A five week vacation. Way too many projects. Deadline for a photo shoot in August. One would think the mere lack of time would prevent dera...

Just very briefly - a shot of Urho on the newly finished slate stairs. The rocks on the side are those dug out of the underground when empt...

Remember how we replaced the old wooden staircase with a pretty rough looking staircase Pekka found, had sand blown, painted and installe...

Last weekend was a remarkable milestone - finishing one of the longest projects we ever launched, the slate terrace. Had we known when remov...

One of the reasons we decided to not to start from the scratch on the backyard was that it would have been such a shame to rip off the exist...

After seaming, a few more details need to be taken care of before we can rent a sanding machine and finish the surface. There were a few noo...

It was Friday night after a crazy week. The kids were finally asleep and I had just finished working on a blog post. Time to call it a day...