Deep in a Finnish forest, this lakeside summer house, home to a busy, retired couple and their extended family, is the perfect winter retreat, too
On the shores of Saimaa, Finland’s largest lake, surrounded by pine, fir and birch trees, sits an angular, architect-designed house, black on the outside, shiny white on the inside (and, when the snow arrives and the lake freezes, white all around, too). A three-hour drive north-east of the capital, it’s the almost full-time home of retired journalists Leena Karo and Seppo Toivonen. And the architect in question is their son, Tuomas Toivonen, who built his parents’ house in 2008.
The idea was to create a family home large enough for Leena and Seppo to live in year round (they also have an apartment in Helsinki) and for Tuomas, his sister Roosa, a film director, and their families to spend time there, too.
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