Iceland is an island with active volcanoes, dazzling glaciers, lakes, rivers, vast meadows and ocean cliffs. There are many different traditions of building construction. But the most prominent is the lawn houses. Here are the interesting lawn houses in Iceland.
Grass is abundant on this island in the North Atlantic. It is used as insulation material for wood and stone structures during the hard winter season. These grass houses, which seem to have sprung from a fairy tale, were almost completely abandoned in the 1960s. The unusual houses are located in a small fishing village on the island of Borgarfjörður Eystri to the east of the island.
Elisabet Sveinsdót, 80, who lives in one of these interesting houses on the island, bought the lovely little house in 1979 with her now-alive wife Skúli Ingvarsson. Even before the purchase, the sales description says: “Lindarbakki is a very old house made of grass, stone, wood and cement, and in many ways it is not a house suitable for the age.“
Since 1979, Elisabet and his wife have been staying at Lindarbakki every summer from mid-May to the end of August. They have made great efforts to rebuild Lindarbakki, a 30-square-foot house with one room. There is also a basement and a well under the house… Wooden parts were added in 1934. Only the basement and well are the original parts that have survived since 1899.
Although most of the homes in Iceland are supplied with geothermal energy, the heat is supplied by a radiator. The hut, located just behind the house and in the same style as Lindarbakki, enhances the charm of this house.
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