Norway Grass Roof Houses

They look like hobbit homes or houses for fairies but scandinavian grass roofs are the real deal.

Norway grass roof houses.

No need to register buy now. Huge collection amazing choice 100 million high quality affordable rf and rm images. Find the perfect house norway grass roof stock photo. Some are green as pasture while others are golden in color.

And they come in different varieties. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the. Others are golden and look like they re growing wheat or oats. Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia.

Houses with their roofs looking like small meadows may seem a little strange in these modern times but until the late 19th century turf roofs were the most common type of roofs in rural norway. These roofs are covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. Norwegian grass roofs the norwegian translation is torvtak which means turf roof.

These roofs may cost more initially but over time they end up paying for themselves and they also increase the lifespan of a roof by more than 200. Some are bright green and almost velvety. The grass roofs of norway kaushik patowary sep 15 2010 38 comments norwegians have their own way of going green and quite literally. For hundreds of years houses in norway have been covered with turf.