Once I was ready with exploring the downstairs, it was time to head back to the lavish porch and upwards.
The cupboard under the stairs contained a huge pile of magazines including several related to Finnish crimes. The one on the top contains news about a prison riot. They are quite rare in Finland, and the most famous one happened in 2005. This makes me believe, that this magazine was published back then.
The cupboard also contained some old VHS cassettes and a cute tigger.
So up we go.
The box originally contained margarine. The red text says ‘I need to get more of this’. That’s exactly what I thought about abandoned houses at that very moment during the very first exploration of my two week road trip.
Whoever had designed the interior and lived in this house was not a fan of wallpapers. The clear logs were visible even here.
The lobby upstairs contained a miscellanoux sortiment of items including a lonely boot and the frames of a painting. The room actually might affirm my guess about the porch having been built later on: it wasn’t made of logs like the rest of the building, but rather of lumber, which was a material used more commonly after the wars.
The monitor had suffered a lot, probably in the hands of vandals visiting the house after its abandonment.
A DVD of the Dead Poets Society. Interesting.
There was even an old TV in one corner of the upstairs lobby. That model is from the 1990’s.
A room with a badly painted roof and two primitive beds. There has been a wallpaper here, but it has been ripped away.
A dark storage cupboard, random stuff, early 2000’s plastic bags and a box which has originally contained syrup.
That sun cream bottle reminds me of my grandparents. I’ve said it before. It was a different bottle that time, though.
Here they didn’t use wallpapers. They used plywood to cover the logs. This solution looks a lot like the 1970’s.
Another interesting curtain solution.
A magazine with a Viagra ad on the back cover. I’ve never seen this before.
The pedals of a racing game unit. And they always come with a steering wheel.
Which is probably the one on the floor of the hall already seen earlier. This is why I call this the Race Gamer’s House.
And to add to that there was this small kids’ driving game. I used to play with one in my kindergarten and begged to have one at home. I didn’t get one. But still it seems that someone who has lived here, loved racing games.
And so I have explored the house and am about to leave. But this very old and worn out set of stairs puzzles me. It leads to nowhere and to a section of the wall, where the paint looks different.
So it looks like the extravagant porch was a later addition after all. Or then the house had two entrances back in the days.
Whatever the answer, I’m finished with this place. Maybe I’ll now get to my first intended location.