Category Archives: Personal

I love pink and hate intriguers

The first pink flower on our backyard.

My daughter noticed this one the other morning and dashed to see what it was like! Just a beauty, a miracle in the midst of the chaos.

…ordered some mineral make-up that arrived today…

kind of therapeutic in the middle of all the difficulties, questions, tasks, pain, work…

Had a conversation about the regional dance centre here and one person who thinks maybe a bit too highly of herself in relation to the dance centre. Who censors conversation, looks at art and dance with a quite narrow mind, who so strongly believes in her own view that cannot accept, acknowledge, respect, value or even listen to other views. Who thinks she’s always right. Who thinks she knows everything. I don’t really care about other people’s castles in the air but when they’re built in the costs of a larger community who this person thinks she has a right speak for without understanding, acknowledging, accepting or valuing the rest of the community, the differing opinions, then I just think it’s ignorant and quite stupid.

Johanna

thinking about kitchens

I had a meeting with Esa from Gatto kitchen in the morning. I have a pretty clear idea about our new kitchen that we have outlined with the architect of the Blue House Satu Ratinen. But still there are a lot of possibilities in terms of colours and shades, materials, equipment and all kinds of details. Iâ€™ve had meetings with three kitchen companies and now it seems that the choice is going to be between Domus and Gatto. In both cases, the material is pretty comparable, but the colour is somewhat different. In Gattoâ€™s case the cupboards and boxes would be quite dark but in a kind of grey shade and in Domusâ€™s plan the boxes below the work top would be black ash and the top cupboards from zebrano. In both plans the cold line would be from Festivo and from Gatto the other kitchen electronics from Smeg. With Domus we havenâ€™t really decided on the oven, dishwasher etc. But I guess I still could by the Smeg dishwasher, oven and the cooker from Gatto even if I wouldnâ€™t buy the cupboards.
Well, lotâ€™s to think about. And the real issue here is that Iâ€™m so aware of the vast possibilities. If I didnâ€™t order all the interior design magazines I wouldnâ€™t know so much about all kinds of possibilities and materials. So I can only blame the decade long addict of ordering Avotakka, Koti ja KeittiÃ¶, Plaza, Living etc., deko, MeidÃ¤n taloâ€¦!
I must say that one important thing for me is also the fact that Domus is a Finnish company and Gattoâ€™s stuff is ordered from Italy. And since we are building an eco house, I definitely prefer the local suppliers â€“ although that principle can be overruled for the sake of good designâ€¦

We have had a very unusual winter with no snow and temperature staying on top of the 0. Today wasnâ€™t cold but it snowed a lot. It feels like all the snow we have missed since November fell down today. The kids are excited, of course.

We havenâ€™t had time to visit my partnerâ€™s mom for about 9 months, but now we decided that we are going to visit her for the weekend and rest from the house building. So Iâ€™m looking forward to having saunas, sitting by the fireplace and enjoying the joy of my daughter spending time with her grandma.
Johanna