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We are looking for fun people that want to join the team and help us here on the countryside in Värmland/Sweden - right next to the lake!
UPDATE: The next workaway project we will start on april 21 and run until end of may 2025. You can apply for a week or longer during this period.
We will be painting the typical red wooden house, work in the garden, preparing fire-wood and do some smaller carpenting and maintaining work together.
Expect quite physical outdoor work in a terrific surrounding! Good if you are experienced when it comes to working with your hands, maybe you are even used to do som carpenting or painting? If not we can teach you as long as your are willing to help with your energy.
Over thirty wonderful workawayers (from sixteen different countries) have been here already to spend one week or more with us in year 2023 and 2024. We have had really great times together as you can read in the feedbacks....
So are you ready to join in aswell? Contact us today!
We enjoy living in our timberhouse in Sweden built around 1840 that we restored and rebuilt during the last fifteen years.
Our house is placed right at the lake in the middle of the beautiful nature in eastern Värmland 15 km outside small town Filipstad .
We, that is: Anja (56 years), used to work as a teacher in Germany and moved to Sweden three years ago, and Harald (57 years), born in Sweden, studied in Germany. We both love music and Anja sings in a local rockband. We also collect vinyl and are super interested in classic cars - Citroen, Volvo, Saab - and enjoy roadtrips in our old VW camper. Reusing old things has always been very important for us.
Canoeing, swimming , fishing is fantastic here on our lake and the area is great for hiking aswell.You can use the canoe and the fishingboat to explore the lake with its small islands that are just outside the front door. We also have an amazing woodfired saunahouse and a privat little beach with a large sundeck and a campfireplace.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Drawing & painting
Fashion or beauty
Videography
Cycling
Yoga / Wellness
Culture
Politics / Social justice
Events & social
Sustainability
Van life
Movies & TV
Art & design
Hitchhiking
Music
Languages
Gardening
Carpentry
Cooking & food
DIY & crafts
Books
Outdoor activities
Water sports
Winter sports
Team sports
Nature
Hiking
Dancing
Camping
Beach
Adventure sports
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
With us you can get to know what it is like to live on the countryside in Sweden. But we have also travelled a lot ourselves and love sharing what we have learned and are excited to hear your stories. As we speak swedish, english and german you have the chance to learn or improve these three languages. And you have the chance to improve your workskills as we like to share our experience and like to show you how things work. Above that we can guide you to canoeing, hiking, fishing and many other outdoor activities in the nearby area.
Help
Most of the time we will be working outside and it helps if you are in good physical shape. Here are some examples what we will be doing:
All kind of tasks in the garden and around the houses: such as gardening, carpenting, painting, maintaining the buildings. You need to enjoy being outside most of the time and to do physically tasks. You do not need to have any special skills but you will have the chance to learn different techniques.
The projects will vary a lot over the days and typical thing we do could be:
- taking care of the garden such as removing old grass, trimming bushes, preparing planting
- taking down smaller trees and preparing firewood
- painting the buildings with the famous swedish Falu-red colour, restoring and painting windows
- carpenter tasks like renovating or building a new deck at the lake, putting up a new wooden-building, maybe build a green house
We will always do the tasks together with you and we make sure to suggest tasks that will be suitable for you!
The hours can differ depending on the weather. Sometimes short days, sometimes longer days.
But be prepared to work physically!
In exchange you get the possibility to stay where Sweden is at its best, and where other people wish to spend their vacation: Right next to a beautiful lake with crystal clear water!
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We find it always interesting to pick up new languages. Harald grew up bilingual swedish/german and we have been traveling a lot.
Accommodation
You will stay in a separate building just 30 meters from our main house: Six beds in two bedrooms with wonderful lakeviews and a shared bathroom with shower and WC.
We eat and cook in the main house. Usually we enjoy preparing all the meals together so hopefully you are interested in that too and ready to help out in the kitchen. So far we have been able to enjoy fantastic lunch and dinners, barbecue etc with specialities from a lot of different countries. The kitchen in the main house has all the equipment you might need. And we make sure to buy all the supplies to create and cook together.
What else ...
You are very welcome to bring your own car or camper. But also without your own vehicle you will have the chance to explore the stunning nature around the house because it is all within walking distance. The outdoor adventures and nature sights should be your main interest and focus while staying here on the beautiful countryside since it is one hour drive to the next interesting city.
For shopping we can take you along in our car to small town Filipstad (20 min away). There are public transportations connecting Filipstad but not all the way out to our house. Karlstad and Örebro are bigger cities in the area and Stockholm, Göteborg or Oslo can be reached within three- four hours by bus or train.
Your stay with us can last from a few days to several weeks depending on your plans and what projects are going on here. We focus on sustainable restoring and woodconstructions that blend into the nature we are surrounded by. We try to re-use old materials and are crazy in love with second-hand things and quality things made in Sweden. Carpe diem is most important to us and doing work should be fun and not feel boring. We will work together and the helping hours will be spread out over the week depending on the weather situation as most of the work will be outside.
We like to socialize with people a lot but as you will have your own little house you always have the chance to be on your own inbetween if you want.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We work from home online a lot and can provide internet access of course if you want to work on your own projects.
Space for parking camper vans
We travel in our own camper (old Volkswagen T4) sometimes and therefor especially welcome anyone who wants to bring his own camper. On our private ground you will find amazing parkingspots with a stunning lakeview.
Can possibly accept pets
Just let us know what kind of pets you want to bring and we can tell you if it works. A single dog is usually fine.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (25)
A few words are needed to describe the setting of the Workaway : beautiful location and landscapes, various manual activities (mostly outside, but Harald made sure to adapt them to the weather so that we could be… read more
She is very experienced with all kind of volunteering so she easily did all the work tasks.
Painting she did excellent as well as gardening and preparing firewood. She was always eager and managed to get things quickly and well done even if it involved quite physical… read more
The tasks are pretty diverse and to me they felt quite enjoyable. You spend a lot of… read more
Right away it felt very relaxed and good to have him around.
He was an excellent help no matter what task came up. For example gardening - he did very well with machines and with manual work. David is also a very good teamplayer so he went along great with the other… read more
From the very first contact everything went perfect and Laerte is very reliable. He was a great help with the work that we did such as gardening, preparing firewood and carpenting. He also helped a lot around the house and prepared excellent Tiramisu. His english is fluent!
Laerte went on… read more
I stayed with them for a week, and I could recommend it to anyone interested in having a great time while also learning some new skills with DIY.
The accomodation was just perfect, enriched by various activities that Harald and Anja made sure we didn't miss. It is by far one of the most chilled… read more
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A few words are needed to describe the setting of the Workaway : beautiful location and landscapes, various manual activities (mostly outside, but Harald made sure to adapt them to the weather so that we could be… read more
She is very experienced with all kind of volunteering so she easily did all the work tasks.
Painting she did excellent as well as gardening and preparing firewood. She was always eager and managed to get things quickly and well done even if it involved quite physical… read more
The tasks are pretty diverse and to me they felt quite enjoyable. You spend a lot of… read more
Right away it felt very relaxed and good to have him around.
He was an excellent help no matter what task came up. For example gardening - he did very well with machines and with manual work. David is also a very good teamplayer so he went along great with the other… read more
From the very first contact everything went perfect and Laerte is very reliable. He was a great help with the work that we did such as gardening, preparing firewood and carpenting. He also helped a lot around the house and prepared excellent Tiramisu. His english is fluent!
Laerte went on… read more
I stayed with them for a week, and I could recommend it to anyone interested in having a great time while also learning some new skills with DIY.
The accomodation was just perfect, enriched by various activities that Harald and Anja made sure we didn't miss. It is by far one of the most chilled… read more
The place is magical and the work is a beautiful part of… read more
The work was real fun in general, and I'm glad I was also able to do… read more
Not only dutch beer but tools for ALL kind of repairs and extra sunglasses if you ride with Koen. But also the best playlists you can imagine did Koen bring. And camping equipment - very helpful when he… read more
Go ahead and invite Daisy to your home -… read more
Her very postive energy right away spread to the other workawayers. Lots of singing and dancing together with the new friends we all made during these wonderful days. And we had a lot of very… read more
You made this workaway-period to something really special and unforgettable that we will all will carry in our heart! So many wonderful moments at the campfire, on the sundeck by the lake, in the kitchen preparing food and baking (Paula is an expert!), listening to… read more
Together with the others from five different countries you formed the perfect team!
Full of energy and laughters during the workdays everything felt super easy and… read more
Walter is quite experienced and picks up very fast. He helped us a lot in the garden preparing firewood, cutting bushes and small trees with machinery, but also cleaning and painting the house. He was also a very good and reliable driver for our old workaway… read more
She did an amazing job helping us with painting the house with the classic swedish colours falu-red and white.
Cecily is a real artist and can add a lot to any project! We as the hosts but also the other workawayers had a wonderful time with her! Her travel… read more
Jan is a very good teamplayer, always right there with a good laugh and up for all kind of work - and fun.
Painting with the famous faluröd paint , preparing firewood and all kind of work in the garden he did with great results.
And we had great times singing at the bonfire!
So hope… read more
But Anja and Harald really took this whole experience to a new level. They make you immediately feel like home and make a lot of sacrifices, so everyone has the best time.… read more
What she easily added to our little community was simply the core of the perfect workaway experience:
The best vibes, wonderful storytelling, a shipload of humor and a perfect attitude to meet every new day with a smile. Beside of easily managing the tasks in the garden and painting, Sophia did a… read more
Although he is quite young he was a superb help when we worked together. He is eager to learn, has a lot of endurance and energy… read more
Also the work was… read more
Being together with the other Workies was also very pleasant and… read more
Cathy is experienced with a lot of things so all the different tasks in the garden, painting, and other things around the house. She is super full of energy… read more
Both are full of kindness and positivity, they have a good sense of humor and I felt heartily welcoming from the beginning until the end. The landscape around the area is just breath taking! I had a lot of fun during the work around the houses… read more
I stayed there about three weeks and it was really amazing! Anja und Harald made me feel welcome right away and are so kind. It was fun to work with all the other workawayers. For our free time, they gave us good tips on what to do or we did fun trips all together. It was a really good atmosphere with them and all the other workawayers.… read more
The place at the lake is amazing! The… read more
Lydia right away became a very helpful part of the team. Experienced in all kind of work like painting, gardening, wood-splitting and many more things. She right away sees what needs to be… read more
Simone did very well helping with all kind of… read more
Jürgen is really experienced in all kind of tasks around construction, renovating and gardening and could not only help but also teach other workawayers! He always knew right away what needed to be done. And above all the work that got easily done - and always with a… read more
They were my first host and it was a incredible time fore me. I stayed at their place for 3 weeks and it feels like a few days.
The place is so beautiful and I could feel always like at home.
The work was really varied and it was nice to work at several places, perfect to… read more
He is really experiencend in all kind of work that is needed on a farm or on the countryside as he grew up an still lives in a… read more
Anja and Halard welcomed me and I felt relaxed straight away. I can't believe it was just 10 days.
It never gets boring with other workawayers from different countries. Always many things to share,discuss and interesting things pop up.
We had really good chilled vibes even when we… read more
It was a unique pleasure to have you with us - we as hosts and the other workawayers were deeply impressed by your personality.
Everything from early morning to the evening was just great. The way you participatetd in whatever… read more
This place will make you laugh, exercise, learn and relax at the same time.
I met people from all over the world but still felt like I was home.
The hosts as well as the workawayers were amazing people whose stories and knowledge were never-ending.
On top of this, a lake is waiting for you when you get out.
Anja and Harald… read more
We were 4, so we could turn during the work and it was never boring. I learned new skills while renovating some old windows, and we did a lot of woodwork and some cleaning of their houses. Good mood and music were always there.
During out free time, the hosts took… read more
She was extremely helpful with all the things that needed to be done like restoring old wooden windows, splitting wood, preparing the cabin for guests and also all other things around the house. She easily picked up instructions, learned… read more
