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than saying that they were intentionally furnishing the apartment. For example,
they made a pop-up kitchen out of the fireplace room during the renovation of
the kitchen proper, which meant clearing fragile designs out of the way and, for
instance, moving the Wirkkala lamp to Janne’s study (P 250–251).
That Janne’s household was not systematically changing the decoration, in
the sense of seasonal furnishing for example, is a mild version of a surprisingly
common antipathy towards change. Kalle & Emma’s comment to this effect is
illustrative:
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E: I think it’s somehow amazing how people, like there often are interior
decoration magazines, like they say decorate your home to go with the
season like get new stuff in the Spring; I think it’s somehow pointless.
I don’t understand it at all. On the other hand, what does make sense
is that if you bring the old things back, like, create change, but if it’s
really like four times a year you buy new stuff to replace the old stuff,
that doesn’t make any sense. (Kalle & Emma 04 776-780)
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Emma grounded her aversion to (complete) change in her sense of environmental
responsibility. In a somewhat similar vein, Olavi said that he is willing
to invest both time and money in getting products that will last, which he
would not need to replace for a long time.
O: it is not the object, they are just objects after all, you’ll get more of
them from the store, but to not acquire them any more, that takes
effort. (Olavi 04 48-50)
For Olavi, this means acquiring both functionally and aesthetically lasting
products, which in turn means the careful curating of, for example, materials.
His approach towards interior decoration resembles that of Tiina and Anniina,
who talked about finished interior decoration as being final, or so good that
there is no need to change it again. Tiina mentioned how her three previous
apartments, especially the kitchens, had been more or less similar and how
some of her furniture was several decades old. There was no point to acquiring
new pieces of furniture when the current furniture was great. Finally, Hannele,
even though she likes to change the interior decoration, proceeds in her furnishing
projects in order to get them “off your mind”.
Anniina, Olavi, Hannele and Tiina were in their own ways putting together
interior decorations with the idea that it would be possible for them to relax
because they would no longer need to think about interior decoration once it