Västra Storgatan 13

Now is the chance to acquire a grand patrician villa centrally in Osby, with a delightful pool area! A villa dating from 1909 with a central location in Osby will soon be up for sale. From the villa, it is 5 minutes to the town centre, the station and Lake Osbysjön. Description The grand patrician villas were built mainly during the period 1860–1930. The architectural style of the stately buildings was generally inspired by classicism and the pure ideals of antiquity. This large brick villa of 300 sqm and nine rooms, built in 1909, is a fine example. The villa has undergone renovation with rare respect for the original environment. The house is characterised by abundant light, open spaces and masses of sleek original details. Here there are almost endless herringbone parquet floors, wall paintings, mirrored doors, stylised stucco ornaments, finely carved mouldings, window arches and a number of fireplaces and tiled stoves. The villa's atmosphere carries a kind of light and airy elegance with almost cinematic qualities. In addition to the entrance floor's large hall and bright social spaces, mention should be made of a magnificent master bedroom en suite with dressing room and a large bathroom. The lawn is enormous in front of the imposing brick villa; the plot is nearly 4,000 sqm. The façade has sparingly elegant decorations in classical style and the period's large window sections featuring double window arches and small-paned glass. The steep tiled roof is beautifully broken at the gables. The villa sits high, nestled in greenery and tall deciduous trees. The frontispiece, with the entrance's glass sections and the upper floor's built-in balcony, is crowned by a triangular cupola that brings to mind a manor house. By the pool area there are delightful communal spaces for socialising, with barbecues, a pergola and a sauna house with a TV corner. If you feel this is something for you, contact the agent for more information and to book a viewing. Interior TAMBURGranite stairs lead in two storeys up to the villa's entrance with double mirrored doors with glass. Behind them awaits the old tambur, or cold hall, with enormous ceiling height, glass sections towards the inner hall and the short walls' fully covering original wall paintings. The motifs are inspired by the Greek and Roman ideals of classicism. A chequered floor completes the picture. ENTRANCE HALLThe very large hall welcomes with a radiant light atmosphere, white-oiled herringbone parquet and the turn of the century's finely carved joinery such as deep door casings, double mirrored doors and high skirting boards. Beneath the high ceiling run original wall paintings. Just over 100 years ago, the evening's hostess probably made her silk-rustling entrance from above the white wooden staircase. If your guests have stamped the snow off their feet on a winter evening, they are met by the fire crackling in the period-typical open fireplace of brick, plaster and wrought iron. SOCIAL SPACESInvite the guests into the left of two mirrored turn-of-the-century lounges facing the front. Here the large social spaces open up with herringbone parquets in two rooms in a row. An extensive ceiling height, and all the turn-of-the-century details, are in place. The graceful tiled stove enthrones in the corner and in the ceiling there is a stylised ceiling rosette. The lounge has radiant light from large and tall window sections in two directions. This is a room for everything from the family's calm everyday life to really big parties with dancing and mingling. Double, sliding mirrored doors lead on. DINING ROOMThe next room in sequence is the surprisingly large dining room with the period's sparing stucco ornaments and ceiling rosette. The thoughts actually go to a larger banquet hall. These spaces too receive cascades of light from four large window sections in two directions. Here you have a view over the large garden's greenery of deciduous trees. The crystal chandelier feels almost obligatory above the festively set long table with room for many guests. When the fire crackles in the tiled stove and the living candles burn, the atmosphere is very strong. SERVING ROOMA sober, decoratively painted floor takes over in the old serving room with space for a kitchen table. Here the domestic staff tiptoed during the grand dinners. The old serving cupboards are preserved here, and a black cast-iron stove warms the family's breakfast on a gloomy autumn morning. The chequered floor continues into the kitchen. KITCHENThe built-in kitchen follows up the original environment with a white panelled ceiling and clean-lined fittings with beadboard panelling and period-typical steel fittings. The light falls in from two directions, and from one of them you can keep a bit of an eye on the children playing in the pool. The large worktops are in stainless steel, framed by splashbacks in bevelled white tiles laid in a bond pattern. The kitchen is fully equipped, among other things with a gas hob. Behind a mirrored door there is a classic pantry, and in one corner the preserved kitchen stove adds a slightly rustic touch. From the kitchen you reach a kitchen entrance with one staircase out to the garden and another up to the upper floor. Outside the door there is a small stone terrace under a roof. Below it, large surfaces open up with terracotta-coloured brick that embraces the house's entire back and leads to the pool area. LIBRARYTo the right in the entrance hall lies yet another lounge with the same window sections and polished oak parquet as the first. The large room feels suitable as a large guest room, library or music room. Perhaps this is where you place the piano or set up the easel – the massive light from two directions has almost studio quality. UPPER HALLAbove the magnificent staircase in the hall, worthy of the film Gone with the Wind, awaits a large and bright hall with polished, white-oiled herringbone parquet. The ceiling height is extensive and the floor has not a single sloping ceiling in sight. The beautiful surfaces are dominated by the hall's tall narrow window arches flanked by two circular windows. Behind them awaits the stately balcony under cover, framed by stylised colonnades. The view is expansive and between the trees the waves of Lake Osbysjön glitter a hundred metres away. In the distance, the forested heights of the town's surroundings can be seen. SIX BEDROOMSThe hall connects to no fewer than six rooms. Four really large ones in each corner of the villa, with window sections in two directions. Between these, on the building's gable sides, lie two smaller rooms suitable as children's or work rooms. All rooms have light-painted plank floors that reinforce the floor's bright and light elegance. MASTER BEDROOMOne of the six rooms is the villa's large and romantic master bedroom. It lies sheltered and harmoniously in a corner towards the park-like garden's greenery. Behind a mirrored door, the room surprises with a large dressing room with a tall window section. The room lies en suite with the bathroom via a small hall with an exit to a balcony facing the garden. On a summer evening out here the atmosphere is special, with the illuminated pool's blue-glittering water and the garden's deep greenery. BATHROOMThe large, newly created bathroom is in a timelessly modern turn-of-the-century style, with a chequered floor, white wainscoting and white tiles up to the ceiling. The bathroom has a washbasin, wc, towel dryer and a shower behind a glass wall. The light falls beautifully from two large window sections. POOL AREAFrom the stone paving on the house's back, the stairs lead up to the villa's pool area surrounded by greenery and lawns. The area is sheltered by walls and the pool house's long side. Here the sun shines all day, and when the pool lighting is switched on at dusk, the atmosphere is reminiscent of a classic holiday resort. Here there is an outdoor kitchen for the pool party and a small lounge area under a sail canopy. In the pool house there is a fully tiled relaxation area with a shower and a sauna with glass walls.