermometer on the wall that shows the temperature.
”The Top-Down-Burning technique” gives you valuable knowledge to take home with you.
3. Once the first fire burned down and you see a bed of glowing charcoal, it's time to put on more wood.
1-2 pieces of wood per post, until the cabin is warm enough. (See thermometer on the wall)
* 1-2 logs * Glow charcoal * 1-2 wood logs * Smooth charcoal…”
4. NEVER fill the entire stove with logs!
There is too much smoke that can rapidly ignite.
Please be mindful to burn with understanding and follow given instuctions!
5. The stove has great heat capacity and too much wood makes the cabin too hot and you have to open the door.
Then you have burned too hard and it may result in the risk of overheating of the chimney and fireplace!
Note:
* Please do not put any clothes or wood to dry on top of the fireplace - Fire hazard!
Let the fire burn out before you go out and leave the cottage.
* Keep the right temperature in: +20 degrees
There is thermometer on the wall that shows the temperature.
INTERIOR DESIGN and FURNITURE
The log cabin has a living space of a total of 24 m2 and includes a cozy sleeping loft with a small window and views of the courtyard. (16+ 8 m2)
The birds are fed right outside the window during winter, so guests can study the wildlife very close by.
In summer, you will most likely see small haunts shooting around the cabin. They have their nest under the barn right next to the cabin.
The cottage is furnished with genuine old furniture, utility items and second-hand showing the important reuse.
The old dynamite box has become a nice little table and the shopping desk from the old store in the village is now used as a kitchen counter.
SLEEPS 2
A step ladder leads you up to the sleeping loft. There are two beds that can easily be put together to a double bed.
Anyone who wishes can try sleeping in the old kitchen sofa!
Duvet, pillow, linen and towels are included in the price.
KITCHEN and COOKING
The kitchen is simple but fully equipped and you cook the food on a two plate stove and oven. Feel free to let me know if you need anything else.
There is a fridge with small freezer compartment used during summer time.
In winter, we use the natural cold and store groceries in a wooden box outside the cabin.
Great use of natural energy resource!
The dishwater is heated in the cauldron on the cast iron fireplace or taken from the sauna water heater.
You wash your dishes in old-fashioned zinc tubs and then pour out the dishwater in the designated area by the right side of the outdoor toilet.
The dish soap used is biologically of natural ingredients and poses no harm to the environment.
WOODEN FIRE SAUNA
There is a wood-fired sauna in cozy log building near the cottage for washing the body.
Hot water is heated in a water container sitting on the fireplace pipe.
The hot water is mixed with cold water in washing bowls to perfect temperature for washing.
You wash yourself inside the sauna and the water flows into an opening in the floor.
And the creek is a short distance for those who want to cool down properly!
HEATING in the COTTAGE
The log cabin is kept warm by a wood burning cast iron stove. The wood is picked up in the woodshed just behind the cabin.
There you will find firewood, axe and chopping buckle.
SOURCE SORTING of GARBAGE and NATURAL MATERIALS
Garbage is sorted and food waste is recycled to the farms.
There are small sorting bins inside the cabin.
The plastic bags we use are degradable.
We try to use recycled materials as far as possible.
Dish brushes, dishcloths, and eco-friendly detergents are obvious choices.
Paint on furniture, walls and floors are lime paint and linseed oil paint.
Here we thankfully accept eco-friendly tips from guests!
WIFI
There is a portable router that you can rent.
Please advise upon booking, and I will order the desired GB for your arrival. The price is depending on how much GB you want.
SMALL CULTIVATION
Summertime, we grow vegetables, beans and berries on a small scale in the yard.
Here, guests can be involved in small tasks around cultivation, if they wish.
THE WILDLIFE at the COTTAGE
In winter we feed small birds and other animals so they survive the long winter.
We have the eatery just outside the window of the log cabin, so guests really get close to the wild animals.
The squirrels are small funny animals who also want food and they have their nests around the cabin.
In summer, the beautiful swallows build their nests in the woodshed. And under the barn, little kids live to the hare!
HISTORY of GRANDPA'S MAGASIN and Göte's CABIN
There are two nice homes to rent; Götes Stuga and Morfars Magasin.
The house that I live in built my grandfather during the 1930s and in the magazine he kept his hunting and fishing equipment and other important things that belonged to life and everyday life in the past.
The magazine has also been used far back in time as a simple overnight stay.
Just as you have the opportunity now.
Göte's cottage was my uncle's cabin that he built with his wife Greta.
He was a true pioneer and mounted a solar cell facility in the cabin already in the early 1980s, when few people had even heard of solar cell energy.
Their big hobbies were fishing, berry picking, and moose hunting. Greta cooked jams and cooked good dishes on the elk and berries
Guest access
PARKING of THE CAR
In the summer you can drive to the cabin and park right outside.
During the winter you park in the designated place on our farm, about 60 meters from the cabin.
It is too much snow to be able to drive to the cabin.
Other things to note
This is a farmhouse to my residential house that is a bit away. Feel free to see pictures that show what the surroundings look like.
It is a quiet location and the cottage has nature and farms close by.
If you want total privacy in the middle of the forest, there is Göte's cabin - Wilderness & Calmness, 2 kilometers from Nattavaaraby after a gravel road.
Welcome!
