As any lord of a castle, he would however first need a hunting lodge, in his own view. This despite the lack of wild game in the increasingly urbanized Uddevalla outskirts. Constructed in what was then a sunny glade on the slope of the mountain Fjällsätern towards Garvaremyren, Fjällhyddan was a small two-story house located by the foot of a steep cliff and surrounded by lilac bushes. The area could be entered through heavy iron gates in a nearby thick stone wall.