After the school area, it was time for goodbyes. We had coffee at a famous, vintage café, which has stayed unchanged for around 50 years. My friend left for work, I left for new adventures. But at least I had made a new friend!
Not too far from the village I just left, I noticed something interesting. I stopped to go have a closer look.
It indeed looks like there is a house there. It’s not visible here in the pictures, but its windows were covered with corrugated iron, which was a sign for me.
Judging by the state of the porch there was no life here.
It soon turned out, that I was wrong. There indeed was life here, and the life made a huge noise, as I approached. I was scared shitless at first, but it turned out that the life was more scared of me.
It was a reindeer. During hot days like this they seek protection from the sun and heat in the shadows of abandoned buildings. They’re a bit afraid of people, so whenever somebody approaches, they get up and vanish.
The collapsed stairs really are a thing in this town. I’m yet to photograph a house here, which doesn’t have them.
A very interesting piece of contemporary art: a bucket, a car wheel and some vintage brown fabric from the 1970’s.
I am pretty sure that the toilet walls have gotten inspiration from the legendary Finnish Long Drink cans.
The first item I found inside was a can of motor oil. And I promise, this is just a sign of things to come. This turned out to be quite a weird place.
To the right of the entrance was a kitchen. It was quite old fashioned and primitive.
This is what looks like the former living room. It was full of furniture and random stuff.
The dressing room locker was a bit of a surprise. As were the car seats and engine parts. Another house with a butchered car inside?
A newspaper from 1986. The article is about a post office robbery in Southwestern Finland, as far from here as you can get.
Now let’s have a closer look at that bookshelf.
This goes to the top three of my list of craziest installations ever: a bottle of rum, a lamp and some sort of a duck. Doesn’t quite compare with the swan in the cleaning closet, but we’re close!
Another newspaper from 1990. I don’t know, when this place was abandoned, but I believe it to have happened years if not decades ago.
Moving on to the next room, I spotted this vintage beauty
The mystery deepens. There was a safe in one corner of the room. It’s not usual to have safes in homes in Finland. Especially not in small, basic houses in the middle of nowhere.
Boxes full of car parts.
That poor thing! I just love 1950’s style furniture. When I get rich and famous, I will decorate my whole home in that style. My living room will have a place for something like this.
But we’ll still have to wait. When I took this photo, I was renting a 21,5 square meter studio flat and didn’t even have a living room.
The final room in the corner of the building. The kitchen is to the right, the room I just came from is behind me. The downstairs had four rooms, and you could basically walk a full circle through all of them.
More engine parts. And a book on work legistlation. Could it possibly be, that this place has been a car workshop of some sort? That would explain the safe, too.
That’s one big box of lung cancer.
Boxes with Citroën and Toyota badges. I’m slowly starting to believe in my car workshop theory.
One more look at the mess in the living room. That installation still is wonderful.
I wasn’t entirely sure about the condition of the building, but decided to go have a look upstairs anyway.
A really vintage coffee jar.
The upstairs did look pretty interesting. Until I saw the floor, which was pretty similar to the stairs. Nope, this exploration is over.