About Vinder
Vinder began as a private project — a single house, on a single piece of land in Norrbotten, built for a small group of friends who could not find what they wanted to rent. It has grown, slowly, into twelve.
We are a small company. We do not own a hotel and have no plans to. Each estate is built once, finished once, and looked after by one or two people who live nearby. We don't keep a reception, a concierge desk, or a restaurant. We keep a key, a sauna, and a clean kitchen.
Reservations are reviewed and confirmed by hand. The villa is matched, sent by post, and the door is left open the day you arrive. There is no front-of-house — we are reachable, always, by the people who built the place.
The Standard
Linen, not cotton. Wool, not synthetic. Soap drawn cold; salt, flaked; coffee, ground the morning of. The bath is stocked with full-size Byredo and Le Labo — never sachet, never own-brand. The kitchen is finished with hand-thrown stoneware and a single good knife, in lieu of a drawer of five poor ones.
The bed is the heaviest piece in the house. Belgian linen from Libeco, washed soft. Three weights of pillow on each bed. Hästens mattresses, every one. Down comforters in two thicknesses for the season. We change the linens between every stay and we do it ourselves.
What we do not provide: televisions in the bedrooms, brand cards on the desk, a binder of laminated rules, a number to call for towels. Wi-Fi exists but is, deliberately, not advertised.
Sustainability, plainly
We build twelve houses, not three hundred. Each estate sits on land we own outright, with no plans to expand. Timber is local to the region of each estate; we don't ship pine across the country. Heating is by ground source or wood; hot water is solar in summer and electric in winter.
We supply the kitchen from within an hour of the door — not for marketing, but because food from further afield is rarely better. The market basket changes every two weeks. Linen is washed locally, with cold-pressed soap, and line-dried when the season allows.
None of this is a programme. It is the cheaper way to run a house well.
House Rules
We ask three things: don't smoke indoors; leave the sauna as you found it; and if you make a fire, watch it. There are no quiet hours because there is no neighbour to disturb. Dogs are welcome at every estate.
Children are welcome and we keep a small library of books and one wooden train at every house. We don't provide cots — please bring your own; the rooms are large enough.
Press & enquiries
For all press, image requests, and writing assignments, please write to press@vinder.se. We are happy to host one journalist per estate per season, ahead of opening; we ask only for honesty.
A small press pack — photography, plans, and a short film — is available on request.
Working here
We are hiring two house managers — one for the northern estates (Lappland, Norrbotten, Härjedalen) and one for the western (Bohuslän, Värmland, Dalarna). The work is part building-keeper, part guest-host. It pays well, it requires a car, and it does not require a hospitality background.
Open positions: House Manager · North, House Manager · West, Carpenter, contract, Photographer, on retainer. Write to hus@vinder.se.
Terms, in short
A reservation is held the moment you submit. We write back, by hand, within twenty-four hours — with the villa name, the keys and the small details of arrival. The deposit is 30%, refundable to thirty days before arrival.
The full balance is due on arrival. Cancellation within thirty days incurs the first night. We do not charge for changes made in good faith.
Rates: 19 500 SEK per villa per night. Two-night minimum, up to six guests at any villa. The villa is taken whole, never shared.