Troll & trash artist Thomas Dambo has transformed an old farm into a whimsical homestead for his family and the dozens of makers who work alongside him.

Just outside Copenhagen, this imaginative village where nearly every structure, pathway, and piece of furniture is crafted from other people’s discarded materials.

On this land, almost everything is built from other people’s discards. From pallet wood to old polycarbonate metro signs, from mismatched windows to rescued floorboards, Thomas repurposes every scrap into hyper-personalized furniture, whimsical structures, and fully functioning buildings. Even an abandoned pile of floor planks becomes a woodland sauna, and a mountain of leftovers turns into a quirky “bad bodega” anchored by a massive boulder.

The Homestead is as much an earthwork as it is an art project. Thomas moved tons of soil to recover an old lake and carve out a natural swimming pool, all fed by a gravity-powered water system that captures rain from the rooftops and channels it through a winding canal.

Today, the entire property is a living laboratory of creative reuse, where almost nothing is purchased—except for electrical components and triple-pane windows. Every corner reflects Thomas’s belief that trash is a resource and that storytelling can be built from the castoffs of modern life.