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Tiina
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When I interviewed Tiina in 2004, she was living in a one-room apartment; she
had renovated the kitchen and painted the surfaces when she had moved in two
years previously. She was very pleased with the apartment. However, she and
her boyfriend had recently decided to move together and had found that their
apartments were too small for the two of them. As a result, they were looking
for a spacious “bomb-site” in order to renovate it according to their taste.
T: we are about to buy a flat that is a bomb-site, and then we’ll start to
renovate, like, however we can; and I’m really quite positive I’ll get
that white there (laughs) (Tiina 04 54-56)
In 2005, they had proceeded accordingly and we met in their semidetached,
two-storey, three-room apartment, which they had completely renovated
before moving in.
T: We did a complete renovation here. This had a small toilet downstairs
and it’s us, two adults, who live here for now, so we thought that
one big bathroom [upstairs] is enough for us, so we did that walk-in
wardrobe over there. And then there was that kind of set of cabinets,
this kitchen was in the shape of a U, the unpractical shape of a U, so
everything was ripped out. (Tiina 05 69-73)
The renovation had been partially outsourced to professionals, but the couple
took part as much as they could. The renovation involved, for example, transforming
a former toilet into a wardrobe and completely redesigning the open
kitchen on the first floor and the upstairs bathroom.