Upscale residence for the time. White paint was expensive and difficult to acquire.
The backside of this house was not painted.
Each room in a house had a firepace.
Decorations on an exterior cross beam.
Roofs were thatched.
This is a heating stove. By the 1800s interiors were more comfortable.
Notice how the buildings are all attached and made of wood. The problem was, if
one building caught fire, they all did. Many Norwegian towns suffered devestating
fires. As a result, from the 1900s on, Norwegians built their town structures of
stone or brick with tile roofs.
1942