Friggebod

This type of small cottage is named after the 1970’s minister Birgit Friggebod, who made it legal to build an additional building, no more than 10 square meters, on your land without having to get any kind of permit. Today that has been increased to 15 square meters.

This lead to an explosion in different friggebod-designs and many play around with it, trying out ways to use the small space as efficiently as possible. Some use it as a guest room; others build one for their children to play in. They can be a smaller copy of the main house, or pimped out with über-modern green architecture. It should come as no surprise to you that there are ready-to-be-assembled kits for those who lack the sufficient skills to design and build one from scratch. After all, this is the land of IKEA.