Renovation: Roanerhof – Kals
First documented mention in 1428. When the new owner arrived, the roof leaked, there was no toilet and no electricity – but six centuries were still standing.
The Roanerhof lies in a remote spot above Kals and was first mentioned in 1428. When the private client bought the ruinous farmstead, almost everything that makes a house habitable was missing: the roof was no longer watertight, there was no toilet and no electricity. What there was, was substance – beams, walls and a setting that cannot be built anew.
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The task was a four-part chord in which at least one note is usually lost: bringing together budget, tradition, aesthetics and function. The renovation therefore follows a simple rule: the farmstead gets what it lacks and keeps what defines it. The new layers – roof, bathroom, electrics, heating – serve the house rather than drowning it out; the old ones remain visible and continue to carry the load, as they have done since the late Middle Ages.
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Since 2016 the Roanerhof has been lived in again. It shows what buying a “hopeless” existing building can be: not a romantic risk but – with a realistic budget and clear priorities – the shortest route to a house with six hundred years of character.
„“It has turned out beautifully.”"
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