Colour and pattern vie for attention in a cheerful bungalow in Lapua
Ten years ago, when Laura Annala was house-hunting in her hometown of Lapua, southwest Finland, there was one property that kept resurfacing. “It was a detached, yellow-brick bungalow built in the 1980s,” Annala recalls. “It had low ceilings so it wasn’t very bright inside and the rooms were either painted brown or covered in flowery wallpaper. It was really uninspiring.” For two months, she scrolled past the listing until one day her father decided to get on his bicycle and take a closer look.
He found the house was surrounded by a mature garden, thick with flowers and trees. The location was also ideal – it was opposite the local school and Annala and her husband, Jussi, were hoping soon to start a family. It was also “really cheap”, which meant they would have enough money left over to renovate the tired interiors. At the time, Annala, a hair stylist, was starting her own business. She had spent the previous decade living in Helsinki, Tampere and the Netherlands, where she had met Jussi. Now, she was hoping to open her own salon in Lapua. A budget-friendly, three-bedroom bungalow started to make sense.
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