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Finland is the northern edge of Europe with a measured and extremely prosperous life. Evgeniy Tikhonovich talks about how the life of the Finns works.

I was born and raised in the Republic of Karelia, a region bordering Finland. It's not surprising that the first European country, where I, young and inexperienced, went, it turned out to be precisely this northern state of the European Union, which was once part of Russian Empire. I went there by car - I still remember my first impressions of crossing the border, the very culture shock that compatriots experience when they first set foot on European soil. Here I am still in Russia, in the border village of Vyartsilya - all around me is a harsh, dull reality, potholes and poor architecture. And after 50 meters, a completely different reality - the ideal asphalt surface of a Finnish road, neat cozy houses on the sides and even the trees seem to be the same, but seem to be more well-groomed and straighter.

I was going to visit my friend, who, like many people born in Karelia, immigrated to Finland in search of a well-fed and carefree life. A friend and her older sister rent from Finnish state three-room apartment on the outskirts of Helsinki. This is what they call social housing here. And don’t let your mind paint gloomy pictures of New York’s Harlem with its dysfunctional contingent warming their hands over burning barrels. Finland is a socialist country, and social housing here is not designed for low-income people. In principle, anyone can use it. For quite reasonable money you live in a very decent looking place apartment building in a very decent apartment, the condition of which would be the envy of many private Russian two-room apartments and three-room apartments. In Finnish, such a house is called a kerrostalo - a neat, low box, most often on four floors. At the same time, it is clear that very wealthy Finns can afford something more serious - they live either in their own houses - omakotitalo, or in what are called townhouses - rivitalo.

Usually apartments are rented unfurnished - you will be offered a space with bare walls. As a rule, white - Finns, like true Nordic people, prefer laconicism, purity and minimalism. It’s clear that you don’t have to buy kitchen and plumbing fixtures - it’s all already there in advance. By the way, bathrooms (not a room, but a piece of plumbing) are not a common occurrence in Finnish apartments; showers are mainly used. And if suddenly during water procedures If you are overcome by thirst, you can safely, without hesitation, pour yourself some water from the tap and drink a glass. The water in Finland is excellent - here it is considered almost a healing drink. My Finnish friends told a story about how a doctor advised parents to treat their children with tap water. I can’t vouch for the reliability of the information, but there are reasons to believe it.

A Finnish house must have a loggia. Without it, an apartment is not an apartment. And if we are talking about the ground floor, then the owners (tenants) arrange something like a personal covered courtyard. You can organize gatherings there during the warm season.

It's funny that the utility workers who service municipal buildings have keys to all the apartments - if you need, say, to insulate the windows, people will come, open the door and do everything in your absence. It sounds a little wild for a Russian person, but in reality everything is not so scary - with you in mandatory agree on the visit. At all, renovation work and improvement work in Finnish houses is always carried out in an extremely centralized manner. Do you need to change the tiles in the bathrooms? The budget and design project are discussed with all residents, the tiles are approved and then changed. For this reason, twin apartments are very common in Finland - here you can’t help but remember the “Irony of Fate”.

In Finnish houses, everything is done for people - I remember how surprised I was by the ubiquitous presence of all kinds of storage rooms in the common area. That is, you can store things not only in the apartment, but also outside it. There are also common laundry rooms that residents use even if they have their own washing machine.

And, of course, NOT ONE FINNISH HOUSE - I write in capslock to make it clearer - NOT ONE - can do without a sauna. For Finns, the sauna is not just a way of relaxation and cleansing of toxins, it is a temple, it is a sacred place where families feel a special unity of souls and bodies. Not every Finnish apartment has a sauna, but a communal sauna in the house is a must. Each family is assigned a day and time to visit it. And, believe me, no one misses these days - they go to the sauna as if they were going to work. When leaving Finland, by the way, I was not thinking about ideal roads, nor about clean entrances and exemplary apartments. I was thinking about saunas - why houses in Russia are built without them... What do you think about when you return from travel? What would you like to change in your home?

The water in Finland is clean. This means tap water. Tap water is available almost everywhere in Finland without boiling. However, the water itself will not become clean, and you have to pay for it. Payments for water are usually not included in the total bill with, and water in Finland is paid separately, but there are nuances. If you are thinking of buying a dacha in Finland, or you just want to make sure that our utility bills in Russia are not the highest, then this article is for you.

Why does a tourist need to know about Finnish utility bills? Firstly, a tourist may want to buy an apartment or a summer house in Finland. In this case, it is important to understand that maintaining housing in Finland is not a cheap pleasure. Secondly, it's just interesting. Many people complain that utility costs in Russia they are prohibitively high. Yes, ours is expensive, but others are even more expensive. For example, many, living in Finland in a house with electric heating, they turn off the batteries at night to save on electricity - it’s already warm under the blanket at night :) And there’s nothing funny about that. But first things first.

Prices for renting cottages are rising all the time. Cottages are often rented in Finland in special cottage villages. Such places are usually crowded, have little entertainment, and, of course, expensive. The main factor that increases the price of renting a cottage in Finland is intermediaries. If you try to rent a cottage through a travel agency, and then find out the real price of renting the same cottage right in Finland, you will be unpleasantly surprised... The Finnish price will be 2-3 times lower!

We offer you to rent a Finnish cottage at the price of a Finnish tenant, and inexpensively. How to do this - read below.

Very often, cottages are rented in Finland in a cottage community. There are usually a lot of people in such a place. The second question is the question of price. Often for Russians who do not speak the language, prices are inflated. If you book a cottage through a travel agency, the price may increase 2-3 times.

We offer you to rent a cottage, which has a higher level of infrastructure and compares favorably with the usual Finnish offers, and is very inexpensive.

What's happened luxury house in Finnish terms, you can look . General information You will find information about how Finns live.

Today we will tell you about the cost of an average house in Finland. These will be a couple of examples of your cottage-type home. These are houses where you can live in both winter and summer. The housing will be located not in the Helsinki area, where everything is very expensive, but in central Finland.

We promised to tell you in more detail how Finns live, in what houses or apartments. We have already given general information about this.

This time we would like to talk about expensive houses. The house that is not summer house, not a dacha, but a house where you can live permanently, all year round.

What does dear mean in Finnish terms? This question is quite complicated. Finns are very tight-fisted people. They don’t throw money away and often live in inexpensive housing so as not to take out extra loans.

According to historical data, classic wooden Finnish houses They began to build more than five centuries ago. Since then, Suomi has zealously adhered to long-standing traditions. Currently, Finnish house projects occupy more than 70% of the private construction market of this northern country. Moreover, this technology has long gone beyond its borders and is popular in more than thirty countries around the world, including Russia.

Advantages of wooden Finnish houses:

• Energy efficiency. Finnish houses meet the highest standards of thermal insulation. For their construction, only natural wood. Most often these are timber or logs made from northern pine or spruce. High content pitches in coniferous wood makes Finnish wooden houses resistant to dampness and increases their ability to retain heat, which makes them relevant even in harsh conditions polar winters.
• Durability. Thanks to the use of a special “lock” during the construction of a log house, Finnish houses made of logs or timber practically do not shrink and have a service life of more than 100 years. High-quality northern wood is practically indeformable, does not rot, and, thanks to special treatment, resists fire. Traditionally, Finnish houses are built exclusively using wood felled during the cold season. It is believed to have unique performance properties.
• Comfort. All Finnish house construction projects fully reflect the practical mentality of Suomi residents. They do not contain any architectural excesses or design delights. The construction of Finnish houses is carried out with one goal - to ensure maximum comfort. This is facilitated by huge windows flooding with sunlight. interior spaces, spacious balconies and terraces, as well as an almost obligatory element - a sauna. However, Finns do not like to overpay for an indoor garage, so the car is most often parked on the street.
• Affordable price. Most of these house projects are one and a half stories high. Instead of a full second floor, an attic with a sloping roof without walls is used. Therefore, the construction of Finnish cottages of this type is much cheaper while maintaining the overall usable area. Also, such buildings do not require facing work and can be erected on almost any soil.
• Minimum terms. Finnish wooden houses are built on a turnkey basis in just a few weeks. They do not require heavy equipment, and construction can be carried out at any time of the year.

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For all houses, the projects provide for the use of two types building material- logs and beams (dry, glued, profiled). Design features projects and prices are discussed privately.

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The specificity of the domestic perception of foreign individual housing construction is the perception of this process from the point of view of architecture and construction technology. When builders or clients talk about a Canadian home, they mean colonial-style architecture or wood-frame technology; When builders talk about houses made of aerated concrete or brick, they appeal to the fundamentality and reliability of Western European houses.

We wanted to look at foreign houses not from the point of view of architecture and technology, but to note the specifics of planning solutions. After all, every nation has its own preferences in organizing the internal space of a residential building.

For illustration, we have chosen the most typical Finnish house. Its typicality lies in the fact that it is implemented without changes according to the manufacturer’s catalog and has more than one implementation. The house is designed to accommodate a family of 4 people. Total area 136 m2.

Tambour. There is no vestibule as such in Finnish houses. You open front door and you find yourself in the hallway.

The issue of penetration of cold street air into interior spaces is solved through energy-efficient wooden doors. And the presence of a water heated floor system prevents the spread of cold air across the floor.

The hallway in most cases is equipped with large cabinets for storing not only everyday outerwear, but also for storing seasonal clothes. Hallway area 9.6 m2.

Parents' bedroom. Finns are not very picky when it comes to bedrooms. As a rule, the bedroom area varies from 12 to 16 m2 for two people and from 8 to 12 m2 for one person. In expensive high-status houses, the bedrooms are not much larger, because they are usually used for sleeping.

In this house, the parents' bedroom is located next to the hallway. This is one of the specific features of organizing living space in Finnish. Such a planning solution can be understood when you strive to place all the private spaces around the public area, when the living room is the planning center.

The ceiling height in private rooms ranges from 2.4 to 2.5 m. The area of ​​the parents' bedroom is 13.6 m2.

Bathroom. Placing a bathroom near the entrance can also be considered a feature of Finnish houses. Each of them has a maximum of two bathrooms. It is not customary to organize separate bathrooms for each bedroom.

To prevent the bathroom from being very deep, it is combined with a dressing room for one of the bedrooms. In this case, the dressing room belongs to the parents’ bedroom (area 2.7 m2).

Bedrooms. Sleeping rooms, according to Finnish tradition, are the most multifunctional rooms in the house. They can be either children's rooms or living rooms or offices. Therefore, when a potential customer chooses a future home, projects are classified on the builders’ websites by the number of bedrooms. This house can be classified as a four-room house. In general, the Western tradition does not consider the living room. The area of ​​2 bedrooms is 9.5 m2 each.

Kitchen-dining room. Finns are big fans of cooking, so they allocate enough space for their kitchen. large area. In this house it is 20.3 m2. But at the same time, the kitchen is never separated from the dining room and living room. All these three zones represent a single space. The most that architects can do is to create a wall separating the kitchen from the living room in order to place even more cabinets and countertops on it for storing kitchen utensils and products.

A common feature in Finnish kitchens is a narrow window between the countertops and wall cabinets. Its main function is to provide natural light the cooking process, without depriving the wall of useful space for placing cabinets.

To realize such large spaces in the Irkutsk region - a very complex constructive measure, since according to seismic safety conditions the distance between load-bearing walls should not exceed 8 m.

Living room. The center of any Finnish living room is the fireplace stove. Moreover, modern steel is held in less esteem by these people than brick or stone.

A specific feature of Finnish fireplace stoves is their baking function. Fireplace doors usually face the living room, and the bakery oven door faces the kitchen. And no matter what price segment there was no house, a combined stove-fireplace is present in most of them.

The stove as a “source of heat and food” occupies a consolidating place in the house. Therefore, the living room is the largest living space. To increase the volume of the room, the ceilings are usually sloping. The living room area in this house is 31.3 m2.

Additional bedroom. Not every Finnish family can afford to have an extra bedroom. Even if it is supposed, it is used only when necessary. In this home, an extra bedroom has been converted into a library. In richer families, they set up either a cinema hall or a children's room. game room. But on the websites and catalogs of house manufacturers, the functional load of such a room is not determined in any way. The area of ​​the additional bedroom is 13.1 m2.

Bath and laundry complex. What is in every Finnish house and even in some apartments and is absent among other northern European peoples, This is a bath and laundry complex. If almost all European houses have a laundry room, then a bathhouse in the house isThis is a purely Finnish tradition.

Let's start with the laundry room. It is a room with a “back” exit to the courtyard. In the laundry room, in addition washing machine, drying and ironing equipment, there must be a sink and a hole for water drainage in the floor. Equipment for heating water is also sometimes located here. Laundry area - 7.7 m2.

The location of the bathhouse in the house is also a specific feature of the Finnish organization of internal space. The number of buildings on the site must be agreed upon with the city administration, and since any Finn cannot imagine his existence without a bathhouse, it is easier to place it directly in the house.

A standard bath room in a house consists of two parts: a steam room and a shower room.

Shelves for sitting are installed in the paired room. The Russian tradition of steaming while lying down is applicable only in free-standing Finnish baths. But the main attributes of this process are applying heat with a broom over the body or with water on the heater is available in both options.

In order to have the opportunity to create a steam room without looking at the location chimney, in the majority modern projects Finnish houses are equipped with an electric heater. The area of ​​the steam room is 3 m2.

A shower is a mandatory addition to the steam room, since Finns do not wash in the latter. The presence of a bathtub or shower stall in it is a sign of prosperity; a shower stand is enough to wash off the dirt in front of the steam room. As a rule, there are two of them. As in the Russian tradition, people do not go to the bathhouse alone. This is a collective matter. Therefore, to increase the “passability”, several shower racks are installed in front of the steam room. Shower area - 6.4 m2.

Thus, a traditional Finnish house consists of three mandatory elements: a bedroom, a kitchen-dining-living room and a bath-laundry complex. Whatever it is - one-story or two-story, with or without an attic, it will always include these three elements. The difference between an economy house and an expensive one in Finland comes down only to the ratio of its total area to the number of people permanently living in it. That's why one-story houses are more common than two-story ones. Any manufacturer will offer you 50 one-story houses, 30 with an attic, and only 20 two-story houses for their hundred houses.

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A distinctive feature of most Finnish cities is that they look
not tall. Reaching for the sky multi-storey buildings, especially in residential areas, here
A little. Apartment buildings very often they are three-story.
IN tall buildings there is simply no great need, because, per each resident,
There is more than enough land in Finland. In this regard, the Finns, unlike, say,
from the Germans, they live freely.
This is probably why people here traditionally gravitate towards individual houses and...
called “rivitalo”, which are complexes consisting of several
dwellings with a separate entrance from the street and their own land plot.
"Rivitalo" and individual house by the nature of living in them they are very close to each other
to a friend.
Currently, more than half live in individual houses and in “Rivitalo”
population of the country.
It is the individual home that has always been Finland’s pride and joy.
owners and an object of dreams for those people who have never had such a home.
However, in lately priorities of the country's residents in terms of choosing the optimal
housing options began to change. This is confirmed by the results of the study,
conducted by one of the Finnish banks, which aimed to determine how people
imagine the house they would like to live in.
It turned out that today, as before, the most desirable type of housing is your own
own house. People living in their own home were also the most
satisfied with their place of residence. They usually don't want to change it, do they?
what they plan to produce minor repairs.
However, the share of those who would like to live in their own home has decreased. Today
This option is given first place by only about 60 percent of the country's residents.
At the same time, the study allowed us to conclude that popularity and status
apartments in an apartment building have increased significantly.
Especially ardent supporters of this type of housing are residents of large
cities. Less common among them are those who like to live in their own home.
Also, youth and relatively young people, for the most part,
do not strive to become owners of an individual home.
Work activity today seems more intense and mobile than
before. It is almost always associated with haste, travel and displacement.
In such an environment people want to spend free time, focusing on
issues other than caring for the house and garden.
Some experts believe that the beginning of changes in priorities in views on
housing will lead to the ideal of housing becoming quality apartment V
apartment building or a modernly equipped “rivitalo”.
The fact that priorities are changing is also evidenced by the growing popularity of apartments in
apartment building among families with children, although the desire to live in individual
among such families is still quite high.
But the popularity of apartments in multi-storey buildings among those who live
one. On average, three out of five single people live in apartments.
Among the entire Finnish population there are many who consider the most ideal
type of housing - your own house, located near the water and at the same time in the center
cities.
When characterizing ideal housing as the people of Finland see it, it is important
note this remarkable point: for the most part, Finns want to be
owners of the home in which they live today.
We can say that many of the country's residents have already achieved what they wanted.
The study found that approximately a quarter of the Finnish population already lives in a house
of your dreams.
A significant portion of respondents, 39 percent to be exact, are separated from achieving
ideal only minor repairs. This suggests that achieving dreams is not possible for many.

associated with relocation. Cosmetic repairs, equipment upgrade and others
improvements are today sufficient to achieve
transforming an apartment or house into an ideal place to live.
Such transformations began to occur especially widely after more
two years ago, the government removed many bureaucratic obstacles,
complicating the production of housing repairs.
As for the size of living space, the majority of the country's residents are satisfied
square of your house or apartment. We would only like to increase the living space
twenty percent of the population.
Many people would also like to update and expand the bathroom, renovate the kitchen, and
refurbish pantries and other storage areas for household goods
In conclusion, some statistics:
Of the entire population of Finland
44% live in apartments in multi-storey buildings
40% - in your own home
14% - in "Rivitalo"
Housing tenure form
57% own a house or apartment
31% rent living space
2% partially own their home
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