A NORWEGIAN HOME WITH SOUL

Marsha, who writes the blog Splenderosa, ask if I can tell a little about this property:

A few years ago, I think it was around 2006, my husband and I wanted to move from Denmark to Norway. We fell in love in this property, witch was consisted of a total of six buildings: main house, guest house, storehouse, mountain dairy house, sauna and garage. Because the property is comprised of several old buildings, it is called a Tun in Norwegian.

The owners, who sold antiques, had the buildings taken apart and moved them from different parts of Norway, and gathered them together again in this place. The owners had done a fabulous work, everything was in tip top condition and was absolutely beautiful.

But unfortunately, the property was located at a place called Bøverbru, which is a small village with 730 inhabitants in Vestre Toten municipality, Oppland County. My husband, who works in the pharmaceutical industry, could not get a job nearby and the village is located more than 100 km north of Oslo.
Unfortunately, the property had only a very small plot that was squeezed in among other houses from 1960 to 1980's, which we think was devastating for the property. A tun should have plenty of room around it. It should be alone on a preferably height in the landscape. It belongs in the nature with forest around it, and not like here, with only flat farmland and the ugly 70’s disaster, which I call the house from that period.
So, we did not buy property and we did not move to Norway until 2-3 years later.
Today you can stay in Bøvertun as a paying guest. All the beautiful antiques are gone and the furnishing has not quite the same charm as before.  One should have great aesthetic sense to furnish an old timber house. It doesn’t take much mixture of other styles, before it is destroyed. But outside it is still a beautiful old tun with its buildings dating from 1700-1800's.

A little comment at the end: In todays marketing brochure for Bøvertun, the new owners used images from the previous owner and images used by the real estate broker for the sale of the property at the time. These images I use even in this post here on the blog.

This makes me very suspicious; Are property destroyed today? Is it because the property does not have the accessories shown in the pictures, so that the subject is not as great? Will the property look completely different than it does in the brochure?
Both I and many others with me do not like to feel cheated. Therefore, I recommend that the owners take new pictures of the property as it looks today, instead of using the images from the previous owner.