Fans of traveling around the regions of Russia and connoisseurs of Russian wooden architecture have probably seen photographs of this house on one of the streets of Suzdal.
Just a few years ago it was a sad sight – a dilapidated hut with a faded facade, a leaky roof and sagging walls. The inside of the house looked as sad as the outside. It seemed like its days were numbered.
Everything changed in 2017, when the famous entrepreneurs, the Dymov couple (founders of the Dymov Ceramics brand), set their sights on the house.
I had never heard of the Dymovs before, so I won’t advertise them, but I’ll briefly introduce them: they settled in Suzdal in the early 2000s, launched several businesses here, one of which is renting out guest houses. Nothing unusual, it seems. Only these guest houses are not the now fashionable frame houses and A-houses, but renovated old huts.
I thought for a long time whether to tell you about this beautiful Suzdal house, which the Dymovs gave a second life (after all, it is a business), but then I decided – why not. It is great when people care about preserving historical buildings. And it does not matter whether they are renovating these huts for themselves or for someone else.
A few facts about the house and the renovations that the Dymovs did:
✔ a pre-revolutionary building, included in the list of historical heritage sites (although until 2017, for some reason, no one was concerned about preserving this heritage);
✔ the area of the house is 150 square meters, there are 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a cozy courtyard.
Such blankets, sewn from hundreds of different scraps, have always occupied an important place in the traditional Russian home. They are still being sewn. I have already told you about a Ural workshop that creates beautiful patchwork blankets (I have one of them).
This beautiful old house was restored in Suzdal. And I know that this is not a unique case. There are other such houses that were given a second life.
