Design

Here in Finland sauna is something that nearly everyone has and visits regularly. It has been estimated that we have approximately 1.5 million saunas. That might not sound much but when that number is matched to the people living in Finland, which is 5.1 million, we get about 1 sauna for every 5 people. Nowadays saunas are included even in the smallish city apartments. Sauna is part of our culture that most people living elsewhere might have difficulties understanding - same way as we have difficulties understanding how foreign people can live without having one :). Saunas can be of different sizes, starting from just few square meters to tens of square meters. Same way as size changes, the outlook can vary quite a bit too. Traditionally saunas have usually been pretty simplistic. Wall material has usually been wood and there hasn't been any special lightning solutions or other design gimmicks. You can probably get the picture from the picture below: Traditional Finnish sauna Nowad...

This time of a year it starts to be dark outside and the weather gets colder, at leat in Finlad. Candles are a good way to bring some light and warmth to autumn. Pictures from 1 2 3 4 -N-

2009 was the first year in Finnish insurance statistics when the main cause for home damage was no longer fire. Now over 70 million euros worth of damage was caused by water leaks from home appliances. This is a result of both rising number of homes having both a washing machine and a dishwasher and availability of low quality appliances.

As Verkkokauppa.com tries to expand from selling just computer equipment, they are offering some items on new categories at low prices. A fine example is a wine cabinet for 90 euros. Of course, it comes from a Chinese factory just next to the one producing motherboards, but so does what others are selling. Item page

Finnish mobile home expo, Caravan 2010 , was held last weekend in city of Lahti. I did short tour there and took some photos. Here are some of them:   As above pics show, some of the mobile homes seemed actually pretty comfortable. Small spot lights seemed to be almost everywhere, though some had managed to put other lightning too. As always with mobile homes, the living space was very limited. There isn't much room between bedroom, kitchen and the living room. The biggest problem seemed to be width of the mobile home. Narrow corridors felt usually pretty unpleasant, though there were also ones that felt quite "big enough". Storage place was often found above head. Every closet had door so that things wouldn't fall out from there while moving. Most doors had also some opening mechanism that made sure they wouldn't open by accident. Common solution for saving the little space was to have the tiniest possible bathroom. Some didn't even have any real space reserv...