The feeling of home

You have to wander around our home (except my office room) and you will understand how much of an artist, my dear wife, Annikki is.

Everything has a correct place. The detail is exquisite. It is so fine that one wonders how her brain works.

Yesterday, as I sat in the living room, not really watching anything on the TV, I glanced around the room. It was so beautiful.

I decided to record it on my digital camera. With the flash off, I could not capture the detail I wanted to. So I am giving below a series of shots taken with the flash (hence the light reflections) as I looked around just one room in our home.

It is like sitting in heaven!















Three diverse items of her personal art creations, the chalk sketch of the trees on an island with its reflection in the lake, the crayon drawing of the grazing zebras and the hand-stitched creation of the zebras bottoms which she made for my mother. The last item took over seven months to finish and it adorned my mother's living room till she died.

But there are many more handiworks from Annikki's collection on display here, too incricate for a non-artistic brain of mine to describe. Of course, our collection of art glass, crystal and really beautiful modern glass creations are also found at different locations, each complimenting the other.

Usually friends who walk into our house are stunned by the sheer grandeur, but they do not know that almost 95% of the stuff is from the Flea Markets around Oulu!

And this is just our living room.

I shall take you round other rooms in a day or two - except that Annikki must not catch me taking the photographs, as she would never allow me to put them up on the internet if even one detail is not exactly as she wants it!

Shopping expedition....

Posted on my Jacob's Blog and the Oulu Best Buy Blog.

Annikki rearranged the living room at Kampitie.

The sofa sets have gone to the far end of the room. The higher dining table has come between the sofas and the tv. (Not that we can watch tv these days as we have not invested in a DigiBox.)

The solution was to raise the tv to a level above the dining table.

We decided to search for a strong table (as we have an old and heavy tv set) and then work out how to place the satellite receiver and the video player (which has never been used by us!).

We went to the major Finnish furniture shops selling new design furniture and also to the antique furniture shop which has great furniture from different parts of Europe. The best priced ones were around € 250, more around € 300 for the ones we liked.

Annikki we suggested that we visit the Flea Markets.

Yesterday we started a round of the Flea Markets around 5 pm. By 6 pm we had visited 10 Flea Markets, found the table we liked and bought it, by 6 pm, for € 25!

I installed it and the tv. Annikki put up a shelf just above it for the satellite receiver and the video player, which I then connected to the tv with a minimum of loose wires showing. Under the tv table she put an old stool type table that we had for keeping newspapers and magazines. Quite modern looking!

We saved € 275 for this bit of creative thinking by Annikki and a bit driving around.

And both of us are happy with the new set up.

Now all we have to do is wait till the leaves fall off the birch trees. Then we can watch satellite tv (Sirus at 5 degrees E) till the new leaves are back on the tree next may! (I'm not joking!!!!) :-)