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With the rail yard next door, there is plenty of natural light in the apartment’s south-facing rooms, like the dining area here.

Saturated walls, homemade textile wall hangings, hand-thrown ceramics and clever furniture hacks define the apartment in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, where library manager and seamstress Naja Maria Hutters and her family live, overlooking the track yard at Copenhagen Central Station.

Why the family stayed by the railway tracks in Vesterbro

With the rail yard next door, there is plenty of natural light in the apartment’s south-facing rooms, like the dining area here.
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It may not sound especially charming to live right next to the many tracks that funnel hundreds of trains in and out of Copenhagen Central Station around the clock, but the location is nonetheless highly prized by Naja Maria Hutters and her husband. The vast rail yard means there are no neighboring buildings to cast shadows to the south, so even though the couple live on the first floor in Vesterbro, daylight pours through the windows.

»When we were looking for a new place to live 22 years ago with our oldest daughter, who was not quite one at the time, my uncle gave me the tip that we’d always have plenty of light if we bought with the rail yard as our closest neighbor«, says Naja Maria Hutters. Oversættelsesdisclaimer

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