homework

Few shots of our home at the moment, from the living room. The teal office drawer was saved from a dumpster in the Helsinki Center, near the book publisher Tammi's headquarters. It's a shame that so many enterprises choose to ditch old, full metal pieces in favour of modern chipboard furniture. A lot of our furniture is bought from flea-markets, found or given away to us for free.
I'm a guy who is nuts about images; cards, photos and paper-clippings, so the drawer mentioned earlier is also a great place to attach collections of misc. clippings, especially go to- reminders of art exhibitions and other happenings. I love to assemble postcards into collections as well. Lately I've been thinking about painting a huge plywood board with an interesting colour and adding some quirky text to it.

1 The clock is made by me, it was a junior high school work which I later stained dark. The letter B was found inside the teal office drawer. Lamp is from Ikea.

2 We have huge windows in the living room and nice windowpanes around the place. When they're not overloaded with paper and litter, they're a good place to assemble collections of beautiful items. Now there's a vase bought from a closeout sales, Ikea glass vase used as a storage place for papers, vintage Selena-radio and two beautiful jars found at the recycling center.

5 Banana boxes used a shelving system for magazines and books.

6/7 Laser cut cardboard letters, paper clipping, flyers and cards

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