“When you’re in love, you don’t see the bad things,” Andreas Ullenius says. ⁠ ⁠ Ullenius is calling from Skarpö, an island of about 250 residents in the Stockholm archipelago, to talk about the 111-year-old house he and his family bought here four years ago this month. Full of willowy charm, the Villa Solbacka—roughly “sunny hill villa”—had sounded to them like a get from the get-go. But even the broker who sold it to them seemed to know better. “Everybody kind of loves it. Nobody buys it. Why would you?” Andreas recalls him asking of a house that lacked modern plumbing and electricity, not to mention vehicle access. All trifles, the couple decided. Take a look at the results of their four-year renovation of the tumbledown property, at the link in bio. (🖊️: @samedford, 📷️: @felixodell)