a. Cottage (chyża) from Skorodne, Bieszczady District (1861) – made of fir logs joined by a saddle notch at the corners with protruding log ends, covered with a thatched hip roof, the ridge being reinforced with weight poles. A chyża consists of a hallway, a dwelling-room, a pantry, a threshing floor, a stable and a sheep shed on a one-bay plan. A boarded chaff room was added behind the threshing floor and the stable. In the dwelling room’s corner is a half-chimneyless stove, which releases the smoke up to the ceiling. The stove consists of a panel with tins and a bread oven along with a hood over the stove bench. In all the rooms clay was compacted to form a pug, except the stable, where the floor is made of halved logs. The interior dates back to the interwar period. The dwelling room contains furnishings typical of chimneyless interior, such as permanent wall benches, a box-base table in a corner by the window, and a weaver’s workshop in a parallel corner. The hallway is occupied by quern stones, a groats masher, a barrel for storing sauerkraut, a clothes chest and a bench used in woodworking.

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