Forest Suite bedroom with grey-green timber walls, a skylight and views into the spruce forest

Sweden · Småland · Forest

Trakt
Forest Hotel

Five elevated forest suites, a family farmstead, seasonal dining at Traktköket and Silva Spa in the woods of Småland.

Sandra and Mattias Sälleteg began with Sällegården, the farm where Mattias grew up, and built Trakt from the landscape outward. The forest suites came later: five rooms designed by Wingårdhs, lifted on slender steel stilts so roots and water can continue beneath them. What reaches the room is wind through spruce, rain on the skylight and the slow creak of timber settling into cold.

At a glance

Quietcation Season: Year-round.Long summer evenings or winter firelight.

Setting: Småland forest and farmland near Holsbybrunn, Sweden.

Stay: 5 forest suites · 7 farmstead rooms.

Features: Architecture: Wingårdhs-designed forest suites in local timber.
Dining: Seasonal dinners at Traktköket, in the farm's log house.
Spa & sauna: Silva Spa and a lakeside sauna.

Arrival: Outside Holsbybrunn, where farmland gives way to forest.

Booking: Check availability

Email

Phone: +46 (0) 383-56 62 80

Website: traktforesthotel.com

ArchitectureFamily-runSlow hospitality

Dark timber Forest Suite raised on slender steel stilts in dense autumn woodland — A forest suite raised on slender stilts, leaving the woodland floor undisturbed.

Small red timber sauna with a yellow door on a jetty beside a calm forest lake — Silva Spa · Småland forest

Grey timber Forest Suite on stilts, reached by a long metal walkway through the ferns — Forest Suite · reached by a narrow walkway through the ferns

Elevated dark timber suites and connecting walkways partly hidden by lichen-covered trunks — Architecture held quietly behind the trees

Architecture becomes background.

The road narrows through farmland before the trees close in. Among them, the dark timber suites seem to hover above the forest floor. Local wood, thermowood insulation and steel stilts protect the root systems; the buildings settle into the landscape until their geometry gives way to trunks, moss and shifting light.

Black wood-burning stove beside a pale timber bench, with tree shadows crossing the interior

Woman reading barefoot in a Forest Suite living room with full-height windows onto the spruce woods

Farmstead bedroom with leaf-patterned wallpaper, twin rattan beds and yellow curtains

Five rooms in the canopy.

Each forest suite turns toward the woods, with a skylight above the bed and windows that make weather part of the room.

The day unfolds without a schedule: breakfast, forest, firelight, dinner. The farmstead rooms are more earthbound — lower ceilings, meadow light in the morning and a grounded calm — while the elevated suites hold you level with branches and changing sky.

Classic red Swedish farmhouse with a white gable and veranda beside an autumn road — The farmstead · where Trakt began

Elevated timber Forest Suite among tall pines, spruce and summer ferns

Gravel road lined with large trees in vivid yellow and orange autumn foliage

Outdoor metal bath with a timber rim, lanterns and rising smoke in the dark spruce forest

Dark timber Forest Suite glowing warmly at dusk among ferns and young spruce

The forest sets the rhythm.

Each season brings its own kind of calm. Spring opens the forest in fresh colour; summer stretches the paths into long green evenings. Autumn narrows the palette to moss, bark and copper leaves, while winter draws attention inward — toward timber, heat and the roof window above the bed. The pace simply changes with the forest.

Location

Holsbybrunn · Småland · Sweden

Trakt Forest Hotel lies outside Holsbybrunn in Småland, where working farmland gives way to spruce forest. The final approach is part of the stay: smaller roads, fewer signs, then the trees.

Address: Sällehägnad 6
574 54 Holsbybrunn, Sweden
Booking: Check availability
Route: Show route

Photography
Emma Ivarsson

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