About

We moved to The House Near the Forest in June 2017 from an apartment in Greater Copenhagen. While living in apartment, we dreamed about a house with a big garden close to some kind of nature (a lake, a meadow, a forest). Although Denmark is not famous for its nature, there are, fortunately, places on this little flat piece of land where it is charming and nice. After spending many of our weekends visiting different places outside of Greater Copenhagen, our conclusion was that more we drove north of Copenhagen, more beautiful it became. We started dreaming about living in Northern Zealand (Nordsjælland in Danish). And then we found the house in historic Gurre and purchased it.

The house has a name Puk (a girl’s name). We don’t know when the name was given and why. We call it Puk because it is carved on a table on the eastern facade of the house. Now you know which house it is when passing by 😀 It is dating back to 1870 and is a brick construction with white facades and deep red window tracks, features we assume have always been the part of the house. We don’t know much about previous owners of the house and how long they lived here. What we know is that this was a house of the local butcher (his workplace, which is a part of the property, was built on 1900). We also heard from the ones we purchased the house from, that a window cleaner lived here, and locals told that the house roomed three families at some point before 1970’s. We are now four occupying the same square meters.

The house looks to meadows and forest (west), so we do, when sitting outside in the garden or looking out from the west facing windows inside the house. Surroundings are quite here, animals are free-range and neighbors take good care of each other.

I have created this site to record some of the things we do in our daily life, keep track of our favorite recipes and share with projects. My name is Anahit. Wecome! Glad you dropped by ☺️

I am not a native English speaker, so sorry for the errors.