The Painting Workshop works on renovating old paintings, repainting using old techniques and developing new products inspired by the traditional painting of the Hälsingland farms. The Painting Workshop holds lectures and workshops on painting at the World Heritage Farms in Hälsingland.

Anna-Carin Åsbrink has been working with old painting techniques for over 40 years and shares here the many skills in stencil painting she has accumulated over the years.

The 24-page booklet describes stenciling on walls, borders and blinds. Includes tips on tools, techniques and color mixing of egg oil tempera. It also describes paintings from Hälsingland, which at the same time is universal for all stencil painting.

“Exterior Renovation” is the third book in the series – Building Maintenance in Practice.

All stages of an exterior renovation are described in detail. Roofs, chimneys, walls, windows, doors, foundations, extensions, lighting and more are covered, based on old Swedish building traditions. The traditional materials and craft methods are presented.

It also shows the ways to restore the exterior of an old house, but also appropriate solutions for how to raise the technical standard of a house, without doing violence to the cultural-historical value.

Stora boken om byggnadsvård is the bible for anyone who longs for an old house. Göran Gudmundsson, founder of the Gysinge Center for Building Conservation, writes knowledgeably and passionately about renovation inside and out, in the city and in the country. Here you get answers to everything you need to know about old houses, from foundation to chimney. And help you think. Both in terms of maintenance and choice of renovation materials, as well as how to solve requirements for functioning kitchens, bathrooms and heating, without losing the genuine feeling. Knowledge of building historical style ideals, and why our old houses look the way they do, is mixed with recipes for mud paint and linseed oil paint, tips on how to paint stencils, print wallpaper borders, repair tiles, soap scrub floors and renovate windows – a lot of concrete advice for those who want to try it themselves.

A practical book about tradition, comfort, quality and reuse for those who want to create a home with soul! The book can be seen as a continuation of Göran Gudmundsson’s popular book series “Byggnadsvård i praktiken”.

Historic oil paints in architecture and restoration is a thorough presentation of the composition of the linseed oil paints used in Swedish building painting from the 18th century onwards.

It provides a clear but multifaceted picture of how recipes have varied over different periods and how they have been adapted to different substrates.