The municipality of Opatovice bought an old cottage above a pond. The house became a community center with a clubhouse and a dance hall, which the locals missed. The reconstruction preserves the most valuable parts of the cottage – the main room and the vaulted rooms in the middle part of the house. We have restored the original opening sizes and historic windows to this part. The main room, with its plank floor and stove, can be a small clubhouse for children’s groups and a computer room for the elderly. The kitchen serves its purpose again, with modern fixtures and the original tiled stove on legs. The outdated stable and barn have given way to a newly built hall, open to the roof. There are large windows to the entrance courtyard at the front and to the orchard above the cottage. The community center is complemented by a brick cowshed, which serves as an outbuilding. On the site of the demolished barn the municipality will built a cottage with two small apartments.

traditional plasters, roller painting, plank floors, sintered tiles, industrial mosaic, wooden casement windows, aluminum windows, large-area burnt roofing