Bäst i Test House (Season 8)

Vilohemmet ('The Rest Home'), also known as Ingenjörens hus ('The Engineer's House'), is an Art Nouveau villa next to Lake Magelungen at Gräsmarkgränd 2 in Farsta strand, southern Stockholm.

The house was built in 1903, in what was then called Södertörn's villa town, and is far visible over the nearby Ågesta Bridge.

It is a large, two-storey villa, in light-coloured plaster, and designed in Art Nouveau style, but also reminiscent of 18th-century manor architecture with rusticated façade treatment on the ground floor. The strong floor-separating moulding and the roof cornice bear influences from the 1890s stone city architecture. The steep mansard roof, the dome-shaped, cornice-turned stairwell roof, and the small slatted upper part of the windows were common in the Art Nouveau-inspired style that prevailed when the house was built. Many ceiling and wall paintings from the original period have been preserved, as have the tiled stoves. The original gazebo still remains on the plot.

The house was built as one of the early villas in Södertörn's villa town for the engineer and match industry inventor Frans Daniel Lundgren, hence the name 'The Engineer's House'. He lived alone and built an indoor velodrome to be used for exercise, like an exercise bike of the time. After two years, he moved to Östermalm. After that, engineer Hjalmar Fogelmark lived with his wife in the house.

The house was taken over after a few years by the spouses Albert and Hulda Pålson, who in 1928 donated the property to the Stockholm City Hospital Administration to be used as a convalescent home under the name Pålson's convalescent home. The house became a sick, nursing, convalescent and youth home in various forms and was then named the Rest Home. The neighbourhood designation is also Vilohemmet.

After 1960, it was run under the auspices of the Fanny Hirsch Minne Foundation, and later by the Vallmotorpet Foundation, as a home for homeless youth. In 1966-1969, the building was rebuilt to accommodate 30 care places and four staff residences.

In 2004, Micasa Fastigheter in Stockholm acquired the property, and began leasing it to a company that runs activities for young people who come to Sweden alone, seeking asylum. While waiting to be assigned a municipality, which is responsible for the young people's accommodation and care during the asylum process, they have temporary accommodation in the house.

Taskmaster connection

The property is used for the production of filmed tasks during season 8 of Bäst i Test.