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surface renovations when they had first moved in. The renovation involved him
building a new kitchen and toilet.
HP: How long have you been living here?
J: Five years. Around five years. This one I did. Actually, I didn’t do more
than just some surface redecoration. I built that kitchen there myself,
the new cupboards and then the small toilet. Otherwise this was in
fairly good condition. ( Jari 07 45-48)
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Jari pointed to the worn-out floors as an example of something that could be
renovated, but, since until recently, they had had two big dogs, they had not
seen the point in doing anything to the floors.
J: Why does this look like this? Well, we have these two big dogs. They
have left their own marks on this parquet flooring and everything
and there is no point in fixing it before the dogs have gone. They have
such sharp claws and they are heavy, big German Shepherds; they
leave their mark. They run every time the doorbell rings. And the first
10 metres, they accelerate and they don’t get much of a grip, so you
know what kind of marks that makes on the floor ( Jari 07 48-52)
Since the renovations had taken place a long time ago, we did not talk much
about the effort that he had put into the projects; or rather, Jari seemed not to
quite agree with me that the projects would have required much effort. One
can imagine, though, that renovating a kitchen would require a lot of work.
Jari emphasised several times during the interview that he does not “think
about design”.
J: I don’t know if I am a good interviewee or anything but I really hardly
ever think about design in that respect. But then, when you start to
think, especially when I talked about tools, there the design is important:
that they are shaped for the hand. So that they fit into difficult,
narrow places and [...] it is, it is like that. In this case the design is
important, though you never really think of it as design. ( Jari 497-502)
His role in their furnishing projects was to build and carry out the project,
while his wife designed their interior decoration and hunted down the materials
and designs that she liked.