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Hot, It’s Not!

August 17, 2016

Hello to all you sweltering North Americans! Greetings to everyone, everywhere 🙂  Welcome to another Vanha Talo Suomi update.  ❤ …

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Juhannus Countdown

June 9, 2016

Greetings to All! We are now into the second week of June and Finns everywhere are counting down to Juhannus …

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Meaningful Complications

May 10, 2016

I came upon a great post from Arcoteria @ JAMA House and believe there’s a lot of merit in the …

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…And we’re back…

April 26, 2016

Three months since the last post… which, up until today I thought would be my final post. I’m not sure …

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End of the Year Progress Update

December 10, 2015

Hello Friends! Hopefully the season of joy has found you! We are in the process of creating new Christmas traditions …

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Special Christmas Edition – Vanha Talo Suomi

December 23, 2014

Greetings and Glad Tidings from Vanha Talo Suomi!  ❤ December settled down and renovations have stopped for now, so we …

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December drawing to a close

December 11, 2014

Hello friends! We are one week back from a fabulous trip to the United States. It was a much needed …

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November Snow!

November 6, 2014

Hello friends! – Hei ystävät! We are experiencing the 1st snow event of the 2014/2015 winter season today, it will …

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Soggy Conditions

August 23, 2014

Welcome to another tale of Vanha Talo Suomi home improvement! Once again it’s been a week to remember – or …

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Summer Rains

August 13, 2014

Finland experienced an extended period of unusually hot weather in July (Hellepäivä), it approached previous weather records from the 1970s …

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Construction Begins

July 29, 2014

Hi and welcome to Vanha Talo Suomi! It’s been pretty hot here (+28-31) in southern Finland (Uusimaa) with temperatures being …

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It’s Handled

July 15, 2014

Hello again from Vanha Talo Suomi On his last day before heading off on vacation with his family, our trusty …

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Wrapping up June

June 29, 2014

Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! June has been a quickly-passing, cold, wet month for us – it didn’t hold us …

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How to build a kitchen

June 24, 2014

Greetings friends! I’m happy to inform you that our kitchen construction is on its second day and could be completely …

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Drywall is up

June 15, 2014

Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! It’s been an interesting week weather-wise…actually for longer than a week the weather turned quite …

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