The process from idea to reality is absolutely the most fun thing I know, says Lisa Hansson, entrepreneur, handball player, house renovator, and another returnee to Boden.
Now things are really happening here. I want to be part of it and contribute, says Lisa.
Lisa Hansson renovates houses with the same energy she delivers balls to the goal on the handball court. She was a strong profile in Boden Handball and played for Boden in the highest women’s league in Sweden, before moving south for a guest appearance in the Allsvenskan team Eslövs IK in 2018.
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Her partner Ludvig’s job offer at an architectural firm in Boden and their longing for real winter and proximity to family brought them back to Boden again.
I don’t like rain and drizzle, I want real winter and realized how important it is to me when I lived in Malmö. Here at home in Boden, it’s absolutely fantastic to be able to take the snowmobile from the yard and go fishing for char. It’s so easy to get everywhere. Here I have four minutes to training, in Malmö it took 45 minutes one way, says Lisa.
HANDBALL AND RENOVATION
When Lisa returned to Boden, she put on the Boden jersey again and fully committed to handball, back in Boden Handball and the women’s Allsvenskan. Parallel to that, she worked on selling restored design furniture, equivalent to about half-time.
All other time besides handball and that, I spent on the house, Lisa says.
On the handball court, she has been described as explosive with a lot of power and a great warrior’s heart. That probably permeates most of what she undertakes – from renovation and entrepreneurship to idea generation.
It has taken us two years to get the house exactly as we wanted, we’ve done pretty much everything ourselves, she notes.
She bubbles as she tells that she built the sauna with reused building materials from the totally renovated house. The traditional Älvsbyhus’s new kitchen has become a place for food photography of her friend and partner, also TV chef winner Nazuk Turdieva’s culinary creations. Behind the camera is usually Lisa, and together they have now started the event company Niza. The two met as neighbors who carpooled to the same workplace a few years ago. The commuting created a friendship that has grown into joint entrepreneurship where their abilities complement each other. In between, they both have other commitments on their own.
NEW IDEAS
In the new event company Niza, Lisa and Nazuk also collaborate with Studio Sansa, which provides the premises where Niza holds its events. In one of Boden’s venerable old military buildings, in the area called Kårbacken, they will develop a new concept.
We will connect conferences, workshops, and team building with well-prepared snacks and the possibility of Nazuk’s food in a conference environment with a touch of gold. My role is to coordinate it, Lisa explains.
PART OF THE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Another strong reason to return to Boden, besides winter, family, and handball, is everything that’s happening here now.
I’ve studied to be a mechanical engineer in design and product development. There are many industrial jobs here. Although now I’ve been working with other things, she laughs.
Now things are really happening here. We want to be part of it and contribute when people gather and network, and we have an ambition to create our own events with Niza. We want to contribute to Boden’s business community, come up with fun things that we think are missing and that we want to encourage others to do. It’s fun to see Boden grow.
As Boden grows, her continued renovation dreams also flourish. On her wish list, when she’s completely satisfied and finished with the Älvsbyhus in Torpgärdan, is a completely new dream house even closer to the family. Near her two brothers in Buddbyn just outside Boden, a plot awaits her, her partner Ludvig Forsström, and their growing flat coated retriever puppy.
It will be the first time I build something completely new and it will be our last building project. That’s where I want to stay, Lisa concludes.
TEXT: ANNA BERGSTRÖM
