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T: Because [white] goes so well with everything. For instance, there
should be something nice, red, yellow flowers – you can do a lot with
small things which can be changed easily. It can be yellow, green and
red etc (Tiina 04 56-59)
Her other favourite decoration choices included, for example, putting clear
glass and grey furniture together. All in all, Tiina very consciously put interior
decorations together and it seemed to have been mostly her responsibility to
make the decisions:
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HP: So how did you manage interior decoration and things relating to it
(pause) [how did you] negotiate?
T: (pause) Not really. It was clear from the start because we had that two
month period to work with the layout and so forth. Now, when I look
at where the previous owners had their sofa, it is a really odd choice in
my opinion. An then I saw that also some neighbours have their sofa
in a really odd spot, like, against this wall. I remember [partner] asked
couldn’t we also put the sofa there, so I go, like, no, we are not going
to put the sofa there, the sofa’s place is, like, definitely, over there. One
must fill the room evenly. (Tiina 05 388-403)
When looking through photographs from 2004, Tiina commented that there
had been too much stuff in the previous apartment and that now she had made
it a principle that when something new entered their home, something else
needed to leave.
T: I don’t want to start to bring more stuff in here. It goes out right away,
we get rid of it. Also the kitchen, in a sense, there is a place for everything
and if somewhere I (pause) I got Iittala HotCool glasses as a
gift which meant that, because I wanted to use them, they were ones
that found a place there, so some other thing will go. If something
new comes in, then something old must be got rid of. You can’t go on
just by just stuffing them somewhere. (Tiina 05 287-292)
As a kind of last resort, they now had a large storage room where they were
storing items that had not right away found their places in the new apartment.
This also included a couple of boxes full of assorted baby stuff because Tiina
was expecting a baby.