Husdrömmar - Season 8 (2021)

On a beautiful spot by a forest lake, Jon and Jenny are tearing down their current house to make room for their grand dream house that Jenny has drawn on her own during maternity leave. However, it looks more like a child’s drawing if you ask Gert Wingårdh! But Jon and Jenny are not giving up, how hard can it really be to draw and build a house?

Exactly 100 years ago the chapel in Strömsberg was built, and now it’s being sold by the Swedish church. The buyers are Josefin and Ilias, who want to turn it into their summer house. The run down chapel will now be transformed from a church to a cosy family home, if that is even possible?

Daniel and Jeanette have found the perfect nature plot not too far from Gothenburg and here they want to build a tasteful low-key house for their family. But how does a newly built house fit seamlessly into nature that has been evolving for thousands of years? This turns out to be much more tricky than they imagined.

Linus Fernström was an elite ice hockey player but was injured during a game and was told that he will probably never play ice hockey again. Instead Linus decides to fulfil his dream of drawing his own house with a magnificent view for him and his family. It turns out to be a house that Gert Wingårdh has a hard time to believe Linus has drawn on his own without any prior knowledge.

Andrea and Jonathan think their live too large, but most of all too expensive - despite the fact that they live in a 30 square meter student flat. Andrea is studying to be an architect and wants to build them a tiny house that’s just 17 square meters! They don’t know yet where in the world they want to live, but with a house on wheels the sky is the limit, or is it?

In Kassjö outside Umeå, Erik and Laura want to build a house with an unusual technique – despite the fact that they have never built a house before. Their future home is to be built with straw bales and clay, and they have been preparing for years. The ambitious goal is not only a sustainable house but also an entirely new life stile – they want to become completely ,self sufficient. But one thing they do worry about – will they have the strength to complete it all?

The carpenter Andreas has built many houses but never one for himself and his big family. The dream about a sturdy house built in solid wood has long been set aside to make every day life work as half the family has ADHD. But there is a lot of love and finally Andreas and Jennie is set to go, high on a hill with a view over the river Viskan.