A Danish Cabin Filled with Summer House Design Ideas

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Designers Christine Sofie Johansen and Rasmus Robert are among their own best clients. In addition to running Studio Force Majeure, their Copenhagen interiors firm, the couple have spent the last seven years rehabbing and flipping vacation houses on Denmark’s north coast, just a hop and skip from Copenhagen.

They call this venture The Business and Pleasure Society and their new partners in it are their friends Trine Andersen and Martin Neve, the star creative couple that founded Ferm Living. As their first joint project, the group acquired a 1972 log cabin in the Danish Riviera town of Holløselund in Vejby parish minutes from the beach. The four assessed the structure’s best features and came up with a remodeling plan. Studio Force Majeure ran the on-site building process, and along the way, they all gathered to garden, have long lunches, talk things over, and, says Johansen, “make work feel like play.”

Dark and interesting on the outside, it’s light and bright inside, and filled with sophisticated summer house ideas. We’re happy to be the first to present the results.

Photography by Martin Neve, courtesy of Studio Force Majeure (@studioforcemajeure).

the cabin is freshly painted black—&#8\2\2\1;matte not glossy,&#8\2\2 17 — Above: The cabin is freshly painted black—”matte not glossy,” specifies Johansen—and has a new sod roof.

The property is listed (and currently under contract) with Alecsander Delfs, a boutique real estate firm offering some good alternatives should this one no longer be available.

furnished with togo lounges, the living room opens to the dining room, a newly 18 — Above: Furnished with Togo lounges, the living room opens to the dining room, a newly built addition that looks as if it’s always been there. The art over the table is by Charlie Roberts.

The entire interior is brightened with paint from Blēo, a new Copenhagen color house that collaborates with leading designers, including Studio Majeure, on its palettes: the walls of the cabin are in Highline (“our most popular color,” says Johansen, “it has a funny way of showing itself as either green or blue”) and the doors and details are in Bowery—the couple spent time living in NYC. Good news: Blēo’s paints—and its Muller Van Severen zellige tiles, too—have just become available to order online in the States. In this country the paint—water-based acrylic, low VOC, and Greenwise-certified—is produced in Michigan by a fourth-generation, family-owned company. Find more info here.

once the rooms were ready to be furnished, everyone contributed art and others 19 — Above: Once the rooms were ready to be furnished, everyone contributed art and others pieces from their collections resulting in next-level staging. “We have been over every surface in the house to make it fresh: we aimed for a combination of modern-yet-still-old-school country cabin,” says Johansen.

The new 26-foot-long Douglas fir floorboards were lightened with white wood soap. The Douglas Fir Vist Dining Chairs and rattan Dou Lampshades are from Ferm Living.