Our father passed away, and left us a mysterious house, in the middle of the country, which none of us siblings have ever been to. None of us knew what to find inside and we got curious and decided to take a road trip. Google map gave us an estimate of 6-7 hours drive. The house once belonged to our fathers sisters boyfriend, who passed away a couple of years back. When the aunt passed away, it was inherited by our father ...who apparently had only been there once and then never got back to it. My aunt and father didn't really had a good relationship the last decade, so non of us siblings never saw the house either.

Before we left, we gathered every single unknown key we could find in our fathers belongings. We ended up with a 1 kg (2 pound) bag of keys (why throw away any type of keys ever, right?) On a side note; are you the type that keeps your calendar from years before? Don't. Just throw it away. Trust me. Throw. It. Away. And don't keep your dead mother and father's calendar either. Or your sisters. Or your sisters boyfriends. (Yes, plural) Your kids will eventually have to be the one to throw them all away... and they aren't that interested in reading about your dentist appointments and grocery list.

Back to the road trip; We also packed a collection of breaking-in-tools... (And of course tools to fix what damage we ended up doing)

The trip took for ever, driving through the country side of Sweden, passing small communities and cities as we got further up north. The size of Sweden is slightly larger then California, but with lesser amount of people of course, where most of the population is in the south. The further north we get, the less people we saw (and we're still not half way up in the country.

Typical Swedish forest; half hidden rocks under a layer of soft plushy moss. ...step carefully when you take a pee break.

Roads, roads and more roads...

Ever seen lingon berries growing wild? Don't eat them, they taste awful directly from the bushes. (Or do, I'm not your parent. At least you won't die)

The first glimpse of the house; it is located in a small farming community of around 200 people.

It was bigger then we expected; two stories, a basement and a full size attic. It is a magnificent house, the land around it might need some trimming though.

The house (after we consulted with friends who know this shit), was built around 1850-70ish, a typical farmers house in this area by that time. Large amount of cheap land, forest and huge demand on the crops growing in the area made it easy to build large mansions for a family. As you can see, no one seems to have made any renovation since it was built.

The front porch.

Extraordinary good looking house despite the paint falling of the outside.

The property had a smaller shed, but first a peek at the main building.

We expected an empty house... by going through our aunts estate, we puzzled together that it was being renovated by her boyfriend. We even found pictures of empty rooms with new electricity run through it. We didn't expected to find a house full of uh ...stuff?

The anticlimax; the kitchen door was unlocked. Aren't we glad we dragged all those keys and tools with us?

The house was literally full of things (no values, sorry guys), it looked like someone had moved a bunch of moving boxes and just dumped them out in every. single. room. Pots, news papers, kitchen utensils, clothes, more pots, bags of cement, planks, and old bike, more pots, old people's decoration figurines etc.

Need a bed? A chair? A carpet? Or maybe a box full of random stuff?

The finest piece in the house was probably the old piano/organ thing. I'll bet it weighs a ton. The helmet is a nice touch.

Even the stair case was full of trash.

The renovation progress in one of the bathrooms. We don't know if it's connected since the water was shut off. (The house had electricity still on, old houses hates mixed temperatures, so we're still paying that bill)

One room was in a more normal condition; the large living room on the second floor was beautiful. Surprisingly for us, the house is in a very good condition. No rotten floors, no weird smell (besides being closed for a couple of years), no signs of rodents or bugs. It is like you could move in tomorrow. ...well besides getting rid of all the stuff in the rest of the house, so you at least could get your own bed indoor. Each larger room also had their own 19th century heater. Amazingly beautiful crafted tiles heaters (top right corner, the big white thing with shiny brass hatch) Kind of lie about values; we did find old silver ware in one of the drawers. No worries, we packed and brought it with us. No photos was found, which was kind of the one thing we wanted to make sure it wouldn't get lost.

The view out of the window from the second floor.

The only empty space (well not full of shit) was the attic; a beautiful large area, and here you can see one of the chimneys cutting through it to the roof.

The attic with the small room in one end.

Another view of the attic.

The shed was a bit disappointing.

Pretty large, but...

...just full of wood (which I guess is great for the upcoming winter)

The property also has a root cellar!

I know how scary movies work, so I let my brother go first.

It was completely empty besides some old fire pit (I assume the kids in the area had a blast) and an old kids bike. The roof and walls was very well made with bricks. I'll bet it will stand another 100 years.

The house comes with its own well. So what's gonna happen with the house? It is still good, and it breaks my heart a little to see such a glorious house slowly falling apart because it's being abandoned. Non of us siblings want to keep it (I'm living in the US, the oldest is mostly out globetrotting and the youngest doesn't want to move out on the countryside) so it will go up on the market. Hopefully will it be bought by someone who enjoys an 8-bedroom house with huge yard, and they can continue the renovation and hopefully will the house once again be the pride of the area.

This was the story shared. What do you think? Would you leave the fuss of city life behind to live in a quiet, beautiful house in the countryside?