Romania’s Smallest Holiday Home: Converted Electric Transformer

A family from Bucharest bought and renovated a former electrical transformer in Sinaia and turned out the smallest holiday home in Romania, measuring only 11 square meters.

Arsena and Dan live in Bucharest, but they often go on holidays together (along with their two children and two dogs), which is why they wanted a holiday home that would bring them closer, where maintenance costs would not affect the family budget. The wish became reality when the building of a former electrical transformer station in Sinaia was put up for sale.

“We fell irreparably in love with this building, which we knew since childhood, when we used to come to the mountains with our parents. On one of our visits through Sinaia we saw the for sale ad, and a week after that it was ours. Everything happened very quickly,” says Dan, an architect by profession.

The transformer was built in the period 1923-1926, according to the project of the architect Duiliu Marcu (1885-1966), on the occasion of the development of the electrification of the city, at the request of the “Electrica” Company.