It has taken one and a half years to build. Now Villa Gessle is completely finished. One of these days Per Gessle and his wife Åsa will move into their dreamhouse in Sandhamn.

The moving vans outside the luxurious villa in Sandhamn must have been a something the Gessle couple has waited for. After several years of trouble with the authorities and after that the drawings had been changed several times Villa Gessle in now finished and it’s time to move in. If it wasn’t for the walls and the videocameras filming the gates you wouldn’t notice anything particular.

The house is partly sunk into the ground and due to the rounded roof it looks like the house “disappears” in all the trees surrounding the house. You can’t see the villa from the sea. But the house is bigger than you think. It’s about 400 m2 and there is among others a library, a work room, a gym, a vine cellar and a jacuzzi. Both Per and Åsa are very interested in decoration / furnishing and they have had distinct opinions about how the house should be built. It’s Abelardo Gonzales from Malmö who is the architect.

The front / facade is more austerely furnished. Villa Gessle is built of real stone and has a roof of copper which will get verdigrised by the time. But even if the house fits very well into the environment a lot has happened since Per bought the land for 1.75 million SEK a couple of years ago.

Instead of the old summer cottage which was there earlier and later leveled with the ground a real luxury villa stands. It has cost around 20 million SEK and that tells a lot.

Per and Åsa will keep their apartment in Stockholm and in September they will become parents.