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Back to roots

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Monday, January 30, 2012, In : Home Improvement 
A lot of people move away from their homes when they grow up. People move after a job or a study place or then just because they get bored of the same scenery. When people move, they tend to expect many things out of the new place where they are moving. People usually have expectations of happiness, an increase in income and having more activities that they can be doing during free time. Moving always has its ups and downs. Moving means starting something new and some say that new is always b...

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What options are there in the countryside?

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, In : Home Improvement 
I feel that everyone is talking about the glory of the countryside and how it should be re-branded and given the glory it deserves. Countryside itself has not lost its magic. The people just moved to city after their jobs and then the rest of the countryside people could not stand to be alone and be left behind of all the reasonable development due to small population. It is a shame. We don’t have enough population to populate the countryside so well that there could happen some sort of dev...
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Moving away from the city

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Monday, January 23, 2012, In : Home Improvement 
Moving is always hard. The whole family has to adapt to the new situation and leave their lives in the previous place, always at least partly behind. Moving is usually due to one person’s needs. If one gets a new job offer, which is a must-take, then it most likely is time to move and the others are the ones who have to adapt.

When you live in the city for your whole life, you get used to a certain lifestyle. You don’t really need a car, even though we have one. All the services are near b...
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Live up to the new dream

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Home Improvement 
People dream about many things and dreams tend to change. Dreaming is the same as setting goals but dreams are usually the goals that you set up further away and you have to work quite a bit to get there. Dreaming starts already from young age. Children dream about very different things compared to adults. Some dreams come true sooner than the others and some dreams fade away, being either impossible or then suddenly irrelevant.

Family is one of the most common dreams people have. That is the ...
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What do you get out of reality TV?

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Home Improvement 
I don’t understand people who watch TV and relate all the things they see to their own lives. It used to be taught at home that TV isn’t real but what do the parents say nowadays when most of it seems to be real.

I have somehow been dazzled by the evolution of reality TV which started from the TV show Survivors and likeminded survival series. The essence of these shows is to send a bunch of people who don’t know each other to extreme circumstances where there is very little food, very as...
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Funding the dream home project

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, In : Home Improvement 
The most perfect building lot has been found, and the nicest of prefabricated houses (in Finnish, talopaketit) selected. The next issue is to think how the whole house building project is funded.


Use an expert

Even in the single-family house construction project, cost estimates should be based the expert analysis. Non-professionals tend to forget some integral parts of the project, and overestimate the amount of their own work. The expert can prepare a reliable cost estimate and thus giv...


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Stone house, wooden house or element house?

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, In : Home Improvement 

Single-family houses have traditionally been constructed from tree, concrete, brick or ingot. The chosen material affects for the costs and the valuation of the house, so the decision should be considered carefully. With prefabricated houses (in Finnish, talopaketit) the chosen frame material will affect at all stages, so the amount of work will increase or reduce according the chosen frame.

When thinking about the frame of the house, one should first check the planning regulations for the ...


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Well planned house is half done

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, In : Home Improvement 

Building your own house is still a dream for many Finns. That is still possible in Finland – there are plenty of land available and single family houses are included in municipal planning even in bigger cities. There are also a big variety of prefabricated houses (in Finnish, talopaketit) offered in the market. However, none of these factors will nullify the need of careful planning before starting the house building project.


Single-family house construction is demanding project.

Th...


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Dream of a house and potato field

Posted by Maarcko Crane on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, In : Home Improvement 

The Finnish dream home is a single family house in a nice neighborhood. Many Finns will make their dream come true and decide to purchase a building lot from the ideal neighborhood. Prefabricated houses (in Finnish, talopaketit) make the building of the house relatively easy, but there are several things to consider before getting that far.

In Finland, there is plenty of land available, but it still might be hard to find a plot near growth centers and big cities. In cities, small plots of...


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