Birch trees and Scandinavian Houses

My installation was missing Scandinavian elements, so I thought about items which represent Scandinavia to a western population. I came up with birch trees and wooden Scandinavian houses.

for the logs of 'Birch' trees I found just local logs and painted them with white spray paint and hand painted the black markings onto them the images below are examples from pinterest of real birch trees.


http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/11/c3/6f/11c36fc86121bd3c46954864ee06beaf.jpg


http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2c/a0/bd/2ca0bd77f974ac01750f775508935b8f.jpg

For the Scandinavian Houses, which I made out of pine and then hand painted in coloured acrylic paints to represent wooden cottages. I based the design from the below images;


http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fd/e3/7f/fde37ff537a8fc1465cd7c3fb62fe014.jpg


http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/2a/77/042a77b7c2f274108518505932283928.jpg