Back to roots

January 30, 2012
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 better, but for some it might also mean letting go of everything they have.

Roots is something that people grow when they live in one place for a long time. First roots seem always to be the strongest ones. First roots are usually associated with the person you become. You are who you are because of what happened where you were born and raised. Roots are also the thing some people start missing when they have settled to their new location. Missing the place where you were born and raised is natural because most of the memories are likely to be good and most of the things you remember are usually the best ones. How many people then end up moving back to their roots and at what stage does this happen? I know a few people who moved back to their roots and settled there with their new families. In all cases they were married and recently had had children.

One of my friends had enherited a piece of land and he decided to buy two pieces of ready house packages (in Finnish: talopaketit) from Rautia and to move there with his family. The change was big but the family got a good place to live in and my friend could handle his work online.

I think that for urban family that wants to move away from the hassle, buying a ready house package is the optimal choice. You can really give your touch to the house but all the critical building and assembly phases are done by professionals. You get a good idea on the internet what it is like to build a ready house package.
 

What options are there in the countryside?

January 24, 2012
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

January 23, 2012
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

January 18, 2012
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?

January 18, 2012
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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Easy building – or is it?

January 12, 2012
If you are willing to try out building items on your own, internet might just be your best friend after your local Rautia. Internet is full of great advice on building almost anything.

I tend to browse internet just for fun and from time to time I end up having built something new for my apartment. Last but not least I built a whole new kitchen table and I got the inspiration of the internet. But is it easy to build a house?

One of my friend just moved and bought a piece of land. He was ponde...
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Building a house in the suburban area

January 10, 2012
In Finnish it is called Kipukoukku and it does not even have an English name, yet. Kipukoukku is a stick that has one turning part and two carved sticks. It costs at its best nearly 50 euros and can’t be found very easily. It is claimed to have a big impact on your health and muscles’ wellbeing. It gets its power from your arms weight in rest-mode so it doesn’t even consume too much of your energy. You just place the stick where you want on your back to make the muscle better and leave ...
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Funding the dream home project

October 19, 2011
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?

October 19, 2011

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

October 18, 2011

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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