Sunday, 6 January 2013

SMALL WOODEN HOUSES AND DESATURATED LANDSCAPES


We took a day trip to one of those small towns by the sea, one of the typical ones with old wooden houses, a church square and ships and other nautical parnaphelia in the windows.

Saturday, 5 January 2013

KITCHEN, STEP BY STEP


The kitchen renovation out in the countryside farm house is evolving! It is almost two months since we started it which for me feels like forever as I am only used to flat renovations form before which are a totally different thing than an old house. Two months ago it looked like this (and a week from that it was even emptier...) which is a pretty big difference form now...


 For once a mess that is not mine. Hehe. We have had two local carpenters working on the kitchen. Most things will be custom built on spot. Nicer, and more affordable in the end.

We will not be able to paint the windows before summer though. 

 Me and my food-storage-walk-in- cupboard-to-be.

And the rest of the house looks like a storage hall. Or a wood workshop.

Give it a week or two and I'll be cooking in there!

Thursday, 3 January 2013

IT'S LIKE LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE


If you ever wondered where a slave to the details comes from it is form this song!

This was my all-time favorite song for many years, many years ago.
When I studied in Budapest we had this record on repeat night after night, while drinking red wine, painting our nails and smoking out of the window of our apartment on Fó utca. I just realized it has been such a long time since I have last listened to Interpol and this is an instant Budapest flashback for me, but also of my life in general in the early and mid 00's; small apartments around town, bleached hair, pale summer mornings and cold Helsinki nights, cigarette smoke.