Hot, It’s Not!
Hello to all you sweltering North Americans! Greetings to everyone, everywhere 🙂 Welcome to another Vanha Talo Suomi update. ❤ …
Tag Archives: old home renovation
Juhannus Countdown
Greetings to All! We are now into the second week of June and Finns everywhere are counting down to Juhannus …
Meaningful Complications
I came upon a great post from Arcoteria @ JAMA House and believe there’s a lot of merit in the …
…And we’re back…
Three months since the last post… which, up until today I thought would be my final post. I’m not sure …
End of the Year Progress Update
Hello Friends! Hopefully the season of joy has found you! We are in the process of creating new Christmas traditions …
Special Christmas Edition – Vanha Talo Suomi
Greetings and Glad Tidings from Vanha Talo Suomi! ❤ December settled down and renovations have stopped for now, so we …
December drawing to a close
Hello friends! We are one week back from a fabulous trip to the United States. It was a much needed …
November Snow!
Hello friends! – Hei ystävät! We are experiencing the 1st snow event of the 2014/2015 winter season today, it will …
Soggy Conditions
Welcome to another tale of Vanha Talo Suomi home improvement! Once again it’s been a week to remember – or …
Summer Rains
Finland experienced an extended period of unusually hot weather in July (Hellepäivä), it approached previous weather records from the 1970s …
Construction Begins
Hi and welcome to Vanha Talo Suomi! It’s been pretty hot here (+28-31) in southern Finland (Uusimaa) with temperatures being …
It’s Handled
Hello again from Vanha Talo Suomi On his last day before heading off on vacation with his family, our trusty …
Wrapping up June
Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! June has been a quickly-passing, cold, wet month for us – it didn’t hold us …
How to build a kitchen
Greetings friends! I’m happy to inform you that our kitchen construction is on its second day and could be completely …
Drywall is up
Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! It’s been an interesting week weather-wise…actually for longer than a week the weather turned quite …
Mid-May Happenings
A few projects were started, a couple were wrapped up, and the 2nd Peltomaa dumpster left us! Hooray!! Pekka and …
Day 2 of Demolition
Wow! things are really changing here quick at Vanha Talo Suomi 🙂 We cleared the built-in closets and opened up …
…And so it begins.
Crow bar – CHECK, Hammer – CHECK – LET THE GAMES BEGIN! We got right into it and managed to …
Palm Sunday 2014
It’s been a bit rainy this weekend, unfortunately the weather complicated our plans of yard work but we weren’t deterred …
