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Handpicked
Every cabin is personally visited before it ever reaches our site. If we wouldn't sleep there ourselves, it doesn't go on the page.
Our Story · Since 2019
Two people,
five cabins,
one forest.
GreenCabins is a small Swedish outfit for people who want to vanish into the woods without compromising on the place they sleep.
The story
Where do you go
to actually
disconnect?
It started with a question we couldn't stop asking — the kind of question that only gets louder the longer you live in a city.
We kept finding the same thing online: "cabins" that were really hotels with wooden walls, listings with eight-point fee breakdowns at checkout, photos that looked nothing like the place you arrived at. We wanted something different, so we built it the slow way.
Each cabin on GreenCabins is independently owned, personally visited, and described in our own words. The photos are taken when we visit. The hosts have our phone numbers. It is not the biggest catalogue in Sweden and it is not trying to be.
Emil & Ida · Göteborg
What we stand for
Four things, nothing more.
Everything we do gets measured against this short list. It's the only brief we've ever written.
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Nature-first
No resorts. No conference wings. No buffet breakfasts. Just old forest, clean water, and a sky you can actually read stars from.
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Honest pricing
The price you see is the price you pay. No cleaning fee surprises, no service charges added at the last step of checkout.
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Small & slow
We grow by one or two cabins a year, never more. We'd rather know each place by heart than operate a catalogue we've never slept in.
A short timeline
Slow growth,
on purpose.
Five years, five cabins, zero shareholders. We like it this way.
2019
A cabin in Värmland
Emil and Ida spend a week at a friend's off-grid cabin near the Klarälven river. They come back wondering why finding places like it online is so difficult.
2020
The first three
They convince three cabin owners to list with them. The site is a single scrollable page built on a kitchen table in Göteborg.
2022
Five cabins, zero chains
The catalogue passes five cabins — all independently owned, all visited in person at least twice. They turn down every investor that asks about scale.
2024
Still small, on purpose
GreenCabins remains a two-person operation with a trusted network of hosts. The goal has not changed: make the silence easier to find.
The Two Of Us
“I grew up in Dalarna, forty minutes of gravel from the nearest shop. I forgot how much I needed that quiet until I moved to the city.”
“A good cabin isn't about linen thread count — it's about what happens when you put your phone down and realize you don't miss it.”