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8 Episodes 2015 - 2016
Episode 1
58 mins
After 30 years of slumber, it is finally time for this grand house in Häckelsäng outside Gävle to have a new owners. Emma Norelius was inherited this well-preserved old house, which has been her family farm and dream home since her childhood. And Christopher historian Christopher O'Regan digs into the family farm's history and gives new life to Emma's relatives, who once lived here. While Erika Åberg adapts the house's functional kitchen to today's standards and teaches us about how we preserve old linoleum floors.
Episode 2
58 mins
On Dalarö (one of Sweden's most classic archipelago resort outside Stockholm), so are the grand "Kommendanthuset" believed to be from the 18th century. And historian Christopher O'Regan finds are finding out if that is through. As we also learn allot about Dalarö's time as a shipping center and about the commandant Falkman who once lived in the house. And the building antiquarian Erika Åberg are making a big search around Stockholm in her hunt for a hundred years old original wallpaper. So that she can reproduce the wallpapers that original was on the walls in one of rooms in the house.
Episode 3
58 mins
The infamous farm Ljusbacken in Hälsingland has a terrible history as a care home for the poor, sick and old - but today it is instead the collective Ljusbacken's friends who live here. Christopher O'Regan is tasked with finding out what is true of the rumors from the house's time as an institution.
Episode 4
58 mins
Right next to the Storkyrkan in Stockholm's historic core, there is an apartment building dating back to the 16th century. Today, a family with children lives in the tenement two floors up. And Christopher O'Regan guides the family through centuries of carnage, regicide and poverty.
Episode 5
58 mins
In recent years, Micke and Daniel have spent the summers saving the dilapidated house on the farm Grönviken in Jämtland, which they acquired as their summer residence. Christopher O'Regan helps map both the house's previous owners and the house's place of origin in the village.
Episode 6
58 mins
Far out on Värmdölandet outside Stockholm lies Rosenhagen, a windswept summer cottage, which is said to date back to the 18th century. On the wall of a room hangs a mythical portrait of a young unknown woman, whom Christopher O'Regan feverishly takes up the hunt for. Who is she?
Episode 7
58 mins
In the old mill village of Svartå, a Free Church chapel remains, but instead of pastors and parishioners, today it is populated by a family with children. Christopher O'Regan finds out more about the mill workers who initiated the construction of a chapel, and the big explosion accident that may have ignited the spark. Erika Åberg tears out the masonite and plastic floor to bring out the original paneling in the hall instead, she is also experimenting with grain painting doors.
Episode 8
58 mins
When Raimon and Maria acquired their farm in Dalarna, they got a house in the bargain, which had been empty for a long time. But there is still furniture, some clothes and not least a very strong soul from those who once held this home dear. Christopher O'Regan pieces together the family saga that once took place in the now completely abandoned house.