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had reached the desired level of perfection. In Hannele’s case the process of
redecorating the apartment was still in progress. And, as Hannele explained,
before a sense of perfection could be reached, it would take a lot of effort
because there were the sometimes quite rigorous household standards for what
the relaxing and recreative interior decoration should or could be like. For
example, Anniina had started to refuse unwanted designs, although she had
earlier found it necessary to store them, thus providing a good example of how
it is often impossible to keep a museum and gallery within the same walls:
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A: that [a gift item] was just such an ugly object that (laughs) I had to
throw it away (laughs), I couldn’t contemplate selling it on, like at a
flea market, because I thought (laughs) that no-one deserves such
things (laughs). So yes (pause) previously I was too ashamed to throw
away, I thought it was horrible that someone has given it as a present
and that (pause) I stored everything. I took them to my grandmother’s
storage or to my parent’s storage but they have had to gut their storage
themselves and they’re asking me to sort out their things and I
have masses of stuff there so, now I have decided that I’m no longer
taking anything there, and I can’t bring it here either, so now I have
to put stuff away so (pause) it’s not my responsibility (laughs) to keep
rubbish like that. (Anniina 04 334-342)
In addition to changing the interior decorations by the practical or seasonal recycling
of one’s favourite products, another kind of change was going on as well in
the households of Anniina, Hannele, Tiina, Kalle & Emma and Sakari & Elisa:
all of them were diminishing their museum curator responsibilities in order to
make it easier to run either a hotel or a gallery (or both). Between the first and
second interviews (except for Anniina, who had started the process earlier), all of
these households had started to notice the excessive amount of things there is in
the apartment and had started to get rid of products.