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ing, it wouldn’t be nice to work on it. But I have found it pleasing.
(Olavi 05 571-577)
At the time of the interviews, Olavi owned a couple of apartments that he
was living in with his wife, and he had renovated and sold several other apartments
in the past. The one where we met was a former office that he had had
renovated. The result was a loft-like huge living room with a separate kitchen
and three smaller rooms that served as a living room and bedrooms. One small
room was reserved for dogs and exercise. In 2004, the couple had been living
in the apartment for a year and the renovation work had been finished, but the
interior decoration of the small rooms was still in progress. In 2005, all of the
interior decoration had been finished. The kitchen and living room area were
similar and the only visible change was that in 2005 there were still some products
awaiting Olavi’s decision about what to do with them.
The renovation work meant, for example, that an AV system had been built
inside the walls.
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O: [in B&O AV-system] everything works together and with one remote
control and in all rooms, in the kitchen, everywhere.
HP: here you have the speaker cables built-in?
O: yeah, those speaker cables, they need to be boxed. When the renovation
starts, you have to box them in tubes inside the walls’ lower sections
so the cables can be put through because this wireless technology
is not yet developed enough that it would do by itself (Olavi 04
57-62)
The parquet floor was done several times because the results had not been what
they had agreed upon in the contract and they were not what Olavi wanted.
The original layout of the apartment was left intact. Indeed, Olavi explained
that he often takes the architecture of an apartment and a building’s history as
a source of inspiration, and he wants to respect them in his renovation projects.
He mentioned that he agrees with architects about the importance of space
over interior decoration:
O: As the architects say, the space is more important than the interior
decoration. Meaning that you can furnish just by the use of space. Not
that you then just stuff the space with things, it could even turn rather
ugly then. But I really agree that space is more important than interior
decoration. (Olavi 05 558-561)