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Kalle and Emma
Kalle and Emma had bought an apartment the day before our interview in 2004.
Then, when we met in their new apartment in 2005, they had just finished a
renovation project, which included, for instance, redoing the floors and making a
one-room apartment out of the original two rooms by taking down a wall (P 119).
E: There were two rooms and a kitchen here. The kitchen was here but
it was the world’s smallest kitchen. It was totally like you should not
build that. It was, the wall went like here, and here was a corridor, and
here was a door, so this was a closed space and (pause) that pillar, it
wasn’t visible, it was part of the wall and the windows were in separate
rooms. So that room, that corner and then this was open space. (Kalle
& Emma 05 3-8)
Both are professional furniture designers, and while they had some prototypes
as furniture, they also had the skills to do the renovation work themselves
and, for example, pick appropriate materials. The couple was pleased with the
outcome. One of the only things that they regretted was that they had not
asked the electrician for enough wall sockets and were not energetic enough
to open the recently finished wall just to be able to plug in the kitchen lamp
which, accordingly, was waiting in storage with lots of other stuff that they had
brought from the previous apartment and which they did not have any plans
to bring to the new home.
P 119. Kalle & Emma’s
home in 2005
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